I use my gmail account to manage multiple email accounts/addresses. I recently wanted to set up a vacation responder for one of my email address. However, the default vacation responder in gmail uses the default email account to send and there is no option to activate vacation responder for a single email address. I found… Read more »
I recently discovered GmailTeX, a plugin (implemented via javascript) that displays LaTeX markup in my emails viewed through my web-based gmail account. SIDE NOTE: I implement it conkeror by creating a webjump for the bookmarklet code. GmailTeX renders the LaTeX markup via MathJax, “an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all… Read more »
I read this post and found out about TalkMyPhone, an Android app that let’s you send and receive SMS messages from any instant messaging program such as Pidgin via the jabber protocol. It comes in handy as I don’t like having a long conversation via SMS when a computer is in front of me; I… Read more »
I always wanted to set this up, but never got around to it because I a particular need never arised. I finally had some time to set up my GPG key so others can send me encrypted files and emails. Google “gpg” or “pgp” for more information about it. Setup I followed these instructions to… Read more »
Even though I have utmost trust in Google’s data centers (>= 99.9% uptime), I finally decided to backup my gmail account. I am pretty OCD when it comes to backing up my data (bi-weekly backups of my home directory into 3 external hard drives, one of which is in a water/fire-proof safe box; MOST important… Read more »