How to use POP3 to read email in Hotmail accounts

Microsoft has just announced on March 12, 2009 that now everyone can connect to Hotmail account to check email using POP3 protocol. Before this service in announced, for example, if you need to connect to your Hotmail using Microsoft Outlook you will need to install Outlook Connector. By providing POP3, you can now use your favorite email client (such as Evolution; your mobile phone: iPhone, Blackberry, etc.; or even other web-based email: Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) to check your email.

To use your favorite email client to connect to Hotmail using POP3, you will need to set up the following configurations:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Note: If you are using Outlook Connector, keep using it. Outlook Connector is a better way to connect to Hotmail from Microsoft Outlook.

For more information: Windows Live Hotmail Blog

OSSPAC 09 Day 2

The second day at Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference & Expo. (First Day : OSSPAC 09 Day 1)

Python - Bring Fun Back into Programming

In this session, I learned some basic Python and got to know how easy Python is. For example, to read web page as HTML text in Python, you would write:

import urllib2
site = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com")
lines = site.readlines(2000)
print lines

First, you import urllib2 from the standard library included in Python. Then, read it by calling urlopen. After that read at a maximum of 2000 lines and put it in lines. Finally, print them out to the console.

The speaker (Mervin Beng) used Pyshell to write and run all his codes.




PHP in Enterprise

This session provided basic overview of PHP.



Getting Started with Google Android

Sean Sullivan really gave us a great overview of Android. I think this session is one of the most popular session here. If you want to look at his slides, click here. His website is here.




Exhibition Hall

IBM



Sun Microsystems





redhat




Oracle




Novell (OpenSuse Linux)



Tersus : Software for developing web based application without the need to write a single line of code. Tersus website.





A team from Taiwan
DBRL : A tool that let you boot linux remotely similar to thin client scheme but all the computation are executed locally at each client. All the files are stored on servers, so the clients don't need to have their own hard drives.
Clonezilla : An opensource hard drive cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost.



OpenBravo : Opensource Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)



Zend : PHP framework



Evening reception

Android G2 has arrived

Android G2 / HTC Magic is officially launched at Mobile World Conference 2009. Here is its specification:

• CPU Qualcomm 528 MHz
  
• ROM 512 MB, RAM 192 MB with microSD slot supporting SDHC
• Weight 118 grams (Battery included)
  
• 3.2 inches touch sensitive screen (not sure whether it supports multitouch or not) Resolution: 320x480
• There is a trackball
  
• Quad-band GSM, HSDPA/WCDMA 900/2100 MHz
• GPS, Electronic Campass, WiFi B/G, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, Accelerometer
• Camera 3.2 m. Pixel AF
• No more physical keyboard
  

Source : http://news.cnet.com/rumor-has-android-g2-in-the-works/