Harry has been a little star today, and with the added momentus ocassion that he had his (almost) first solids, I thought that a photo and a little video was necessary.
Yesterday we tried Harry with some rusk mashed with a little milk, but today he has baby rice. He didn’t seem to mind it really although he didn’t really know what to do with it once in his month. It went down in the end though and therefore for him to have half a bowl was a success. He doesn’t seem to know what to do when the spoon is in his mouth and therefore I have to use the top of his month in order to ‘scrape’ the food off the spoon. Its progress though and I am sure that with practice he will get the hang of it.
He also spent lots of time playing on his mat and also in his ring today. He is really starting grab at things now and really paying attention and reacting to noises and movements etc. He has been a sheer delight today.
A while ago I decided to purchase an iPod Touch, which to all intents and purpose is an iPhone without being able to phone, text etc. It has been great, in fact so great that I will at some point in the future be getting an iPhone. I also use Gmail for all my mail coming into one account. Finally I have managed to set up the iPod to send mail from accounts other than my Gmail account.
Gmail is truely wonderful and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for an email solution, whether that be a business or an individual. In fact we recommend it to all our customers. I have one Gmail account which I receive mail into. The thing that differs slightly here is that I have mail from more than one account. I have got addresses for Equal Design as well as personal emails and I would rather have mail appear to come from these account than my Gmail account. Therefore I have set up forwarders that just forward mail from my @equaldesign domain to my Gmail. Then there is a handy tool in Gmail that allows you to send mail from other accounts, which allows me to send and receive all mail from Gmail and it comes from and goes to my @equaldesign account.
My problem was that although the iPod Touch has a simple interface for setting up a Gmail account what it doesn’t allow you to do is to send mail from other accounts that you have set up in your Gmail interface. Well this is no longer a problem thanks to the following solution that allows you to send mail from any email account from your Gmail account on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- From the home screen click on settings and then select Mail, Contacts and Calenders.
- Add a new mail account and select other as the account type
- In the address option add the address that you want to send mail from and type a random string in the password box (anything will do!)
- Now tap save and go to the POP tab
- Enter ‘g’ under the hostname and username for incoming mail server and enter ‘smtp.gmail.com’ under outgoing mail server
- Enter your Gmail username and password under the Outgoing mailserver settings
- Tap save and then select ‘No’ to the pop up message
- Tap save and then save again
- Under accounts select the mail account that you have just created and delete all the text in the fields under incoming mail server
- Press the home button and you are done, but make sure that the newly created account is sent to receive mail manually rather than at regular intervals.
That’s it! When sending emails from your iPhone you should now be able send mail from other account by tapping on the CC/BCC/from box and choosing the account. This will also appear in your sent items under your Gmail account and all replies will go to that account.
Looking out of the window this evening we saw a balloon passing over the estate. I couldn’t help think what a wonderful ride they must be having with this cracking weather.
