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Enabled Firefox Extensions (17)

Perhaps I need to admit that this is getting a bit out of hand.

• Aardvark 1.0
• All-in-One Gestures 0.15.3
• Autohide 0.9.8
• ColorZilla 0.8.2
• del.icio.us 0.5.7
• Download Manager Tweak 0.6.6
• ListZilla 0.5.1
• Magpie 3.1.2
• NoScript 1.1.1
• Session Saver 0.2
• SpellBound 0.7.3
• StumbleUpon 2.03
• Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.7.1
• TargetAlert 0.8.9
• Tooltip Enhancer 0.4.2
• Web Developer 0.9.3
• wmlbrowser 0.6.9

Try telling me you can get all of this functionality for your Opera or whateverbrowser. Besides, my Firefox's GUI is still way cleaner than Opera's ever was, methinks.

Mon 2005-08-29 22:12 in tech No comments #link

nokia 6822 e-mail complaints

I love it that I can create a new background image for my phone every day.

The e-mail, which one might think is a more important application, was a bit disappointing, though. I haven't found out about whether or not that blackberry thing actually accomplishes this and whether my mobile carrier supports it, but otherwise it seems that I need to manually keep checking my mails every now and then. It would, of course, be no problem, but this is how simple it is:

1. Open the e-mail application: Menu->Messages->E-mail. It takes 5 seconds for it to start (Java?).
2. Select Retrieve
3. The phone asks: "Allow network access?" Duh, select Yes. (I guess/hope there was a setting to set this query for permission off... somewhere)
4. The phone tells me: "Access point authentication needed". Choices: OK/Back. If I have come this far, why would I want to refuse to authenticate?
5. Access point user name. My service provider didn't give me one, so I tried empty. Worked. Press OK.
6. Access point password. Empty. Press OK.

Tolerating all those steps every single time I wanted to check if I have mail, it worked pretty ok for a while. Well, except for the fact that the e-mail is divided up in pages (scroll a few screens after which you have to select "Next pg." to see some more of the message), which gets annoying pretty quickly. Anyway, it worked. Until I tried to receive my eighth message from the server, on which the retrieval simply got stuck. Now I can only read those seven messages I already received, any message past the eighth is out of reach. I guess I'll have to go to a warranty repair shop of some kind.

Also, there seems to be no way of deleting (purging) messages from the actual IMAP server. Well I have to admit that I haven't studied the user's manual too carefully yet, but should I have to?

UPDATE Thursday, August 18: Turns out that I can turn off requesting access point user name every time by inserting fake user name and password in Settings > Configuration settings > Personal configuration settings > [select your e-mail configuration] > Incoming mail settings > IMAP4 [or POP3] access point > Bearer settings > user name [and] password. It's been made way too complicated - if I've understood what an access point is (some sort of a proxy for the GPRS?), I'm not using one at all, so it should be possible to make a setting for not using one. Actually, I probably haven't understood what an access point is, but then, the Club Nokia helpline didn't, either.

In fact, I have a new "it would never have crossed your mind (before you bought the phone) to ask whether it supports this" feature, and I'm feeling pretty scammed by Nokia. The phone has a simple notepad type application, which is neat: just clicking any letter on the keyboard automatically starts the notepad and I can start writing off my inspiration. However, in the end, the notepad is pretty useles, for one simple reason: it's actually not possible to send anything written with that application anywhere. Except via SMS/MMS, which doesn't help me at all - e-mail's just not in the menu. Also, messages written with the SMS writing screen cannot be sent via e-mail. So from now on I'll have to click Go to > E-mail > Create E-mail > Options > Message editor every time I start writing anything longer that I could imagine wanting to a) store for a longer while b) send to anyone. Nokia, I'm waiting for that software upgrade...

Sun 2005-08-14 21:51 in tech 9 comments #link

Metaedit, yees, and my brand new Nokia 6822

Still learning Metaedit+. To my luck, Steven Kelly (a developer of the system) contacted me by e-mail yesterday and replied to my reply today - helped a lot in my feelings of insecurity about the application which seems very simple but on the other hand, requires quite a bit of brains from the developers of the metamodel.

Bought Nokia 6822 yesterday, since my old 6210 got very much broken. Mainly, I'm happy, though the default screensaver is impressively ugly. The rest of my complaints:

• The user interface is approximately as slow as that of my 6210 was
• Configuration of internet access, e-mail or MMS is WAY more compicated than it should be
• The "screen saver" clock is a great idea. Too bad there's no way to see it with the screen backlight on - the second you touch the keys to turn the light on, the clock goes away
• The keyboard, though relatively fast to type with, isn't too ergonomic in its small size. My right hand hurts now even more than it used to due to the usage of PCs.

I've been talking about my new cellphone way too much during the last 24 hours, some seem to think. So I'm going to stop now. The web is full of reviews about this phone, so if you're really interested, search it. In Finland, I recommend vertaa.fi for comparing products and MBnet hintaseuranta for comparing their prices.

Off to watch Sex in the city. It's probably bad for me.

Tue 2005-08-09 22:33 in tech 7 comments #link

Lonely?

I haven't felt lonely in quite a while, I'm one of the lucky bastards who usually don't have to suffer from that, not in the sense that I wouldn't have anyone to go to. It has always seemed to me that it's a common problem with especially Finnish people.

However, now I've been physically alone for about 26 hours and it's starting to show. I'm not sad, but I find myself trying to find human contact in the net in various ways. Last night was the first time in months I really IRCed as a main occupation, for quite some while even. In general, I'm usually not that good at concentrating on IRC.

Tonight, some (potentially) worthwhile movies on TV.

Sat 2005-08-06 18:14 in diary No comments #link

dark

I'm dark.

I've got to sleep I guess, soon too.

I don't want to, I want to play. There's nothing to play with. So I'm just clicking that Stumble! -button. It's not that much fun, not right now anyway.

I'm hoping to get to test gallery2 soon. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. But I should work. On Sunday I won't, but I might go to Ryttylä.

There's so much about my everyday that God has nothing to do with. I suck at integrating Bible reading or prayer into my everyday life. Help me, Father.

Sat 2005-08-06 01:56 in diary No comments #link

I like Mariska's music.

I just took a nap, but I feel like I'm still dreaming. Mother called shortly after I got up and poured her heart out to me, and it felt good this time: usually I'm so preoccupied some other. I fail to listen even though I've made a principal decision that my mother is someone I should respect more than that. My mother's just the best.

I'm spending the weekend at mother's. She's with her husband at their summer cottage for the weekend but I'm here, waiting for next week and trying to get work done.

Mother told me about someone her age that she knows is a believer, someone she seemed to view as a sparkling person who's seen a lot. There was something I grasped about my identity as a Christian during the phone call. Something about accepting who I am and seeing that, actually, many people don't have a problem with that. Atheists etc. may disagree, but most of them respect "a man with principles". Something about not always clinging on to the things that are problematic about being a Christian - even though I can't help to, sometimes. (Questioning most things is fundamental to my nature anyway.) What I'm starting to realize is just that, as a child of God, I'm allowed to have a deep peace though this life is often best described as anguish and struggling.

Anyway, I guess it's a spiral-kind of a process, and I'll always keep returning to these issues.

Now, off to watch Dharma and Greg. :)

Fri 2005-08-05 19:29 in diary 2 comments #link

Movies

Saw Fantastic Four and Three Colors: Blue yesterday. I liked them both, though the latter probably would've had lots more to think about, had I been a more profound person ;).

Wed 2005-08-03 16:50 in diary 2 comments #link