Tip: Restart iPhone After Mail Changes July 29, 2008
Posted by Pip in Tips.Tags: accounts, email, push, settings, tip
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If you’re using MobileMe push mail, and you make changes to your mail accounts (any of them, even if you add one), it sometimes goofs up the push. Dunno why; it shouldn’t. But it seems to, and I spent ages trying to diagnose why my MobileMe mail wasn’t pushing properly after I added a Gmail account to the mix.
When I restarted the iPhone, MobileMe push went back to working fine. I then reproduced the error and the fix three times, which is scientifically sufficient for a blog nobody reads anyway.
Tip: Use Firefox on your desktop, Safari on your iPhone July 29, 2008
Posted by Pip in Tips.Tags: bookmarks, browser, firefox, safari, tip
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I was never a huge fan of the Firefox browser for Mac. I wanted to be – it’s open-source, has add-ons, great tabbed browsing, etc. – but it simply wasn’t suited for the Mac. It didn’t look like the other Mac apps, it was a bit heavier than Safari, etc.
Then they released Firefox 3.0, and that all changed. Now it’s prettier than Safari, it’s fast, and I get all the advantages of Firefox’s add-ons, etc. Now I use it exclusively.
Tip: Del.icio.us on your iPhone July 29, 2008
Posted by Pip in Tips.Tags: bookmarks, del.icio.us, safari, tip
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If you haven’t tried out Del.icio.us, you don’t know what you’re missing, whether your’re on an iPhone or a desktop. Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager (free) that allows you to post bookmarks to it and tag them. These bookmarks are then available anywhere.
The advantage of this may not be immediately obvious. It’s not a service that (in my opinion) is meant to replace your browser bookmarks. I use my browser bookmarks for sites I visit on a regular basis, such as Gmail, my online banking accounts, Facebook, etc. I use Del.icio.us for pages I wish to remember, and maybe access at some point in the future, but don’t need regularly enough to clutter up my browser with them.
Tip: Use your signature July 29, 2008
Posted by Pip in Tips.Tags: email, signature, tip
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The iPhone offers a custom signature that you can attach to just your iPhone emails. My advice? USE IT. Put something like “sent via iPhone” or “sent via mobile” in your signature.
It’s not about bragging. The email replies you send from your iPhone are bound to be terse and economical. If your contacts don’t know that the reason for this is that you’re typing with your thumbs, these emails might come off as terse or even surly.
Including this information in your signature simultaneously lets your contacts know that you’re being short in reply for a reason and that you’re out of the office. My guess is they’ll be grateful that you’ve taken the time to reply to them in this fashion, rather than being annoyed at how short a response they got.
