Archive for the ‘Hint’ Category

Getting gmail to send through Yale SMTP

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

see gmail settings +
http://www.yale.edu/its/email/howdoi/authenticate.html#outlook

Settings :

SMTP Server = mail.yale.edu
username = your netid (mine = mg2..)

Alternatively,
SMTP Server = smtp.gmail.com
username = user@gersteinlab.org

for both check secured connection using SSL

Yale VPN – Yale ITS

Sunday, July 1st, 2012

http://www.yale.edu/its/network/vpn.html

use Cisco AnyConnect
then go to
vpn server vpn2.its.yale.edu

chrome pdf

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

Good idea on how to disable Chrome’s PDF viewer (from JC in the lab): 1) Type in chrome://plugins to access the plugins in Chrome. Disable all PDF viewers. There should be only 2:
“Chrome PDF Viewer (Disabled)”
“Adobe Acrobat – Version: 10.1.3.23”
2) Disable them both. Try downloading a PDF. It should go straight to a download instead of a viewer.

Eye-Fi Forums • View topic – Eye-Fi Helper is unable to contact the Eye-Fi server

Monday, April 16th, 2012

http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5590&start=0&sid=c2be3c54ae689c112c9a3bd7d2450732 http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=314&start=90

looks like there are router configuration issues here. So it might be helpful to switch between providers.

Eye-Fi Forums • View topic – Eye-Fi Helper is unable to contact the Eye-Fi server

Monday, April 16th, 2012

http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5590&start=0&sid=c2be3c54ae689c112c9a3bd7d2450732 http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=314&start=90

looks like there are router reconfig

Fill Commands – GNU Emacs Manual

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

fill-region is quite useful for fixing up spacing
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fill-Commands.html

Your Phone Carrier Is Tracking You; Here’s How to Disable It – How-To Geek

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

http://www.howtogeek.com/99157/your-phone-carrier-is-tracking-you-heres-how-to-disable-it/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=021211

How to Add to home screen ? On iPad: Apple Support Communities

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

if you too many app “pages” on iphone 4s you can’t add to home screen anymore https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2703108?start=15&tstart=0

Post by Email — Support — WordPress.com

Friday, January 13th, 2012

A number of the options (i.e. tags, category and excerpt) seem particularly useful in managing email to post and in FAQ development http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email