What Ho!» Blogging http://whatho.satpathy.org Ah! To live with a What Ho on my lips and a Gentleman's Gentleman... {sigh}... Such is life... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:47:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Facebook, Blog, Website, Orkut Etc… http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/04/30/software/internet/facebook-blog-website-orkut-etc/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/04/30/software/internet/facebook-blog-website-orkut-etc/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:00:30 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/04/30/software/internet/facebook-blog-website-orkut-etc/ I joined Facebook during my last trip to the US of A in September 2008. I was in San Francisco for 3 weeks for Oracle Open World 2008 and 2 SOA related training programs our Product Manager and I were doing. I called my college (IIT Kharagpur) mate, Rajiv Kaushik, and badgered him for the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I joined Facebook during my last trip to the US of A in September 2008. I was in San Francisco for 3 weeks for Oracle Open World 2008 and 2 SOA related training programs our Product Manager and I were doing. I called my college (IIT Kharagpur) mate, Rajiv Kaushik, and badgered him for the phone numbers / email addresses of our common friends living in the Bay area. Rajiv advised me to get a Facebook account.

And I must say that Facebook did help me find my old friends fast, much faster than I had thought possible.

But I am not an active user. I find that I don’t have any time during the day and secondly I am often away from my room and laptop. Evening and late night computing sessions are given over to research, personal finance, blogging, web site maintenance, cataloging my digital media acquisitions etc. Facebook just does not fit in for me, particularly since I haven’t seen a half decent mobile application worth using. I tried Fring but was disappointed. I just upgraded Fring to the latest release but haven’t tested it yet. The biggest problem with Facebook on Fring is the sluggish UI. Menus take up to 15 secs to open! Not acceptable.

I tried the mobile phone’s (Sony Ericsson P1i) web browser. Not Opera Mini but the built in browser. I posted a test update to see how things work. The UI is compact and lightweight enough to be fast. I will try that for a few days and see how it goes.

I am almost completely mobile now. Other than the Jabber based instant messaging solution used at work. I use Fring for Yahoo, GTalk, MSN & AOL. Also for Orkut to some extent but I prefer the phone’s web browser for Orkut. Profimail keeps me in constant touch with my personal and work emails. One email client that handles all my email accounts! Very highly recommended! The built in RSS Reader keeps me in touch with news of my interest. Google and it’s world is available any where and at any time. HandyDay and the SynchML based, built in Remote Synch program keeps me in constant touch with my calendar.

I recently realized that my current lifestyle forces certain choices on me. I will use a product or service only if it offers a good mobile UI. Lets see if Facebook will become one of my commonly used tools.

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2009/04/30/software/internet/facebook-blog-website-orkut-etc/feed/ 4 Test of blog by email from mobile http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:26:58 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06//test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/ This is the second test of the blog by email feature I just configured. This email is being sent from my mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson P1i. I am using the built in email client which does not support HTML emails. I have attached a big image. This email should end up using the Postie [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is the second test of the blog by email feature I just configured. This email is being sent from my mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson P1i. I am using the built in email client which does not support HTML emails. I have attached a big image.
This email should end up using the Postie plugin.
Lets see what happens this time.

Update:

  • Paragraphs run together. Try giving two empty lines in the email?
  • Categories didn’t work at all. I had used the “-Cat1- -Cat2- Subject” format. Have to try the “[Category] [Category] Subject” format.

Image support worked like a charm. I had attached a fairly large image from my mobile phone and it was added to the bottom of the post as expected. The image was nicely resized too.

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/06/software/open-source/wordpress/test-of-blog-by-email-from-mobile/feed/ 0 Testing Blog-By-Email http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/software/open-source/wordpress/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/software/open-source/wordpress/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:19:57 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/uncategorized/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/ Hello! Hello! Hello!

Earth Calling…

Does post by email work? Did I get all the settings right? That’s a big question because I have read only half way through the manual

Let’s see what WordPress does with this href=”http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email”>email-to-post thingy.

Update:

Makes a mess of it! The formatting [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Hello! Hello! Hello!

Earth Calling…

Does post by email work? Did I get all the settings right? That’s a big
question because I have read only half way through the manual :-)

Let’s see what WordPress does with this
href=”http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email”>email-to-post
thingy.

Update:

Makes a mess of it! The formatting is off rather bad. The one hyper link I put in was massacred. I am leaving the post as is to demonstrate how the blog by email feature works out-of-the-box. I will try Postie next. Uploading the plugin files to the server now… Email was sent from ThunderBird 2.0.0.9 using HTML mail.

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]]> http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/02/05/software/open-source/wordpress/testing-blog-by-email-wordpress/feed/ 0 Windows Live Writer http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/01/22/software/open-source/wordpress/windows-live-writer/ http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/01/22/software/open-source/wordpress/windows-live-writer/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:08:04 +0000 gautamsatpathy http://whatho.satpathy.org/2008/01/22/blogging/windows-live-writer/ I am writing this on Windows Live Writer, version 2008. Setup was a bit of a pain (see screen shot) but then what do you expect from Microsoft? Anyway, once it had finished “examining” my “system”, it was relatively easy to setup. The older blog settings were retained from the Beta version and I was [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I am writing this on Windows Live Writer, version 2008. Setup was a bit of a pain (see screen shot) but then what do you expect from Microsoft? Anyway, once it had finished “examining” my “system”, it was relatively easy to setup. The older blog settings were retained from the Beta version and I was able to setup my new WordPress based blog quickly.

Windows Live Writer - Installation

Of particular interest to me now is how this thing will treat images. Lets see now…

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