Showing posts with label email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label email. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2009

Do you know President Barrack Obama's Secret Email Address? David Lim, Auckland, New Zealand

Obama won the fight to keep email and his BlackBerry. Now, knowing the president's email address is a privilege reserved for the truly elite. The NYT explains this, and other juicy details about Obama's email.

We've all seen this picture below of him using a BlackBerry since becoming president, though what he's holding is "actually a more sophisticated, encrypted variation." Biden has one just like it.

The people who know Obama's top secret email address are exceedingly few: Biden, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelroad, press secretary Robert Gibbs, a few other top advisers and a select group of friends from Chicago. Even some cabinet members, like Defense Secretary Robert Gates don't have his email address. And, it's likely that his top secret email address will be changed on a regular basis.
If you are lucky enough to get an email from him, it's encrypted in such a way that it can't be forwarded to your parents, or anyone. No attachments will get through, either.
Left sadly unanswered, however, is the greatest question of all: Does Oprah, formerly the most important person in America whose name starts with O, have his email address?

Monday, February 2, 2009

Posterous.com: Micro Blogging on the Fly! David Lim, Auckland, New Zealand


I went to work early today and was having a breakfast at Burger King. When having coffee, I flicked out my Nokia E71 phone and started to browse the web. I searched google.co.nz for information on "Blogging with your Nokia E71" and found the cool website called Posterous.com Posterous.com offer normal people like you and me to blog on the fly. It is very simple to do. You need to be able to send email and attach the photo you take to blog! I managed to registered for two blog sites, one of them is http://auckland.posterous.com/ It cannot be easy enough to use this free service to blog. It could be a good tool for you to leave your digital trial on a day out or even record "one day in your life" event on the internet. You can go online and edit your log postings, add tag, organise and customise your Posterous.com blog

Saturday, January 17, 2009

E71 & Gmail: How To Set Up IMAP With The Built-In Messaging Application

I have configured and been using my hotmail, clear.net.nz pop mail, vodafone sync mail and Gmail on my Nokia E71. They all work perfectly either via my Vdoafone 3G GPRS or WiFi at home/work. This had improve my respond time to my business associate's emails based at different world location. With the help of portable web mail, I can conduct my online business with ease!

Here are the steps you take for setting up Gmail on your Nokia E71 using the built in messaging application. I find this solution to be very good, except that it doesn't download the full emails automatically, only the headers. It's not really a huge problem as it only takes 2-3 seconds to retrieve the email.

Reminder (thanks to Rita): With the E71 you don't need to do all these settings to set up Gmail imap, the E71 will find all them for you when you enter your username and password. But if your having problems like I was when outgoing messages or anything else you can go into your settings for that email account and make sure they all look like what you see below. Make sure your security ports are set right. Steps for setting up Gmail, straight from Google:

To configure IMAP for your Symbian S60 device, just follow these steps:

1. Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings.
2. Select 'Messaging' > 'Options' > 'Settings' > 'E-mail' > 'Mailboxes.'

3. If you have never set up email on your phone before, select 'Yes' to define a new mailbox. If you already have other mailboxes, select 'Options' and then 'New mailbox.'

4. Select 'Start' to begin the setup wizard.

5. Select 'IMAP4' and then 'Next.'

6. Enter your full email address (including '@gmail.com') as the email address and select 'Next.' Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format 'username@your_domain.com.'

7. Enter 'imap.gmail.com' as the incoming mail server and select 'Next.'

8. Enter 'smtp.gmail.com' as the outgoing mail server and select 'Next.'
9. Select the appropriate access point and then 'Next.'
10. Enter a descriptive name for the email account mailbox name.

11. Once your mailbox is set up, select it from the email mailbox settings screen.

12. Select 'Connection settings' > 'Incoming e-mail.'

13. Enter your address (including '@gmail.com' or '@your_domain.com') and password.

14. Select 'SSL/TLS' for your security (ports) and define your port as '993.'

15. Select 'Back.'

16. Select 'Outgoing e-mail.'

17. Enter your email address (including '@gmail.com' or '@your_domain.com') and password.

18. Select 'StartTLS' for your security (ports) and define your port as '587.'

19. Select 'Back' and change any other settings according to your preferences.


That's just for getting it set up. Once it's all set up you can configure some of your own settings. For instance under Automatic Retrievel I set it for 15 minutes and I can close my email inbox yet it stays connected and pushes new mail through just as it arrives in my real inbox. If for some reason the data connection is broken it will automatically reconnect after 15 minutes.
All emails are synced perfectly with your real inbox almost instantly. If you want to delete something from your phone you can but if you choose "phone and server" it will simply archive it in Gmail, which is actually quite handy I think.

Are any of you using this as your email solution? Please leave your comments.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Turn your Hotmail Account into a cyber thumbdrivfe?


Like many folks out there, once a upon a time; I used to lugged around a heavy notebook computer. Then later, I found that I do away with should/joint injury by discarding the heavy notebook computer.

I have managed ditched my notebook computer for a portable USB thumbdrive.

That was not good enough, now I can even go around without a thumbdrive and still access my data files or backup softare--all stored on my hotmail account. This could be done easily by using a software call Roam Drive. You an download it here.

As a matter of fact, Roam Drive had help me to run my online business much better!

As of this writing, RoamDrive 1.0.1872.35727 Beta 2 is the latest you can find and download free!

If you

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