Congrats to Alex for launching his new iPhone game BallZOut! Check it out here or here. I think I finally got my iTunes library moved over to my iMac so I can start purchasing stuff again (I was being paranoid that my purchases wouldn’t make it across so I put a freeze on all purchases).

Also if you have tried already, check out the incredibly addictive Q Master!

I was just setting up my new iMac yesterday when it came time to re-install Chrome (not much of a Safari fan). I went to my old Mac to see if I could export them. Checked the file menu, checked the chrome menu, and checked preferences and nada. Quick google search and I found that it is a missing feature in Chrome for Mac. One workaround provided by the folks there is to setup bookmarks syncing using your Google account but since I used that for my work bookmarks, I didn’t want to do that and have all my bookmarks merged and messed up. I decided to browse the ~username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default folder and found a file named Bookmarks. I copied it and moved it over to the new computer and restarted Chrome and it didn’t work right away but next time I restarted Chrome, they came across. Anyway in the end it worked and since I didn’t see anyone else with the same suggestion, I thought I would publish that here.

ok I know this article seems rather simple and something you think you wouldn’t need an article for but I had forgotten where to go to do my Telus account e-mail settings and after searching on Google for a bit, I found absolutely nothing on that topic so I figured I better document it here in case someone else runs into the same question.

1) Go to www.telus.com. If you haven’t gone there in a while, you likely will have to pick language and also province you are coming from.
2) Click on the “Your account: Telus Account & e.Bill” link. Yeah I know, not rocket science here but I did forget.
3) Login with your username/password. That should be the same as the first part of the e-mail and the e-mail password
4) Once logged in, under Products and Services, click on “View Details / Modify” link for Telus High Speed
5) Find the e-mail box you want to forward and click on “Update Forwarding” link
6) Select the checkbox and enter the e-mail address you want to forward to and click update
7) Voila

Now the reasons I am forwarding my e-mail address after about 8 years is that I got tired of Telus e-mail for the following reasons
1) You can only send an e-mail from a pop client if you are within the Telus network. Bit of a pain since I now have an iPhone and a laptop.
2) To compensate for 1, you can use their webmail access but it is rather slow. Also they only have 50 MB of space on their server for you. That was ok in 2002 but nowadays you would expect GBs
3) I have more than one device accessing the server and was getting tired of dealing with the same e-mails over and over again. I guess I could have deleted them from the server when the client downloaded it but I prefer keeping some e-mails for records so bit hard to do that.

I now use Google Apps Standard edition which is free and gives me IMAP, decent webmail access (some would call it best in class but I don’t like how they merge threads into a single one a common complaint for gmail), 7.5 GB of space, tons of articles on how to configure things (iPhone, Mail client, Outlook, you name it), and ability to create up to 50 e-mail accounts. Can’t beat that. I guess my only charge is to renew my domain once a year but I have to do that anyway to keep this blog running and keep all my fans happy. Well the 2 that would read all the way here anyway.