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When I got my iPhone, I decided to go back to using my Dreamhost account through IMAP so that I could have a single account with a persistent state. While this is nice, I didn't want to have to wade through a ton of spam on my iPhone. Since I wasn't neccesarily have Mail.app or Thunderbird open all the time at home running mail filters, and you can't do that on the iPhone, I was in a bind. How do I filter my mail easily and still use IMAP across multiple devices?

I came across Gurgitate-Mail, a great little filter which is launched by procmail or whatever you use to receive email. You can write some pretty concise email rules or make it even more complex. The point is that you can write rules in a proper programming language instead of cobbling together something in your favorite Mail program. In the coming days I will be posting more about what I've done.

Welcome to the 21st Century people! We're finally going to realize the dream of ubiquitous computing and it's starting all with multi-touch technology. First the iGesture pads, then the iPhone, and now Microsoft has a demo of an awesome application of this technology in what they call the Microsoft Surface. I can't wait to have one of these in my pad! The visual sync is stunning in it's simplicity!

The iPhone is freakin' sweet. There's really no denying it after seeing the Keynote speech. However, even with all the new features and all the legitimate claims about being 5 years ahead the curve of Smartphones, it still lacks some rather basic features that the Danger Sidekick (One) had several years ago. They are:

• Auto-Synchronized Contacts to the Server. This means I never have to "sync" my device into a dock. It just works automatically. iPhone should really be doing this with .Mac integration. It would sell me on a .Mac account.
• Instant Messenger. (not some SMS fanciness). AIM, Y!, GTalk, MSN or Jabber. This is so basic that it pains me that they forgot (or ignored) this. I don't think that I need to say that it must a persistent IM connection, not something that will disconnect once I start roaming. Sidekick did it, why can't you iPhone?

Even after saying all this I'll probably be getting this. I'm a Mac whore of the first magnitude. I can't believe all the things they crammed in there. I'm just in shock.

Wow.


Just wow.