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Eat the Jam!

November 1st, 2009
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Ladies and gentlemen, May I present “Eat the Jam!” The only game which combines a high powered pop culture quiz with a taxing conserve based forfeit.

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Headaches:

November 27th, 2008
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They’re bad, okay?

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My Push GMail Adventure

October 14th, 2008
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Like many other people who have long standing GMail accounts and now use an iPhone (or possibly other smartphone) I am somewhat disappointed by the lack of push notification service.  Here I offer my solution- It’s not perfect and hopefully at some point GMail will support push notification.

Requirements

  • Mobile Me account
  • Gmail Account
  • iPhone
The Steps I took:
  1. I take advantage of a gmail feature detailed here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096.  I always subscribe to mailing lists using myemailaddress+<nameoflist>@gmail.com so that I can filter on mail sent specifically to me.
  2. Set up a rule that will forward all mail sent to myemailaddress@gmail.com to my mobile me address (In other words, everything that isn’t a mailing list).  In the same rule also apply a label “FW_me.com” so I can later filter out these messages to mark as read etc (I know, it’s not perfect!)
  3. On the iPhone, having previously set up ‘Push’ I just add my mobile me account and disable GMail IMAP.
  4. In the mobile me mail settings disable the me.com smtp server and enable the GMail smtp server.  Now when I reply to mail it still comes from GMail.
Results:
Yay, I now have push email on my iPhone without having to move to a new email address.  I believe similar results can be achieved by fowarding through YMail! and some other Push supporting services, but I may as well use my mobile me account.
Grievances:
  • Changes are not pushed back – you must manually mark mail as read later.
  • messages are stored on device – Ideally messages stay on the server
  • Messages are duplicated through services – clogging the intertubes

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New Website

September 30th, 2008
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Well, you found it.  My intention for moving to my own site was to allow more freedom in storing various files online as well as being able to gradually tweak the look and feel of the site.  I’m trying to lower my overall internet footprint but a few of my favourite social sites will probably stay active – particularly flickr and last.fm.  Stay tuned for updates, new sections and stuff.

~Stu

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