Gmail stopped working in iPhone after update

On July 22, 2008 By ntanya54In Technology5 Comments

Ugh! It was so annoying. Here’s what fixed mine:

– Delete Gmail email account from your iPhone. Settings -> Mail -> Account -> Delete Account

– Reset your network settings. Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings

– Add Gmail account again . Settings -> Mail -> Add account -> Other

– Follow the instructions from Google: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702

iPhone/iTunes “not authorized” error

On July 22, 2008 By ntanya54In Technology8 Comments

If you see this error saying “You are not authorized to install the apps” go to “Store” – > “Authorize computer” in iTunes and click on “Authorize”. This should fix it.

I got this error when I installed the new update on iPhone and was trying to download apps from my work computer.

Screenshot capturing software – Jing

On July 18, 2008 By ntanya54In TechnologyLeave a comment

Very cool program (from the creators of Camtasia) to make screenshots and video – lets you save it as file, upload to Jing’s online storage (free!) or Flickr or FTP.

http://www.jingproject.com/

As cool as email testing can get

On May 30, 2008 By ntanya54In Technology2 Comments

I’m having a crazy morning trying to troubleshoot an email template for Lotus. The problem is that it shows fine in Lotus 7 and 8, but one person on the client side is using weird Lotus 7.0.2 and it just wouldn’t show normally there. Black text on white background inside a table cell is missing! WTF! Once I calmed down ands stopped screaming “Just tell them to get a normal email and stop bothering me” I looked around for a solution that would allow me to test the template in all those weird lotus versions. And here’s an awesome one: LitmusApp. The interface is superslick and they also give you a 1 hour pass to test it! I was able to view and troubleshoot my email in that hour. So if you’re having email testing pains like me, give it a try.

Creating Print Versions of Pages

On May 21, 2008 By ntanya54In TechnologyLeave a comment

I was just thinking about how best to handle having web version of a page and a print version. There’s two approaches, one of them is having 2 separate pages http://www.tanyanam.com/contact and http://www.tanyanam.com/contact?version=print. But when you think about SEO, you’d have to either put “NOINDEX” on every printable page or block them in robots.txt. That’s a lot of work, and what I hate most about it is that you have to have 2 versions of each page on your site!

So a much better approach would be to have a stylesheet for the printable version and just switch the CSS files based on whether it is a browser, printer, mobile, etc. A great article on how to accomplish this: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/

HTML/CSS/PHP code editors

On May 9, 2008 By ntanya54In Technology1 Comment

An excellent article from Smashing Mag with the list of editors for different platforms. Also includes features and pricing.

The one I like? EditPlus! (yeah yeah, I’m on Win, so what? :) It’s lightweight, loads in seconds, yet has all the features I need. I would suggest improving the regular expression support for search & replace, other than that I’m pretty happy.