Couple of iPhone tips (Google products, Flickr)

Posted on Saturday 7 July 2007

Here are a couple of iPhone links I have been using. Part of the problem with iPhone Safari is it looks like a normal browser to our servers, so we don’t automatically switch to the mobile version. This works fine in some interfaces, but in gmail, calendar, and reader, you want the mobile versions.

  • Gmail: to get a mobile version of gmail simply go to http://m.gmail.com
  • Google calendar: http://calendar.google.com/m (no trailing slash)
  • Google apps email
    • URL: http://mail.google.com/a/<your domain>/x/ (trailing slash important), for example http://mail.google.com/a/google.com/x/.
    • POP setup:
      • incoming host name: pop.googlemail.com
      • incoming user name: recent:username@yourdomain.com
      • outgoing host name: smtp.googlemail.com:465
  • Google apps calendar: http://calendar.google.com/a/<your domain>/m (again, no trailing slash)

Michael N. reminded me of the email interface to Flickr. Flickr creates a random email address which you can email to add photos to your stream. Create a new contact named Flickr and use the email address provided on your account page. When you are looking at a photo click on the icon in the lower left, choose “Email Photo” and use the Flickr contact. Done and done.


  1.  
    Steve
    July 18, 2007 | 6:18 pm
     

    This was very helpful. I have been trying to configure iphone mail with google domain mail, and have been tearing my hair out. HOW HARD CAN THEY MAKE IT!

    I found someone who kindly posted the directions to include

    pop ‘pop.googlemail.com’
    user ‘recent:myusername@mydomain.com
    password ‘my password’

    And it will not pass the pop verification….

    ARGGGG!

    So, thank you for this very useful tip…

  2.  
    July 19, 2007 | 2:52 pm
     

    Glad it helped Steve. I forgot those POP settings were a bit obscure. I’ll update the post with them.

  3.  
    August 2, 2007 | 3:31 pm
     

    @Steve: Remove the space between recent: and your email address. It should look like recent:yourusername@yourdomain.com

  4.  
    August 2, 2007 | 5:06 pm
     

    Thanks Alex…all fixed up.

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