There’s a couple cool sounding WP plugins that I’m testing out:
- AutoSocial: helps you post on social networking sites
- Yahoo Shortcuts: more easily integrate yahoo’s stuff like maps, flickr, etc
- Wordbook: integrates a self-hosted WP install with facebook
If there’s something cool about one of these, I’ll update ya’ll here
Autosocial and Yahoo Shortcuts that I’m just giving it a quick test to see what it does. It’s supposed to make posting to social networking sites a lot easier from WP.
Gmail now offers IMAP access in addition to POP so you can use one account to sync your mail with multiple computers using Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever software flavor you want.
I set it up on my Tmobile dash to play around with it before I screw up everything on my computer and have to go back and fix it. I’ve been using it for about 2 days now, and it has only successfully worked once. I tried it through a different computer and set up IMAP on it, and it still doesn’t work.
I know the logins are fine, but it looks like it is just a timeout issue more than anything. Maybe it’s just because it’s new and there are not enough resources dedicated to it by Google yet.
Is anyone else having this issue too?
The Gmail POP & SMTP servers have been giving me all sorts of trouble lately. I use POP/SMTP access about 99% more than I use the web based interface to gmail so it’s super annoying.
Seems like every 3rd or 4th message just hangs and won’t send out. The web interface to Gmail works fine during this time though, so I’m wondering if it has something to do with congestion because of traffic volume on these services. I don’t imagine that Google cares much, since they can’t show any ads (side note, ads in my email program are REALLY annoying) to people that are using the Gmail POP/SMTP servers almost exclusively.
But, it’s free so you get what you pay for and I guess I can’t complain all that much.
I’ve been having some weird issues with my T-mobile dash lately. Keener’s always making fun of me because it’s not as dumbed-down as his ancient Nokia and has some issues every now and again. Yeah, the previous HP thing I had was a terror, but this has been pretty good until lately.
Today I did a hard reset on the phone, which took forever for me to figure out how to do so stay tuned I may post some instructions on that. We’ll see if that cures anything.
So anyway, now I’ve been thinking about the Sprint Centro. Seems like it would be a pretty decent deal considering it’s supposed to be $100 or less and still do the basic smartphone functions. Kind of weird calling a smartphone basic, but who needs the fancy stuff, all I need is a camera, access to email & the web and a keyboard. Wifi is nice too, but I’d rather have faster cellular internet, so I’m considering switching from tmobile.
We’ll see… it’s only money right?
Yep, google maps now has streetview in Portland. I don’t know if I’d actually use it for anything constructive, but it’s fun to check it out and see what’s going on. Too bad they didn’t wait for my house to be done before they came by though:
