Silvermac

Shhhhh … Don’t tell anyone, I am typing this on a Windows XP computer. What happened? – you ask. Well, here is a little adventure I have decided to go on for about 10 days.

My other hobby is ham radio and for that I need a PC with Windows to run a specific program, and to run it all the time, 24/7. It’s called Logger 32. At times I have to use another piece of software, which is also a Windows only application (N1MM logger), so I have decided to get myself a nice little PC and have it running on my radio desk. Having Windows XP running in Parallels on my MacBook Pro all the time is just not practical for me. continue reading…

In one of my previous posts (Full screen on OS X) I have written about Megazoomer, a very useful piece of software that lets you maximise your window to a full screen size.

Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire display. Megazoomer was only available for PPC platform, but now there is also the univesal binary. See details and download from Ian Henderson’s website.

Also, thanks to Eddie for pointing out something that I have completely forgotten to write about – OS X zoom feature. From about 10.4.7 or 10.4.8 Apple silently introduced a new feature to Mac OS X – screen zoom.

Just hold the Control key down and scroll your mouse wheel up, and your screen will zoom in. Scrolling the wheel down will zoom out. On Mac notebooks you can hold the Control key down and scroll the trackpad with two fingers (what’s this called – twin-scroll?) to achieve the same.

There are a few ways to increase text size on Mac, but to zoom in the graphics, e.g. small image on the website, this is just perfect solution.

After going through internet newsgroups, endless trials and nearly smashed keyboard, I finally managed to move my emails from my Gmail account to a new one. Actually the new one is the GAFYD (Google Applications for your Domain), but it’s the same thing, it works through Gmail interface.

The best of all is that the emails will retain the correct timestamp, so something I have received into my Gmail account on 28/07/2006 will arrive to my GAFYD account with the same date and time on it. Nice!

First, you need to log into your Gmail account and enable POP3 access. Click on Settings, Forwarding and POP and tick Enable POP for all mail.

Now go to your new Gmail (GAFYD) account and click Settings, Accounts, Add another mail account. In the window that opens type your old Gmail address and press Next Step.

You need to fill out the form on the next page by entering your old Gmail account username and password, and select “Other” for POP server, then enter 66.249.93.109 and press Add Account.

The setup will ask you if you would like to use this email address in a way that you are able to send email from your new account as you were sending it from the old one, very handy when replying to some emails sent to the old address. If you select “Yes” you will need to verify your old email address. It’s as simple as receiving a confirmation email and entering the confirmation code into the setup window of the new account.

That’s it! Just sit and wait and your old emails will slowly start popping up in your new Gmail (GAFYD) account after a while. Of course if you have few thousands of them, it may be wise idea to go and do something else for some time while this is being transferred.

Please note that you will not be able to transfer labels that have been applied to the messages on your old account. However, you can generate and automatically apply one for all emails that are coming from the old address.

Since Yahoo! mail also supports POP access, I haven’t tried it but I don’t see any reason why this shouldn’t work with their accounts, or any other POP accounts out there.