:: Intrepid Spaniel ::

Did you knew that GMail can now fetch e-mail messages from everywhere?
It appears to be true. Google just improved their e-mail service to gather messages from up to 5 POP3-enabled accounts. The service isn’t available to everyone yet, only for a few randomly chosen users.

We are looking forward to see this happening for every user out there, as this was the missing link on the chain for Gmail to be the perfect mail/webmail application.
I hope it happens for google apps for your domain pages like nickell.org soon. And it might be nice for those providers who allow POP but not forwarding.
Read on for how to tell if you have it, how to set it up, and what it looks like.
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I set up a customizable start page for nickell.org users at http://go.nickell.org using Google Apps for Organizations. This can be pretty handy because you can have your mail, calendar, headlines from you favorite sites, weather, sports, stocks, games, and more all from your own personalized start page.

Also easier to remember access to nickell.org webmail at http://mail.nickell.org and calendar at http://cal.nickell.org

Since it’s been a year since my last update.. I’ve definitely decided to phase the Mambo site out, and probably replace it with http://nickell.org/blog/ (This post was imported from Mambo, just so you are not confused, This is the “new site”)

I’ll (eventually) move the blog content to the main page.. (hasn’t happened yet)

Is there anything worth saving from this page.. I’ll miss the integrated photo gallery, I’ll have to see if I can do that with the wordpress too. Any thing else you guys want to see? Any stories you want me to move over?
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Wow! I’ve really gotten into gmail, and like it a lot. With the addition of google calendar, it is only getting better. I signed up for a beta program to host nickell.org email via gmail and was accepted. If you want a nickell.org email with gmail’s interface and 2gb limit please email me. I hope that google will open up it’s awesome google calendar service soon to hosted users soon too. While I’m dreaming, I hope I can sync to an ipod, nokia 6255, and a palm.

Some hints for converting to gmail…
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I installed a new weblog based on WordPress today. This site seems to hard to keep up to date, so I’m going to try keeping a more personal journal there. The site is http://nickell.org/blog/
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I haven’t worked on this site for a while, and just realized my self signed ssl certificate was invalid, so I generated a new one.

You will have to accept this each time you connect using https:// or add it to your browser and tell your browser to accept the certificate permenantly or temporarily.

If you don’t like this hassle, (and I don’t) consider donating some money, and I’ll get a vendor signed certificate. I think I can get a cheap one for about $50 a year.
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I need some help deciding how to integrate the photo gallery on this web site.  You may notice that there are two links on the menu at the upper left.  Please try them out and vote for the one you like better in the poll at the right.

Update to message below,  I upgraded the gallery component and changed a few setting, could folks try it and let me know if this IE problem is fixed?

Thx..

I understand that the photo gallery doesn’t work well with internet explorer, and gives an error message on every page. I’ll try to fix it when I get time, but in the meantime, I recommend that you use another browser. Mozilla Firefox works well for me, and doesn’t have as many security problems as IE. Link below

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