A few weeks ago I posted about the Nokia N95 8GB trial I was offered by WOM World. I have had the Nokia N95 8GB for almost an entire weekend now, and here are my first impressions.
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With changing school districts, I need to export my 1.5+ GB of e-mail out of Lotus Notes and into something useful to me. Since I have been working on consolidating my many e-mail accounts into just a few Gmail-enabled accounts, Gmail seemed like the natural choice for the export. After all, both Gmail and Lotus Notes support IMAP with SSL. It can’t be that hard, can it?
It was. After about an hour of trying to configure IMAP connections to Gmail using two versions of Lotus Notes, I was finally able to get a connection to work with Lotus Notes 8. Here is what you have to do to get it to work.
Continue reading ‘Gmail IMAP and Lotus Notes 8′A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by WOM World via Flickr. Colin, the person who contacted me, explained that WOM World was a Nokia-sponsored site that tracks Nokia buzz on the web, and that they also run a trial program where they send out Nokia devices for testing and review. He offered me a 3-week trial of a Nokia N95 8GB. He wrote:
Continue reading ‘Nokia N95 8GB trial’The N95 8GB North American version is one of the latest releases and we’re seeing social media users like you would be interested in having the device for three weeks to put it through its paces.
It has the same spec as the regular N95 8GB, so; 5MP Carl Zeiss lens camera with auto-focus, full GPS, MP3 player with integrated player keys, dual sliding action, WIFI, etc. But this version comes with updated software and full US 3G network support. In addition to being on Symbian, which means it’s open to literally thousands of applications, everything from Google maps to Twitter.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything of substance here. I’ve been too busy with real life lately that I haven’t had much time to pound out a full post. A lot of what I’ve had to say over the past few weeks has ended up on either Twitter or my shared items. Some of those items are NSFW, or will at least result in strange looks from those around you.
As you may have read, I took the leap and bought Xbox 360 Elite and Rock Band, stimulating the economy just a little bit. So far I think it was money well-spent. I found out last week at Pete’s graduation party that Mike and I actually have different versions of the Xbox 360. I was unable to plug my AC adapter into his Xbox 360, and I found out that there was a change to the design sometime between June 2007 and January 2008. This resulted in a lower-power AC adapter for my Xbox 360, which has a different plug than Mike’s. It was pretty annoying, because the Xbox 360 Wikipedia entry is the only place I was able to find why I couldn’t use my AC adapter with his Xbox 360.
With the new console, I also signed up for a Xbox Live Gold membership with the gamertag markomni80. I tried to sign up with markomni, but the registration site kept telling me it was in use. After being frustrated with it for a few days, I gave up trying to get my gamertag and just signed up with my alternate screenname. Now I can do cool things like purchase new songs for Rock Band and play the game with Hersch or Mike or whomever.
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If you have the game, add me with friend code 2535-4100-9655. Post your friend code in the comments, and we’ll race online!
I was about to push my chair back from the desk when I opened my blog stats in the WordPress admin dashboard. Apparently, my post about putting photos on an iPod is still very popular (relatively speaking, of course). One of the neat things that the blog stats shows me is the links that users click on to leave my blog. I found out that a link I posted in the aforementioned post was incorrect; Apple changed the URL. I have now updated the link, and all should be well in the universe once again.
So, the blog stats are useful, especially in helping to solve problems that my readers may have with bad links.
I know I’m late to the game yet again, but Hersch told me about a Twitter client called Spaz that is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. It uses the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), and it is pretty slick. I’m going try it out for a few days. If it works as well as Hersch says it does, I’m going to say bye to Twitbin.
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