IMAP or POP?

IMAP. POP. These are email access protocols. POP (Post Office Protocol) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)supports both connected (online) and disconnected (offline) modes of operation. E-mail clients using IMAP generally leave messages on the server until the user explicitly deletes them. This and other facets of IMAP operation allow multiple clients to access the same mailbox. The design of POP3 and its procedures supports end-users with intermittent connections (such as dial-up connections), allowing these users to retrieve e-mail when connected and then to view and manipulate the retrieved messages without needing to stay connected.Recently, GMail supported IMAP. Even in the first days of GMail, it supported POP already.
Yahoo! Mail supports POP only, BUT you need to pay a premium in order to be able to access their POP service.  Yahoo! Mail (Philippines) allows you to access POP. I configured (or should I say enabled) my GMail account’s POP access. After 2 or 3 years, Google enabled IMAP access for ALL their users. I recommend that you use both IMAP and POP. IMAP is cool that you manage your GMail inbox without using your browser. 

Web Standards

Web Standards. If  you are a geek it might appeal to you. Web Standards is important to everyone of us because we all use different platforms and/or browsers. Web Standards is the reference encoding(or I would rather say encoding). Sadly, only a few software and/or website developers understands it’s importance. Worse, they might not know about it! Check out most of the local (in the Philippines) banking websites/services, majority of them don’t comply to the standards! They recommend people to use Internet Explorer in order for them to fully maximize their online services, however some people use a different OS or web browser (I use Opera in my notebook I recommend using Opera). Also, some web browsers don’t comply to the standards either. Sheesh. I thought Firefox
users would have no problems reading my articles here on my blog. :) But, I was wrong. A friend told me that my article seemed to be corrupt when he is visiting my blog, I asked him, “What is your browser”, and he replied, “Mozilla Firefox”. Well, it is true that Firefox has an error rendering it. Check out the screenshot I am providing.

Vista Transformation Pack icon set problems?

I want to share with you a couple of blunders I experienced just yesterday. I updated my Windows XP notebook to the latest patch that came from Microsoft. After Installing the updates, Windows Update asked me to restart my PC, I chose to Restart my PC later because I was chatting via YM that time. After chatting, I restarted the PC. After logging on, I was surprised, why was my Vista-like icons (I installed Vista Transformation Pack to be able to change the look. Before installing it, you need to patch UXTheme.dll to be able to install these skins, icons set etc. Running the UXTheme.dll patcher after patching, would unpatch it)  changed back to the Luna icon set? Hmmm…. I tried repairing the installation of the Vista Transformation pack but to no avail. I also tried repairing the icon cache but still there are no changes. What I did was uninstall the Vista Transformation Pack and restart. I also unpatched UXTheme.dll and restart. After restarting, I patched again
UXTheme.dll and restarted. I installed again Vista Transformation Pack and restarted.
After that I loaded again my theme, and my Vista-like icons were backed again! Coolness!!