Yeah! Forgot to mention that I got my exam results back from the Law Society the other day, and I passed both of my exams that I wrote! 85% for Attorney’s Accounting, and 58% (quite good) for Wills and Estates!
*Takes a bow and starts to study for the next 2*
iPhone "This message has not been downloaded from the server" error message!!!
Well, if you have an Apple iPhone and have setup your Mail Application to download your email onto your iPhone, you may start noticing that you sometimes receive the following error message while you are attempting to view an older email:
(1) Why does it happen?
The short answer is "I am not 100% sure why, and Apple have not said why!", but all I can really do now is to google it, and make up my own mind!
My Guess: I don’t think that the Mail application on the iPhone actually saves any attachments on the iPhone when you download emails! It saves the body of the email, but NOT the attachments.
Why? Because if you attempt to browse an older email, which has an attachment, it gives you the message "Loading…" and after a couple of seconds it tells you "This message has not been downloaded from the server". BUT: If you attempt to do the same thing, with WiFi & EDGE turned OFF, then the Mail application will display the email body immediately, and give you a link to the attachments, that you can click on to download.
Basically it proves that the iPhone does not save attachments on the iPhone, only the email body!
(2) Can you fix this?
Well, this normally happens when you collect your email on your iPhone using the POP protocol!
Most of us download our email onto computers and select the option in Outlook/Outlook Express to "leave the email on the server for x days", typically 5 or 10 (which I do) days. We then setup our iPhones to download the same email, but to LEAVE it on the server – or "Delete from server: Never".
This means that for 10 days your iPhone will be able to access a specific email on the email server, and will be able to download (view) that attachment whenever you want.
BUT: AFTER this 10 day period your computer will remove that specific email from the mail server, and then your iPhone will not be able to retrieve it from the server. Which also means that you will not be able to read any attachments from the mail server.
SO, when your iPhone Mail app tries to download THAT attachment, it will not be able to, and INSTEAD of just displaying the email body, and the attachment link, it displays the error message: "This message has not been downloaded from the server"…
(3) Why does the iPhone NOT just save the attachment on the iPhone?
I have NO idea! Apple should definitely speak out about this and come up with a fix!
(4) Why Apple does NOT save the attachment? (My guess)
Well, if you are constantly re-downloading any attachment that you attempt to view on your iPhone, then you will constantly be downloading data using your EDGE package! AND your Mobile Service Provider CHARGES you a massive rate (per MB) to download data using EDGE! Which means that they (AT&T / MTN / Orange / whatever) are making loads of cash off you re-downloading your email attachments. Is this right?
(5) Quick Fix?
Change the settings on your computer so that it leaves the email on the server for an extended period of time! Change the 3 days, or 10 days to something like 30 days! This means that your iPhone will be able to re-download the attachment for a 30 day period after it has initially downloaded the email.
BUT you are STILL re-downloading the attachment, and while you are waiting, YES, WAITING…. you are still being charged for the data traffic!
The problem here is that some service providers only give you a 10MB email account on their server. This might not be enough for users who receive 100′s of emails on a weekly basis!
(6) Longer Fix?
Change your email account from a POP account to an IMAP account.
Problem #1: Here again is that not all service providers offer IMAP facilities! Also, the emails would reside on your server.
Problem #2: You are still re-downloading all those attachments again! $$$
(7) The REAL solution?
The real solution needs to come from Apple! They need to increase the size of the first partition on the iPhone that you save your emails in. Maybe they need to save attachments in the second (media) partition so that you can always access them? At the moment the first partition on the iPhone is really small, just big enough for the OS and a few applications, never mind 100′s of attached pictures and mp3s, etc that we commonly send around cyberspace!
COME ON APPLE, sort this out!!!!!
I was recently looking online at a whole lot of American websites to purchase two items which I assumed could not be purchased locally for various reasons. The first was an Full screen protector for the iPhone, and the second was also for an iPhone, but was a Silicone case for the iPhone (Black). The prices were quite reasonable, but the shipping and the wait was a killer! So, I decided that local would have to be better!!!
The BEST online South African store I found was Gadget Mania. I have to say that they seem to have a medium range of Apple products (as well as other Audio products) on offer and they are incredibly fast, friendly and efficient! I wasted no time in placing my order. Payment was taken care of through a secure website by my Credit Card, and I received the confirmation email- as well as a follow up email to explain that one of the items was on backorder for a week- within minutes.
Best of all, by the time I got home, they had ALREADY delivered the items to my house! Brilliant service, even if I do only live a few kilometers from their actual offices! (Normally they post the items to you, which is great, but they should offer a pickup point in the major metropolitan areas!)
Thanks Guys!
It is an excellent article that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send emails. Do you really know how to forward emails? 10% of us do; 90% DO NOT. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an email there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their email addresses and names.
As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every email address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That’s right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps.
Try the following if you haven’t done it before:
(1) Delete the other email addresses:
When you forward an email, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That’s right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second.
You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don’t click on "Forward" first, you won’t be able to edit the message at all.
You do this and so your email address does not end up, weeks down the line, in a couple of hundred strangers inboxes.
(2) Use BCC and not TO or CC:
Whenever you send an email to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field for listing ALL the email addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own email address. If you don’t see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that’s it, it’s that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients in the "TO:" field of the people who receive it.
(3) Clean up the Subject Line:
Remove any "FW :" in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling. If the subject line makes no sense, then change it. Don’t leave it as "funny" or "must see", change it to something descriptive.
(4) Forward the actual email, and not the email containing the actual email:
ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual email you are reading . Ever get those emails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many emails just to see what you sent.
(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition?
It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. DO NOT put your email address on any petition.
If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email addresses on a petition. (And don’t believe the ones that say that the email is being traced; it just ain’t so!)
ACTUAL FACT: Most e-mail petitions are worthless because they do not fully identify the signer by street address, etc. nor does it prove that the signer really signed it. Don’t forward them.
(6) Clean the email up!
If it’s important enough to send to me, please take the time to "clean it up".
(7) What NOT to forward & What belongs in the TRASH:
Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are:
a. The one that says something like, "Send this email to 10 people and you’ll see something great run across your screen." Or sometimes they’ll just tease you by saying ‘something really cute will happen.‘ IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! I repeat…. IT AIN"T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (No matter how many you send it to or how long you wait…. IT AIN"T GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!! We are still seeing some of the same emails that we waited on 10 years ago!)
b. I don’t let the bad luck ones scare me either, they should get trashed.
c. Before you forward an ‘Amber Alert‘ , or a ‘Virus Alert‘ , or some of the other emails floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that’s been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to www.snopes.com. It’s really easy to find out if it’s real or not. If it’s not, please don’t pass it on.
So please, in the future, let’s stop the junk mail and the viruses.
Also get rid of the advertisements at the bottom of your emails! You pay for your internet why advertise free for them? If they want advertisement let them pay you to use your space!!!!
A barrister who claimed his motorcycle was immune to parking tickets because its wheels did not touch the ground was told to pay up today by the Court of Appeal.
Clive Wolman, a barrister at 11 Stone Buildings and former financial journalist, is now liable for 100 parking tickets and legal costs after the appeal judges said his interpretation of the word “on” emphasised the “unreality” of his argument.
Mr Wolman had claimed that when he parked his 500cc Suzuki on the pavement outside his home in Duncan Terrace in Islington, north London, and at his office in Chancery Lane in the City, he was not subject to parking regulations because the bike balanced on its centre stand with both wheels off the ground. (Hahahaha… have you ever seen a bike balancing on JUST it’s centre stand?)
He began his legal battle in May 2005 against two local authorities claiming damages for wrongful interference with his motorcycle and harassment.
The ruling went against him so he asked the Court of Appeal to overturn the decision of the County Court judge who, he said, had misinterpreted the meaning of “on”.
Lord Justice Moore-Bick, giving the court’s ruling, said: “When parked in Chancery Lane in the manner I have described, his motorcycle can quite properly be said to be parked on the pavement, even if neither wheel is directly in contact with it.”
Although the judges allowed the appeal because Deputy Circuit Judge Robin Laurie’s declaration on the law against parking was too wide, they substituted a declaration that by parking the motorcycle on its stand on the pavement with its body and one or both wheels on or over the pavement, Mr Wolman was in contravention of the parking laws.
Link: London Times Online
Thx to Dirk for this news item!
Nokia 6120 Classic : What a phone! This is the ‘Classic’ Nokia phone! Except it comes with all of the modern features that you would expect a phone of this calliber to have: 3G HSDPA, 2MP Camera on the back, another camera on the front (used for video calling), email functionality for when you are away from the office, up to 2 GB of expandable memory, quad band (yay!), a wonderfully bright and colourful 2 inch screen (320 x 240 pixels) but has up to 16 true million colors, bluetooth v2.0 and much, much more!
Battery Life? But then I hear you ask, "What is the battery life like on your phone?" Well, to be honest, I don’t actually know since I have not picked up my prize yet, but according to the Nokia website, the standby time on the phone is "up to 9 days"! I reckon that this is rubbish, and you probably won’t see more than 2 days worth of standby time before you need to recharge it again! This would be because of the extra power the phone needs to communicate with the 3G network! Stupid 3G extra power network. But, this is a problem with ALL modern phones with all of the features that users now demand from phones!
I honestly can’t wait for my new phone! But I will then have a really tough decision to make: HTC MTeoR ???? or Nokia 6120 Classic ???? Which would you choose ????
Link: Nokia 6120 Classic Home Page
Link: HTC MTeoR Home Page
Important Update: Does your SIM card work in your new Nokia N95 or Nokia 6120 Classic phone? I have been informed by Nokia that the new 128k MTN SIM cards do NOT work in the new Nokia N-series mobile phones! I don’t know whose fault it is, or what will be done to resolve the fault, but I hope that something happens soon. If you have purchased a NEW SIM card within the past 6 months, and are on the MTN network, then you probably have the new 128k SIM card. (Compared with the older 64k, 32k, or even 16k SIM cards) My last SIM card – that I had for about 8 years – was the 32k version, and it worked perfectly! Everything was 100%!
How to fix it? E-A-S-Y! Just go to your service provider and ask then to downgrade your SIM card! Explain to them that your new SIM card is too advanced, and you want an older model. They still have hundreds of them lying around! It takes them about 24 hours to get the new card registered on their network, and then you can use it! Brilliant stuff! I am going to collect mine in 30 minutes! Wait for the update!
Hi Everyone,
Recently Yeigo had a little competition that was live on the Facebook Yeigo Group page. The prize was a new Nokia 6120 Classic Mobile Handset! I took part, in a massive way, since I was determined to win that phone! It would look really nice on my desk at work! So, why don’t you swing past the page linked below and check out the little video from the competition! The competition really came down to a photo finish, with things heating up dramatically in the last 2 minutes, and the 3 minutes after the close of the competition! But, at the end of the day, the best man won!
Check out the video clip!!! Awesome Stuff!!!!
Facebook | Yeigo | Last person to post Wins! competition
Yeigo clip on uTube & Yeigo on CNBC on uTube
Yeigo Homepage (Get it for your phone!)
Musica becomes quite an expensive habit after a while!!!
Enrique Iglesias – Insomniac : How does a Latino-pop pin-up like Enrique Iglesias recover from three years of writer’s block? Simple, he pens an album’s worth of playful pop confessions about his sleepless night obsessions that complement charismatically catchy macho come-ons ("Do You Know"), romantic bedside ballads ("Little Girl") and sugar sweet acoustic guitar seductions ("Don’t You Forget About Me") with a sweaty bump ‘n grind duet with rapper Lil’ Wayne (“Push”) and a trio of lady-killing Spanish serenades ("Dímelo", "Alguien Soy Yo", “Amigo Vulnerable”). Iglesias’ album sales currently total over forty million, making him one of the best-selling Spanish music artists in the world. Iglesias has yet to overtake his father’s great sales figures, but has outsold Julio in single-album sales, arguably justifying the label his record company gave him as ‘best selling Spanish artist in the world’. He is the best-selling >Spanish language artist of the last decade. Iglesias has said that if he has children and they wish to follow in his footsteps, he would naturally expect them also to be better than he is.
John Legend – Once Again : VIP production from Kanye West, Raphael Saadiq, and will.i.am paves the path for Grammy-gobbling Legend to soundtrack love, life and everything in between on cool love ballad crescendos like single "Save Room", simmering slow seductions (“Heaven”) and even a smiling Hendrix rock resurrection ("Show Me"). Sure, there recipe is still retro, but you can forget any fussy throwbacks of adolescents like Christina. Easing effortlessly between Percy Sledge cool seductions (“Slow Dance”) and unapologetically catchy party starters (“PDA”) Legend’s layered suburban soul canvas finally gives the marriage between old Motown and new downtown his blessing.
Moby Go: Best Of – Ever wondered how a rather awkward looking, vegan electro-pop geek like Moby has managed to sustain his commercial and critical success for the past 11 years? Well, as this 15 track “best of” collection featuring crucial cuts from critically-acclaimed albums such as Play, 18 and Hotel testify to, Moby has never been a one-dimensional beat boy. He segued from the savvy American Primitive synth-pop shuffles of "Honey" and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" into ecstatic soul-gospel pop anthems such as “In this World”. He introduced a decadent indie-dance cocktail back into the clubs with "Bodyrock" and the hypnotic half-tempo rock ballad “We are All Made of Stars”. Hell, as his breakbeat blancmanged re-version of the 007 theme tune from Tomorrow Never Dies and his delectable new retro disco pop duet with Debbie ‘Blondie’ Harry, “New York, New York” reminds, Moby’s magic is that he’s always been on a mission to renovate the dance floor with an all comers aural feng-shui that anyone would be happy to hear in their living rooms.
Akon – Konvicted : Who does Akon think he is sporting a snappy sweater and buppie blazer on the cover of his new album Konvicted? Hmmm, looks like hip-hop’s loneliest rapper is taking fashion tips from Kanye West’s college dropout couture. Just as well then that Akon’s ‘on the street and between the sheets’ cocktail of club-ready hip-hop cuts and bedroom R&B ballads packs it’s own unique chart punch. “Shake Down” sets a crowd pleasing ragga-singalong pace before mid-tempo thug life street sketch “Blown Away” (featuring Styles P) slides straight into the peeping, pimping playa booty stalk of "Smack That" (featuring Eminem) and the x-rated pole dancing obsession of “I Wanna Love You" (featuring Snoop Dogg). Don’t presume this means that Konvicted is your average bling rap sales pitch though. Akon shows his conscious mettle by sharing his struggle to escape thug-life inevitability and actually challenge stereotyping on downbeat sell-out laments (“The Rain”), retro-soul funk sighs (“Never Took The Time”), gangsta critiques (“Tired Of Running”) and a dancehall-filtered Afro-reggae skanks that reflect on just how far he’s come from his Senegalese roots ("Mama Africa").
Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight : In their new album finds Linkin Park finally outgrow their nu-metal adolescence and venture beyond the valley of colour-by-numbers rap rock bluster. Relax this doesn’t mean they’ve suddenly turned into Coldplay. The album is as existentially raw as ever, segueing from ominous synth-heavy instrumentals (“Wake”) and heavy rock riff and lung-shredding rages (“Given Up”) to taught string filtered power ballads (“Leave Out All the Rest”), contagious chart meditations on alienation (“What I’ve Done”) and…what’s this a Motown rap-rock party starter (“Bleed It Out”)? Uh-huh. It gets even more interesting when “Shadow of the Day” drops atmospherically spacey keyboards, fuzzed out bass and U2-ish guitars into the mix before MC Mike Shinoda fires off a poetic rap salvo at George Bush’s war on terror on “Hands Held High” and Chester delivers a crooning critique of Hurricane Katrina on the acoustic-kissed ballad climax “The Little Things Give You Away”.
Fall Out Boy – Infinity on High : High octane punk pop anthems that blow their own trumpet careen into young and restless emo-core anthems that simultaneously undermine their own existential crises with outrageously tongue in cheek titles like “The Carpal Tunnel Of Love” and ”Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?” …oh, cool this is the new Good Charlotte? Nope. Sure, a cursory glance at those smart-ass song titles – okay, "I’m Like a Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off" is funny – shows their signature snotty nosed MTV ambition and attitude is still intact. But there’s also something lurking beneath the plethora of infectiously melodic anthems of suburban teen angst that isn’t just preaching to the Jackass generation. For starters, lead single "This Ain’t a Scene It’s An Arms Race" extends the pedal to the metal mosh party machismo into a self-referentially funky R&B flow that takes the piss out of all music biz hype. Okay, so Fall Out Boy are not Green Day just yet. But what saves these guys from being just another power pop punk flash in the pan is that you actually enjoy making sense of their lyrics while shaking your ass to their huge guitar hooks, instantly sing along choruses and sheer brat pack punk bravado.
Basement Jaxx – Crazy Itch Radio finds British dancefloor renovators Basement Jaxx pushing their ongoing adventures in progressive house into new dimensions in funk. It’s a podcast-ready playlist that zigzags from a mock operatic house opening into fresh urban funk ("Hush Boy" featuring Vula Malinga), gypsy folk pop dancefloor delights ("Hey U" featuring Swedish pop songbird Robyn), disco-fuelled hip-hop ("On the Train") and something they’re billing as a banjo house barnstormer ("Take Me Back To Your House"). Basement Jaxx is a critically acclaimed UK dance music duo, comprising Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, that rose to popularity in the late 1990s. But they are Back!!!
Landslide – Episode 22 (14 May 2007)
Angela Petrelli is forced to play a bigger role in Nathan, Peter, and Claire’s life. The truth about the death of Nathan and Peter’s father is finally revealed along with his true identity. When Nathan finds out that he may have a chance to become more than a Congressman, he is confronted with a decision that he must make. As election day nears some try to leave NYC. HRG and Matt learn another surprising secret. Also, Sylar is eating another hero’s brain. Hiro’s dad returns.
How to Stop an Exploding Man – Episode 23 (Season Finale)
In the two-hour season finale, we’ll meet a Paris Hilton-like blonde woman in her late 20s, an Asian woman of the same age group, and a male model. Also, Audrey Hanson is set to return this episode. This episode also involves the apocalyptic arc. The bomb goes off. Someone who was dead reappears.