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.
Recommendation: MobileMe July 29, 2008
Posted by Pip in Recommendations.Tags: bookmarks, contacts, email, mobileme, photos, recommendation
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If you’ve got an iPhone and aren’t using MobileMe (or, I suppose, Exchange), you’re cheating yourself.
I know, I know. The idea of paying $99 more a year for MobileMe is irritating when you’ve already dropped $199 – $299 on your iPhone. They should at least offer a free year’s subscription with the purchase of an iPhone. But they’re not going to, and there’s no point in being an ass about it, even if it is borderline profiteering.
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.
