$149 Costco iPhone rumor, $5 iTunes movies, Gmail AV chat
One report is suggesting that Apple will not only expand iPhone sales to Costco but cut pricing at the same time. In a more confirmed price drop, Apple is now touting $5 movie purchases as a regular feature. Also, Google has launched its own video chat feature and has started tracking the spread of the flu through searches.
published on Tuesday, the 11. November 2008, appleinsider
Remember The Milk for iPhone arrives in App Store
Remember The Milk, a popular web-based task management app that integrates with everything from Gmail to Twitter, is now on the iPhone.Read More...
published on Wednesday, the 5. November 2008, ars-technica
iPhone How-To: Synchronizing Your Google Calendar
The iPhone is indeed a wonderful little device and, for some of us, a game-changer in terms of managing our digital lives from the palm of our hands. There are, however, some essential features that Apple neglected to implement. Regular GMail and Google Calendar users will have noticed the glaring lack of a Calendar synchronization option, making the [...]
published on Wednesday, the 29. October 2008, apple-blog
gContacts brings Google contacts to iPhone
Apple's iPhone sync system of iTunes and an optional MobileMe account is fun and all, but some of us prefer sticking with Google for all our address booking needs. A new iPhone app brings a dedicated address book for Gmail contacts, including a couple of welcome surprises.Read More...
published on Wednesday, the 22. October 2008, ars-technica
Apple extends iPhone NDA, rejects Gmail app
Apple is looking to keep developers quiet on the subject of App Store rejections, according to claims. Reports say that Apple is now adding more labeling to rejection letters, appending them with the clause that "the information contained in this message is under non-disclosure." While discussion of details in iPhone development is generally restricted, numerous developers have complained public...
published on Tuesday, the 23. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app
recoiledsnake writes "Another submission has been rejected from the iPhone App Store, this time for 'duplicating the functionality of the iPhone Mail application.' The author claims that his application allows the user to log into their multiple web email accounts and that Apple seems to be confusing Gmail and Mail.app. This comes on the heels of Apple rejecting an application for competing with iTunes and rejecting other silly but harmless apps as being of 'limited utility.'" ComputerWorld has an update to the rejected Podcaster app mentioned above. It seems the developer has used Apple's "Ad Hoc" service to begin distributing the software despite the fact that they blocked it from the App Store.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Sunday, the 21. September 2008, apple-slashdot
One way to use secure communications on an iPhone
Although the AIM iPhone application works great, the chats are not encrypted. Although iPhone email is great, there is no way to receive or send SMIME email. So, if you are an iPhone user who wants to send a secure message or have a secure conversation with another iPhone user or a computer user what can you do? Without spending a fortune? In fact, doing it for free?What we did is create a "sharing" IMAP Gmail account with https set as a requirement in the Gmail settings. Then all persons who will need to have the ability to send/receive secure communication get login credentials for this shared Gmail account. (Granted, anyone who has access to this account can read any messages, but we obviously could create other shared email accounts as needed to deal with smaller groups.)With that set up, when someone needs to send a secure message, they send (via email or AIM) notification to the other parties that they are posting ...
published on Friday, the 12. September 2008, macosxhints
Use many email addresses on one iPhone email account
Using Mail on OS X, you can assign multiple sender addresses to one account. As covered in this ancient hint, this is done by just separating each address with a comma in the account's setup screen. This same trick now works with the iPhone 2.0 firmware -- before it would just use the first address in the list. So if you have, for example, a Gmail account where you forward all your other mail addresses, you can now easily send mail from all of those addresses. Of course, your SMTP server must allow sending from foreign addresses for this to work.
published on Tuesday, the 29. July 2008, macosxhints
Use MobileMe push on iPhone with alternate From address
This hint is for those who have a primary email address, say a@default.com, and would like to use this email address, but would like the 'push' aspects of their MobileMe account, say a@me.com. It would be useful to be able to send email from a MobileMe account, but have a@default.com show up by default as the From address. This hint is similar tothis previously-posted hint, in that one can set their primary email address to forward a copy to their MobileMe account. However, this previous hint does this, but only by subscribing to their MobileMe account as a standard IMAP account, which would not use push.For this hint, one also needs an additional Gmail account (which may or may not be the primary email address) -- assume this account is a@gmail.com. and one would need to subscribe to that within the iPhone as well. Under the Mai...
published on Thursday, the 24. July 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Avoid Gmail/Address Book sync issues in 10.5.3
If you previously maintained your GMail contacts in sync with some application like A2G or whatever, enabling 10.5.3 Google contacts sync (in Address Book) may end in endless conflict resolution requests and duplicated contacts. So it is a good idea to delete all your Gmail contacts before syncing. The problem is that GMail does not authorize more than 20 deletes at a time, so this can take all night if you have thousands of contacts. The solution is to use the old Gmail version, which is still available -- then you can select all your contacts and hit Delete and be done with it. [robg adds: There's some confusion over this new feature in 10.5.3, as it doesn't show up (in Address Book's preferences) for all users. It seems it's only available for those with an iPod or iPhone, and that the contacts are only synched w...
published on Friday, the 30. May 2008, macosxhints