Douglas Rehfeldt

Cya 2011

Ξ December 31st, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ ramblings |

Out with the old and in with new.

Using BCC

Ξ December 12th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ ramblings, Social |

Please help the less informed to use the BCC field when mass e-mailing those Holiday messages, or any bulk messages for that matter. If your one of the informed, please help just one person who is less informed to get educated on the BCC field.

http://resultswebsite.com/Netiquette_101.html

Some e-mail etiquette tips: http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-Your-Email-Etiquette

Block Telemarketeers on the iPhone iOS5

Ξ November 10th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ ramblings |

The number of telemarketing and robo-calls to my mobile phone have increased lately. Enough so that I decided to spend a few minutes working out a way to block these calls. Unfortunately, I can’t just block a number on my iPhone and AT&T like I can with the “landline” and Ooma. A quick internet search turned up a workaround , but I wanted to update the information for iOS 5. Matt’s process is simple:
1. Create or download a ringtone that consists of a few seconds of silence.
2. Open iTunes, connect your iPhone, and import this as an additional ringtone
3. Create a new iPhone contact named “Telemarketer”, which becomes a blacklist, and choose the new silence ringtone as the custom ringtone.

Every time a telemarketer or robo-caller calls, just add that phone number to this contact.

I also edited the new contact making the following changes:
4. Assign a vibration of None.
5. Assign a text tone of None.
6. Assign a custom contact image.

my telemarketer contact image

While this isn’t really blocking the caller, it is a good work around. Thanks Matt.