New IMAP feature on Gmail

I’ve blogged before that Google’s Gmail uses POP3 for its users to download E-Mails from the servers. While it was POP3 it kinda acted as IMAP, except the fact that it didn’t allow you to have folders, remember popular tagging in Gmail?

Well, the news is Gmail is to provide IMAP protocol for its users(Google Apps for your domain too). It’s a great feature to have for those people who are not comfortable using Gmail’s popular webmail interface or any webmail, preferring those to E-Mail clients like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. Also it’s also creating a way for gadgets and phones like iPhone, BlackBerry or any kind of PDAs out there.

So go ahead and configure your E-Mail client, PDA or phone to synchronize with your Gmail account.

For those who doesn’t know what does IMAP mean read it here.

How do I enable IMAP?

You can retrieve your Gmail messages with a client or device that supports IMAP, like Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail.

To enable IMAP in your Gmail account:

  1. Log in to your Gmail account.
  2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
  3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
  4. Select Enable IMAP.
  5. Configure your IMAP client* and click Save Changes.
October 25, 2007 | Filed Under internet | 4 Comments 

Thanks to readers

I’ve been busy with my work and my family life lately. I apologize for lack of posts. I will resume more postings in near future! Meanwhile, I would like to thank my readers who come to check if I have anything new to share ;) so I pick the last 5 readers from MyBlog widget. Here they are:

1. Ades - Abdylas from AdesBlog. A close friend of mine, always there to help and support me. His blog covers tips for bloggers, making money online, web2.0, SEO, web things and stuff like that. Did I mention that his blog  is one of the very few bloggers who have PR7?

2. Satans - I don’t speak Chinese, so I’m not sure who he is and what is his blog about. But thanks anyway for visiting me! Visit his chinese blog one and two.

3. 88michael - Michael is the author of three blogs http://techcentreme.blogspot.com/ , http://techhelpvideos.wordpress.com/ and http://mmomethods.blogspot.com on Technology. His blogs cover security, video editing and stuff, also make money online. Thanks!

4. Christopher from http://www.techchee.com is ablog where he has got some good advices for those who want to get high tech gadgets.

5. Calvyn from iCalvyn is an IT Officer in hotel industries. His personal blog covers his experience in IT as well as making money online.

October 23, 2007 | Filed Under internet | 5 Comments 

Whois information for domain microsoft.com

Last week I made transfer from  ABOUT DOMAIN DOT COM SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. to Godaddy. Today I wanted to check if the transfer is complete. Doing a simple whois query I found out it still pending transfer.

I made some other queries, microsoft.com was one of them. I was surprised to see the outcome. Check out the whois information for Microsoft domain!

arstan@blacky:~$ whois microsoft.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information. Read more

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under M$, internet | Leave a Comment 

Do you read blogs via RSS?

Personally I tried using RSS readers and follow up with the news and blogs via RSS. For me, I couldn’t keep up with RSS subscription, some of the reasons include what Mani from Blogging Tips has blogged.

Here’s the list of RSS readers I tried using:

If you are reading blog via RSS, you lose the personal touch/feeling that the author has put into his blog. I believe blog is popular because of this personality unlike news portals. So when you are reading blog posts via RSS you kinda miss that thing.

Although, I agree that follow up with 50 or more blogs on a daily basis is a tough thing, I think partially RSS readers would help a lot. But again, if you are reading blog posts from RSS - get out of the standard RSS layout and further more go online and leave comments on the posts!

Update:
My appologies to Kevin and Mani from Blogging Tips, I had no bad intention.

Personally, Blogging Tips is one of my top reading blog. I respect Kevin and other authors’ contributions and I do learn a lot from them. Thank you for keeping up a great blog!

And I am really sorry for my unacceptable mistake. I will try to be more careful next time.

July 28, 2007 | Filed Under internet | 2 Comments 

Are my posts better than Microsofts

I’m a happy user of 103bees so far, it has some advantages and disadvantages but that’s a topic for a separate post.

Using 103bees I found out that some of my posts are ranked pretty awesome by Google. For example if you search for how to setup an office infrastructure my blog will be the first that shows up. Second search result is from Microsoft website.

I must admit that Wordpress rocks! Way to go!

July 26, 2007 | Filed Under internet | 1 Comment 

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