The obvious way to read iPhone J.D. is to go to the website, http://www.iphonejd.com. Additionally, instead of you coming to iPhone J.D., you can also have iPhone J.D. come directly to you.
You have always been able to subscribe to an RSS feed so that you can read the content using an RSS reader such as Google Reader. But for those of you who would rather have iPhone J.D. simply show up in your e-mail inbox every morning, you can click here and provide an e-mail address. (I’ve also placed that link on the right column of the website if you want to do this in the future.) This is a free service provided by a Google service called Feedburner. It is easy to sign up, easy to unsubscribe, and doesn’t request any personal information other than an e-mail address.
The only problem I have seen with these e-mails occurs if you are using Outlook 2003 on a PC. For a post that includes video (such as most of my Friday posts), Outlook 2003 gives you an error message that looks like this:
If this happens to you, you can go to Tools –> Options –> Security and then in the Security Zone area you will see a pop-up list. Change the selection from “Restricted Site” to “Internet” and then click OK. That makes the error message go away and allows you to view the YouTube video. Of course, by changing this setting, you are removing one of the barriers against a virus that might be contained in an HTML e-mail message, so if you are not using some other software to guard against viruses, you need to weigh the risks and benefits of changing this setting. If you don’t want to change your security settings, just click OK when you see the error message; you will still be able to read all of the e-mail, but you won’t see the movie in the body of the e-mail. Note that I have only found this to be an issue with Outlook 2003 Windows. On Outlook 2007 on Windows, you don’t get an error message, although by default the e-mail doesn’t display the video. On a Mac or an iPhone, everything works great: no error message and no problem displaying videos.
If you know of someone who owns an iPhone and might benefit from iPhone J.D. but is unlikely to use an RSS Reader or visit a website every day, please spread the word and let them know about this new ability to have iPhone J.D. show up automatically in their inbox. Thanks!