Only fair that I add this to my collection of “server down” snaps. Fortunately, the DB server was back up when I hit refresh.
Actually, I’m quite proud of that screen- I designed and coded it into the CMS. The real problem is when you don’t see that screen.
Due to popular demand, I’m posting an updated version of my iPhone html email signature that’s more broadly compatible with a range of email clients. This version of the html code replaces the CSS inline encoded background image with a standard image tag.
The code below has been tested to work (as of 09.29.08) in Apple Mail.app 3.4, iPhone 2.0, Outlook 2003, GMail (new version), Yahoo! Mail (new version), Hotmail and MobileMe.
Please note that when using this version, your recipient will almost certainly have to click a button or link to display the image unless you are already a “trusted sender.”
<div style=“font: 10px ‘Lucida Grande’,Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
line-height: 18px;
color: #525252;
margin: 6px 0;
padding: 6px;
border-top: 1px #999999 solid;
border-bottom: 1px #999999 solid;
background: #fff;
height: 58px”>
<img src=“http://dfbills.com/images/avatars/iphone.jpg” width=“63” height=“57” alt=“photo” style=“float: left; margin: 0 5px” />
<p style=“margin: 0; padding: 0; float: left;”>
<strong>David F. Bills</strong><br/>
<a href=“http://dfbills.com”>http://dfbills.com</a><br/>
sent from my mobile</p>
</div>
Too bad you still need a jailbroken iPhone to install this properly. Thankfully, this particular modification tends to stay in place across upgrades- including 1.4 to 2.0.
For more information on the full hack, see my previous posting: Set a custom css signature on your iPhone.
Update 1: fixed curly quotes in code
Update 2: Another point to note is that the Microsoft HTML renderer, in both Outlook & Webmail, will not allow padding on IMG elements. In my example, I’ve taken 6px of padding out of CSS and moved it to the actual JPG.
Update 3: Make sure to reboot after updating the .plist file on the iPhone.
Update 4: Updated CSS code to finally wrap properly. Thanks to Patrick Crowley for the help.
Caught a GMail for my domain 502 server error for the first time today.
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.
I had a chance to try Google Image Labeler today. The app allows you to label random images while helping to improve the quality of Google’s image search.
I have to say, it’s a lot of fun and quite addictive. The game makes it really easily to forget that you’re doing work for Google while frantically coming up with descriptive words to describe the images.
Hard not to like any game where you can see yourself on the daily leaderboard after just a handful of plays.
I heard this stat last night: “6 of the top 10 sites are social apps” so I decided to check out out. According to Alexa, this is correct:
1. Google
2. Yahoo!
3. MySpace (social 1)
4. YouTube (social 2)
5. Facebook (social 3)
6. Windows Live
7. MSN
8. EBay (social 4)
9. Wikipedia (social 5)
10. Craigslist (social 6)
wow.
I followed this link to a site called Unclutterer this morning and had to laugh at the clutter.
Nice database problem. 
update: the site is actually quite nice.
The Apple iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 for Mac is written in Ruby on Rails. The web-based utility builds config files for enterprise deployment. How about that?
I just caught this fun “service down” screen over at bloglines.com.
