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E-mail Optimization Tips

Here’s another one of the more useful posts I’ll be doing. Partly so that I can remind myself the steps needed to perform this somewhat convoluted approach to getting the best “setup” for iPhone and desktop mail use.

Why GMail Rocks

The best thing about GMail is the free IMAP support it has. For the uninitiated, make sure you read the advantages of IMAP over POP3 (referred to as POP from now on) in their respective wiki pages.

Of course GMail, just like any other competent email service, supports POP as well as the ability to retrieve mail from external accounts (via POP) as well. Not sure if it’s the same for other services, but this feature is free as well.

Couple that with IMAP accessibility, and lets not forget the gigabytes of space – and you basically have a powerful tool of accessing practically all your email in one place.

Refining it Further

Given the tools at your disposal, let me describe how I’ve setup my “mail workflow” – hopefully you can also find it useful in your situation.

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iPod/iPhone: upgrading to 2.0.1

I’ve just upgraded [the Operating System of] both my units to v2.0.1; here are some things keep in mind.

Upgrade or not?

If you “update” via a pwned ipsw sure, but if not (meaning you plan to use the legit Apple upgrade) here’s what’s in store for you; quoted from the DevTeam (rephrased, since to reflect the release of the tool)

If you own a first generation (2G iPhone), you don’t have to worry, PwnageTool will get you where you want even if it you prematurely updated. 2G is completely pwned at every conceivable level and you’ll always be OK. But if you own a 3G iPhone and are looking for unlock in the near future, don’t use Apple’s update.

If your 3G iPhone is on a regular contract and you always plan to be with the carrier then you can update but you will lose the jailbreak and access to third party (non AppStore) applications.

If your 3G iPhone is not on a regular contract and you plan to use it on an alternative network to the carrier that supplied it then do not update unless you do it with the new PwnageTool.

For other points discussed below, I’m assuming a jailbroken scenario.

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iPhone 3G: The price you pay for high tech

In case you missed it, it’s official.

What I find amusing, at least for the people who read my post about it two months back, is that they seem so surprised about the pricing scheme.

Like I said in the past post, the $200 price tag was baloney – and when you do the math with the new data, you’ll be paying about a thousand dollars for a plan-free unit. It’s interesting though that the two plans discussed in the past are almost right on the money – and the plan will eat you alive in 2 years.

But the question really is if a $1k plan-free unit is preposterous or not?

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Sosyal

I added a little “feature” on my site; links to all my Social networking accounts (or anything remotely related to “networking”). You should see it in the author box at the homepage. If you have accounts on any of those sites, don’t hesitate to add me. I promise to unconditionally accept regardless if I know you or not… except for Facebook, since I try to at least keep that for people I really know.

Despite having all these accounts, It’s worth mentioning that almost none of them are being actively updated (apart from Flickr and YouTube for storage reasons – and I’ve got Multiply and LiveJournal being updated automagically). The reason why I took the time to register, even if I don’t plan to using them, was so I could have first dibs on the “nargalzius” monicker/handle on those sites.

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