Firefox + Simple Mail + GMail + YPops!

I like gmail and when i say i like gmail i really really mean it! I check my email everyday, every few minutes. So when then news about Gmail security flaws (which where later rebutted by the GMail team) i got somewhat scared... ok i was really really frightened by it. So what i did was i returned to using email clients. I figured that by using email clients it would lessen the chance of a malicious site inserting its filter on my precious gmail account.

I just wanted a simple email client, I don't need those hulking email clients like Thunderbird. Then i remembered reading about a firefox extension that acts as a email client. It's called Simple Mail from the name itself it is a very simple client so don't expect to much from it. Simple mail can access Pop and Imap accounts. It can notify you of new messages. It has an address book. Its three-paned view layout is again pretty simple.  Setting it up to access gmail is pretty straight forward.

Since i'm using simple mail now to access my email i might as well read my yahoomail through simple mail. In order to do this  i have to download and install YPops!. What is Ypops!? "YPops is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at o­ne end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo! The same concept holds good for SMTP as well."

Once installed, setup simple mail to access YPops and your done.


Download:
Simple Mail [addons.mozilla.org]
YPOPS! for Ubuntu [t_skariah]

Filezilla Password Recover

I use Filezilla extensively using both Linux and windows versions. Recently i needed to recover a password for an FTP account i haven't used for quite sometime now.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem if your using Filezilla 3 as this version no longer uses encryption. Just export your settings and opening up the XML file with your favorite text editor and it will show you your password as clear as day. I could just import the old xml file but i don't want to mess up my site manager for just 1 account like what happened to me before.

Searching for a password recovery tool for Filezilla showed me a bunch of windows only and not free applications. I found one free application FileZilla Password Recover but again its for windows only but its just over 150kb so what the heck i downloaded it run it through wine, paste in the password hash from the old XML file and voila! it worked! It's as simple as that.

Download Filezilla Password Recover [ www.devpro.it/filezilla_pr]

Apps on My PC: MikSoft Mobile Media Converter

I have been watching some 3gp videos using my LG KU250 cellphone and i decided to convert some of my wmv and mpeg movies to 3gp. So i search the net for a good converter and i found lots of junk but among the junk i found this gem, Miksoft Mobile Media Converter. Its does what its suppose to do perfectly. I have converted a bunch of wmv videos to 3gp and it ran flawlessly. Here's the description from the developer:

The Mobile Media Converter uses ffmpeg to convert MP3 / WAVE / WMA audio files to AMR files (Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec, *.amr) and vice-versa (AMR to MP3). Also, it can convert your WMV (except WMV ver.9) / MPEG video files to 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project, *.3gp) and vice-versa (MPEG to 3GP).
The program has a very easy-to-use and simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) that helps even the most amateur user. Most of the times, the only data that you must enter is the input file(s) or just drag 'n' drop the input file! The 3GP and AMR formats are used by mobile phones for MMS, for video and sound recordings, etc.

and the best thing of all is it has a linux version which is always a plus point for me.

Download Mobile Media Converter



Miksoft Mobile Media Converter[www.miksoft.net]

Long Hiatus

Been gone for quite some time now. Here are some of the things that i have been doing.

1. Designed eCommerce site using osCommerce for some clients.
    ex. www.sendregalo.com and www.goldenblossoms.com(not yet finish)

2.  Started maintaining www.learninglinks.edu.ph site

3. Still trying to finish my flowershop on Multiply.com. You can go to expressflowers.multiply.com but as i   said its not done yet and i'm stll figuring out how to use smart money and g-cash for expressflowers.

4. Started Biking from my house to work.( 7km everyday )

5. I'm still doing house call for computer repairs.

Softwares Downloaded and running on my PC

1. USB Webserver - Usb Webserver is an easy-to-use web server that integrates Apache, MySQL and PHP, including PHPMyAdmin. [

2. XAMPP - XAMPP is an integrated server package that contains Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl etc. A smaller version called XAMPP-Lite is also available that has fewer components but takes up less disk space.

3. Adobe Photoshop Lighroom - Its not free but for image post processing its worth every penny.

4. Windows Steady State - Perfect for a computer room full of kids. Free but you have to pass windows genuine advantage in order to download it.

5. K9 Web Protection - Free Internet filtering and control solution. Perfect software for making sure kidsare protected while surfing the net.

Apps on My PC: µTorrent

For me this is the best torrent client ever! Why do i like so much well for starters its small like its only 220kb and its not a resource hog like some other torrent clients. I can go on on on how great this little app is but really you should try it.



Download µTorrent 1.7.7


µTorrent[www.utorrent.com]

Apps on My PC: Virtualbox

I'm a jealous type of guy, last week i got jealous because my boss has "spaces " installed on his mac and so i Googled and got Virtuawin. Now i'm jealous of his mac because it's running parallels with Windows Vista as his guest and i said to myself I want one too!!! And so with the help of the mighty google i found a bunch of virtualization software and tried them. I tried VMware, Qemu and Virtualbox. Among the three i really like Virtualbox, I like it because its not that big of a download its around 16.9mb compared to VMware's 100+mb and its user friendly.

What is Virtualbox? Virtualbox is a hardware emulation virtualization software(say that 10x faster), by mapping the host computer’s hardware resources directly to the virtual machine’s resources, it creates a virtual copy of your computer. With this virtual machine you can install and run different operating system within your host computer.

I'm currently running Virtualbox on an Windows XP (XP being the host) and gOS Linux as guest. Everything works out of the box. :)

Screenshots:

Virtualbox[www.virtualbox.org]
gOS Linux[www.thinkgos.com]

Apps on My PC: VirtuaWin

I'm a linux user since wayback. One of the things i like to use in linux is the virtual desktop because i like switching from one desktop to another basically to hide NSFW stuff. :D

A couple of weeks ago my boss showed me is his brand new os x leopard and all its features and the one thing that caught me is "spaces" which kinda look familiar oh wait i know its the same as virtual desktop on linux except it has a better name. So i figured i want one on my office laptop which sad to say is running windows xp. I googled for some virtual desktop software for windows and i found this wonderful piece of an open-source software named VirtuaWin. its just a simple program that sit on your systray and does its job pretty well. But what does its really do? well here's a quote from the official site of VirtuaWin:

A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

nuff reading start downloading!

Screenshots:

VirtuaWin[virtuawin.sourceforge.net]