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Awesome short movie about master Quentin Tarantino. This is a very artistic documental about modern cinema.

SPOILER ALERT: If for some incompressible reason you have not yet seen Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill (both volumes), don’t ruin it to yourself: Run immediately to your nearest movie store and rent or buy these movies, enjoy them, and come back here to watch Tarantino’s mind.

Follow this link to watch the movie.

Via Daring Fireball.

The WALL-E incarnation fabrication I mentioned some days ago is now available… for pre-order.

To secure your place in the serial production of this buddy, be ready to spent $249 USD and go to this link.

Don’t forget to read the apocalyptical disclaimer at the end of this Disney’s website product page:

WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm.

WALL-E friend, don’t listen those people; they just feel envy because of your sympathy; you are not cancerous at all, pal.

Good things you will get with this solution:

• The email sent to your main email address (using your own domain, not me.com) automatically pushed to your iPhone via MobileMe.
• The email sent from your iPhone (using the MobileMe account) delivered from your main email address (your own domain, not me.com).
• Additional benefit: Your email, address book and calendars via web on the same place (the MobileMe web application).
• You won’t need an account hosted on an Exchange Server, the only other alternative for iPhone push email with your own domain.

The bad:

• All the email sent from the MobileMe web application will be addressed from your MobileMe email (me.com, not your own domain). This is not a problem if you always send mail from your computer or your iPhone.
• All your mail sent from the iPhone will have a Sender header; in some mail clients, that makes an “on behalf of” appendix to the From header.

What will you need:

• MobileMe account (this does the push-email magic).
• Gmail or Google Applications for domains account (will be used as a gateway to send email).
• Your main email account on your own domain. This is optional; you won’t need it if your Gmail is your main email account (typical case for Google Apps).
• iPhone with 2.0 operating system (as 3G).

First: Configure your email accounts on the iPhone

1. Configure your MobileMe account on the iPhone.
2. Edit your recently created MobileMe account; open the Settings application, and go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars / your MobileMe account (usually named MobileMe) / Account info / SMTP (in the Outgoing mail server section) / Add server…
3. Enter smtp.gmail.com as hostname, and specify your full Gmail address as username, and your Gmail password.
4. Touch Save, and go back to the SMTP screen.
5. Set the primary server (smtp.me.com) to Off.
6. Set the newly created server (smtp.gmail.com, it appears in Other SMTP servers) to On.
7. Now you can exit the Settings application and go back to your iPhone’s main screen.

Second: Configure your Gmail account

1. Login to your Gmail account, and go to Settings / Forwarding and POP-IMAP.
2. In the Forwarding section, enable Forward a copy of incoming mail to, and specify your MobileMe email address (your_username@me.com).
3. In the IMAP Access section, enable IMAP and save your changes.
4. If your Gmail account is not in your own domain (you have another email account), you also will need to follow these steps:
   1. In your Gmail account, go to Settings / Accounts.
   2. Configure your other email account; click Add another email address, and provide your full name and your main email address. Click Next step and then click Send verification.
   3. Gmail will send you a verification email to your main email address; wait for it and follow the instructions to verify it.
   4. When you are done with verification, return to your Gmail account, Settings / Accounts and click the Make default link next to your main email address.
   5. Configure your main email address to forward all your mail to your Gmail account (this is a different process for each email provider; consult with your mail administrator if you have no idea about how to do it).
5. Save your changes, and exit Gmail.

How it works

• When somebody sends you an email to your main email address, it is forwarded to Gmail and then to your MobileMe account. MobileMe pushes the email to your iPhone.
• When you send mail using Gmail’s SMTP server, you need to authenticate using your Gmail account. If your message comes from an address distinct to the address registered with Gmail, it will be replaced with the Gmail address in the From header, and the original address of the message (the one with me.com) will be placed in a special Sender header.

Enjoy.

Via Mac OS X Hints.

I’m writting this post from my iPhone, using the new application recently released by Automattic, Inc.

The application is really simple but useful, you can create new posts and edit the old ones, include images taken with the iPhone cammera or in the local library and preview the posts without leaving WordPress. There’s full support for tags and cattegories, posts timestamp and passwords. You can even locally store drafts of your mobile posts!

I can’t find a way to manage comments, but I suppose it is a feature that will come soon.

I had to upgrade my blogs to WordPress 2.6 to use it. You can read more here.

Great application; it has a privileged place on my home screen now.

(Picture taken from my workplace window attached.)

A friend of mine (Victor Márquez) just asked me some questions about the iPhone intelligence in choosing the right connection when available (WiFi or cellular data).

The switch from WiFi to cellular network data is automatic, as long as you have WiFi activated. In the default behavior, the iPhone will constantly look for new WiFi networks while the device is not in standby, and will ask if you want to join when it finds one. You can easily turn off this feature to save battery (and to avoid nagging dialogs about unfamiliar WiFi spots).

When you get home (or your office, or any other place with a familiar WiFi network) the iPhone will join the WiFi and turn off the cellular data connection. You will only notice the iPhone is using WiFi and not GPRS/EDGE/3G by the icon next to the carrier name; there’s no notification dialog to confirm. If you daily visit 4, 10 or 20 distinct places and you have joined the WiFi networks of all of them, the iPhone will jump from cellular data to WiFi to cellular data to WiFi again each time you get to a different location (Try this, Windows Mobile!).

You can also turn WiFi off completely to save battery, and turn it on only when you know you are near an accessible WiFi spot; in that case, when you turn on WiFi the iPhone will look for familiar networks and if found, it will connect automatically (and turn off cellular data). Turning on/off WiFi is not so problematic, as the switch control is just 2 taps away from the home screen.

Another concern of Victor are the iPhone capabilities as a music player and voice recorder.

The iPhone is also an iPod, and the best iPod: I could say it is more an iTunes mobile (an extension to your iTunes library that goes with you). It can host your albums, music videos, movies, tv shows and classify everything in playlists, the same way iTunes does it.

There’s a downside for the iPod functions here, and is that you must control the play/pause/previous/next functions from the touchscreen (as any other application on the iPhone). That means when you are walking in the street and want to skip the current track, you must take the iPhone out of your pocket, unlock the screen and tap the “next” icon, then push the standby hard button (to lock the iPhone again) and return the device to your pocket.

However, the volume control of the iPhone is managed by a pair of hard buttons on the left border of the device; you change the volume here for a call, the ringer or the music, earphones or speaker. No unlock needed.

As for the voice recorder: There is no such thing on the iPhone. I remember a 3rd party application released last year for jailbroken/unlocked iPhones, but I don’t think I would try this. Maybe in the meantime somebody will release a voice recorder application developed with the official iPhone SDK. (UPDATE) Actually, there are various voice recorder / voice memo applications in the App Store; some of them are free (Thanks for clarification, Christian).

Hope this helps.