Been fiddling around with Vimeo and I must say, I like what I see, especially the “password” protection feature for the videos. I’ve included an “insider” video for my fellow BP members. If you want to see it, just IM me and I’ll tell you the password.
Fast, clean and reliable iPhone backups
As iPhone users know, iTunes’ backup facility is sketchy at best; It can corrupt backups, it can be ridiculously slow, and on a personal note; I don’t like the idea of “trace files” creeping into a newly restored device.
So I’ve decided to outline a “workflow” I personally use whenever I’m up for a restore session. Everything here assumes a jailbroken device of course.
How it was before
On a 2.x device, the way you could get your AppStore apps’ settings restored was by using iTunes’ backup images – buggy as it is. There’s also the issue of bugs during normal usage; there have been cases of legitimate apps randomly crashing – and the only “cure” was to erase the app and reinstall it. This would’ve been fine, only they forgot to mention that when you erase/uninstall an app, that’s exactly what you’ve done – along with all its data.
Color Management in Firefox
Firefox disables color management by default. This means it won’t honor a color profile embedded in a digital image – which annoys photographers who post pictures online to no end.
Here’s how to fix it; in Firefox’s addressbar, type in: about:config
Then search/scroll the list of options till you see the following option:
gfx.color_management.enabled user set boolean false
Double click on it to toggle its state to true then restart Firefox 😉
There you have it OSX users, no more reason to stick with Safari for the sole purpose of “proper color management”
E-mail Optimization Tips
Here’s another one of the more useful posts I’ll be doing. Partly so that I can remind myself the steps needed to perform this somewhat convoluted approach to getting the best “setup” for iPhone and desktop mail use.
Why GMail Rocks
The best thing about GMail is the free IMAP support it has. For the uninitiated, make sure you read the advantages of IMAP over POP3 (referred to as POP from now on) in their respective wiki pages.
Of course GMail, just like any other competent email service, supports POP as well as the ability to retrieve mail from external accounts (via POP) as well. Not sure if it’s the same for other services, but this feature is free as well.
Couple that with IMAP accessibility, and lets not forget the gigabytes of space – and you basically have a powerful tool of accessing practically all your email in one place.
Refining it Further
Given the tools at your disposal, let me describe how I’ve setup my “mail workflow” – hopefully you can also find it useful in your situation.
You will shit bricks
Simply breathtaking.