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Setup Google Apps (Mail, Calendar and Contacts) on the iPad

May 11, 2010 How To
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Google pro­vides a method for access­ing their Gmail ser­vice via the IMAP pro­to­col. IMAP is a stan­dard pro­to­col for access­ing email but unlike POP3 the email stays on the remote server. With POP3 you are lim­ited to read­ing your email from one loca­tion. With IMAP the email stays on the server and you can read […]

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Sync Yahoo and Gmail Contacts with Leopard’s AddressBook

May 13, 2009 How To
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Both Yahoo and Google pro­vide a method for import­ing and export­ing email addresses to and from OS X Address­Book but I wanted an eas­ier way to keep things syn­chro­nized. For­tu­nately, if you are run­ning OS X 10.5 (Leop­ard), the Address­Book appli­ca­tion pro­vides a straight for­ward way to do so.

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OS X’s Mail.app to use Gmail">How to setup OS X’s Mail.app to use Gmail

May 8, 2009 How To
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In a pre­vi­ous post I men­tioned that I had already con­fig­ured my Mac to use some of Google’s free ser­vices and how I felt that this was a cheap way to get some of the same fea­tures offered in MobileMe. Namely, I con­fig­ured Mail.app for use with Gmail, synced my Address Book to my Gmail […]

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How to protect your Gmail account

September 4, 2008 How To

Researchers at the at a Def­con hack­ers’ con­fer­ence revealed a flaw in the way Google’s Gmail han­dles ses­sion cook­ies. Accord­ing to the Hack­ing Truths. web site: The prob­lem lies with the fact that every time you access any­thing on Gmail, even an image, your browser also sends your cookie to the web­site. This makes it possible […]

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Rethinking MobileMe and iPod Touch as ultra-portable

August 13, 2008 Opinion
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I find that I use my iPod Touch as a music/video player only inci­den­tally. With the wire­less option and the app store my iPod Touch is more of a PDA/game machine. I carry it around the house and now use my lap­top for other things ( edit­ing phở­tos and video, etc. ). At work, we […]

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V2.0 Extension for Firefox">Gmail Redesigned V2.0 Extension for Firefox

August 12, 2008 Review

Wow! Pow! This is my favorite all time Fire­fox exten­sion. I think that the Gmail team should buy the code for this exten­sion and incor­po­rate the design right into Gmail or pro­vide it as a skin. They can use the same mech­a­nism they use for the iGoogle page.  Go get it!

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