Yeah…I’ve been pretty slow with updates lately. That usually means one of two things. Either I’m going through one of those blogging dry spells everyone gets or I’m incredibly busy. This time has been the latter.

Over the past several months I have been busier than I have ever been before. I like it for the most part, but I am feeling the need for a real vacation. It will have to wait though until my honeymoon in November. I’ll make it. I’ve been photographing a lot of different things, working like mad at my 9-5er, studying business practices, culling some more gear and as of late, trying to figure out how I want to use my iPhone with my emails and calendars and stuff.

I’m a Google fan. I’ve been using GMail since Mynx first sent me an invitation several years ago. I love their calendar, reader, chat, search (of course) you name it. The other day I decided to try and make use of Google Apps with my jebbgraff.com domain name. So here I am all set up with that…my old gmail address is forwarded to my new jebbgraff.com mail account that’s using the gmail interface blah blah blah… Then it happens. I go to the new Apple store on King Street and purchase a new iPhone 3G. I’m sold on the concept of MobileMe. Flawless syncing of my calendar, contacts & mail sounds great. Except that there is no way in hell I’m changing my email address for it. So after much debate I decided that I would stick with Google Apps and only sync my contacts and calendar to the MobileMe cloud. Today has been day 1 and so far so good. It’s great that the iPhone works so well with Gmail through IMAP…so does my MacMail.  The only problem so far is that MacMail doesn’t “know” when I’ve opened a message on my iPhone. No big deal, but full on sync like MobileMe would have been nice. Soon enough I’m sure there will be an easy cure to that. Hell there probably is a cure now, but I’m just a few rungs below total geek to know what to do. If you’re a true geek and want to let me know how to set it all up please feel free, just check your “company computer guy” ego at the door please.

Photos soon.

-JG