For a while now I have been searching for a way to download and archive mail from my free Yahoo mail account without needing to pay the $20/year that Yahoo Plus costs.
I have found a solution using Zimbra Desktop.
Zimbra Desktop is able to connect to any Yahoo mail account and cache messages for use offline. It also offers a handy import/export tool. Using this you are able to archive off your Yahoo mail without needing to pay for the ability.
The basic process is:
- Install Zimbra and link it with your Yahoo account.
- Once all the message have been downloaded, click preferences, and import/export.
- This will create a .tar.gz file with all of your messages/contacts/calendar data.
This file can be extracted and contains all of your messages in .eml format. These can be used natively with Mozilla Thunderbird or Outlook Express. If you wish to import these to Outlook 2003/2007 (like I did) you will need to load them all into Outlook Express and then export them from there into the full Outlook client.
Hope this helps.
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It doesn’t work 
I downloaded Fennec after hearing of a release from this site. I knew that running it on a 750 would be a crap shoot but I tried anyway. No go. Fennec to this point has only been tested officially on the HTC Touch Pro.
Lets hope that a version that does work is released eventually. PocketIE sucks and Opera Mobile is slow!
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I’ve been experiencing some serious information overload lately, with having a cell phone tied to email, twitter, rss and a million other things vying for my attention. Something needs to go, or I need to keep myself from compulsively checking these distractions.
After a suggestion, I watched a lecture by the late professor Randy Pausch titled Time Management. Youtube.
Which led into watching and reading more about Inbox Zero. 43 Folders.
Which led me to take action.
I’ve moved all email out of my inbox. And im going to keep it clear of all messages. I’ve also removed the new email notification from my phone. Im sure I will sleep better without waking up to notifications that do not concern me.
RSS: Pruned. Im unsubscribing to the Digg popular stories feed. I spend too much time reading mindless crap on the internet when I could be doing something else.
Now all thats left is keeping Twitter closed during the day and I will be a zen master.
Wish me luck.
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(Originally posted 19 September, 2008. Copied from Google cache because this info is useful!)
After weeks of on-and-off searching, Ive finally found the solution to my issue with remote desktop. My problem was I could no longer connect to my workstation using remote desktop. The remote desktop client would attempt to connect and immediately reset itself. No connection and no error message.
This occurred after I had installed windows updates, including service pack 3. I tried turning remote connections on and off with no success. Checked ports and firewall, uninstalled updates, reinstalled updates, messed with the registry, all to no avail. I had resorted to using VNC, which, lets face it, doesnt perform quite as well as the MS client.
Turns out the problem is with the latest Nvidia drivers.
W.T.F.
The latest 175.xx Nvidia drivers have a faulty RDPDD.dll driver. This causes any remote desktop connections to fail.
Solution: Install any of the older Nvidia display drivers. I have installed 169.32 and they are working correctly. 174.xx series drives are also reported to be working.
Nvidia has yet to come out with a fix for this, so if you use remote desktop, do not install the latest drivers until this is fixed.
More information here: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=67147
If this helped you, please leave a comment!
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