Talamathi

I finally have IMAP with Gmail! Thus ends the series of posts nobody cares about concerning my lack of email. Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google

In a previous post , I detailed how to make a Mac screen saver that showed off your uptime. With the advent of Leopard , things have changed enough in Quartz Composer so that the Shell Command Patch does not work. When I get a chance, I’ll see about updating it, but for now it does not work. Technorati Tags: Mac , screen+saver , uprecords

It’s at this point in not having Gmail that I truly wish I had not accidentally run over a Google employee’s dog, where by “accidentally” I mean “repeatedly”, and “dog” I mean “son”. And yes, I took that from the Simpsons . Honestly, what else am I supposed to do? It’s not like I have IMAP to fill my time. Technorati Tags: Gmail , Google , Simpsons

On Friday I went and got Leopard . Due to how long it took trying to safely clean up an external hard drive to use with Time Machine (long ago purchased for backups, no less), I did not get around to trying out most of Leopards features until Sunday. Overall, it is a joy to use. I keep the dock off to the side, so I have not had a visceral to the shiny dock, although I am undecided about those lights representing a program is running. I’m just now trying out Spaces . I used to use VirtueDesktops (I’d give a link, but it has now gone defunct due Leopard announcing similar features). Spaces does not have as many features, but it definitely seems smoother. This is most likely because it is now built in to the system. The most fun feature is Time Machine, though. I only have a couple of backup points now, but it’s fun to go back and forth in it. As one of my friends said on Friday, “I can’t wait to lose a file.” There are still a few things I have not tr...

So I still don’t have IMAP available for Gmail . A post on the Official Gmail Blog said it would take a couple of days to do them all, but I was hoping I would be better than average. Oh, well. I have picked up some useful pieces of information from an editorial “ Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange? ”. I don’t know if everything is true (I try not to use editorials as a source for facts, although Technologyevangelist.com has tended to be pretty good), but if it is there were two things I did not know previously: Gmail’s IMAP does not currently support IMAP Idle . This is too bad, but also not surprising, since I assume they wanted to get IMAP out as they could. I would be surprised if this doesn’t hurt them in the end, what with everyone doing full refreshes. Leopard will support IMAP idle. This is great news. Before I started using Gmail for everything, I was using IMAP and loving it. Unfortunately, Mail.app didn’t have idle so I sa...

Annapurna tea house Originally uploaded by ruan benade This great photo just showed up today from ruan benade . And again, I'm not trying to turn this in to Nepal-photos-on- Flickr -love-fest, whatever that means. But dang it, there are some good photos out there. The one problem with this one is the original is too small to make in to a desktop background. And I have no idea who those people in the picture are. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

Going Home Originally uploaded by framing_gale Here’s the actual reason I wanted to be able to write about photos from Flickr . Everything about it is just really amazing. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal