Posted in Tips on 29. Apr, 2009
One of the great things about Gmail is that it uses IMAP. IMAP is far better than POP3 because IMAP allows email to be marked read or unread and have folders exist on the server so when you read, change or move something from one program or computer, all other programs are updated. (I know that doesn’t fully explain it, but whatever.)
So using the iPhone’s built-in email program is almost as good as usin’ Gmail directly online. And there’s even a way to archive, star and move items to spam and to different lables.
To archive a message, select your message(s) and move them to the “All Mail” folder.
To access all mail, move into the “All Mail” folder.
To mark a message as spam, select your message(s) and move them to the “Spam” folder.
To access / delete spam messages, navigate to the “Spam” folder.
You can mark or unmark messages starred by moving messages in or out of the “Starred” folder.
Gmail creates folders for all labels you have set up in Gmail, so you’ll find folders with the name if each label in your email app. You can move, read, delete, ect, messages for these labels by doing it with these folders.
And there ya go. Nice, ain’t it?
Peace, J
You know one thing that really bugs me about the email app? When you have a group of new email messages, you click on one of them to archive (move) or to delete. What the email program does is, instead of returning you to your inbox view, it moves to the next message, and if that message is unread, it marks it as being read. You then have to mark that message as being unread and then move back to the inbox view.
I wish the email app had an option, or was set to default, to move you back to your inbox (or whatever folder view you were in) instead of moving to another message.
But, but… OS 3.0 will have a crap load of changes to it, so I’m hoping this will be one of’em. But yo, it ain’t a big deal though, I’m lovin’ havin’ my email on the NeoCell.
Peace, J
So I was talkin’ about SBSettings and speed before and had mentioned I might remove SBSettings and go back to Boss Prefs to increase system performance… well to see if it even does increase performance.
Well after not havin’ SBSettings installed, I’m sad to say the system is faster without it. Not by too much, but by enough to make to OS perform more like an unmodifyed iPhone.
It’s barely noticeable, but at those times when the system might lag opening an app or somethin’, it’s noticeable not havin’ SBSettings installed and having Boss Prefs instead.
I’m bummed that’s the case though because I love SBSettings and I hate Boss Prefs. I did configure Boss Prefs as my new double click home button action, so that I just click my home button twice and instead of my phone favorites coming up, Boss Prefs comes up. That part’s better than SBSettings’ swipe method (because SBSettings would always come up when it wasn’t needed). But Boss Prefs doesn’t include a brightness option, one of the most accessed things. And when playing music from iPod, double clicking the home button still brings up the iPod control, so that’s good. But for brightness, I have to go into settings in normal. Oh, and Boss Prefs does have the same hid icon control as SBSettings.
I may use SBSettings again sometime, because it’s so useful… but for now speed’s more important.
Peace, J
So, how’ta balance your checking in style. The answer? Your iPhone and the free money program, Balance.
There may be paid programs out there to balance your checking / savings… but you don’t need them if you need something simple.
Balance is free and up on the app store. It has a simple, un-cluttered but nice (not great) looking interface. It allows password protecting (a must), allows you to enter withdraws and deposits, allows you to add a title (“Wal-mart”) and note (“iPhone adapter jack”) for transactions, and allows you to set the date. It’s important to note it also allows you to edit (or delete) any transaction and change anything about it. Then it shows your balance, so you can know your what money you really have in the bank and not just what transactions have posted.
I haven’t found any other free app (or even paid apps) that do check balancing, so although Balance lacks more complex features, it works perfectly for me.
Peace, J
