Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - Posts
The Gmail service is still in beta (works good but I can see that the Gmail server is too often down!) and someone has just written tools for managing the Gmail account...
During a Google search for POP3 interface with Gmail, I've discovered PGtGM, alias Pop Goes the Gmail, that is a program that sits between the http://gmail.com web server and your email client, converting messages from web format into POP3 format that a program such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird can understand.
Nice tool... Now you can read your Gmail messages also with your mail client. 
Some times ago I was writing on this Blog about the necessity to have a tool for migration of blogs based on .Text technology.
If you have a .Text blog on host A and you want to migrate it on a new .Text blog on host B, this is a problem...
Now someone has received my input and start a good project... Matthieu Nicolescu has start to create a Blog Migration Tool that sounds good, but must be well tested and improved.
Here you can find the links for binary and source download:
http://blogs.labo-dotnet.com/vlad/files/WinBMT_Binary_0.1.zip
http://blogs.labo-dotnet.com/vlad/files/WinBMT_Source_0.1.zip
It's only the first input for a project that could be useful for everyone that has a blog... the time to restart a new Blog every time you decide to change hosting is finished!!
From Brian Ritchie's Blog, a segnalation that I want to bookmark for personal usage:
If you need the ByteFX MySQL Provider compiled for .NET Framework 1.0, download it here. I compiled version 0.76 under .NET 1.0 since you can only download this release compiled for 1.1 from the project page.
Thanks Bryan!
This is really interesting and a sign of changement: Onestat has reported its analysys about the most used screen resolution used on the web for surfing and the results are these:
| 1. | 1024 x 768 | 54.02% |
| 2. | 800 x 600 | 24.66% |
| 3. | 1280 x 1024 | 14.1% |
| 4. | 1152 x 864 | 4% |
| 5. | 640 x 480 | 0.6% |
| 6. | 1600 x 1200 | 0.8% |
| 7. | 1152 x 870 | 0.1% |
I think we've to start thinking to make project for 1024x768 as standard resolution now (at work the actual standard is 800x600 again). 1024x768 is now the minimun screen resolution for the actual PC, so the time to change the "de facto" standard is coming...