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Google I/O 2008 Pageview Limit Exceeded

June 12, 2008


Ok ... now this is just funny. Quick disclaimer: I love Google. And not just in some nebulous, fanboy way. Through my work with Utah State University I've been able to meet and work with some of the brilliant engineers who work there and I greatly respect the work they are doing for the open web. I also went to Google I/O 2008 and had an incredible time at the conference. I've been waiting for the videos to be posted online so that I could create some posts and link to the actual session videos. They just came up! At least, for a moment.

I just got an email saying "Thanks for joining us at Google I/O" and a link to the videos of all the sessions, hosted on a Google Sites page. I was able to view a couple of the videos, and then...

Google IO pwnd

Google exceeded their own page limit. Awesome.
I'm sure they'll get it fixed soon, but the irony is unbeatable.

Apple Mail and Gmail IMAP: “Invalid Credentials” Fix

June 1, 2008


For anyone else out there trying to set up Apple Mail to check their Gmail account and getting an "Invalid credentials" error:

You may need to unlock CAPTCHA for your Gmail account:
https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha

Just go to that page, fill out your information and everything should work. I'm not sure if there are larger ramifications of doing this, but I suspect it's not much of an issue. Any ideas on the security implications? Reading around on Google Groups and the Apple Forums it also seems like this issue may also affect the iPhone as well. I hope this helps if you're having that issue.