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Can Canada's Flawed Copyright Bill Be Stopped?
Peter Nowak writes an op ed piece for the Globe And Mail, asking about the controversial C-11 bill and how "the government is marching forward with its figurative fingers in its ears".Double Fine Adventure
Double Fine Studios, the developers behind Brutal Legend, decided to fund a new adventure game through Kickstarer. They've met their goal in less than a day. Not bad.
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Solve For X
Google launches Solve For X: "A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork." If you like TED-talks you'll like Solve For X, full of intellectually stimulating video talks on a wide range of subjects. Solve For XNASA's Nanotube Biocapsule
This. This is why NASA and high thinking science needs funding and lots of it. My mind is racing with possible applications for these biocapsules.Daily Links
Drums Cover of the Sugarcubes Song Birthday
Heard this a year ago and forgot about it. Just heard it again. Anyone that can cover Bjork, well, deserves a link.My Childhood Hero Does an AMA on Reddit
I grew up reading and re-reading all of the Forgotten Realms and DarkElf books. Famed author RA Salvatore just finished up an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit.com. If you like his books, you should read it.Path Uploads Entire iPhone Address Book To Its Servers
Arun Thampi has discovered that the iPhone Path app uploads the all address book contacts without prompting for an opt-in. Or even saying that its doing it. Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has been responding in the comments.Daily Links
25 Things Learned From Opening a Bookstore
An interesting perspective on business and people.How Developers Can Help Designers
Matt Gemmell write an article to help us make cooperation with designers as smooth and easy as possible. Be sure to also read his original article, How Designers Can Help Developers. Good advice all around.Ferris Bueller's CRV Ad
Nice side-by-side comparison of the movie that started Matthew Broderick and the new Honda ad that ran during the Super Bowl yesterday. I love meta pop culture.The Death and Return of Superman
Remember the 90's? Remember DC killing off Superman? If you don't, or if you want it explained to you, or if you just want to see Elijah Wood play a crazy-cyborg-superman, this video is for you. Also if you like swearing. Lots and lots of swearing.Daily Links
Volkswagen's New Super Bowl Ad
Yeah. The Vader kid was good. This might be better. What do you think?Cats with Thumbs
Great ad we missed from last year. Posted for Dwayne. Welcome to your nightmare!SSH Tricks
Bookmarked for later use, since we spend most of our day with the shell open.MTS Has Turned Off SMTP.MTS.NET
If you, like us, have been using MTS.ca for internet access for one of our connections, you may or may not be aware that MTS has disabled their outbound mail servers. Head over to their site and review their service notice about disabling outbound mail.
What Does This Mean?
If you have your email setup to use MTS for sending email through SMTP.MTS.NET then you have to make a change.
If We Host Your Email
If you are hosted with Visual Lizard you can set your outbound mail server to either mail.visuallizard.com or mail.yourdomain.com.
You will need to provide your full email address yourname@yourdomain.com and your password.
Set the outbound mail port to 587
You should now be good to go.
If You Host Your Own Email Internally
If you are hosting your own email in-house, then you should already have your outbound email servers setup. Talk to your IT person at your company if things have stopped working. They will have more answers than we do.
If You Were Using MTS To Send Email At Home/Work and We Don't Host You
This one becomes a matter of choice. If you have been sending email through MTS from home or work, and this is no longer an option, then you can do a few things
- Check with your hosting provider and find out what information they have for you and how you can send using your domain's outbound mail servers or your hosting provider's mail servers.
- Setup multiple email addresses in your Gmail.com account or forward your email accounts to a GMail.com account and then send all reply emails from there with a specific reply-to address. See Google's help on using multiple email accounts with gmail. If you go this route, then you can use Gmail's outbound mail servers, or you can use your website's outbound mail servers to send through.
- Update your email account service with MTS to use Live.com email. See MTS' instructions on how to do this.
- Switch to a different interent provider that offers outbound mail servers when you are connected to their network. This isn't very practical, but is an option if you want to explore other services.
As always, this is information on the internet. Use at your own risk and hopefully this information helps some of you.