GMail Now Supports IMAP

It's been a long time coming (and I haven't yet seen an official announcement by Google) but IMAP is now supported in GMail and I can now change the way I handle backing up of my GMail account (and back up everything that I received/sent before implementing the forward-to-backup implenentation).

If you don't believe me, see the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab now available in GMail's settings. 

All My Funds - Low-cost Subscription-based Superannuation

As everyone may have noticed, I haven't been posting a huge amount over the last 12 months, but there has been a reason. We have just launched All My Funds, a low-cost subscription-based superannuation service.

All My Funds is giving the Australian public affordable, easy-to-use services to allow them to manage their super choices provided by the Australian Government. 

We have developed a sophisticated computer-based system that allows us to provide exceptional value to assist customers in simplifying and managing their superannuation and, by automating many of these systems, we can provide these services at a fixed, annual fee; often paid directly by the super fund manager.

Three reasons to use All My Funds:

1. A consolidation service – $165.00 (incl. GST) where AMF will arrange to transfer all of your superannuation and put into the fund of your choice (e.g., AMP, BT, Colonial First etc.), regardless of the number of funds you have (only available to subscribers). No actual payment required by you (Deducted from your Super fund)
2. Annual subscription service where all adviser fees and trails are rebated to the YOU. The annual subscription cost is $385.00 (incl. GST) – and is deducted from your super fund – Click pie charts to the right to see why you need to do something NOW! You will see the effect of adviser fees and trail commissions can have on your super. No actual payment required by you (Deducted by your Super fund).
3. A Superannuation Checkup Report (Statement of Advice, limited to your superannuation) for only $275.00 (incl. GST). You pay only $275.00 (incl GST). This could cost over $1,000 from a financial planner.

If you're and Australian resident and would like to find out more or sign up for any of our services, visit us at www.allmyfunds.com.au

iPhone and iPod Touch User-Agent HTTP Header

I have had the opportunity to recently get my hands on an iPod Touch specifically to do web-development to work with it's fully-featured Safari web browser.

These applications need specialised formatting for these devices (both have the same resolution screens). The easiest way to identify these phones is using the User-Agent header passed in a HTTP GET/POST request.

The iPod Touch's (firmware version 1.1.1) User-Agent field (found by writing a simple PHP page to return the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) is:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
    AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)
    Version/3.0 (Mobile/3A110a Safari/419.3

The iPhone's User-Agent field (found at note19.com's blog) is:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
    AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
    Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3 

 The above User-Agent fields have been split over multiple lines to aid legibility.