Tips: January 2008 Archives
You can't beat the iPhone's Safari browser for basic Web surfing from a mobile device. View full Web pages on the iPhone's sharp, bright and large display. Zoom in on a section you want to read with a pinch of two fingers on the touch screen and out by pulling them apart. A flick of your finger and you’re quickly scrolling through a page. Another nice feature of Safari is how easy Apple's makes it to perform an Internet search and choose between either the default Google setting or Yahoo!.
Find out more after the break...
Introduced by the iPhone dev team, the new jailbreak - called Official 1.1.3 Upgrader - works by cracking Apple's application-signing method, which (unfortunately) may have negative consequences when it comes time to install official, Apple approved software. Rather than a PC or Mac, all that's required to set this jailbreak upgrade in motion is Wi-Fi connection and an outlet, the latter to make sure your iPhone/iPod touch’s power source doesn't poop out in the middle of installation.
For directions how to install this jailbreak, see here. Remember, the new computer-less 1.1.3 jailbreak method is only for those who've already jailbroken their 1.1.2 iPhone/iPod touch. If you haven't jailbroken 1.1.3 yet - or if simply require more detailed directions - head over here. We recommend you check out the info at the previous link first, however.
As we've mentioned before, performing any type of unofficial software upgrade, especially a jailbreak, isn't for the faint of heart. Jailbreaks, in particular, have been known to cause trouble for some iPhon/iPod touch users. They do open up a whole new world of applications to the user, though. So the risk, for many, is worth the potential benefit.
[via iPhone Atlas]
The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) has come to Gmail. What this mean for smartphone and handheld users, especially iPhone owners, is a far smoother and easier to manage mob-e-mail experience. That's because IMAP synchronizes your inbox across all the devices you use, be it desktop or palmtop, instantly and automatically. So if you read or write an e-mail on your iPhone, for example, the changes you make in Gmail are reflected when you got to access messages on your desktop.
This is quite different from POP-based e-mail, which Gmail has always supported. With POP, you can pull messages down to a mobile device from a mail server, but the changes your make to your inbox on your smartphone, for instance, aren't automatically reflected when you go to access your e-mail somewhere else.
So the next time you access your inbox from your desktop, all the messages will stream in as unread or new (even if you've opened them already on your smartphone), making it difficult to differentiate between e-mail you've already read or managed and those messages that are really new.
Gmail, IMAP, & The iPhone
With the iPhone, you can access your Gmail account through the smartphone's Mail application or through Safari at m.gmail.com.
Although accessing Gmail through the mobile Web site gives you the same Gmail features you get through a browser on your desktop, most iPhone users will want to use the smartphone’s native Mail application.
Here's how...
