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October, 2007 Archive

Gmail and IMAP - Why You Should Care

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

IMAP and POP are both popular methods for retrieving email from a server so you can access it on your desktop. Both protocols date back to the 1980’s, and both are supported by most desktop email applications. Unfortunately, unless you manage your own mail server, IMAP support on the server has been a [...]

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Syncing Gmail Actions With IMAP

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Now that Gmail supports IMAP, a question that many avid Gmail users will be asking is, “How do Gmail specific actions translate over to IMAP?” For example, Gmail was always thought to be incompatible with email systems like IMAP, because they used different features, like labels and stars. However, in reality, it ends up that [...]

Posted in Google, Productivity | No Comments »

Christmas Comes Early

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Occasionally the stars align and our favorite tech companies grant wishes. Today was one of those days. Not only did Apple finally fix the Leopard dock (and by fix I mean make it not butt-ugly), but Google just dropped a Gmail bombshell - IMAP support. I’ve kept a fifty dollar bill handy for the last [...]

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San Diego Wildfire Updates with Google Maps

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Today Stasia and Kellie wrapped up another Google Adwords Seminar - in the middle of the San Diego wildfires! While they’ve been making their way through road blocks and airport delays, I’ve been looking for some useful information about the location and extent of these fires. The traditional news outlets have done a [...]

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16 Coolest New Features In Mac OS X 10.5 That You Didn’t Know About

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

By now, everyone has heard about the major new features in Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 — code-named Leopard. However, there are several little known new features that are actually quite cool. I’ve compiled a list the sixteen coolest little known new features of Mac OS X 10.5.

1. OpenDocument and Word 2007 [...]

Posted in Apple, Tech Industry | 73 Comments »

Is This Apple’s Internal Lorem Ipsum?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Apple announced the release date for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) this morning. I was browsing through the technology overview page and came across this strange description for Bonjour:

“Holisticly provide access to ethical communities vis-a-vis client-focused.”
Seriously? That can’t be real. This has to be some strange, internal lorem ipsum. Right? If it is, it’s the [...]

Posted in Apple, Humor | 3 Comments »

Google vs Text Link Ads

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Google has reached a monopolistic milestone with its recent changes to the treatment of paid links. While I believe they are still operating within reason, they are edging ever closer to the danger zone, after which I will not be surprised to see regulatory intervention.
Recent changes to Google’s index have been focused around the [...]

Posted in Commentary, Google, SEO, Strategy, Tech Industry | 3 Comments »

New Evidence of an Apple iPhone SDK

Friday, October 5th, 2007

This afternoon I received an announcement from the Apple Developer Connection announcing their upcoming Performance Tuning workshops. These intensive developer camps aren’t unusual - Apple hosted iPhone web development seminars this summer. However, the description for this one caught my eye. It read (emphasis mine):
These 3-day workshops are designed to provide you with the tools [...]

Posted in Apple, iPhone | 3 Comments »

Sitening Sponsors ‘Walk for Lupus Now’

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Sitening is a proud sponsor of “Walk for Lupus Now,” a 5K Walk supporting the Mid-South Chapter of The Lupus Foundation of America.
The event is scheduled for 9 a.m., October 13, 2007 in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tenn. The event promotes physical activity and healthy living in a family-friendly setting. Participants walk to raise funds to [...]

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Flexiscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nirvanix Comparison

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, each company has targeted their pricing and service offerings towards different users.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a complete set of very [...]

Posted in Amazon, Open Source, Programming | 2 Comments »