Category: google
Integrating Google Drive into OSX
The normal way to access your Google drive is to go into your browser, login to Google, then browse the files. Thus is a bit clunky. Thanks to a macOS app from Google, you can incorporate Google drive directly into the Finder to make it easy to access. Here’s how.
Google Calendar and OSX
I’ve been a long time user of Apple Calendar but I’ve switched to Google calendar for 2 main reasons: It’s easier to access on different devices You can set colors for events. I’m now using a Pixel phone and the Google calendar works flawlessly on the Pixel phone, and iPhone, as well as an OS…
How to install Google File Stream and Google Teams
Many businesses have a G-Suite account, Google give them to non for profit organisations for free. A G-suite account includes 30GB of Google Drive space free to each user. It also has a clever permission system where certain folders can be shared with members of teams. So you can set up various teams, put people…
iPhone vs Android 6 months along.
An update on my Android vs iPhone experiment. At the start of this year I purchased a Google Pixel phone for review and I ended up keeping it because it was so good. So how am I feeling about it 6 months later? The novelty of the Google phone is wearing off but I still…
How to add Google Sheets to your dock
I’ve started using Google Sheets a lot lately. You can make a link straight to Google Sheets on your desktop or dock so that you can access it more easily. Read on to find out how.
Google Calendar iOS app
Google calendar is Google’s calendar app for your iPhone. I like it.
What to do when Apple mail is telling you that your Google password is wrong
If you get a message in Apple Mail saying that “the user name or password for ‘imap.gmail.com’ is incorrect” but you know that your email address and Password are the right ones, here are some things to try.
Google play and Telstra pay on the iPhone
If you live in Australia and you have a pre-paid Telstra Plan you can use your spare credit to make purchases. And by spare credit, I mean the entire amount that you top up your phone with each month. For example, I am on a $30 a month prepaid Telstra plan. I get $700 worth of calls…
Samsung Galaxy S7 – my unsuccessful enquiry to Samsung.
I am a diehard Mac fanatic. But only because Apple is the best. So I am the worst kind of fan. I will switch if something better comes along. At Christmas time I had a play with my cousin’s Samsung Galaxy S6. It was very nice. It’s the first time I’ve considered switching to Android.…
How to use Google Cardboard VR with an iPhone
This is the latest craze: google cardboard. It’s real fun. Here’s a quick introduction and how to get it working on your iPhone.
How to sync between Google calendar and Apple calendar in Mavericks OS 10.9
Apple has changed the way calendars sync in Mavericks. Here’s how to sync your Apple Calendar App with an existing Google calendar. You can’t use an iCloud based calendar to sync with Google. You need to start from Google and go the other way. Apple can see the gmail calendar but not the other way round.
How to access your gmail contacts from Apple Contacts app.
This article has been updated here: How to sync your Apple address book with Google contacts The method below is obsolete but I have left it here for reference in case you are running an older version of OS X.
How to get your website to appear in a google search
Web pages generally  do not automatically appear on search engine results pages. To make your site appear in google and other search engines you need to manually add your site. This is called submitting your site to a search engine. You don’t have to pay to do this – it’s free. Read on to find…
1 million links!
I just checked on Google today and it tells me that as of August 1 there are 1,146,787 links to macintshhowto.com!
ical, google cal, iphone, what a mess…
Well as great as the iphone is, the software is lagging a fair way behind and calendar syncing is one example.
How to find cover art for itunes
When you tell iTunes to find your cover art, it misses lots of albums that presumably are not on amazon.com where it looks for cover art. So what do you do?