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30 Aug 2010

RSS without the faff (Safari on a mac and iPhone)

Amongst other things, RSS is a great way to follow websites without remembering to go back and check them all the time. For example say you want to know when I've written something. Rather than coming to my website, you can use RSS to make it come to you, every time I update it.

There are loads of ways of receiving RSS updates for websites. Let's not bother about the geeky stuff about what it is how, it works, and what special software you can use if you're an RSS ninja - here's a simple way to make it work for you if you use a mac and if you use Safari.

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30 Aug 2010

If you're Reading this I've downgraded my phone to iOS3

iOS4 was fun wasn't it? I could zoom when taking photographs, and tell people what I was reading instead of what I was Reading. But when you're phone crashes out from Safari every time you load it, and when there's a 30 second delay between key strokes on your keyboard, it's time to either get an iPhone 4, or downgrade the OS. I'm too tight for the former, so the latter it is.

I'll kind of miss the combined mailbox, and I'm a touch worried that some of my apps may have done a weird iOS4 only upgrade. Fingers crossed it's all good.

I've only waited so long because I'm busy / lazy, but it seemed a perfect "bank holiday while the baby is napping" kind of job. Here's the how to - since it was written RecBoot downloads two different programmes, hit the readme file and it says "RecBoot Exit Recovery is used to exit recovery only" so I used that instead.

29 Jul 2010

The "one email address, many alts" Google trick

Ever wanted to set up an alternative profile on a service but been unable to because you need another email address to register a new account?

If you use Googlemail / Gmail then you can sidestep that pretty easily...

This is really simple, and yet a lot of people don't know about it. When you show people they go "Ooooh" like you've done a cheap parlour trick. Say your email is "joebloggs@gmail.com" and you've already used it to sign up for Twitter. Well, you can use that address again at Twitter with this simple syntax:

joebloggs+AnythingYouWant@gmail.com

By adding the + after your username you add a new email address to your Googlemail. When Twitter, or whatever service, emails a confirmation to the new address, it drops into Gmail's inbox and you can action it. If you need to send from that address hit Gmail's "settings" button (top right), go to "Accounts and Import" and select "Send mail from another address"; you can add your new gmail address in here, and then it becomes available to you to send from, every time you are in the compose email view.

Simple.

RSS without the faff (Safari on a mac and iPhone)

If you're Reading this I've downgraded my phone to iOS3

The "one email address, many alts" Google trick

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