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Monday, March 30, 2009

How to make iPhone check email automatically


By default iPhone 2.0 firmware is configured to check emails only manually. To make it check email regularly the change in the settings needs to be made. Since I spent more time than I expected finding out how to make my iPhone check email periodically, I decided that it's worthy a post. I was looking all over Settings | Email, Calendar and Contacts, where I thought the setting would be, and could not find it. Instead it turned out to be Settings | Fetch New Data. That what drives frequency of email checks:

ps. In firmware 1.0+, this auto check is done by:
1. Tap on the Settings icon in the home screen and tap the Mail button.

2. In the new screen that slides over, look for the Auto-Check option in the Messages section.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

"Share My Calendar" is missing



Today when I tried to share my calendar, but can't find it in outlook.
Cannot share a calendar in Outlook 2003 because "Share My Calendar" is missing

The "Share My Calendar" link is missing in Outlook 2003.

In Outlook 2003, when you click on Calendar, only the Open a Shared Calendar... link is present. The Share My Calendar... link is missing from the left side of the window.

This problem can occur if Outlook 2003 is configured to use Personal Folders instead of the Exchange Mailbox. To resolve this problem, you must configure Outlook 2003 to use the Exchange Mailbox.

To configure Outlook 2003 to use the Exchange Mailbox, do the following:

1. Close Outlook 2003.
2. Click Start > Control Panel.
3. Double-click Mail.
4. Click E-mail Accounts.
5. Select View or change existing accounts and click Next.
6. Select Microsoft Exchange Server from the list of accounts.
7. From the drop-down menu labeled, Deliver new e-mail to the following location:, select Mailbox - Your Name. You should not have Personal Folders selected.
8. Click Finish.

Open Outlook 2003 to verify that you can now share your Exchange calendar.