An iPhone in my life...

Yes... there is something new in my life... an iPhone...
Toni, my dear friend, gave me one that he bought for me in the US. I did not want it, but he insisted so badly that I could not refuse it... Thanks Toni... you know you should not have done that...

It took me 4 minutes to unlock it with ziphone
Ziphone is a little application that you download to your PC, you run it and your iPhone is unlocked and fully open. There is no secret. You run the program, you click on do it all and after 4 minutes I had the phone free, running 1.1.3.

I adds the App installer and a ziphone shorcut that you can delete.

Then if you want 1.1.4 you connect it to itunes, and you upgrade it. Then the iPhone will be lock again. You run again the ziphone GUI but this time you click on don't unlock, as it is already unlocked... and surprise! you have 1.1.4!

My fundamental question was weather to continue with the iPhone or go back to my HTC p3300.... as the iPhone does not support Push (IMAP IDLE) has no GPS (and tom tom), no FM radio, no splashid software (to manage my confidential data), no onenote and office, no video recording, contacts can not be sorted by categories or even searched, has no copy paste .... but the potential I see in this machine is huge... a full MAC OS, where I connect via ssh, run a terminal or even apache... I have the feeling that this phone will mark the beginning of a new era.

If you want to know more about the apps, installing the cyndia installer, reparing the default installer and adding more sources, and a list of the applications I have (ssh2, converter...) click on read more...

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Push!!!

I guess most of you are famililar with blackberries and the fact that they keep receiving emails constantly...
So well, I do not have a blackberry but I was curious on how it worked... I wondered, if it goes an check email every 1 minute that is hell a lot of data... so then I discover that in fact the emails are not "pulled" as they would be from your Outlook, Eudora or any desktop email client... the emails are pushed to the device from the server!!!

That made sense. That means that the data needed is just the negotiation and when you have an email to receive a part of it or all if you wanted. That's fair.

I started thinking how this could be done. I did not understand the principle. Do we need an extra layer in the server, after the IMAP or POP that pushes emails?
I knew that Microsoft Exchange included this push feature, but what about regular email servers like mine?

I started imagining how it "should" work. The mobile device should open a tunnel or connection to the email server. Does it mean that each device connected to GPRS has an IP? There are not enough IP's!!!

I found a couple of free solutions for my HTC Artemis (P3300) which is a WM6 machine, and I was very happy.

First it was emoze http://www.emoze.com

Emoze provides free push service. You dowonload a little software in the pda/phone (they support a lot of them) and then you can either use their servers to push gmail, yahoo or gmail apps directly to your device, or install a desktop application with your outlook to push (with your computer always on, sure) the email.

OK. I don't like to give away my passwords for email to a company but I tried. The problem is that norai is not gmail or yahoo, is just imap, so I had to forward all incoming email to an account I have in gmail and then pushed to my device. It worked, but that was not the way.

Then I found consillent, another free service to push email... but this time, IMAP!!
http://www.consilient.com

Well I tried it and I did not like it. I also have to give away my details... and it froze my HTC, I could not disconect it... not good.

Finally, I continued reading and I found out that IMAP-IDLE is push, and that my zimbra server has IMAP-IDLE, so this layer I though I needed was indeed there, in my zimbra email server!!

Now the only thing I required was to find a client for my Windows Mobile 6 machine that supported IMAP-IDLE:.

I found Flexmail 2007. You can try it for 15 days.

This was just I needed. Push email to my PDA... and just with the right software. It just works!!!

You have other software out there that support IMAP-IDLE like chattermail for your Palm OS.

If you have a IMAP-IDLE server providing your email, then you have push. Just google imap-idle client and your phone and you will find what you need.  

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::norai.net webmail has migrated to Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0.2

Biggest release yet incorporates many significant new features into the leading next-generation messaging and collaboration platform. All-new applications like Instant Messaging and Tasks add increased productivity to the Web Client. For on-the-go users, there is support for the iPhone plus a rich J2ME client for the Motorola Razr and more. Administrators will appreciate the addition of Veritas Cluster Service. Here's a summary of what's new in ZCS 5.0:

Zimbra Advanced Web Client (AJAX)

• Email Folder Sharing: Any folder in your inbox (including RSS feeds and subfolders) can be shared with others. You have the ability to provide read only-access or allow others to manage.
• Many Productivity Enhancements: Pick from multiple email signatures, set message priority, add images to contacts, and select multiple messages and forward them all at once are among the many features added to the Web Client
• More Calendar Scheduling Options: New advanced features in Calendar include: the ability to mark events in your shared calendar as 'private,' move events from one user's calendar to another's; import and export calendar events as standard ICS (iCal) files.
• Tasks: Manage all your tasks including select start and due dates, choose their priority as well as keep track of progress and percent complete. Tasks can also be organized and saved into folders and easily be shared with other end-users as view-only or full management access. Tasks also sync to Outlook via our MAPI Connector.
• Instant Messaging (Beta): IM is built directly into ZCS; end-users can have multiple conversations open as well as group chats. Zimbra IM is an XMPP based client and server and interoperable with other major providers. IM conversations are also fully indexed and stored for discovery.
• Briefcase: Store all your important files in Briefcase instead of as email attachments, which can be saved in one click directly to a Briefcase folder. The folders are shareable with other end-users and files can be easily emailed to others directly from Briefcase.
• Documents GA: Zimbra Documents is out of Beta. Users can create and edit wiki-style documents online with tables, images, or spreadsheets and can easily share and collaborate with others. Document history lets users quickly revert unwanted changes.
• Faster Performance: New optimizations such as 'lazy loading' further reduce Web Client start up time
• Choose your Language: Many popular languages are pre-installed (such as French, German, and Spanish); end-users can now select their display language of choice in "Preferences"

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