November 12, 2008
iPod Touch and Cox email
Put it down to peer pressure: I didn't cave and get an iPhone, but I did recently get an iPod Touch 2G. As a portable photo album it is incredibly useful, both to show inventory to clients and as a personal reference tool. And the email capability, via WiFi, is also extremely handy.
Getting all the bugs out of the email setup, though, has taken some time, and I'm far from done. A major discovery came this evening, however, through this post which explains that when using an iPod Touch or iPhone on a home wireless network with Cox as the provider, one must leave the username and password fields blank in order to send mail through the Cox SMTP gateway. Very strange -- this isn't at all how my home (or work computers) are set up, but it unquestionably works.
Posted by David on November 12, 2008 10:38 PM
I have a lot of friends and family who mercilessly give me grief on not updating to an i-phone from the cell phone I've had for over 4 years now. I'm just technically challenged I guess.
Posted by: selcom60 on November 15, 2008 10:34 PM
I think it it less than being technologically challenged, and I am, than all this miasma of innovation in communication. Most of my less than dynamic cell phone is unavailable--I just needed a cell phone, and I wonder at what my kids can do with theirs not related to verbal speech. It is really a good thing that my IBM Selectric remains in good repair, although it is becoming difficult finding ribbons.
Posted by: Donald Wolberg on November 16, 2008 9:24 AM
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