As regular readers of this blog know, I am in the process of trying to back up Google Apps accounts to Dovecot. Well I have finally found my solution. Not only does it work, but its in Ruby.
First thing that you’ll need to do is grab yourself a copy of Larch. I did this simply by typing and it installed everything nicely, but click the link to the repository on Github if it doesn’t work for you.
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I have been trying to find a way to copy everything from a Gmail account to a Dovecot mail server. The way I have ended up doing it so far is simply by using Apple Mail (if you regularly read this blog, you’d know that I use a Mac). The steps are as follows:
This works, but I have to use a slow connection (my home connection) and I have a lot of accounts to do this for, so I would much prefer to script this. The problem is that I have been trying to get this to work with either imapsync or imapcopy. Neither seem to work properly.
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It took a little hunting to figure this one out, so I decided to write a quickie blog post about it. If you use Google Analytics and have put the overlay on your website to gain information, you may have noticed that it is quite challenging to get rid of.
Well the solution, as is turns out, is pretty simple. Just go into your browser’s cookie repository, find and delete the cookie that calls itself GASO. And poof, the overlay is gone.
I was having a chat with my two friends from Redub Consulting about the new Google Chrome browser. At a cursory exploration, we found that (as promised) the Javascript engine is incredibly fast. But I don’t want to throw that out there since Google already us that in their Chrome Comic. I want to talk about where this could be leading.
As some of you know, Adobe Air is a desktop application that can interact with internet applications. The catch here is that since its a desktop application, it has access to the same elements of the physical machine as any other desktop application (USB ports, printers, sound/video out ports, etc). Browsers don’t yet that kind of access to a computer. They are limited to the user space in which they are run in. All the sound and video you hear and see is sent through 3rd party applications within the browser. What if the browser could control those elements of your machine? What if your entire computer experience was now internet based. Google is already trying to push this with software as a service (GoogleDocs), but keep extending this idea. What if your media center could be controlled via an internet application?
Eclipse IDE is now at a point at which you can your code as its running and change function calls at the opcode level to avoid recompiling your program over and over. Eclipse has grown to the point where its almost like an OS in its capabilities. In that same vein, Google’s new browser now controls its individual tabs and sandboxes each tab in order to have task level control over potentially runaway web applications.
So what I am trying to say here? I’m glad you asked. I believe this browser is the next step towards ubiquitous computing in the sense that 1 application to control your internet (or whole user) experience. AppleTV for instance is a set of specially designed hardware that can be interacted with over the internet. By allowing applications, such as Air (and potentially soon Chrome) to internet directly with the hardware attached to the computer, you are are negating the need for that specially designed hardware. One piece of hardware can be designed to do it all in terms of the interactive experience. Google is stepping to the plate and pushing forward for just this type of innovation. Keep an eye on the features of Google Chrome to come. If it becomes integrated any deeper into the desktop, it will open up a new age of ubiquitous computing.
