Using gmail smtp server, JavaMail and Spring IOC, we can quickly put together a simple mail sending application, without any SMTP server installation. Check this out for a detailed description of using gmail as smtp server. Thanks to Enrico for blogging smtp spring configuration.
Assuming you have used Spring before, here is a short tutorial:

Add mail.jar […]

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I received Vista SP1 update. I have installed Vista on a 13 GB partition, and I had only around 700 MB left. After downloading the update, it said minimum 2GB required. So I set out to explore what is eating so much memory. Turned out Windows folder took a good 10.2 […]

Very few themes/styles are available for Movable Type 4 as of now. The nice themes over at  The Style Archive do not yet work for MT4. However 3 of those themes have been ported and I’m using the Hemingway theme for my blog over at Gaa Gaa Gubbi.
Installing these themes is very easy. This […]

I searched a lot for a free hosting service where I can test run a movable type 4 open source blog. You can access the installed blog here.
The problem I faced was file size limitation in most free web hosts, which is usually 300KB. After a lot of looking around I found this very good […]