Everything was in its place. Then I went and changed everything (again). My therapist says this is a character defect and a sign of subliminal procrastination. Hard reset Palm Pilot. Download Thunderbird extension to sync address book. Doesn’t work. So now my Contacts are in Thunderbird (periodic manual export/import) and I am using the Palm for Calendar and Tasks. If it’s good enough for Dave Allen, then it’s good enough for me....
My old company used Exchange Server. I used to use Outlook for mail. My new company uses IMAP. So now I can use Thunderbird for mail (news and RSS). No more wasted time puzzling over why filter rules suddenly stop working. No more wasted time messing around with proprietary PST files. Fast, flexible, powerful search capability. All my Outlook data imported seamlessly. Small change, massive improvement.
I’d just like to say that my Palm Vx repaid me today for a small element of all the valuable time it has wasted in the past. A recent change in circumstance meant some changes to my email environment. Easy enough to resolve. Synchronise old environment with Palm. Switch into new environment. Reconfigure Outlook profile. Synchronise. Contacts, Tasks, Calendar and Notes all migrated seamlessly. Finished. Well, I’d like to but I can’t....
Yesterday, I stumbled across Newsvine which is a very impressive news aggregator. Until now, I didn’t much care for these type of sites. Digg left me a little cold with too many irrelevant, repeated articles (not to mention flame wars) and Slashdot hurt my eyes. I currently use My Yahoo! with various news feeds configured and was starting to experiment with a similar, personalized Google portal with feeds from Google News as an alternative....
I have been thinking (yes I do a lot of that) recently about managing my personal calendar more effectively. Ideally, I would like a simple Web based calendar that could also sync to my Palm. I don’t really like the Yahoo! Calendar that much even though it can sync with Outlook and the Palm. I simply don’t enjoy looking at the Yahoo! calendar. I just think the interface is ugly and there are distracting ads liberally scattered at the top of the screen....
Tim Hall was right. I can resist everything except temptation. Install Apache 1.3.2 for Windows. Very quick and easy. Slight feeling of version envy. The latest version is 2.x. Will upgrade later. Install mySQL 5.0 for Windows. Very quick and easy. Install mySQL Administration Tools 1.1. Very quick and easy. Install mySQL QueryBrowser 1.1.9. Very quick and easy. Login to mySQL database. Create a table. Insert a record. Select the record....
I wanted to export my Newsgator feeds into OPML and experiment with SearchFox, who kindly gave me an account, to take part in the beta program. Only one slight problem, Newsgator doesn’t support OPML export. Strange but true.
I am using the Newsgator Online RSS reader and simply want to order my most important, must-read blogs (i.e mine) at the top. It doesn’t seem like an unreasonable requirement. From a cursory glance at the documentation, it is not immediately clear if I can even do this in Newsgator. This is a little irritating as I now have to do some work to scroll down to ‘Oracle’ or rename the folder as ‘AAAOracle’....
I am worried about those developers at WordPress. They have to eat food, drink coffee and wear clothes but how are they ever going to make any money ? There isn’t even a ‘Donate’ button anywhere on the site. WordPress.com provide me with a hosted blogging platform which I think it is very good; better than Blogger, better than Bloglines, better than Yahoo 360’, better than most of the competition....
Don’t know where, don’t know when but SonicStage 3.3 is available. Includes ATRAC Lossless format, ripping WMA CD’s, wider range of bitrates for ATRAC3Plus and MP3. However, SonicStage remains the only software application in the modern world without a ‘Check for updates’ option.