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If you have played Portal, you would probably know this already. This plush is priced at USD29.99, which I think is waaayyy overpriced! But to my surprise, it sold out within 1 day! I don’t know why people would pay USD29.99 for this 15×15cm plush. This is definitely not worth it.

Yes! The forum is finally back! Guess that I can’t wait for phpBB to release the final version of the board. -_- I think it gonna take ages for them to release the final version. For now, I’ll just stick with the latest release candidate.

Feel free to create an account in the forum and share your thoughts there with other members!

Since I’m not from US, I’m not interested in their politics. Recently, there have been a lot of submissions at Digg that related to the upcoming 2008 US election. Since there are a lots of Ron Paul supporter in Digg, this whole category is flooded by Ron Paul related submission. I find it kinda irritating. Yes, you can customize Digg so that the particular section is removed from your view, but this isn’t apply to the RSS feed. So, the only choice is to filter the RSS feed using 3^rd party tool such as FeedRinse. FeedRinse will filter out your RSS according to the rules that you set in the feed option. For my case, I’ll filter out all news items that contain the word “Ron Paul”. You can get the feed here:

http://www.feedrinse.com/services/rinse/?rinsedurl=da7344d6ac29c8c36d197c2633d65c08

This feed is not updated as fast as the official feed, but it is still acceptable.

If you had read my previous post, then you’ll know that Google just added the IMAP functionality into Gmail. You can refer to the help section in Gmail to learn how to configure your mail client to work with the IMAP service. Unfortunately, there is no step-by-step guide for Windows Live Mail Desktop. But why Windows Live Mail? The reason is because Windows Live Mail is the only application that you can use with your Hotmail account in Vista. And Outlook Express has been replaced by Windows Mail, which is not compatible with Hotmail.

Before you start configuring the client, you need to enable the IMAP in your Gmail settings.

Step 1: Go to settings

Step 2: Click “Forwarding and POP/IMAP”

Step 3: Go to IMAP access and select “Enable IMAP”

Step 4: Click the “Saves Changes” button to save the settings.

Now you can go to your Windows Live Mail to configure it with the IMAP.

Step 1: Click on the “Show Menu” button located at the top-right

Step 2: Go to Tools -> Accounts. An “Accounts” window will pop up.

Step 3: Click “Add”.

Step 4: Select “Email Account” and click next.

Step 5: Fill in the details. In the name field, you can put the name that you like to appear in your email when you can send an email. The email address is your full Gmail address. Uncheck the “Automatically determine my login ID” option. The login ID is your full Gmail address. Check the “Manually configure server settings for email account” option. Click next.

Step 6: You can copy the following settings. In the drop down box, select IMAP.

Incoming Server Information:

Incoming server: imap.gmail.com

Port: 993

Check the “This server requires a secure connection (SSL) option.

Select “Log on using clear text authentication”.

Outgoing Server Information:

Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com

Port: 465

Check the “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)” option.

Check the “My outgoing server requires authentication” option.

If you have a lot of emails in your Gmail, it will take some take for the client to download the list of emails.

That’s it! Now you can start using your Windows Live Mail to read your Gmail email!

Someone of us might be waited for this for a long time (but not me :p), Google finally added the IMAP functionality in Gmail! So, what exactly is IMAP and why is everyone is so excited about it? IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is one of the two protocols that most mail client support. Another more common and widely used protocol is POP (Post Office Protocol). But why people prefer IMAP over POP? The reason is because POP will download a copy of your email when you retrieve your mail using an email client. The email will still available in the server even though you deleted it from your client (ie: Outlook Express, Outlook) However, this is dependent on your mail server provider. For example, Gmail allow you to change the setting of POP. You can choose to either archive, delete or keep a copy (in the mail server) after you download your email to your client. But with IMAP, the client will synchronize with the mail server. So, if you mark you email as read, it will also be reflected in the mail server. You can also check the explanation/advantage of IMAP in the Gmail help page over here.

I’ll post a step-by-step guide on how to setup the Gmail IMAP account in Windows Live Mail later.

Yay! The new version of Wordpress (2.3) support tagging! It is much easier to tag a post than to categorize them. I never use tagging in Wordpress before, so I’m not sure how it works with wordpress. Usually, visitor can filter the post by tag, which is good. It is also better for Search Engine Optimization (SOE). Will have to wait and see whether this will increase my blog traffic or not! xD

I just bought a Nintedo DS Lite last week. It is the first NDSL with dual color, black and red! The package itself is a bundle, so it comes with a game (Brain Age 2) and a leather case.

I just found out one very useful keyboard shortcut today, which is reverse tab! Ok, this won’t allow you to create a tab to the left side, but you can use Shift+Tab in forms so that you can go back to the previous selection (ie: text box)!

Yes, the search function is finally here! Google Reader user can now use the search box in the top of the page to search for the news items in their subscribed feed. You can even search base on feed and tag.

Most probably you’re sick of this “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” spoof. But I think this one is pretty good!

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