Send and Recieve Hotmail Through Gmail With Hotmail POP Access

February 24th, 2009 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Random Stuff - (1 Comments)


Back when Gmail was first introduced, I slowly began transitioning all of my email sending and recieving over to Gmail from Hotmail. Though I was primarily using Gmail, I was still using Hotmail as a “dump” for forum mail, web promo signups, etc. It was always a pain in the ass to integrate the two until recently. No I can send and recieve Hotmail messages through my Gmail account by simply adding another account throug the Gmail interface.

In Gmail, just do the following to setup Hotmail within your Gmail account:

  1. Click on “Settings”
  2. Click on “Accounts”
  3. Click on “Add another email address you own”
  4. Enter your Hotmail name & email address (Figure 1)
  5. Verify your Hotmail account (Figure 2)
  6. Enter your Hotmail account information (Figure 3)

Failed to Connect – Firefox Can’t Establish a Connection at…

February 21st, 2009 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Tech/Web - (3 Comments)


Using Firefox on my Mac has been great, I’ve never had any problems with it. Actually, I shouldn’t say that we I haven’t had any problems with it, but when compared with Firefox on my PC, the problems with Firefox on my Mac have been few and far between, until recently, when I came across a single website that gives me the following error message:

Failed to Connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at sitename.com.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

  • Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later.
  • Are you unable to browse other sites?  Check the computer’s network connection.
  • Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.

I’ve searched around and most sites say that this is a firewall problem, however, I don’t have any firewall software running on my Mac. I’m connected to a Linksys wireless router, and when connecting to the same router from my PC, I’m able to connect to the website with no problems.

Has anyone else come across this problem? And if so, what did you do to resolve the problem?

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Problems with Google Mobile Sync for iPhone

February 10th, 2009 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)


As much as I love the new Google Mobile Sync for my iPhone, there are a couple problems that I’ve come across. Well, they’re not necessarily problems, but they’re “features” that I might like to see added.

Syncing to iPhone
This is when I add contacts in Gmail and they are Pushed to my iPhone.

Pros:

  • Contact photo gets pushed to iPhone

Cons:

  • Nowhere to add birthday
  • Deleting a contact in Gmail doesn’t remove it from my iPhone

Syncing to Gmail
This is when I add new contacts in my iPhone and they are pushed to Gmail. I love the fact that when adding contacts on the iPhone, you can typically put in all information immediately, including a photo.

Pros:

  • Automatically backs up new contacts to Gmail. No need to sync to your computer anymore.

Cons:

  • Does not push contact photo to Gmail
  • Does not push contact birthday to Gmail
  • Deleting a contact from my iPhone doesn’t delete it from my Gmail contacts

Other than these few minor “problems” there is not really anything else that needs to be added. I love the features and functionality of google mobile sync. Stay tuned for my review of how to sync your iPhone calendar to two or more Google Calendars.

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iPhone Sync Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calendar with iPhone Contacts and Calendar

February 9th, 2009 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)

Google has finally decided to offer a fully functional syncing system that allows users to sync their Google accounts with their mobile devices, such as iPhone, BlackBerry or Windows Mobile device. Sync functionality with my Google account is something that I’ve been looking for ever since I’ve I got my iPhone. I’ve tried a few other 3rd party options over the past year or so, none of which was really “fluid” in the way that it worked.

That’s the best part about the new Google Mobile Sync functionality. It is truly fluid and works seemlessly once it is setup. The Push capability makes it a breeze, and I love the security knowing that when I add a new contact on my phone it is immediately Pushed to my Gmail account, and vice versa, when I add a contact in Gmail, it is available on my phone next time I look at my contact list. Before you sync to your Google account for the first time, you may want to export your your current contact list from Outlook, iCal or whatever. My problem was that my Gmail contact list wasn’t quite the same as my iPhone/Outlook contact list, so what I did was import my exported list into Gmail. This added all of the “missing contacts” from into my Google Account.

Here are a few things that I’ve noticed so far:

  • This is just great!

iPhone Google Sync

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Windows 7 Not Recognizing External Hard Drive (Western Digital MyBook)

February 5th, 2009 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Tech/Web - (212 Comments)


I recently installed the Windows 7 beta on my home computer and love everything about it. The operating system as a whole is great, and I have no complaints… especially when compared to Windows Vista. Anyways, I recently tried to backup my photo folder on my computer to my external hard drive, and I realized that it was not listed in my list of available drives. So I went to my device manager and it wasn’t found there either. I then tried disconnecting and reconnecting it with no luck. When I open up the USB tree in the device manager, I find an “Unsupported USB Device”, which I am assuming is my external hard drive.

Just to make sure that my drive still works, I brought it to work and plugged it into my computer, and it works perfectly. So there is something with Windows 7 that is causing my external hard drive to not be recognized. Any suggestions?

I’m using:

  • Windows 7
  • Western Digital 500GB MyBook External Hard Drive

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