Desperate to access your Gmail during today’s outage? Consider accessing your Gmail via the IMAP protocol. Here are instructions on how to configure IMAP for various clients. Unfortunately, you will have needed to enabled IMAP access first, which can only be done via Gmail Settings.
Category Archives: Web Applications
Gmail via HTTP is down but IMAP works
On Tuesday, September 01, 2009, many were experiencing errors accessing www.gmail.com or https://mail.google.com/ via a web browser. Thankfully, IMAP access via my iPhone still works.
Did you know? Video
Videos like this one, while cool, often make me wonder about how accurate the data is. This one reminds me of some of the videos Mike Wesch posted a few years ago.
Mobile uploads to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook
Capturing photos and videos via a mobile phone is easy. Posting those files online from a mobile phone, however, is often tedious. In most cases you would email or MMS photos individually to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. I was looking for a way to upload multiple images and videos from my mobile phone in a …
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Gmail IMAP on Windows PocketPC
Today Google released an IMAP interface to Gmail. Once you enable IMAP via Settings in your Gmail account, you then need to configure your client to access Gmail via the new IMAP interface. Since I’ve never been able to figure out how to get the Gmail for mobile application to run on my Windows Pocket …