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Update: this is based on my jailbroken 1.1.2 iPod Touch. I'll be upgrading to 1.1.4 at some point shortly and will update the instructions accordingly.

Gmail offers IMAP, which in my opinion, is a far better way of accessing your email than the default POP3 setup that is automatically configured by the iPod Touch/iPhone's Mail application. In order to ensure that the way email is handled on your Touch matches the same behavior through the webmail interface, you need to make the following configuration changes.

Time Machine is one of OS X 10.5's newest feature that simplifies backing up of data by simply designating a hard drive as the destination and turning it on. It's been already been demonstrated that it's also possible to use a Leopard-based fileshare as a backup destination with Time Machine gracefully mounting and dismounting the share as needed.

For those users who are on laptops or possibly wish to backup to an offsite location, it's also possible if you tunnel your AFP (Apple File Sharing) connection through an SSH tunnel.

Here's how to do it...