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Tips for managing your money

Managing money is challenging and important. Banks and credit card companies earn their fortunes from people who don’t understand where there money goes. Bank fees and high interest rates are much easier to avoid if you understand exactly where you are spending money. Here are some tips from hard won lessons in managing money. (Continued…)

Switching from Gmail and MobileMe mashup to iCloud and Gmail on iOS 5

Image: Turn off systems labels (except Inbox) from showing in IMAP. Set up [Imap]/Drafts, Deleted Messages, Notes and Sent Messages labels. Or, after you set up Mail.app on the Mac: send, save, receive, delete test messages and the labels will be created for you. 

A month ago I received an email about my GmailMe mashup of Gmail and MobileMe. This is the set up I’ve used for years to forward Gmail to my MobileMe account so it can handle IMAP duties. Apparently iOS 5 beta won’t allow custom SMTP servers for outgoing mail. This letter spooked me into holding off migrating MobileMe to iCloud. After a lot of messing around I finalized a new set up to use iCloud services and use Gmail as a lightweight (yes, really lightweight) email service. (Continued…)

Finally, the Neotribune

It started as a lark and grew into a passion. Something that consumed my mind day and night. After years of tinkering and testing we figured out how to do it — how to deliver the news, without the paper. (Continued…)