Apple told you “Sorry” start using your MobileMe address.

Indeed, you can get what you want. Here’s how.

The task: All incoming email to your “other” account(s) get pushed to your iPhone. All sent mails come from your “other” account.

The Solution: SMTP advanced settings on your MobileMe + email forwarding. Both of these are simple and can be configured in a matter of minutes.

Requirements:
1) An Apple MobileMe account. This account can be a trial account (you can try this out before committing if you’d like)

2) A Gmail or Google Hosted Email account (free, click here to create one)

3) 5 to 10 min of your time (and/or your webmaster’s time)

Phase 1 - Pre-Configuration

A) Configure Your Existing Email Account

Forward a copy of your emails to your MobileMe account. I’ll let you figure this out. Most webmail interfaces offer this feature, some require logging into your domain host’s administration tools. Only configure 1 forward of each incoming mail. You don’t want to get them twice, when configured correctly, your MobileMe account will start receiving all of your emails.

B) Set Up Gmail

Set up your Google hosted account. If your Gmail account is already the identity you are wishing to use, you can skip this step, but make sure you have POP turned on. If you don’t have a Google hosted email account, make one.

Enter Settings in Gmail. Choose “Accounts” and enable the Send Mail as feature. Configure this for your email address of choice. This is the address that you want your emails to come from. (Be sure to set your preferred account as the “default” and not just as alternate.)

Phase 2 - Tell your iPhone to send MobileMe mail from your Google Account

A) MobileMe + your iPhone

Confirm that your iPhone is now using your MobileMe account. (Set it up as you normally would.)

B) Configuring MobileMe

Choose “Settings” from the home screen, then “Mail, Contacts, Calendars“, then select your MobileMe account, “account info” , and “SMTP”

Inside the SMTP configuration page, choose to Add Server.

Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
User Name: full newly created (or existing) gmail account
(ex: lb@gmail.com)
Password: Enter your password here for this gmail account

After it is verified, re-enter this new account and confirm that SSL is on, and Server Port is 587
Turn on this Server using the On/OFF switch at the top of this smtp server screen
Exit this screen and turn OFF the SMTP server that is MobileMe’s primary

Your regular email account will now push to your iPhone

All of your emails will be pushed to your iPhone and all your replies will come from your normal email address.

More Productivity + More Quality
Split your remaining free-time three ways. 1) Socialize with other closet crocodiles by waterfalls, muddy stream banks and campfires. 2) Crawl through local streams on your hands. Be silent. Stalk birds, fish and turtles. Get to know your local flora and fauna. 3) Do your work.

Spend less time at your computer
If you’re limiting the time you spend on your computer you will skip over the tasks you don’t actually need to do and you’ll focus more (and move more quickly) through the tasks you do need to do.

Spend more time with children
Smile, laugh, play! Be energized, be graceful, be silly, be yourself. Be creative, take risks. Time with kids is great because it’s also time in your heart, time in your body, and time in your mind.

When I’m with kids I’m running around, picking things (often children) up, I’m engaging my body. I’m also opening my heart, expressing and receiving love and affection, and being put into states of awe and appreciation.

Do the activities that make you feel alive, in your purpose and happy

Listen to the still, small voice inside you. Trust yourself. Experiment with your time in this life. Do things you haven’t done before. Allow your child-passion to reign free.

Enjoy the company of others who share your passions
Spend time with other people who also enjoy what you do.

Spend time in beautiful places

Express your passion

get more done in less time.

Spend your evenings and parts of your off-days on web design. Spend time by waterfalls with other adults who are also

The quality of your work will increase. Your time will be spent more productively and you’re client relationships will improve.

If you’re happy everything you do will be better.

Apparently I do my best work with grey-stream-clay still caked to my calves, black charcoal marks left on my nose and forehead and a gritty, salty mix of sweat, dirt and dried stream water covering the rest of my body.

dirt beneath my fingertips

We take the instruction to be a caretaker seriously. That’s why all the sites designed by Four Worlds Design are proudly hosted carbon neutrally. Renewable energy credits are purchased to offset the carbon emissions generated by the hosting company. Whoopee!

This means, not only are our sites Kabbalistically encoded, but they’re also eco-kosher. Mmmm eco-kashrut.

Thank G-d I kept myself participating in the final retreat of the two year Elat Chayyim Advanced Meditation Program, gaining insight, discipline, stillness and the planting of an unexpected seed.

Unforeseen sparks

When the final retreat ended several of us spoke of the need for a Jewish meditation website. A year later, just after receiving the Torah on Shavuot, that Jewish meditation website was made public.

The site, AwakenedHeartProject.org, serves experienced Jewish meditators who are trying to keep up their practice, as well as the newbie interested in exploring or beginning Jewish meditation. Visitors can listen to podcast recordings of meditation talks, contemplative chants and practice instructions or read articles about the practice and its relationship to Judaism.

The site’s event calendar also makes it easier than ever to keep up with Jewish meditation retreats and other related programming. And the site offers a comprehensive list of Jewish meditation resources, on the web and in print.

The site will continue to grow and expand. New podcasts are added regularly. The site currently offers contemplative Jewish prayer practice instructions as well as contemplative Jewish chants.

RichardChess.com features a Jewish poet who’s work ‘invites us to rise and tremble in the presence of the new day and to make of our midnight wrestling and restlessness a psalm.‘ The site features Richard’s books -include his latest, Third Temple, as well as links to all of the author’s other arisings on the web.

Now you can know the intimate thoughts and professional confessions of the only post-post-modern Kabbalistic web, print and marketing design team, complete with a listing of our past and current clients!

More coming soon…