Using your blackberry for personal email multiple emails
One of the things I do is carry around 2 blackberries, one for my personal email, and one for work email. The work device is one of the cool new CDMA based Blackberries that also works as a cell phone. I have found out that ALL blackberries that are cell phones also have the ability to receive email at a handfull of other email addresses. Granted they aren't your email address per-se, but with some work you can have your home, or other email directed to your pager as well.
By using Black Berry webMail
http://www.blackberry.com/go/vzw
You get a @vzw.blackberry.net email address. Which if you setup a contact or rule to send mail to this address when its received at home, you can now get a copy of the home email on your work device. 🙂 Web mail lets you setup up to 10 addresses, each with its own 'reply address', so you can make the address of your replies come from your home, or from Yahoo.com or Hotmail.com. Pretty slick.
Nextel and T-Mobile have the same site, just change the last part of the URL above.
Links for Programming Exchange and ADSI
One of the projects I am working on is to automate some tasks in Exchange, such as converting people from being Mail enabled to Mailbox enabled. As well as adding altRecipients programatically. These are some of the links I have been reading, not all of them are directly useful to this project. I will post some sample code later on different things I had to work around to modify Exchange objects via ADSI.
Exchange 2003 SDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/e2k3_welcome_to_exchange.asp
Schema extended by installing Exchange into Active Directory
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/e2k3_ldf_AD_Schema_intro.asp
Removing a user from a group in AD
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adam/adam/removing_a_user_from_a_group.asp
Management Tasks in Exchange with ADSI
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_mgmt_management_tasks_using_adsi.asp?frame=true
Processing a Calendar Message
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_cdo_processing_a_calendar_message.asp
Sample File Watch Application in C#
http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2004_02/magazine/columns/gettingstarted/
Outlook Code
http://www.outlookcode.com/
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/adsi.htm - ADSI
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/exstech.htm - Exchange
Hosted Exchange Accounts
One of the things I keep running into is people that like how I have my email setup at home and work. Where I use Exchange and Outlook Web access to give me complete access to my mail from anywhere, in addition, i have the ability to use the Outlook 2003 client for all the desktop type email needs I have. Although the thought of running a server at a small company, or even for a one person company might seem daunting (needing IT staff etc). The best solution I have found is to use a ASP (Application Service Provider) to host your server for you... infact just a single mailbox if need be. So that everything is handled for you. Backups... upgrades... patches... virus protection... spam... all for an entry price of $9.95 a month. Wow did that sound like an add. Honestly, check it out.
http://www.mailstreet.net/default.asp
http://www.intermedia.net/hosting/exchange/
Here is an EXCELLENT review of the benifits of using this type of service as an individual or small company.
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2004/10/hosted_exchange.html
The Chicken Pot Pie Shop
http://www.digitalcity.com/sandiego/entertainment/venue.adp?sbid=100488362&type=details
San Diego Chicken Pie Shop
2633 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92104
619-295-0156
Cash Only, open 10am - 8pm daily
iPod your Corvette – its not just for BMW anymore…
The guys at PAC have created an iPod connector that plugs into factory car stereo systems so that you can not only use your stereo's built in track changing ability. But also you can have the audio fed in at a line level, rather than through annoying RF (radio) waves. The Corvette is on the list of cars supported! Infact, since I have the CD player already in the trunk, this may be a pretty clean install with no dash work! WOW.
Update: Found a link for the AuxPod - $159.00 + $7.95 cable
UPDATE: 11/30/04 OK, found a totally new product... Neo iOn That works just like the AuxPod, but seems to be cheaper, especially if you can get about 5 people to buy them.
Cheap Aux-Pod and description $159.99
AuxBOX with AuxPod Info
The two parts for a Corvette 97-04 you will need are part# AB-GM10 and part# AUX-BOX or AUX-POD
Alpine's iPod Solution
Found some other links for Audio parts for your car...
Installer.com
audio outfitter.com - just the cable and AUX-BOX, not POD
No word on pricing yet... it just shipped this past week. But it looks like you can get the AuxBox from Good Guys in the coming weeks. They bought a huge order. I would imagine that they can get the AuxPod in the following month? But until then, I'm going to be calling La Jolla Audio 858 581-6545 to see what the cost for installation is. 😀
La Jolla Audio Map
5161 Santa Fe St, San Diego, CA 92109
858 581-6545
Packet Captures on Windows
On the UNIX side of the world there is a great utility called tcpdump, that allows you to capture traffic from the network. The nice part is its ability to do so from a specific host to multiple hosts, allowing you to filter out traffic between your self and a specific server pretty easily.
http://winpcap.polito.it/install/
In addition to intalling the winpcap driver, that allows your network card to go into promiscous mode. You can install Analyzer which is a free gui based packet capture and analyzer for windows.
Rejection Hotline
OK Guys, incase you are in a club and things are going well, and the girl gives you her your phone number.. make sure its not on this list.
*Boston
617-861-3962
**New York
212-660-2245
***Miami
305-241-0033
***Orlando
407-338-0036
Phoenix
602-230-4210
Las Vegas
702-386-5397
New Jersey
201-808-6011
Philadelpha
215-618-1505
San Diego
858-492-8002
New Hampshire
603-413-2340
Rhode Island
401-648-6543
Maine
207-376-0768
Atlanta
770-908-7383
San Francisco
415-356-9833
Denver
303-607-7527
Los Angeles
310-217-7638
Washington DC
202-452-7468
Chicago
773-509-5027
Seattle
206-376-9798
Baltimore
410-347-1488
Virginia
703-912-1725
Detroit
248-262-6861
Houston
713-866-6249
Dallas
972-504-6270
More Massachusets #s
617-861-3962
508-556-3549
781-654-2925
978-364-8939
413-351-2684
More New York #s
212-660-2245
718-971-5245
516-730-7245
914-269-4245
845-259-2245
518-935-4012
More Florida #s
305-241-0033
407-338-0036
321-844-0033
561-986-0035
954-287-0023
Mood Lighting for the Bedroom…
I have been looking for ways to set different color lights up in my room. When I start thinking about it, getting specific lights of a certain color mean I'm locked into that color till I go and change the bulbs. Luckly the following links provide some insight into LED based lightbulbs which offer a full spectrum of color from a single bulb.
Be sure to follow this link to find more information about these awsome lights, and use the Flash Demo that is on the page to see how to set the color changing to the mode you want. Very easy.
Color Kinetics - LightTro LED lights
You can buy them here for about $19.00 a piece.
http://www.color-lites.com/lighttro.html
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=color+kinetics+sauce+par
Other places that have a lot of color changing lights
http://paintwithlights.safeshopper.com/index.htm?990
http://paintwithlights.safeshopper.com/1502/3175.htm?844
Another neat project was the LED Bed... which inspired me to look around for the above lights.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/LEDBed/index.html
Other things to do with LED's, check out this guys site.
http://www.jamesclar.com/html/
Vintage IBM Keyboards
I have always been a fan of the old style IBM keyboards with the 'noisy' key clicks. I have several that I have collected over the years, and have hooked some friends up with them. In a pinch you can buy one from the manufacturer that has taken over maintaining and creating new ones. These are used heavily in POS (Point of Sales) applications. Its a nice keyboard.
http://www.pckeyboard.com/ibmlist.html