Here’s how:

AOL’s new free AIM.COM accounts can also use IMAP and are configured identically – except, of course, for replacing ‘AOL.COM’ with ‘AIM.COM.’

AOL’s official documentation can be found here.

AOL also has instructions specific to Entourage here.

Use the following step-by-step instructions, or see AOL’s Entourage Instructions. See Accounts Setup for more information on creating a new IMAP account in Entourage.

1. Choose Accounts from the Tools menu. You will be given a list of your current accounts (if any). Click on the New button in the upper-left corner of the window.
2. You will be given a choice of types of accounts you can create. Choose IMAP.
3. You will be presented with the Edit Account window (screenshot):
   • Account name: This is the descriptive name for your account. Choose whatever you want.
   • Include this account in my “Send & Receive All” schedule: Optional, decide if you want to check this account when checking others. See Schedules for more information.
   • Name: This is the name that people will see on your messages. Choose anything, but choose something you don’t mind broadcasting to the world.
   • E-mail address: This must be your AOL email address. Remove any spaces and add “@aol.com” to the end. Case doesn’t matter. For example, “1 Surfin Guy” becomes “1SurfinGuy@aol.com” or “1surfinguy@aol.com”
   • Account ID: Your AOL Screen Name. Remove any spaces, case doesn’t matter.
   • IMAP server: Enter imap.aol.com.
   • Save password: Enter and save your AOL password here if your computer is secure. If not, leave this blank and you will be prompted prior to checking mail.
   • Click here for advanced receiving options: You do not need to modify any of these settings.
   • SMTP server: Enter smtp.aol.com.
4. Click on Click here for advanced sending options. Check the box titled Override default SMTP port and type “587″ into the corresponding box. Check the boxes titled SMTP server requires authentication and Use the same settings as incoming mail server

There was an error connecting to the server “Server Name”. Check the server name or IP address, and then try again.

This started happening after opening a shared PDF file syncing comments form central server location. The problem is that I, not connected to my works server from home so It’s constantly fails to connect. Acrobat had something called Adobe Synchronizer running in my login items, and this seemed to continually try and reconnect to the shared drive. Once I removed that the problem went away.

If you have a connection error that’s not related to Acrobat, you may want to look under your pref folder:

grep your ~/Library/Preferences folder for references to the ghost server\share that was trying to be connected to at login. Thay may come back as

Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist
Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Preferences/loginwindow.plist

You could trash or rename all the above files and your problem most likely go away.
Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist
Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Preferences/loginwindow.plist

I trashed all the above (you may want to just rename them to be on the safe side) and the problem has gone.

• Create separate Wi-Fi network names to identify each band. This can be done easily by appending one or more characters to the current network name.
• Example: Add a G to the 802.11b/g network name and an N to the 802.11n network name.
• Ensure that both networks use the same security type (WEP, WPA, WPA2, and so on)
• If the issue persists, reset your network settings using Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.

On my Blackberry Storm 9500, I had a hard time finding how to delete multiple messages from my email accounts because I started noticing that the BB OS was running slow and constantly displayed the progress watch. Here are two methods for deleting multiple messages.

1. Use two figures and select two messages simultaneously. To select additional messages, slide one of those fingers across other messages. They should highlight in a light blue color.
2. Press the Menu button (the Blackberry icon).
3. Select Delete Messages.

Or you can also go about this using the time period bar. This bar is used to group the messages by day/time span.

1. Select the time period bar.
2. Press the Menu button (the Blackberry icon).
3. Select Delete Prior.
4. Select Delete.

Update: Today April 9th 2010, Lee Brimelow, an Adobe platform evangelist responded to the latest poster from Apple with “Go screw yourself “ on his popular web blog TheFlashBlog.com. It’s hard not to notice the frustration of developers across the blogosphere fuel by Apple’s refusal to allow third party API compiled apps in to the iTunes store.

The language from Apple’s agreement states “Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs”. This stipulation is a loathsome move by Apple to render the new Flash CS5 feature of porting Flash files as iPhone/iPad apps totally useless.

I wonder how many flash developers will delay upgrade to CS5 once they get wind of Apple’s stipulation. I’ve noticed a few developers complaining that their apps were rejected because of the use of third party APIs such as Corona, PhoneGap & Titanium

Read the Titanium’s rejection forum post here:
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/3921/about-the-iphone-private-api-in-use

John Gruber of Daring Fireball was the first to post these changes:
http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler

You can escape these problematic characters using the PHP function addslashes(). As explained by the PHP manual: It returns a string with backslashes before characters that need to be quoted in database queries etc. These characters are single quote (‘), double quote (“), backslash (\) and NUL (the NULL byte).

As you can see from my example below, I first run the content through the addshashes function and than return it to the same named string “$Page_Content” before passing it to my SQL UPDATE or INSERT statement.

$Page_Content = addslashes($Page_Content);
$query = "UPDATE site_content SET Page_Title='$Page_Title', Page_Content='$Page_Content' WHERE id_f='$id_f'";
query_db($query);

To reset the iPod mini, or any iPod for that with the wheel, toggle the top hold switch on and off then press and hold the middle select button and the “menu” button togather for a few seconds (until it resets to the apple logo).
The problem, I’m sure, was failed to disconnect the iPod before ejecting it from the iTunes device list.

Why is it that Apple refuse to assets Adobe in their effort to deploy Flash on iPhones and iPads? Some people believe that Apple fearful that Flash will reek havoc on their battery life. Some think it’s purly profit driven. Think about it. Apple only used Flash on their web site for about a year or two before strictly used QuickTime to handle all of their site’s rich-media content. So they are keep in the same vain by not supporting flash on their Mobile devices.

As a consumer and as a Flash developer, I’m split on this issue. Why? Well I’ve been a Apple user (designer) long before I became a Flash user (developer). Plus I’ve always enjoyed Apple product because they have the tendency of being much more stable than their competitors.

I do feel that Adobe is getting the short end of the stick though. Together, Apple’s OS coupled with Adobe’s creative suits has been such a perfect relationship for those of us in the creative industry. But now with all of the new growth that Apple has had in the mobile sector, they are leaving Adobe to fend for themselves.

The good new is Adobe took some huge steps to remedy this problem by adding a new publishing option in the new Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5. We will now beable to publish AS3 projects files as native iPhone apps. I’m note sure on all the technoligy behine it but they have a few apps up on line now ready for your iPhone… all build using Adobe CS5 beta. Here are a few iPhone applications build using Flash and downloadable via the Apple App Store.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

1) Type these command into Terminal window. MAKE SURE TO replace “disk” with the name of your external drive. If you have a problem creating a path to your external hard drive, type “cd” than a space and drag the icon of your hard drive to the terminal window. A path will be filled in automatically.

Code:

cd /Volumes/disk

2) Type out the remove command on then hidden trash directory.

Code:

sudo rm -rf .Trashes

3) It will ask you for your password. You will not see your password as you type for extra security. Once you are done,  press enter.

Code:

Password:

If you have a lot of files that needed deleting (ex: over 20GB) you may notice a dalyed response. If so, just keep an eye on the drive’s avalible memory and you will notice a gradual increase of space right before your vary eyes.