Posts Tagged With: web
· August 11, 2008 at 5:37 am · Online Tools, Personal
Tags: client, combine, Gmail, help, imap, pop3, setup, thunderbird, web
Now not saying my e-mail situation is the best setup around, but I do like to think I have a pretty neat foundation in place. Mixing Gmail with Thunderbird and my other mail accounts elsewhere I have everything sent to one place and I can get to it all from one login location either on the desktop or on the Web.
Import POP3 Accounts into Gmail
First things first, we have my Gmail account. This acts as my main mail account. From there, I have added all my other mail accounts from other various locations (such as lunarpages.com or mitchkeeler.com) to Gmail. Google’s e-mail client can act as an e-mail fetcher for all your other POP3 e-mail accounts. Here is a post from them describing how to set that up:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288
The short version would be go to Settings > Accounts and then “Add Another Mail Account”.
Get Gmail to Work with IMAP
This is where problem two comes into play. I want to be able to use Thunderbird on my desktop PC to manage my e-mail and then Gmail via the browser on my laptop (or anywhere else) to get to all my same mail via the Web. To enable IMAP in Gmail:
- Sign in to Gmail.
- Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
- Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
- Select Enable IMAP.
- Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.
To configure Thunderbird for Gmail/IMAP, be sure to check out this post here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662
Now for the Little Annoying Things
Alright, my mail system is in place and I can mirror Thunderbird with Gmail (or vice versa). There are a few small kinks yet to be worked out though. The worst of them is that your address book will not stay in sync between platforms. You can do this manually of course, but that is a pain in the rear. There are also a few configuration tweaks you have to change to get your tags and folders to match up with the right spot inside of Thunderbird.
Lifehacker has done a good write up on most of these other little tweaks you may wish to do, so check that out for more information. There you have it. It might not be the prettiest system but it does get the job done.
· March 31, 2008 at 5:19 am · Interviews
Tags: business, daryl kennedy, interview, marketing, search, SEO, techwyse, web
There is no doubt in my mind that Internet marketing and search engine optimization are playing a larger and larger role in a webmaster’s life. A few years back, you would put up a web site and hope for the best. These days though, you must really study and learn several aspects of the marketing game if you want to stand a chance.
Marketing in general has really always excited me, so I thought it might be a good idea to talk with somebody who does this as their day to day business. Daryl Kennedy is the VP of Operations over at TechWyse Internet Marketing. When approached about the interview - my first thoughts were “Whoo hoo! Now I can pick the brain of somebody who really understands this Internet marking stuff” and I have to say I was not disappointed.
How did you find yourself in the Internet marketing world? Most people on the web want to get to the top themselves in popularity. You guys specialize in helping other people make a name for themselves.
Daryl: Getting into the Internet marketing world for myself was quite by accident. I have always been a resourceful person. I have always enjoyed efficiency and understanding new technology. After being in the business of developing web sites, I decided it would be far more resourceful to learn and understand the newer search engine phenomena then hit the streets cold calling which was far more traditional.
After studying search engines for about 6 months, I quickly found that by following search engine principles I could get our own company on the first page of Google, Yahoo! and MSN rather easily. Ironically, many other companies across North America and especially Toronto, Canada began noticing themselves! Since this was clearly a way for companies to begin to generate revenue they began asking me to help them in the same way.
Read the rest of this entry »
· March 19, 2008 at 7:29 am · Desktop, Online Tools
Tags: apps, Desktop, Mozilla, prisim, programs, updates, web
Prism, Mozilla’s answer for bringing the web in as desktop applications, continues to amaze me. I just downloaded the newest release, and it has a few new features worth checking out. They have an extension for one, that works with Firefox 3 so that you can quickly split out web applications from Firefox without the need to manage a separate Prism application. You can convert to a Prism powered application right there in Firefox.
You can also pick an icon to represent the web site or Prism application you are setting it up as. By default it searches for the favicon, but you can edit it to go to any image. That image will become the desktop icon for it. The Fluid Flickr group had a lot of nice icon examples you could use too. (thanks to TwisterMc for that jewel)
To help with performance, each Prism app also runs in it’s own profile:
Prism now places each web app into its own process/profile so they don’t interfere with each other, which also makes it possible to install a web app twice and use it simultaneously with two different user accounts.
Personally Prism really excites me a lot and if this is still the beta form of the project, I can’t imagine the goodies waiting for me in the final release.
· February 7, 2008 at 9:34 am · Web Hosting
Tags: database, hosting, Resources, tutorials, web, website
I always have my eye out for new hosting web sites, and this one really impressed me. HostHow is a new tutorial database telling you the ins and out of hosting. They cover how to do things, why to do things and when to do things. Here are a few example links I really enjoyed reading over there:
Looks like a great resource to bookmark or subscribe to (and you know how I love to collect those). If their goal is to create the largest free repository of web hosting tutorials on the net they are well on their way to doing so. If you want to submit your own work there, feel free to contact them.
· February 5, 2008 at 7:02 am · Online Tools
Tags: search, smplr, start-pages, tools, unique, web
Need a simpler way to start your web browsing experience? One of the most original start pages I have seen in a long time is smplr.
Yep, that is it. No boxes, no RSS and nothing else to distract you. How do you use it? Type in certain keywords or phrases and it does the work for you. Here are all the commands you can use:
These are the triggers that smplr currently supports. Type one, followed by a query. go:(open a supplied url), y:(yahoo), news:(google news), w:(weather, zip code only), wiki:(wikipedia), film:(imdb), tv:(epguide), mmm:(recipes), wow:(thottbot), ebay:(ebay), game:(mobygames), bt:(thepiratebay), buy:(pricegrabber), stock:(yahoo finance), blog:(technorati), snopes:(urban legends)
They also have several themes you can pick from too - changing the background picture. All in all smplr is one unique way to start your browsing experience that can at least say it is copying nobody else out there in the start page world.
· February 2, 2008 at 10:54 am · Free Hosting
Tags: free, graphics, hosting, hosts, images, Resources, web
UpPush.com is yet another of many free file hosting services out there that touts itself as being for “everybody”. They support .jpg, .gif, .png, .tiff, and .bmp uploads too so that almost covers all of your basic image formats.
The only regulations mentioned is “no adult content” which is reasonable and they are also the sister site to FileBig.com - a web site reviewed here a few days ago. UpPush is definitely worth checking out if you need a free image hosting resource that is both quick and easy to use.
Next Page »
