Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync : Google Sync - Google Mobile Help

To set up Google Sync on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device, please follow the steps below.

Requirements and Upload

1. Google Sync is only supported on iPhone OS versions 3.0 and above. You can check your current version by going to Settings > General > About > Version. To upgrade, follow the instructions at http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/. Please upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 before setting up Google Sync.

2. Perform a sync with iTunes to ensure that Contacts and Calendars from your iPhone are backed up to your computer. Learn more about backing up your Contacts and Calendars.

3. If your business, school, or organization uses Google Apps, your administrator will first need to enable Google Sync before you can take advantage of this feature. Note that if you enable Google Sync, your administrator may also exercise additional remote management capabilities (such as remote wipe or password requirements). Click to learn more or contact your administrator.

Getting Started

1. Open the Settings application on your device's home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account....
4. Select Microsoft Exchange. OS 4.0 now allows multiple Exchange accounts. However, if you're on a device that doesn't let you add a second account, you could also use CalDAV to sync Google Calendar and IMAP to sync Gmail.

  

Enter Account Info

5. In the Email field, enter your full Google Account email address. If you use an @googlemail.com address, you may see an "Unable to verify certificate" warning when you proceed to the next step.
6. Leave the Domain field blank.
7. Enter your full Google Account email address as the Username.
8. Enter your Google Account password as the Password.
9. Tap Next at the top of your screen.
9a. Choose Cancel if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears.
10. When the new Server field appears, enter m.google.com.
11. Press Next at the top of your screen again.

 

12. Select the Google services (Mail, Calendar, and Contacts) you want to sync.

13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes.

If you want to sync only the My Contacts group, you must choose to Delete Existing Contacts during the Google Sync install when prompted. If you choose to keep existing contacts, it will sync the contents of the "All Contacts" group instead. If there are no contacts on your phone, the latter will happen -- the contents of your All Contacts group will be synced.

   

You've set up Google Sync! Synchronization will begin automatically if you have Push enabled on your device. You can also open the Mail, Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync.

Next choose which calendars to sync, if you'd like to enable multiple calendars.

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Google Sync for Iphone article in google how to do the sync make sure itunes latest sync done before set-up, also available for blackberry and android

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Posterous Blog Private Sites - Posterous Help (How to protect your content)

You can set a password on your Posterous site so only the readers you want can see it.

How does someone see my site?

• To see your site, a user must go to your site url and also enter the correct password for your site.
• If a user checks the "Remember me" box, their computer will have access to your site for 1 year.
• If a user does not check the "Remember me" box, their computer will lose access when the browser is closed.
• A user can log out of your site by clicking the "Log out of site" link.
• All contributors to your site can view the site with no password.

How do subscriptions work?

• Only a user with your site password can subscribe to your site.
• Subscriptions work like any other: the site will appear in the user's email notifications and Posterous Reader.
• Private sites will not appear on pages listing a user's subscribed sites.
• Only site contributors can view who is subscribed to a private site.

How does RSS work?

• The normal RSS feed for a site (sitename.posterous.com/rss.xml) will not work.
• A secret RSS feed is generated (sitename.posterous.com/private/longsecrettext/rss.xml). This link can be found on the private site itself (if a user has access to that site).
• Posts from private sites will not show up in a user's Posterous Reader RSS feed.

What else?

• Posts on private sites will not show up in Facebook in any way.
• Posts on private sites will not autopost anywhere.
• Posts on private sites will not show up in search or explore.

Resetting access

• Changing the password to your site will reset access for all users who have been to your site. It will also change your secret RSS feed.
• Clicking the "Reset site access" button on the edit site page will reset access for users, reset the RSS feed, and also remove all subscribers to your site.

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Useful for private Extranets and once password entered user can subscribe for a year at a go do not have to keep re-entering they just have to have the url and then they will receive the updates no problem, best if they subscribe so they got notifications etc. Useful business team tool.

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Facebook introduces private groups - useful forum restricted access easy to setup

Facebook is gradually (it would seem waking-up to the fact at last) , that we don't all want all data viewable to everyone and lots of posts, hack the uninterested off, as they waste time seeking posts that are of use to them.

Now whilst you can go and pay for a private social network with a plan with someone like NING who can take it all the way to a 'white-label' solution where you can shrink wrap in your own identity, the general user might just have a number of friends interested in a particular pursuit.

Facebook Groups: this facility now enables you to create a CUSTOM & RESTRICTED ACCESS BASIC GROUP

Instead of Public or the broad brush of everyone/friends of friends/friends only or just youself, this enables you to invite a specific group to access content, chat share and post between just the members of that group. Needless to say with Facebook's sometimes leaky first stabs at security we need to test to destruction but quick and easy to use at first look.

 

So say you do some research want to share with a few colleagues or friends this is what you do.

 

 

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