This tutorial will show you how you can setup Mail on iPhone or iOS 5 in such a way that you can use Googlemail via IMAP and send emails masked with your custom address.

1. Before we can get started you need to get some login information from your custom email address provider. What we need are the outgoing mail server details, or in short, SMTP details. Here is exactly what you need:
   • Host Name: (like smtp.godaddy.com)
   • Username: (usually your custom email address)
   • Password: (for the above custom email address)

   Don’t panic about these details. They are usually written quite conveniently somewhere in the FAQ of your custom domain provider. Just search for SMTP.

2. Now Let’s get started. Open your iPhone and go into the Settings application. From there, navigate to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars tab and add a new account. Select Googlemail and enter your details.

   

3. A new account has now been created. Now reselect the newly created account. We will now have to edit the outgoing mail server settings. So tap on the SMTP button..

   

4. Then tap on Add Server…. Now enter the details from step 1. Turn on SSL if you like, but then enter the password. You can usually ignore the Port numbers. The iPhone will now verify the information. If it fails, you must have entered the wrong SMTP details. Then turn the server on.
   

   

5. This is it. Test if it works – but it should.

However! For some reason Googlemail allows the option to manage labels separately in it’s web interface and in whatever mail application you are using. I find this very annoying. So if you want Mail on iPhone to not add randomly Sent Messages or Trash labels to your emails, you need to change one last setting.
Go back into the account settings. Tap on Advanced. In Mailbox Behaviors make sure all options behave after the labels on the server. Not on the iPhone.

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There are a lot of websites selling these gift cards with any face value from 10$ to 200$ and eBay is also bursting with them.

JerryCards stands out as one of the most secure and easiest services. You buy via PayPal and get the code emailed within seconds. Some websites turn out to be scams or waste time emailing you the code. So JerryCards is a real jewel – especially because they sell Netflix and Xbox gift cards as well!

The main problem with these resellers, including JerryCards, is that they add a hefty percentage (around 15%) to the face value that you purchase. Though I am afraid this is the only way, unless you know someone in the US who can mail you codes all the time.

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So for iWeb users that are looking for iWeb themes, here is a carefully picked list of the best iWeb theme developers:

• Miamiou iWeb Templates and Themes. Miamiou is one of the oldest and technically advanced iWeb theme developers on the market. Great stuff!!!
• Jumsoft iWeb Themes and Templates. Sleek and simple themes which are perfect for any needs.
• iPresentee iWeb Templates and Themes. Vast collection of graphically rich and mostly iPhone-ready themes.
• iWeb Themespark. Small collection of well-designed and cheap themes.
• 11Mystics iWeb Templates and Themes. 11Mystics used to have a monopoly over this market by simply providing the best themes on the market. Sadly, in recent months no new themes have been released.
• Guimkie iWeb Templates and Themes. All of them are free but only for the older versions of iWeb.

Feel free to extend this list by posting new iWeb theme developers in the comments section.

Fortunately, there is a way to get rid of that folder. Follow these simple instructions to hide your Microsoft Office User Data folder forever.

Option A: If you just want to hide the folder and not bother about it still sitting in the documents folder, then one short terminal command will do it.

1. Make a backup of the Microsoft User Data folder sitting in your documents folder. Just in case.
2. Open up the application Terminal. Paste the following command line into Terminal and hit enter:

   chflags hidden ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data

   That is all you have to do to hide the annoying folder.

Option B (recommended): Hiding the folder does not change the fact that the user data is still saved in the documents folder. Saving the data in a proper place is more professional and better. Here’s how:

1. Make a backup of the Microsoft User Data folder. Just in case.
2. Open a new Finder window and navigate to the following folder:

   Username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft

   If the Microsoft folder does not exist, go ahead and create it.

3. Now place the original Microsoft User Data folder (from your documents folder) into library folder:

   Username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft

4. Right click on the Microsoft User Data folder and create an alias of it. Move the alias folder to the documents folder. Once moved, rename the alias to Microsoft User Data. This is to make Microsoft Office think this is the actual folder it is looking for.
5. Now open up the application Terminal and run the following command:

   chflags hidden ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data

6. Now the newly created alias should have disappeared from the documents folder. The actual user data is saved in the library folder and everyone is happy.

Just in case: If you want to unhide the folder, just reverse the command:

chflags nohidden ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data

And for those having problems:

• Make sure you have copied the Terminal command correctly. One missing space ruins it all.
• If you run Microsoft Office and/or Mac OS X in a language other than english, you need to change the path in the command to suit the different file structure. For example, if you run Mac OS X in german, you need to change Documents to Dokumente.
• If the folder you are trying to hide has spaces, they need to be escaped for the command. That means you place a backslash \ in front of every space.
• For any other problems, post in the comments section.

Follow any of these instructions at your own risk.

Thanks to Richthomas for sharing the hint.

Before we get started, you need your new icon. You can either create one yourself or download one from sites such as MacThemes. If you do create your own, make sure the icon is in the format that Apple requires it to be. A quick Google search should help out on that.

Once you have your icon, you can start adding it to the app of your choice:

1. Start by downloading the iPhone Explorer. This free tool allows you to access and change files on your iOS device. So we will be needing this to change the icons.
2. Plug your iOS device into your computer and open up iPhone Explorer. Then navigate to your apps .app folder. If, for example, you want to change the icon of Skype, you would navigate to the following path:

   Devicename/Apps/Skype/Skype.app/

   Here is an example screenshot:

   

3. In this folder (I.e.: Skype.app) look for two files named Icon.png and Icon@2x.png. The first icon is a smaller version and for devices without a retina display (old iPhones etc.). The second icon is for the iPhone 4.

   Select these two files and drag them to somewhere in your Finder to create a backup. Before you start wondering, the preview on these icons does not work.

4. Now delete these two icon files from the iOS device using the Delete button in the iPhone Explorer.
   Back in the Finder, rename your replacement icons to Icon.png and Icon@2x.png. Make sure they are in a .png file format. Then copy them into the .app folder (the same folder where you just deleted the two original icons).
5. Now eject your iOS device and restart it. You can do that by holding the home and hold button for a few seconds. Once the iPhone is restarted, you should have your new icon:

   

Image from Sneaky.me.

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It is quite useful to detect visitors from a mobile device because that allows you to redirect them to a modified website suited for smaller screens.

It actually isn’t very hard – here’s how:

All you have to do is add a small snippet of code to all of your pages. Done! You can add this piece of HTML code manually (as the AllAboutiWeb tutorial does it) or using a tool like iTweak.

We will show you how to add this code using iTweak. If you wish to add it manually, we suggest following the excellent tutorial by AllAboutiWeb.

1. Start by downloading iTweak.
2. The following script handles everything from detecting your visitors and redirecting them to your modified website. There is only one piece in the puzzle that you have to change. The script needs to know, to where it should redirect visitors from mobile devices.
   So in the script below, replace the sampleaddress.com/MobileSite with the address you want your mobile visitors to be directed to.

   <script type="text/javascript">
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) ||(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) {
if (document.cookie.indexOf("iphone_redirect=false") == -1)
window.location = http://sampleaddress.com/MobileSite;}
}
</script></head>

3. Now open up iTweak and navigate to the Search & Replace tab. Select the checkmark. Then choose your published site. If you publish to MobileMe or .Mac you will find your site on the iDisk (located at iDisk/Web/Sites/)
   If you publish to a folder, you will hopefully know where your site is.
   If you publish to your FTP server directly from iWeb, you will have to download your site from the server first. iTweak can only edit your site if they are on your hard-drive or on the iDisk.
4. Once your site is chosen, click the + button and paste the following code into the search box:

   </head>
   
   In the replace box, you paste the edited code from step two. Do make sure you paste all of the code into the box.

   In the end it should look similar to this:

   

5. You can now optionally Save the Search & Replace table so that you don’t have to re-edit and type the code you want to run iWeb.
6. Now click the Process Site button and let iTweak add the code to your site. If you now view you site from an iPhone or iPod touch, you should automatically be redirected to your mobile site.

Do you want to create sitemaps for your iWeb site? Add some Meta-Tags? Check out iMap.

• Most comments are spam. Although I have Akismet installed, quite a lot of spam comes through. I am, quite frankly, tired of sorting through the spam.
• Most comments are questions regarding the respective tutorial. I try to reply to most of the comments, but by adding more and more comments, everything becomes a huge mess. The number of comments shown on the page is beyond an amount someone can coordinate through.

It hurts to loose the interactivity between me and the viewers, but it is such a relief to no longer have to fight the spam.

Questions regarding tutorials can be posted in the Apple Discussion forums. See you there!