I just set up Plagger to send me e-mails to my cellphone and gmail when there are updates to my replies rss feed on twitter. This took way longer than anticipated because of how long it took to install and configure Plagger properly. First installing it took a long time. I installed it via cpan and Plagger has a huge number of dependencies. Many of the dependencies are not set properly so cp[...]

I read today on the Official Google Blog that Google documents has offline support using Google gears but unfortunately it's perhaps not released to me yet. Unfortunately it sometimes takes time for new versions to get out to everyone and it takes even longer before they are supported in different languages other than English. One thing that many people might not realize is that features oft[...]

I just set up my e-mail settings with Mercurial so that I can e-mail patches via my Gmail account. I have Debian installed on my machine which has exim installed by default so it was pretty easy to set up. I'm not terribly versed at setting up mailing agents so I basically followed these instructions on the Debian Wiki. After getting that set up it's easy to set up Mercurial to use exim4 sinc[...]

I came across this website called Zoho which has a lot of interesting web apps like Google's web apps. Google has Google docs, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zoho has docs, spreadsheets, and presentations. Google has Google notebook. Zoho has a notebook. Google has gmail. Zoho has Zoho mail. Google has... well you get the idea. All that stuff is well and good but the thing that caught my e[...]

I've used Gmail for my personal mail for almost 2 years now. But I had never had a phone where I could access the internet from the cell phone until I came to Japan. So I was delighted to know that Gmail has a mobile feature that allows me to read e-mails from the cell phone. However, it's not all Samurai's and Green Tea here in Japan because Gmail doesn't work on Japanese mobiles. In fact a[...]