Command-X on Scissors
Entry published oct 29 2005
I found this in the ACM office here at the University of Illinois. Picture thanks to Nicholas Riley.
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POP3 to IMAP
Entry published oct 20 2005
I’m a member of a number of online mailing lists, which I have an e-mail address specifically for. I’ve connected to my e-mail mailing list account through POP3 and I then sort them using a e-mail client rules. However, i’ve gotten tired of waiting for hundreds of messages to downloaded everyday, now I have moved all of my rules server side and I’m using IMAP.
On my Dreamhost account, I have setup filters to direct all of my mail to different folders in my IMAP account. Mail for UIUC stuff gets filled into a folder, ACM stuff has a folder, Mac OS X Talk has a folder and etc. I have all of my e-mail being funneled into one account but parsed into seperate folders. So if I need to check e-mail anyway, I can just connect to my IMAP account and everything is at my fingertips, including my archive of e-mail. I’m hoping to eventually condense everything down into one e-mail address, sweet indeed.
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Ecto + WordPress + Dreamhost
Entry published oct 20 2005
NetNewsWire Pro rocks my socks, so when I went looking for a desktop tool to tie into WordPress I figured MarsEdit would be it. While, MarsEdit is a cool app, it just doesn’t feel as complete and polished as NetNewsWire. What I was really looking for was a tool to write on my blog without fussing with HTML tags, but MarsEdit still made me mess with HTML formatting. Sorry, but hand coding HTML is too old school for me. Why should I have to mess around with HTML tags?
So I looked around the market to see what else I could find, and I stumbled across this little gem called Ecto. If you are a blogger and have not seen this app, I recommend you check it out right now. It makes blogging painless, you can categorize things, format posts, upload pictures, insert iTunes and Amazon links, it plain rocks.
Oh, and another thing, it’s shareware. And I have to say that more often I lean towards shareware/indie developed software than their commercial siblings. It feels really good to “stick it to the man” in a sense and support the little guys out there. Plus, things like blogging tools are a little to cutting edge for the major companies to have caught on as of yet.
Check out Ecto, combine that with DreamHost and WordPress and you’ve got yourself a kick ass blogging platform.