Archive for October, 2007

Thunderbird Tip

Friday, October 26th, 2007

So for ages I have been using Thunderbird combined with server side mail sorting, what has been annoying me for a year or so is that Thunderbird only checks the Inbox folder. I had to manually check all the others and that got a little tedious, fortunately I discovered how to get around this.

The trick is to open the configuration editor (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced) and set the mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new preference to true. Bingo!

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Upgraded

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I just upgraded this blog using a Subversion patch, seems to be working ok, will keep and eye out for any 404s see if I missed any new files and the like. I also started to burn my feed.

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Pocket PC 2002 Skipping the Welcome Programme

Friday, October 12th, 2007

When you hard reset a Pocket PC device it runs a Welcome one time tutorial programme, this can be skipped, by hooking it up to a computer and deleting the Welcome shortcut inside \Windows\Startup. Took me a while to find this one out so I thought I would document and share.

In side news Microsoft’s value has plummeted, and is for sale at PCWorld: El. Reg :)

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