soaked and soaped

When Google announced IMAP support for Gmail, the first thing I tried was to set it up with Apple Mail. But it failed–I couldn’t get it configured so that everything worked smoothly. So I was using the Gmail web client exclusively.

Now I want give it another try with these two helpful articles from the Google Help Center: Apple Mail 3.0 and
Recommended IMAP client settings

One hint: At one point the article says

DO save draft messages on the server. If you want your drafts in your mail client to sync correctly with Gmail’s web interface, set your client to save drafts to the [Gmail]/Drafts folder.

You can do this by expanding the GMAIL tree, select the Drafts folder under [Gmail] and in the menu click Mailbox → Use This Mailbox For → Drafts.

If you want to send from several email addresses, this hint is very useful.

I’m also using the letterbox plugin to add a 3rd column to Apple Mail for viewing emails. This is particularly interesting if you have a wide screen display.

I just found a cool tool to create mosaic images of your own images, which I found worth to share:
imagemosaicgenerator
It uses flickr as source for the images used in the mosaic.
Example needed?

Looks nice, eh?

Yesterday I tried to connect my notebook (running Ubuntu) to the wireless network at my girlfriend’s home — for nothing.
It didn’t work.

The network was secured with WPA and my Ubuntu Edgy was not able to connect to WPA protected networks out of the box.
I knew there is the tool named network manager, but I already tried to work with it some month ago – and I had no positive experience with.

While searching in the Ubuntu forums for a solution I found a new tool called Wicd (spoken: wicked).

With Wicd, your notebook connects to wireless networks at boot and has the ability to connect to most commonly used encryption systems like WEP, WPA 1/2 and a lot more.

Currently it is under heavy development, but it sounds promising and it already works very nice.

Already two weeks ago, version 0.3.18 of Mongrel was released.
Read about the important integration of fastthread and how to install it.

The RadRails guys set up their own Trac-like ticket system written in Rails: Hedgehog

Features include:

• support for multiple projects
• subversion support

Currently they use it for developing RadRails and the software itself. I’ve heard they plan to release it as open source.

I had a look at it and it looks promising. But there are some things that they have to work on. E.g. currently I’m not even able to create a new ticket, but I think they will fix that soon.

Maybe it will get an lightweight alternative to Trac and Collaboa.

For the case you missed it: 2 days ago the RadRails team released version 0.7.1 of their Rails IDE.

I just downloaded it. (the “Update RadRails..” function didn’t work in the old 0.7)
There are some new features and a lot of bugfixes.

The most important features (for me)

• better Mongrel support
• Terminal replaced by script/console view

See the full announcement here: http://www.radrails.org/blog/2006/9/9/radrails-0-7-1

Notice that they also relaunched their website. There is a community section now.