A little while ago i got a Nokia 6600 slide and set it up to connect to my email. The receiving part was very easy but the sending not so…
It would not work authenticating to my Hosts SMTP server but worked OK when sending via my phone SP’s server….
Not the best article but this info could save someone a few mins…..
Someone recently asked me about removing programs under Windows Vista….
In keeping with this blog’s Ethic of “things that may be of use to people” here’s what I said -
Before getting into the “How” lets have a look at what to get rid of.
Some things may be obvious “oh I have not used that in ages” type programs are good to go.
If you Don’t know what something is Google it, then decide – if you still don’t know email your friendly neighborhood techi the name of the program, as displayed, and they will tell you more about it and what happens if you get rid of it.
If you are the nervous type – backup important data like photos and music before you start. In fact I would say back things up regularly anyway. If you ever need to restore anything you will be glad you took the time and having a backup gives a nice, happy, warm, safe feeling to any computer user .
Right down to business – How to uninstall programs from Microsoft Vista.
Step one Go to the start button (bottom left hand corner of the screen as shown), click on it and the start menu will appear as shown, Click on the “Control Panel” option (outlined in blue).
Vista Desktop and Start Menu
The Control Panel has two views – Default and Classic. Follow the Step two instructions that match your view.
Step Two for Default view users
In the “Control Panel” look for the option called “uninstall a program” under “Programs”, outlined in blue in the picture below.
Control Panel – Vista Default View
Step Two for Classic view users
In the “Control Panel” look for the option called “Programs and Features”, outlined in blue in the picture below.
Control Panel – Vista Default View
Step Three – Uninstalling programs
You should now be looking at a list like the one shown below. to uninstall a program click on it’s name in the list and click on the “uninstall” option that will appear at the top. again this is outlined in Blue.
Uninstall list
Clicking the Uninstall option will start the uninstall wizard for the relevant program. Each wizard will have different options so read what the wizard asks and you should be OK. If in doubt – Google or your friendly neighborhood techi should help.
My Joy at this Blog getting it’s first comment was soon dampened as a Spam comment soon followed.
I know you can get Spam filters for email servers, in fact I have configured a filter or two in my time, but I knew relativity little about spam filters for Blogs. Google and I came up with a plan..
The version of Word Press I installed on my server comes with an un-activated, Spam filter called Akismet that has now been kicked into action. In addition to that i installed SI CAPTCHA (also used by a friend that has been Blogging a bit longer then me) that adds a “are you human” picture test to the comments form. Lets see how it goes…….
Ok so why limit yourself to Digg?
the button at the bottom seems to give the ability to get this blog on all social networking sites….
It’s the “add to any” button for wordpress if you like the look of it….
so go on click it, you know you want to.
The idea behind this blog, as the strap line says, is that some of the things I’m sat here trying to figure out other people may need to do to. Said people may find this info use full and it may save them a bit of time to read what i have done….
To help get the word out, and to satisfy my curiosity about how it works i found a word press compatible button that Ryan Wagner had written (http://tech.cybernetnews.com/digg-button/). The code did need a bit of Tweaking (6 foot 2,PHP programing boyfriends – get one and you can use the high shelves in your kitchen and feel vindicated that you did install the plug in right it just needs tweaking to show the Image properly.) so here it is –
Kblogger kept losing any keyboard shortcuts i set up so i had the Theo_Theory is Kblogger is written for KDE and I’m using a GNOME based windows manager so it’s possible the blog tool is just not sitting right….
The final dig around Synaptic package manager for the evening came up with BloGTK 1.1. Easy Setup, spell check and you can add a category – just one mind…
You can open and edit existing Blog entries to.
Gnome-blog
This one has a spell check and real simple looking interface….
but no way to add categories…
so the hunt goes on…..
My partner suggested using a blog client so installed two on my laptop.
Drivel journal editor – nice interface, good name and easy setup but no spell check and i need a spell check so this one is out for me…..
Kblogger – don’t cancel the kwallet setup everything gets a bit tricky if you do. i had to install the KDE Wallet manager and set one up manually.
The UI is not very intuitive and most keyboard shortcuts need to be configured from scratch. It does have the much needed spell check so i will be giving this one a more long term go then Drivel.
The home page for littleliz.co.uk needed a bit of an update so I had a look at some of the open source HTML editors that are available for Ubuntu. The main page is just to send people to other bits, like this blog for instance, but I wanted to add a section re some of the projects I have worked on and this would need a bit more hard core construction.
I needed something WYSIWYG as I can only just stumble my way through HTML and don’t have a head for programing, (don’t get me rong Server or PC hardware / software not a problem I just can’t compile code with the big boys.) I came across KompoZer and it seemed ok – not to complicated but not to powerful either and it crashes loads. I think the current version is still beta (v 0.7.10 – the first 0 = beta right?) and it is a bit unstable – the “tables” menu seems to frequently cause crashes.
In the end I used KompoZer to put together the basic page text and Bluefish to prod about with the HTML to add things like anchors and hyper-links. The result is a simple set of pages, suites me as that’s what I was after.
It occurred to me this morning that it would be good if I could synch my address book between my laptop and computer….
I had already set-up Calender syncing with google so figured an add-on that synchronized my address books with googlemail’s address book would be a bit more organised then setting up an account somewhere else.
So my add-on search found Zindus.
It is a little clunky so far – it adds an icon next to the email count in the bottom right hand corner of the Thunderbird screen as well as an item in the Tools menu to take you to the settings page.
You enter your google account login details and get it to synch, by default it will synch when Thunderbird is opened, however you can right click on the right hand corner icon and force it to synch. It takes a few goes to get info to shift up to google and down to another computer….