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Set up Yahoo! Mail on Android

Laurent — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:08:16 +0000

Well, I finally figured out how to add a Yahoo! Mail account to the Android Mail application. There is no need to upgrade to Mail Plus to get POP access, just use the following settings for IMAP:

Incoming mail
Username: your Yahoo! email address
Password: your Yahoo! password
IMAP server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
Security type: SSL
Server port: 993

Outgoing mail
Username: your Yahoo! email address
Password: your Yahoo! password
SMTP: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Security type: SSL
Server port: 465

The above work fine for me. I have seen mentions on forums to use smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com for outgoing mail, but it did not work for me. Strangely, sending/receiving Yahoo! mail only works on 3G connections, it will not authenticate on WiFi. Weird.

Wardriving in Derry

Laurent — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:44:01 +0000

I really should call it warwalking. I picked up all these wireless spots with Android’s Wardrive application when I was out shopping earlier. I didn’t walk around all of the city centre as you can see, only some streets where I needed to go. Green are open spots, yellow are WEP, and red are WPA protected.

View Wifi spots in Derry in a larger map

How to get the HTC Tattoo to scan QR codes

Laurent — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:20:08 +0000

I recently got a HTC Tattoo and had problems scanning QR and bar codes on my monitor. If you have a Tattoo then you probably know how crappy the camera is. It has no autofocus which makes close-ups really blurry and small codes near impossible to scan.

Try it out with these examples:

I cannot scan the small one on my 21″ 1920×1080 screen, the bigger one scans great. Luckily they resize very well.

I’m using Firefox with the Image Zoom extension installed. When you come across a QR code that won’t scan, right-click it and hold the button, then zoom in using mouse wheel. Scan again, and bingo.