Tag: android
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How to add Google Keep to OSX to sync your notes across your phones.
Google Keep is Google’s equivalent of Apple Notes, but a bit better. It’s a place to keep snippets and other stuff. Now that our family has moved to Android phones we need a simple way that we can synchronise notes across Android and Apple devices. Google Keep seems to be the best solution. There is…
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How to Copy files from an Android phone to Catalina
Recently I’ve discovered Macdroid and it’s running very will in Catalina with my Google Pixel 3. I find the ‘Android File Transfer’ app very unreliable. In a previous article I recommended another solution called Pocketshare but it also has its problems. Macdorid is working wonderfully for me. Step 1 is to Enable USB debugging. To…
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How to sync an Android Phone with OS X.
I’ve been trying out the world of Android Phones recently with a Google Pixel phone. Overall I have been surprised at how simple and effortless it has been to use my Google pixel phone alongside my Macintosh OS X. I was expecting it to be a lot harder to synchronise the Google phone to my…
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How to open Apple Pages documents on an Android Phone.
Summary: Here’s an app that will let you read an Apple Pages document on an Android phone.
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How to import Photos into OS X Photos app from an Android phone.
NOTE: This doesn’t work anymore, it’s broken in Mojave, I’ve written an updated article here about the fix. If you plug an Android phone into your computer the Photos app will open like it does with an iPhone, but it may not see the photos on your Android Phone. This happened to me on my…
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Does your iPhone give you sore thumbs?
I tend to get sore thumbs from over-using my iPhone. Here’s something interesting that I noticed when I used an Android phone for 6 months. My sore thumbs disappeared. To tell you the truth, I didn’t really notice this until I switched back to the iPhone again, then after about 1 week my sore thumbs…
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How to copy files to your Mac from Android
If you have an Android phone it’s very easy to copy files across to your Mac computer. Just download this OS X app from android.com and plug in your phone to your USB port. You can then manually copy files across. You can download the app from here.
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iPhone vs Google Pixel phone
It’s been a challenging a few months because I can’t get myself back onto my iPhone. I’ve tried three times and I simply cannot go back to the iPhone. The Pixel is a great phone and it plays very nicely with OS X.
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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.…
