June, 2010Archive for

Apple Mail 4.0 and IMAP

Check out this reference page on the Google Apps help site: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892

WordPress 3.0 is out

WordPress 3.0 is out and available for download. You can check it out here. I have installed it from scratch for one project and I have installed the upgrade using the built-in upgrade tools. Both have been very successful. The new interface improvements are great and it seems very stable. All of my existing templates and plug-ins worked without a a hitch. The only issue I had was with the widgets associated with my templates. I just had to re-add them. Great work from Matt and the ...

Amazon CloudFront and media distribution

So I have finally gotten around to setting up an Amazon CloudFront solution for a hosting customer. Set up an Amazon S3 bucket, upload some content to it (in this case, some .flv files for a film promotion site) and then sign into the AWS console and set up a CloudFront distribution point, selecting the bucket full of content as the source. You optionally even set up your own CNAMEs to have personalized URLs. Finish setting up the distribution point and get the CloudFront URL and then just...

iPhone and iPad with Google Calendars

After having spent an hour or two trying to find the right answer, I found the easiest and most beautiful solution as the following : 1. Follow Google's instructions to setup your main account using Exchange protocol. 2. On your iPhone or iPad, launch Safari and go to m.google.com/sync - don't forget to choose English (US) language, it doesn't work in other languages. 3. Authenticate and the select the delegates you want to add to your iPhone's calendar. 4. Keep in mind that the calendar's col...