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I have just swapped my Broadband provider from Pipex (who are RUBBISH) to O2 - so far so good. All email from my local dev sites stopped to any addresses in the outside world.

It was not any firewall issues and I am sure that lots of other people will have this problem so here is the solution: use their email server and the details are as follows:

host: relay.o2broadband.co.uk

port: 25

An example from a .NET app with the settings in the web.config:

<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp>
<network host=”relay.o2broadband.co.uk” port=”25″ />
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>

I hope that saves someone 30 seconds.

There are many times when you need an algorithm to sort a problem - think of an easy problem such as shuffling a list. A good place to start looking is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms

This seems like the solution to having at least two machines on my desk - something that is happening more and more these days!

I have seen it in action before but the latest example that I have seen really impressed me - it even worked!

Lets give it a go!

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

http://addictomatic.com/

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-add-html-signatures-with-images.html

Looks like a good way to actually see what you do during the day:

http://www.rescuetime.com/

https://faxzero.com/

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

This is a nice tool to write regular expressions in:

http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

http://www.quidco.com/