[HOWTO] Outlook Error Message “A secure connection to the server cannot be established.”
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General, Microsoft
I keep on receiving the following message “ERROR: ‘A secure connection to the server cannot be established.’” when trying to connect my Outlook 2007 to my mail server. I pulled my hair out thinking that Windows Vista/Microsoft Outlook certificate and trust setting is the problem. I stumbled onto a solution that finally solved it. The problem is my Courier IMAP server.
As it turns out, Outlook doesn’t support SSLv3. I had been using Thunderbird for the longest time without any problem, but since I had to test Outlook 2007 for business purposes.
To fix the issue, I changed my Courier IMAP setting from:
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL3
to
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL23
Tags: email, IMAP, Microsoft, Outlook
[HOWTO] Fine Tuning Synchronization of Google Mail, Contacts Calendar with iPhone
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, iPhone, IT in General
Google has just launched a service where you can sync your Google mail, contacts and calendar with iPhone through the use of Exchange connection. The method described on the Google’s main page will delete all contacts and calendar. However, I only want to sync my Calendar and not my Contacts. So, instead of using the automated method, I manually fine tune what I want to sync by doing the following:
- Go to Settings -> Mails, Contacts, Calendars
- Create a new Exchange account
- Set the information as follows
- Email:
@gmail.com - Username:
@gmail.com - Password:
- Server: m.google.com
- Email:
- Choose which you want to sync
Tags: Calendar, Contacts, Google, iphone
NemusSync Failure to Sync with Error Domain=GoogleAccounts Code=-1
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, iPhone, IT in General
After upgrading my iPhone to firmware 2.2, I had a problem with NemusSync. Everytime I try to sync, I received an error message “Failure to Sync” then the error code “Error Domain=GoogleAccounts Code=-1″. After scouring the web I found that I had to delete 1 file. Just to be safe, I actually move the file.
The file that needs to be removed is/var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb. There are some sites that talk about changing the permission, but I have not tried that. If you want to try changing the permission, you should try changing it by running the command chown mobile:mobile /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb
NOTE:If you have calendar events on your phone that you haven’t sync to GCal, it will be erased after removing the Calendar.sqlitedb. Also after you move the file, you will need to run the calendar apps at least once.
Tags: Calendar, Google iphone, NemusSync
[HOWTO] Grab MP3 From Youtube FLV File
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Howto, IT in General
First of all, youtube shows video clips and not audio clips. When you grab a file from YouTube it’s usually an .FLV file. You may grab it from online services like GrabFlv.com or use applications similar to TubeTV. The FLV is a video file and we need to grab the audio portion of it. The software I use is call iExtractMP3. This software feature a drag and drop and single button clicking to extract (NOTE: I emphasize the term because the software uses extraction method rather than re-encode the audio. This results in higher quality audio since whatever the poster put, this is the same file you get).
Alternatively, there’s also another file conversion service offered by Zamzar. I have not used the service before, but it seems that the process is simply point the URL to the video that you want and you’ll receive the link for the audio.