Here’s a quick tip. I’m a big fan of paperless billing but one thing it did disrupt was my filing system where I would put bills in order on my desk and pay them as they fell due. Since these were in my e-mail (and printing them out sort of defeated the purposed of going …
Tag: Gmail
Dec 29 2012
Maintaining Calendar Syncing with Gmail on iOS Devices
Leading on from yesterday’s article about how to keep contact syncing working with Gmail on iOS devices, here is how you can keep your Gmail calendars in sync as well using CalDAV At least on an iOS device you can use CardDAV to continue syncing contacts and you can set this up as follows: Open Settings, …
Dec 28 2012
Maintaining Contact Syncing with Gmail on iOS Devices
Google is starting to flex its muscle a little bit in dumping Exchange ActiveSync for its Gmail service unless you are a paying customer or you have existing devices setup on a free basis. This might be problematic if you’re using a new iOS device or a Windows Phone handset in the future. At least …
Jul 20 2012
IMAP – Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
A while ago, I recommended using IMAP instead of POP3 as the mail protocol of choice for when you want to keep your mail in sync across multiple devices such as computers, tablets and smartphones. I still stand behind this recommendation but you should be warned about how you go about using it. Unfortunately, I …
Nov 13 2010
Hotmail Finally Implements Complete SSL
In a development that could be seen as a response to the havoc that FireSheep has created in the last week, Microsoft has finally enabled complete SSL security for its Hotmail service. Previously, authentication would be encrypted using SSL but users would then be switched back to plain HTTP (which of course is insecure). The …
Aug 27 2010
Google Adds Telephony to Gmail
Google continues its forward march into unified communications by adding then ability to call telephones from within Gmail. Officially, the service is only available to US residents but us Australians can enable it by: Browsing to the general settings in Gmail, Changing the “Gmail display language” to “English (UK)”, Saving the changes, Changing the “Gmail …
Jul 15 2010
Multiple Login Support Coming for Google Services
A quick one for this evening. According to unofficial news site, Google Operating System, Google is planning to bring multiple login support for its services. This might prove useful for people who may have multiple accounts to segment their activities (such as work, personal and junk). Google isn’t the first to market with this sort …
Jul 05 2010
Backup Your Facebook, Twitter and Blog with Backupify
Are there some things that you have uploaded to a social medium that you don’t have stored anywhere else? Perhaps you are implicitly relying on Facebook and Twitter remaining operational so that all those funny comments, memorable photos, shared links and event calendars are not lost? If you have been following this blog for a …
May 20 2010
IMAP vs POP3 – My Conclusions
Well, it’s been three months since I bit the bullet and stopped using POP3 in favour of using IMAP instead. If you want to read about my plans, you can check out IMAP > POP3 – Moving to the Cloud. In a nutshell, I wanted to have all of my mail available wherever I went …
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