So I've been on an iPhone for a little over 7 months, and I've kinda stumbled my way through most things on my first iDevice. As of late, I've decided to sort myself out and by extension sort my iPhone out as well.

Email and Calendar Sync

The first thing that I sorted out was converting my email/calendar to a push notified Gmail account. The way you do that is not by using the Gmail option to creating an account, but rather using the Microsoft Exchange option on the iPhone which basically does that automatically. That I've found to be completely awesome as opposed to the Fetch protocol that I was using before, with my Mail app being updated every hour or something.

The next thing that I needed to sort out is my calendar options. I will use my Google Calendar on occasion, but will rarely use iCal really. In fact I probably use my office Outlook more than I've ever used my iCal application, it's just not something I'm used to doing at home. Calendars are definitely something I do throughout the day, rather than the evening.

Photos Mess

The last part of the puzzle that needs to be sorted out is my photos. What a complete and utter mess these things are in at the moment. The thing is they're also taking a whole slew of space on my iPhone as well. Ever since I migrated over to my new macbook install I basically put aperture...big mistake. Thought I was doing something clever. As it turns out I screwed myself as Aperture doesn't allow for the files to be deleted from the iPhone when you're synching. There are other options, but honestly I'm not all that enamoured by Aperture and it's just as slow as iPhoto (so I've not gained much in way of performance).

I need to get a few older files from my previous back, get iPhoto up and running on my mac, migrate back to iPhoto completely and then clean up my photo folder.

iPhone Applications Purge

Once that's done I just need to clean up my Files folder and also my Scanner Pro folder as it's got a bunch of additional stuff that doesn't need to be there, and I think my minimal setup is complete.

It's also probably time to purge a few applications off the phone as well, as the number of applications creeps back up to 45, which obviously I don't use all the time.

Also while I'm talking about iPhone applications, there are a couple of serious keepers for the forseeable future:

• Piggie: This is a direct change from MoneyBook
• Simple Note: Just can't believe I did without this application for so long. It's basically the gmail of notes. I'm finally bloody organised enough to have all of my notes with me all the time in a way that is clear and synced across my machines. Game changer.
• NightStand Central - The only alarm application that you will ever need. Or at least till something simpler comes along, but I have to say I love this application and the way it uses the hardware is excellent.