Access your SMU Email on the go with your iPhone!

Have you ever been in a situation where you need to check your SMU email urgently but you are without your laptop. It could be the GSR booking email your groupmates had forwarded to you or the important internship email you been looking forward to.

Do you know that your iPhone allows you to check your SMU email as long as you have an active internet connection either through GPRS or WiFi?

In this article, you will be shown how easy it is to check your SMU email on your iPhone. However, do take note that checking emails on your iPhone is data intensive and you may incur costly data charges by your telecom if you do not have a data plan.

Now let’s get started!

Step 1: Access “Mail, Contacts, Calendar” settings under your iPhone Settings

Step 2: Select “Add Account” in your ”Mail, Contacts, Calendar” settings

Step 3: Select ‘Microsoft Exchange’

Step 4: Enter SMU email settings

Email: userID@faculty.smu.edu.sg (e.g. lucida.2008@sis.smu.edu.sg)

Domain: smustu

Username: Your userID (e.g. lucida.2008)

Password: Your password

Description: You may leave this as it is or simply rename it to a description of your liking

Select ‘Next’ once you have filled in all the fields

Step 5: Enter SMU email server address

You should see an additional field, ‘Server’. Enter ‘email.smu.edu.sg’ (without quotes) in this field.

You can now check your SMU email on the move once your details are successfully verified! Isn’t this easy?

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They got that right … the phone that I have been waiting for. The simplicity, sleek user interfaces and most of all, the rich web browsing experience made me fell in love with the iPhone. My patience paid off when Apple rolled out iPhone 3G, with better battery life, increased web browsing speed, character touch recognition for chinese characters (definitely beats those plastic keypads) and best of all, newly incorporated GPS capability - all that at a discounted price from USD299 to USD199 for the 8G model.

I tuned in to the WWDC Keynote and was stimulated by the wide arrays of 3rd party applications being developed since the release of iPhone SDK. Developers got their hands down and dirty, taking advantage of the several iPhone APIs and splashed their creativity on mind-blowing applications;

Sega Games - utilised the Tilting hardware mechanisms of the iPhone with the Tilt APIs to easily churn out Monkey Ball - a fun game that allows players to navigate their game character through challenging maps and different stages

EBay - an immensely popular global auction site, developed an iPhone application that facilitates interested bidders to seamlessly browse the items gallery for bidding, and also allowing sellers to snap pictures of items with the iPhone camera and upload them to eBay for fellow bidders.

Loopt - an interesting application that allows you to locate nearby friends in your vicinity - using iPhone GPS

Associated Press - a Mobile News Network that aggregates news feeds to the iPhone. By using the Location APIs, readers are able to automatically browse local news based on their current location. In addition, readers can share stories with friends, and report news to the press, which could stimulate public participation and citizen journalism.

Cow Music - Band - Maximising the Touch APIs and iPhone touchscreen mechanisms to unleash your musical creativity juice on to the iPhone, it allows the potential stars to play, experiment and even mix record various instruments such as the piano, drums, synthesizers. Imagine head banging along with your friends with iPhones!

Modality - Rich graphical intensive application for medical education - Medical learners can pinch/zoom to the details of various picture artefacts of the human body and study the medical terms. It brings about a whole new learning experience for students when it even has the capability to connect with google/wikipedia to look up for more definitions and facts. Personally, I look forward to more educational applications, covering other subject majors, leveraging on this innovation.

With so many potential applications that could be developed in this world, it was a great move from Apple to facilitate third party applications distribution efficiently - via Apple’s new initiative, App Store - an iTunes-like interface for users to browse a massive array of application from the library, purchase and download them seamlessly to their iPhones.

Geez, I am so excited.

Check out the WWDC Keynote - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc08/

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