Ever lose mail from iPhone Mail app?

I love the Mail app on my iPod Touch which is set up for my GMail account. However, when reading a new mail in my inbox, I’m very prone to inadvertently delete it. This arises from the inconvenient juxtaposition of the trash icon and the home button on the iPod Touch. So, while intending to hit the home button, my finger has occasionally strayed onto the trash icon, thus deleting the email.

Problem is it’s not too easy, in my experience at least, to find the mistakenly deleted mail. However, this post explains in some detail how to recover it although a computer may be required.

Another option is to go to Settings>>Mail, Contacts, Calendar and make sure Ask Before Deleting, which is OFF by default is turned ON

Evom — another way to convert movies to iPod/iPad format

I’ve converted many .avi movies to .m4v format so that I could run them on either my iPod Touch or, lately, on my iPad. A long time ago I used to use DVDVideoSoft Free Studio but lately I’ve been using the excellent AirVideo Free.

The latter is very quick and can convert a 700 MB movie in 20-25 minutes. However, for reasons I don’t fully understand, connecting to the AirVideo server from either my iPad or my iPod Touch can be difficult at times. I really don’t understand what the problem is here but I almost invariably have this problem.

Now I’ve found Evom which does the same conversion, and an awful lot more, on the Mac. However, conversion rates are slow and it took me 75 minutes to convert a 700 MB .avi to .m4v format yesterday.

Nevertheless, Evom doesn’t have any servers to connect to so that annoyance is ruled out.

Ever felt sorry immediately after hitting SEND button?

Well, in Gmail there’s an Unsend function that allows you up to 30 seconds to prevent an unwise email making its way to a recipient.

I don’t know how many times this would have been extremely useful for me. I’ll certainly use this.

Faster Gmail search

Wow…….long time since my last post. But I’ve been away for three months where internet was either a) not available or b) extremely slow (yes, SLOOOOOW as in 250 kB/s d/l).

Anyway, I’m still very much alive and want to tell you about this great Gmail search function that I’m using as a Chrome extension on my Mac. It is so much faster and seemingly more complete than the built-in Gmail search. Worth trying CloudMagic.