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Create HTML Signatures on Your iPhone

No doubt you've long ago changed the default, a-little-too-smug "Sent from my iPhone" signature that Apple saw fit to give you. After all, you alread know about how mobile e-mail signatures can hurt your business relationships, right?

Since you've changed your iPhone's signature anyway, perhaps you'd like it to be more like the one on your desktop mail client -- you know, with graphics and links. If so, no problem. I've got a free, simple way to enhance your iPhone's mail capabilities to support a real HTML e-mail signature.

Just visit the iPhone Signature Creator and fill out the form. (Suggestion: It's easiest to do this on your desktop Web browser.) Enter all the information you want to appear in your signature and then plug in a 4-digit PIN that you'll need to use once when yo set it up on the iPhone.

After you submit the form, you can send it to your iPhone's e-mail inbox. Tap the link and add the resulting Web page to your home screen (tap the plus symbol at the bottom of the screen, and then tap Add to Home Screen).

Now, wherever you want to create an e-mail with our custom HTML signature, tap the Web app you copied to your home screen. It'll automatically open a blank e-mail message and add the signature for you.

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