Tag: email
Dragging emails into the OSX reminders app
Here I blogged about how great the Apple Reminders app is for managing tasks in the GTD workflow. What I didn’t mention is that you can drag emails straight into the reminder app and it will link the email to the task. Here’s how. The Reminders app needs to be open. Grab an email from…
How to make a copy of all your Gmail emails before you delete them.
I use a spark as my OS X email client but my mail is hosted by Google. After about seven years I found that I reached Google’s free 15 GB email limit and I could not receive any more emails. I could have started all over again with a new Gmail account but I wanted…
Not getting new emails after OS X upgrade
Since OS X Mojave my Apple mail stops getting new emails every few months. This seems to occur with each new OSX upgrade. (e.g. 10.14.3 to 10.14.4) The mail app loses the password for the Gmail accounts, a lightning symbol appears next to each account, and no new emails come in. There’s a simple fix,…
How to quickly add an emoji to an email in OS X Apple mail
Here’s a great little trick I learned from my youngest daughters. If you are in the OSX mail app just hold down control-command-space and a window will appear full of emoji. Click any emoji and it will be added to your email. (Emoji are the little smiles etc that people put in emails. 😉)…
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.
How to forward photos in Apple mail and keep the high quality
I just noticed than if you ‘forward’ an email containing photos Apple mail will reduce the quality and size of the photos. I noticed this when I forwarded some photos to myself from one computer to another and they shrank to about 1/10 of the size! Thankfully there is a way to change this to…
3 things you need to know about iCloud Photo syncing
Apple has updated their iPhoto app to ‘Photos’ and included some pretty cool iCloud syncing. All your photos are available everywhere all the time. It keeps smaller copies of the photos on your iOS device while allowing the larger original ones to stay in the Cloud and it can download the larger files to…
How to delete an email on Gmail but keep it on your Mac
What do you do if you wish to delete emails to de-clutter your Gmail account, but you’d like to keep a copy of some emails in case you need them in the future? If you use Gmail in the Apple mail app, and you delete an email in Gmail, it’s deleted from your computer as well. There is, however, a…
What to do if your Macintosh email is being received as a blank document for PC users
Some PC users complain that mail messages forwarded from Apple mail come out blank, with the entire message as an attachment. This can be caused by either the Microsoft mail server the person is using, or a bug in Outlook Express on their Windows PC.
Make your own keyboard shortcuts
Here’s how to customise your own Keyboard shortcuts for any OSX application menus.
How to Share a Pages file with a Windows user.
Here’s how to share a pages document with a PC user.
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 find things with Spotlight
Spotlight has been round for years but if you’re like me you may not be using it as well as you can. Here’s an example of a recent search I did that might help you learn some features of spotlight.
How to open a Microsoft publisher file on your Macintosh
Microsoft publisher has been around for a long time but it has never been able to run on Apple computers. If you’re like me you probably have friends who have Microsoft publisher files they occasionally email you. Sadly there is no way to open a Microsoft publisher file on a Mac, until now…
How to stop old email addresses appearing automatically in the ‘To’ field in mail app
To delete a person’s old email address, in Mail go to ‘Window’ menu and ‘Previous Recipients’. Then click on the old email address and press the ‘Remove from List’ button.
How to send a nicely formatted email in Apple Mail
How to make an nicely formatted email in keynote and mail it to anyone as a pdf.
How to copy a font
How to copy fonts between Mac computers eg to make the fonts available to Keynote on your laptop.
How to download a dropbox movie file from Safari.
I recently was sent a link to a movie file in someone’s dropbox via email…
How to stop spam
“I’m getting heaps of spam, ever since I put my email address on my webpage. Is there a way to stop it?”
How to send lots of files or folders in an email
How to make a zip file to email to someone.