Having your TiVo Series 3 record two HD programs simultaneously.

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Since I’ve gotten my Treo 650, I’ve wondered how I could read my work email (not because I absolutely need to, but because it could come in handy on occasion). Reading my personal Yahoo! Mail with VersaMail was easy, but my work email IMAP server lies behind a firewall. On my desktop, I can use either VPN or ssh with port forwarding, but on the Palm there are few ssh clients (TuSSH and pssh are the only ones I know of) and neither of them support port forwarding and there are few VPN clients (Mergic and anthaVPN) and they cost money (although these let you do more than just email).

And then I stumbled upon Cingular Xpress Mail Personal Edition. Based on technology from SEVEN Networks, this product allows you to access corporate email (including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, POP3 /IMAP4, corporate directories and calendars) . Cingular offers Xpress Mail Personal Edition for free. Sprint offers the SEVEN technology as Sprint PCS Business Connection.

This software works through a clever trick. The way it works is that you download and install a Windows client program that run on a PC that is behind the firewall or that has access to your network through VPN or ssh port forward (I installed the program on a home PC that has access to my IMAP server through an ssh port forward). This program pulls email from Exchange, Domino, GroupWise, POP, IMAP, etc… and then sends it, encrypted, to a Cingular server (note that if you’re paranoid about the security of your data, you might want to investigate a bit more and find out about the quality of the encryption). Now your phone can easily get at it through the Xpress Mail Palm program (as far as I can tell, you must use this program - I don’t think you can use another program like VersaMail, Snapper, or Chatter). Another feature gives you Web access to all of the above at https://xpressmail.cingular.com/subscriber. The beauty of this trick is that you don’t even need to get your IS department involved, although they themselves might get involved if they notice that you are sending your data outside of the firewall and that is against corporate policy. If that is the case, then your IS department may be interested in a more centrally controlled method of access and there is in fact an Enterprise Edition of this software, although I haven’t tried it. And another common solution is GoodLink.

I have Xpress Mail setup right now to fetch my corporate email as well as email from Yahoo! Mail and it also is giving me access to my D:\My Documents directory on my home PC, a feature which could also be handy in a pinch. I just looked at a few text files, but presumably you could download a Word or Excel document and view it with Documents To Go.

I also posted this at Treo Addicts.

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As Jeff mentioned…

The Yahoo! Music Engine was launched tonight.

Yahoo is offering unlimited downloads from a library of 1 million songs for $6.99 per month or $60 for an annual subscription. That’s a sharp discount from Los Angeles-based Napster and Seattle-based Real Networks Inc., which both charge $14.95 per month, or just under $180 annually, for similar services.

The Yahoo! Music Engine is a Windows media player with MP3 management, LAUNCHcast integration, sharing with Messenger buddies, music directories, recommendations and a subscription service - and there are already lots of cool plugins for it.

More links

• A thumbs up from Gear Live
• Phil Torrone is intrigued.
• Slashdot
• Jeremy Zawodny: yTunes
• CNET: Yahoo! Music’s geek soul

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Wow, this looks like a very cool DHTML app for doing GtD

GTDTiddlyWiki

Simple and elegant and cool animation too. I am definitely going to have to play with this some more.

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This looks like a really nice WordPress plugin.

http://warpedvisions.org/projects/simplelink

SimpleLink is a WordPress plugin that extends the Markdown linking syntax with automagical search and image link generation (to make linking to things easier). It plays well with Markdown, and is based on my previous Blosxom plugin MagicLinks.

Here’s a quick list of various ways to link to things with SimpleLink:

Markup	Resulting text
[http://warpedvisions.org]	warpedvisions.org
[http://warpedvisions.org|test]	test
[flickr: 9720590 e8a76cc90c]	flickr: 9720590 e8a76cc90c
[tag: warpedvisions]	warpedvisions
[techno: warpedvisions]	warpedvisions
[test google search]	test google search
[google: more google]	more google
[foldoc: usb]	usb
[imdb: star wars IV]	star wars IV
[perldoc: cgi]	cgi
[here: Google be gone]	Google be gone
[wiki: tsunami]	tsunami
Image linking
[asin: 0898799279]

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Clipomatic is a very simple freeware program that keeps track of the last 10 items in the Clipboard and also allows you to have permanent entries that you can paste as well.

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I’ve been wanting a program that does this for a long time. Icon Restore is a Windows program that allows you to save and restore the positions of all your Desktop icons. So if you have a particular layout that you like and then it gets ruined by an accidental arrange or a resolution change, you can restore back to your preferred layout.

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