I’ve been using the iPhone for a while now and although having mobile email is very handy, it’s sometimes difficult to find important emails in the sea of spam that arrives in my inbox. There are a few products available that can help this but here’s a way you can use Google Mail’s excellent spam filters to do the job.

Firstly log into Google mail and click on the forwarding/POP tab to enable POP download on your account.

Then follow the on screen instructions to set up this email account on your iPhone.

Then click on the Account tab and set up the ’send mail as’ option so that your outgoing email is sent from you@yourdomain.com rather than your.gmail@googlemail.com

Finally, change the settings on your main email account to forward your incoming mail to your Google Mail account.

This will route your incoming mail through Google Mail first before it is downloaded to your iPhone. Thus eliminating your spam problem…

As the first post on our new blog, I thought I would begin by saying goodbye to a dear friend.

For the last 8 years, my work life has been guided by a simple system; the job book. Every day for as long as I can remember, I have started the new work day by ruling off a new line, writing the date and listing the jobs to be done today in the book. Nothing out of the normal I suppose (I like lists) but it has served me well.

But now it’s time to say farewell, as after a few months of dabbling the job book has been replaced by the excellent Omni Focus task manager by Omni Group. It’s based on the GTD approach by Dave Allen and although I don’t use all of Dave’s recommendations the easy to customise interface has certainly worked for me.

I think the final farewell was downloading the 1.1 early release which syncs across macs or iPhones via a mobile.me, shared drive or web DAV server. I only noticed what had happened when the trusty red book was sat unopened on my desk all this week.

So, thanks for your help but now is the start of a new era…