Since I have such an elaberate setup for email:
The iPhone allows for makes setting up e-mail so easy for a normal GMail account, even Google Apps accounts work through the basic “GMail” setup but there are a few problems:
One problem just creates the other for me, since I could always just use pop for the GA account the reply to would be setup correctly but I would be getting too much e-mail–including a double of my work e-mail–(since I have IMAP setup for work on another account on the iPhone) so a filter is necessary.
Also a lot of people might want to change that “From:” address if using one of the other methods of e-mail accounts on the iPhone.
Filtering:
From/Reply-to change:
On the iPhone create an “other” e-mail account, the type will be POP3.
Settings>Mail>Add Account>Other
Choose “Pop” out of IMAP, POP and Exchange buttons.
For the “Account Information” give your real “Name” and for your “Address” give the FROM address you really want to use. The key here is that you can now specify a FROM “Address” which is NOT defaulted to your Yahoo!, GMail or AIM account.
I’m purging my online identity to just a few locations that I actually use since it was getting out of control. The major account escape that led to the purge was myspace, as you might have noticed if I’m a friend of yours. The others include:
On the chopping block
The ones I’ll keep:
There are more but as you can tell there are way to many listed already.
I’ve been using GMail’s multiple ’send as’ accounts ever since they opened up the option, it’s become very usefull especially now on a trip. I’m able to send work e-mail through gmail without anyone even noticing I’m not logging into exchange or our mail server. The huge problem is signatures. Every so often I forget to replace the defualt signature with my work’s (through copy/paste) and it shows all of my personal info; aim and my BLOG. There’s a greasemonkey script out there but I rather not bother unless I have to. For now I’ve made my signature just my name, can’t do wrong with that.
Google: You hear me? This is a problem not a feature request. I shouldn’t have to tell you multiple accounts means different profiles/identities.
My BlackBerry 7130c arrived today and my first impressions are that it’s awesome. When would I buy something that wasn’t? The first thing I had to do was call cingular to get the business data connection rather then the medianet unlimited plan since it’s not compatible for some reason. It wasn’t such a problem this morning but I called tonight to change the service into a cheaper plan and I was on the phone for 30 minutes, it was the most frustrating call I’ve been on for some time.
The first 5 apps that I installed were Google Maps, Google Talk, Opera Mini, BB Messenger and BB 411. Google Maps is pretty cool, I’ve used it and Opera mini before on my other phones so they’re not new to me. BB Messenger although not supported by cingular works fine and is so useful at work since T and B have them too. BB 411 is a “great” info app and I haven’t used it much so I can’t say too much.
Google Talk on the blackberry is a must. I love my blackberry more then any other phone just because of this app, it’s so great. It doesn’t do much more then do IM but it integrates with other parts of the phone which is pretty cool. The reason I like it so much is because the people I really want to talk to or the people I don’t mind talking use gtalk (I’m not saying that I don’t want to talk to you who don’t use gtalk, I’m just saying my AIM is so cluttered with people I rather not be “available” or even “away”). So gtalk is awesome, if you don’t use it you should (Jared: it uses jabber so you can use gaim).
As for the OS it’s extremely stable and I’ve never seen this one nor my old work BB crash, ever.
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Integrated chat is awesome and reply by chat is also a great addition. Only if they would use that partnership with AOL a little and get AIM involved with GTalk. But to review GMail I really can’t there’s just so many good things about it that the list would be too long..
I rarely use GTalk and I find myself only using it within GMail. Even though I have iChat setup for for GTalk I rarely use it and I’ve stopped turning it on because of that. As I said above, if they integrated AIM or AIM integrated GTalk like AIM currently does for .mac it would really take off and the voip portion might even be used.
Here is my page. With only 5 minutes of tinkering, AIM pages rocks Myspace. Designing the pages is extremely easy but don’t expect clean looking pages the flexibility still allows for the worst of designs, the designs we love to see at ms. The interface allows you to move “modules” around to design the layout, similar to Google pages, a couple that stood out were for YouTube and De.licio.us and I’d expect more since you can create your own and share them as “user created”.
As soon as AOL figures out the music solution for bands and whatever Myspace is good for I’d like to see Aim pages take over, it’s just seems that AOL is a better suitor for teen social networking then Fox’s myspace.
AIM Pages looks to be a real “Myspace killer”.
Two reasons:
1. Parents don’t mind the name because AOL is already known as family friendly.
2. The pages don’t look like crap. … Read More »
May 09
Wow. This is going to be fun.
I really hope they get AIM involved in this somehow because I don’t know anyone that uses gtalk, but I guess there are a lot of people who I know who use GMail, or do I?
Bush Administration to Sony: It’s your intellectual property — it’s not your computer.
Sony knew they were dead in the water when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admonished them on the CD rootkit scandal – at a Chamber of Commerce event on combating intellectual-property theft. According to Briand Krebs of the Washington Post the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant … Read More »
November 12
