Archive for October, 2007

Gmail via IMAP!

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

I’m a happy man. Now that Google has added IMAP access (Google is rolling out IMAP over several days; it’s possible that not all Gmail users have the option yet), I can see my Gmail messages from Outlook, Mac Mail, and Evolution (my email clients on Windows, Mac OS, and Ubuntu respectively) and move [...]

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Making Vista Slimmer

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

I just installed Vista on my HP tc4400 Tablet PC and I’m going to use this entry to keep track of performance tweaks.

Turn off most of the visual effects.   Right-click on Computer and Choose Advanced Properties, then click on Performance Setting.

Choose Adjust for Best Performance.  Hit Apply.  Things will get ugly.
Using the checkboxes turn on [...]

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