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Friday Quickie

Alec Peden — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:41:41 +0000

Since I had to send back my motherboard for RMA and I probably wont get it back til next month, I probably won’t be posting much. So in the mean time, short multi-topic posts are my friend.

Based on an article on 43folders.com the other day, I picked up a Jimi Wallet myself today. I have some Before and After pics up on my Flickr. I’m liking it so far, tho I’m always checking to see if I have my wallet with me
now.

Been listening to the new Taking Back Sunday. I was really looking forward to it and i wouldn’t go as far as saying I’m disappointed but Taking Back Sunday – John Nolan + Major Label = not good. Song writing has taken a turn, even there song titles are now actually lyrics in the songs. �MakeDamnSure� is a great song, lot of TAYF in there. Only other song I’m feeling is �I’ll Let You Live�. But, its only been day one so maybe it will grow one me, who knows.

Google Calender Greasemonkey ToDo List – Nice addon til something official comes from Google themselves.

Officially switching from a Motorola MPx220 and Exchange to a Motorola RAZR and Google Mail and Google Calendar. I’ll post alot more on that later.

Switch – Windows > OS X Apps

Alec Peden — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:07:45 +0000

Here are what I’ve been using as replacements for my Windows apps:
WindowsXP>OSX

Web Browser: Firefox>Safari
Email: Outlook>Entourage
Bittorrent: utorrent>Azureus
IRC: mIRC>Colloquy
Blogging: ecto>ecto
Flickr: Flickr Uploader>iPhoto/Flickr Export
Comics: CDisplay>ComicBookLover
MP3 Tagger: Tag&Rename/Musicbrainz>Media Rage/IEatBrainz/Export Artwork
Music: Winamp>iTunes
Last.fm: Audioscrobber for Winamp/Last.fm Player>iScrobbler/Last.fm Player
P2P: Limewire>Limewire
Office: Office 2003>Office 2004
Compression: WinRAR>Stuffit
PSP – PSPWare>iPSP
DVD ripping: DVDShrink>Handbrake/MactheRipper
FTP: FlashFXP>Transmit
Video Player: Windows Media Player>VLC
Xbox: Qwix>Xbox Browser
Burning: Nero>Toast
IM: AIM/Google Talk>iChat/Adium
Webpage: Nvu>Nvu
Finance: Quickbooks 2004>Quickbooks 2006 for Mac
VOIP: Ventrilo/TeamSpeak/Skype>Ventrilo/TeamSpeex
Todo list: Google Desktop with Todo Plugin>High Priority
Text: Notepad>Textmate
Photos: Pisaca>iPhoto

Some cool new programs:
Coverflow
GarageSale
MyMySpaceMail

Favorite Widgets:
I was never a fan of Konfabulator,now Yahoo Widgets. I never found anything really useful to me but I got to say I’m loving Dashboard. Here are some of my favorite non-default widgets:

Now Playing (Tivo)
TV Tracker
Bloglines Notifier
EasyEnvelopes
Stats for Adsense

Issues:
Ventrilo and Teamspeex can only use Speex codec, default is GSM, Have to change it on the server to work.
Quickbooks not up to par with Windows Version, tho i haven’t tried QB 2006 yet.
Skype not working on Intel Macs.
Office 2004 sluggish, Rosetta
ecto sluggish. Rosetta
Needed to used a patched version of Azureus
Firefox not Universal Binary yet, sluggish, Rosetta

Things I can’t do on Mac I can on Windows (so far):
Update the firmware on my MPx220 cell phone. Updater is Windows only.

How to setup up AUTD on Exchange 2003 with T-Mobile MPx220

Alec Peden — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:09:28 +0000

Finally got away from the PDA / Cellphone combo I always carried around with the purchase of my new Motorola MPx220 Smartphone. The MPx220 runs Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003SE software which virtually replaces my iPaq 2215 and Nokia 3650. This is how to setup a new MPx220 to work with Push based Activesync over T-Mobile’s GPRS network. What this means is every time a new email, appointment or contact is added to your Exchange the server will “push” it to you phone in a matters of minutes without you having to sync manually. This is done by the Exchange server sending out a SMS message that the phone receives (and deletes immediately) and this initializes a server Activesync connect. With this in mind, i highly suggest you get the $19.99 Unlimited Internet plan with a 1000 SMS bucket for $6.99 from T-Mobile.

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Exchange 2003 setup:

1: Install Exchange 2003 Service Pack 1 if you haven’t already
2: Follow the registry edit in this KB article
3: Install this hotfix
4: Start Exchange System Manager
5: Open Organization > Global Services
6: Click Mobile Services
7: Goto Action > New > Mobile Carrier
8: Type in T-Mobile as the carrier name
9: Type “@tmomail.net” for the SMTP Domain
10: Close out all windows

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MPx220 Connection Settings

1: Start > Settings > More > Data Connections
2: Press Menu > Edit Connections
3: Go down to GPRS Connections
4: Menu > Add

Fill in as following:
Description: T-Mobile GPRS
Connects to: The Internet
Access Point: wap.voicestream.com
Leave the rest blank

5: Hit Done Twice
6: Goto Proxy Connections
7: Menu > Add

Fill in as following:
Description: T-Mobile GPRS
Connects from: The Internet
Connects to: WAP Network
Proxy: 216.155.165.50:8080
Type: HTTP
Leave rest blank

8: Click Done until your back at your Homescreen
9: Start > Internet Explorer > Menu > Options > Connections
10: Select Network : WAP Network
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Setup Activesync on MPx220

1: Start > Activesync
2: Menu > Options > Server Settings > Connections

Fill in as following:
User Name: [your exchange username]
Password: [your exchange password]
Domain: [your windows domain]
Check Save Password
Server Name: [your server ie mail.yourdomain.com]
Check Use SSL Connection

3: Click Done until your back at the Active Screen
4: Menu > Server Settings
5: Click Inbox > Check Sync Inbox with a Server then set your options as you see fit
6: Click Calender > Check “Sync Calender with a Server” then set your options as you see fit
7: Click Contact > Check “Sync Contacts with a Server”
8: Click Done to your back to Activesync screen
9: Sync – Hopefully it should connect and sync for the first time.
10: Menu > Options > Mobile Schedule
11: Change the “Peak time sync” to “When new items arrive”
12: Change the “Off-peak time sync” to “When new items arrive”
13: Sync again
14: Menu > Options > Server Settings > Connections
15: Scroll down to Address device using

Fill in as follows:
Address device using: SMTP Address
Service Provider Name: T-Mobile (should be auto-filled)
Device Phone Number: [your mobile number] (should be auto-filled)
Text Message Address: [yourmobilenumber]@tmomail.net

18: Click Done til your at Activesync screen
17: Sync