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iPhone Page 12 survives the iTunes Sync

...even though it is shown as an invisible page in iTunes:

   

Update: ...but not the third Sync. Now back to eleven pages. The difference is that if I move the Apple Voice Memos app to be an 'invisible', I get 12 pages with the Voices Memos app place back on page one on the subsequence sync. Running with 12 pages in OS 3.1.2 means that with each sync you never know which pages with be visible because each sync they change in some way. I've found it necessary to manually return my iPhone to eleven pages to avoid all the hassle.

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12 Pages of Apps on iPhone OS 3.1.2

I rearranged my apps. Currently there are only 349 installed on my iPhone. I moved Voice Memo off page 10 to the invisible page 12 in iTunes. I did this by bumping. I dragged Voice Memo to page 11 in iTunes which causes the last app icon to start a new blank (invisible) page 12. I swapped Voice Memo with the app icon on page 12. I moved a couple of other apps to page 12 in my rearranging. I then did an iTunes Sync. Note: This is not a Jailbreak iPhone.

When I came to use my iPhone, page 2 was blank with one app icon. Big poo smells, I thought. This has happened in the past with iPhone OS 3.1.2 but it usually means that the previous page 11 is now invisible. But when I looked, I realised that the previous page 11 was still there, only now as a *visible page 12* on my iPhone. When I went back to page 1, I saw the Voice Memo app. The one I had moved to invisible page 12 in iTunes before I did the Sync. All the other apps on the invisible page 12 have remained invisible.

I've never had 12 pages of apps on iPhone OS 3.1.2, I did have on OS 2, so 12 pages on OS 3 is a first for me. I will see if the extra page disappears on the next Sync.

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November brings tree lights blossom

One of the prettiest sights at this time of year.

 

Taken with PhoneGrafer (Russian Filter) on the iPhone.

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How To Create and Use a Draft Template in Mail on a Mac

I wrote this note on how to create a Template in the Desktop version of Mail on a Mac at the beginning of 2007 but it still seems valid. In fact, it is also relevant to using Mail on the iPhone. Currently, I notice that if I create a draft on the Desktop version of Mail, the Draft is *not* shared via MobileMe to the web nor the iPhone versions of Mail; even though the 'Store draft messages on the server' is checked in Mail Preferences. Drafts created in either web Mail or iPhone Mail *are* synced and available to both these versions of Mail. One way to get a Desktop Draft onto the iPhone (or the web) is to move the Draft to a Mailbox folder then copy the text from the synced email in the Mailbox on the iPhone but it shouldn't be necessary.

Create a draft or template Mail message
• Open Mail, Click New button (File > New Message)
• Create the template contents in a new email message.
• Click Save As Draft button (File > Save as Draft)
• If desired: Move the draft message to a different mailbox folder e.g. a new one named Templates. (see note 2 and 3)

To use the template
• Click on the template message. (see note 1)
• Click Message > Send Again
• Edit as necessary.
• If desired: Click Save As Draft button again. (see note 4)
• Enter or edit the To: address, as needed.
• Click Send button (Message > Send) to send the final message. (see note 3)

Send Again will work for any message you have, including messages that have been sent or received, not just newly created drafts or "templates". 

Note:
1. If the draft template message is in the Drafts mailbox folder — double-clicking the message will open an editable message i.e. the text and message fields can be edited immediately.

2. If a message has previously been sent, received OR moved from the Drafts folder into another mailbox folder — double-clicking the message will open an uneditable message.
•  To make the message editable: Click Message > Send Again 
•  This menu choice can be used with an opened message or on a highlighted message in a mailbox folder.

3. A message sent from the Drafts mailbox folder is immediately removed from this folder (like sending an original letter — you no longer have it once it's posted) but there will be the resulting sent message in the Sent folder.
•  If the message is sent with Send Again from any other mailbox folder (i.e. not from the Drafts mailbox folder), the original message is not removed from its folder, and the resulting sent message will be in the Sent folder (like taking a photocopy of the original and posting the photocopy).
•  Clearly, having a Templates mailbox folder separate from the Drafts mailbox folder is an advantage for a message that wants to be used again and again because the template will remain in the Templates mailbox.

4. Caution: When editing a template message that is NOT in the Drafts mailbox, Save as Draft will save the newly edited message into the Drafts mailbox not the original's mailbox. It will not overwrite the original message. Therefore, if the template message needs re-editing — make the changes, save the changed then move the undated template message from the Drafts mailbox and into the Templates mailbox.
•  Move the saved template from the Drafts mailbox before Sending. Otherwise the updated template in Drafts will disappear. The Sent message will then have to be re-used.
•  If the Subject: title has not been changed; the updated version of the template will have a later Date Received date or time in the mailbox folder list.
•  Delete the older version.

5. Drafts cannot be moved on the iPhone but they can on the web.
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Views of Morecambe using QuadCamera for iPhone

           

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How to Posterous full size image from iPhone

To post a full sized image (original sized image) from the iPhone OS 3.0 to Posterous:
1. Press and hold on the image in the Camera Roll
2. Tap Copy
3. In Mail: Tap and hold down in the message area of the email. When the Magnifier Lens appears, release and tap Paste.
4. Send

Update: I describe how to send more than one photo here:

How to send more than 5 photos using Mail on the iPhone

How to send more than 5 photos using Mail on the iPhone

(The above image is also on Flickr)

Note: This is a successful work around for the resizing *up* of saved images sent from the iPhone which originally are less than 800px. Whether it is Mail or Posterous, I don't know. But what does make a difference to the image being resized is:

1. If the image is an unedited screen capture, it will Mail at the correct size e.g. 480px high. (i.e. when the image is a PNG)

2. If it has been edited by an app, it will be resized to 800px high even if the original is 480px. (i.e. when the image is a JPG)
 
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