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Googles emailing service Gmail has become popular around the world and therefore, wanting to import your own Gmail contacts into a robust contact manager such as the one included with Outlook 2007 becomes a common desire. This simple tutorial will show you how to do just that. [click to continue...]
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The Linux command line can be very powerful once you know how to use it. You can parse data, monitor processes, and do a lot of other useful and cool things using it. There often comes a need to generate a report and mail it out. It could be as simple a requirement as a notification that the day’s backup went through fine, or did not. I’ll help you get started with sending mails from the Linux command line and in shell scripts. We will also cover sending attachments from the command line. We will begin with the “mail” command. [click to continue...]
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This tutorial will guide you through setting up and using the very helpful Thunderbird addon ThunderBrowse, which allows you to view web pages from directly within Thunderbird, without having to open your web browser. [click to continue...]
This tutorial will walk you every single step of the way through installing and setting up WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL & PHP). With WAMP installed, you can run a web server (and things like WordPress, MediaWiki, and Jinzora) on your Windows PC. [click to continue...]
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Are you the one that your friends and family call every time they have a problem with their computer? Put these tools on your USB thumb drive and troubleshooting will be that much easier. [click to continue...]
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I’m very pleased to introduce the 2nd guest blogger at Simple Help, Aseem Kishore. Aseem is a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips, a terrific how-to site I’d strongly suggest you subscribe to.
-Ross
If you’re one of the millions of people using Microsoft Outlook, either at home or at the office, you’ve probably had to move your email from one computer to another at some point in time. Transferring Outlook emails, calendar, contacts and tasks is a fairly simple procedure, but it would also be nice to transfer the autocomplete addresses we’ve come to depend on.
In case you’re not sure what I am talking about, autocomplete is when you open a new email form and begin typing in an address into the To: box:
Notice that I typed the letter c and several Outlook contacts automatically appeared below. These are addresses that I have previously sent emails to and that’s why they show up. This is extremely useful if someones email address is very different from their name because all you have to remember is there name instead of “greek_god109293@supermail.com”! [click to continue...]
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Quite some time ago, I wrote a post titled Wow… The Windows Key is useful after all. That post attracted some attention - apparently I wasn’t the only one who really overlooked that key on my keyboard. As it turns out, Vista has decided to include a few extra “Windows Key” keyboard shortcuts too. The majority of the previous Windows Key shortcuts still work in Vista, but here are some new ones:
Windows Key + G: Cycle through the Sidebar Gadgets
Windows Key + T: Cycle through programs on the Taskbar
Windows Key + U: Open the Ease of Access Center
Windows Key + X: Open the Windows Mobile Center
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This brief guide will walk you through the steps on deleting your Plaxo account, and all of the data associated with it. Why would you want to do this? Plaxo has signed an agreement to be acquired by Comcast. [click to continue...]
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This very brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to set Thunderbird to leave mail on the server. Leaving your mail on the server can be helpful if you use Thunderbird on a portable USB drive to check your email while away from your main computer. That way when you return to your main desktop/laptop, you can still download all of your email. [click to continue...]
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Update - May 1st 2008: The original method I outlined in this tutorial no longer works. But don’t worry, I’ve figured out a new one! What I’m getting at is that this tutorial has been completely re-written.
This tutorial will guide you through installing the iPhone apps Apple MobileMail, Apple Google Maps, Stocks, Weather and/or Notes on your iPod Touch. Note: this tutorial assumes you have a jailbroken iPod Touch using the 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 firmware, and are *cough* legally allowed to install these applications on your iPod Touch. [click to continue...]
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This tutorial will guide you through setting up Mail 3.1 - the email program included with OS X 10.5 (Leopard). [click to continue...]
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One of my favorite Greasemonkey scripts is Folders4Gmail - and it was updated today to work with the latest version of Gmail. Once again my Gmail filters are folders.
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It appears as though Google has decided to enable IMAP for some Gmail (and Google Apps for Your Domain) accounts. As it happens, all of my Google Apps for Your Domain accounts now have IMAP enabled, so I’m playing around with the settings and changes now.
IMAP on Gmail is a great thing because it means that you can setup Gmail in several mail clients (Thunderbird, Windows Mobile mail, etc) and they will all remain in sync - no more reading the same message twice or manually having to mark things as read. Once again, thanks Google!
For more info on IMAP (history etc) see this wikipedia article.
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Update: as a couple of folks have pointed out, Google has once again increased the storage size of Gmail to 4.23GB, just a day or two after the increase to 3.6GB.
Thanks Google!
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This is a requested tutorial for Marcelo. It will take you through the steps to set up Gmail using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. [click to continue...]
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