David Pollitt

Blackberry BIS update 2.6 and Gmail integration

// March 17th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog

Gmail integration using IMAP

Blackberry has announced the upcoming update to the BIS which includes some nice features for users of Gmail.

BlackBerry Internet Service 2.6 uses Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to integrate Gmail® webmail accounts. This integration protocol introduces the following benefits:

Elimination of sent email messages appearing as received email messages in the message list on the BlackBerry smartphone
One-way synchronization of read status, sent items, and deleted items

To use these improvements, BlackBerry smartphone users must remove and reintegrate their Gmail webmail accounts. For more information, see KB17407.

So, look forward to this update that is expected on March 21st – and say goodbye to the annoying duplicate sent email messages, as well as the workaround most have been using.

-DPollitt

Install Wordpress Locally

// January 26th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog

Recently I wanted to setup a WordPress installation locally to test out new theme changes. Previously I was doing all of my changes on my live install. For obvious reasons I wanted another option.

1.Install WAMPSever – Windows,Apache,MySQL, and PHP Server. Get the software here.  It is a pretty straightforward install, just follow it while selecting all of the defaults.  Start the server up once the install is done.

2.Download the latest WordPress install here.

3.Click the WAMPServer icon in the taskbar and select “WWW Directory”, copy the new WordPress install files here.

4.Create a database for the installation by clicking the WAMPServer icon again, and selecting “phpMyAdmin”, then type in the database name of your choice into the box that says “Create New Database” in the center of the page, and select “Create”.

5.In the WWW Directory open and edit “wp-config-sample.php”.  Change the following values:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // new database name
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // MySQL username (root is default)
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // no password assigned by default
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost);

6.Save this “wp-config-sample.php” as “wp-config.php”.

7.Open up http://localhost/ in any webbrowser to complete the wordpress installation process.

Thats all there is to it. From here you should be able to install themes, plugins, or anything else in the local WWW directory. For any theme changes you make in this local install, just copy the .php file and upload it to your live server when you are satisfied with the results.

-DPollitt

Apple Event Live Blogging Resources

// June 9th, 2008 // View Comments // Blog, Technology

Some handy resources if you are interested in live coverage of Apple Events -

Macrumors Live Macrumors Twitter iLounge

Other great websites – but these links are for todays specific event only. You might have to dig a bit for future events.

Engadget Macworld


-DPollitt

Upgrade

// February 29th, 2008 // View Comments // Blog

Last night I was roaming all over the internets upgrading this very blog.  Any one of my 5 readers might have noticed the ‘maintenance mode’ that the blog went into during the transition.  It was a pretty flawless upgrade.  Moved up to the newest version of WordPress 2.3.3, as well as the newest version of the Subtle theme that I use. -DPollitt