Archive for January, 2007

Configure OPERA As Your Gmail Client

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

You can now directly access your G-MAILS in your OPERA browser without having to logging into your GMAIL account.

1. First login to your GMAIL account and under SETTINGS enable POP3 access.
2. In OPERA under MAIL tab, click on MAIL AND CHAT ACCOUNT.. ADD NEW ACCOUNT.
3. configure incoming server as POP.GMAIL.COM and outgoing as SMTP.GMAIL.COM with […]

Ruby On Rails

Monday, January 29th, 2007

I don’t like hype. I’m inherently distrusting whenever I look at information about the latest hot new software development framework and see claims like “Zyzzx will reduce your development time by 90%” Uh-huh - and it will write and debug the code for me too, and make my coffee, right? So recently I was talking […]

Active Desktop Calendar

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

I’m a very busy person and I’m always at a computer - either at work or at home. I like to have an easily updated, accessible calendar nearby at all times to help me keep track of everything that’s going on. I find the best way to do this is to have calendar plugins on […]

WinAVI’s iPod To PSP Converter

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Have you ever wanted to put movies on your iPod or PSP, but didn’t know how to do it? WinAVI’s iPod/PSP converter is what you need!

While it does cost $25, it converts most popular movie formats (including DVD, AVI, WMP, and QuickTime) so that you can watch them on your PSP or iPod! Provided you […]

Office 2007 Beta 2 Review

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I downloaded Office 2007 beta 2 back in the summer and have been using Word, Outlook and Excel since then about 5 to 10 hours a week. I have no need for publisher or access in my job, so while I have opened those products to look at them, I have no experience with the […]

Innards of OSX

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

The innards of OSX Not many people are aware of what is under the covers of the new Max OSX operating system. OSX, Apple’s very polished OS, is actually based on a version of a UNIX-like operating system called Darwin, which was born from an OS called BSD. The fact that Apple is now using […]