Tag: google
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.
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.
How to create a Google cloud printer.
It can be a bit of a pain trying to print from you iOS devices or an Android phone. Apple have helped by introducing Airprint, but not all printers support Airprint so in some ways this has made the problem worse. Yet again Google have come to the rescue. Google allow you to set up any of…
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’s answer to your iTunes syncing problems!
Tired of being asked to subscribe to Apple music all the time? Tired of not being able to sync your iTunes songs across multiple computers easily? Google has a solution that will sync your songs across your iOS devices and your home computer, and you can easily manage which songs get synced and which don’t,…
Google play music app
The Google play music application replaces iTunes as a music player on your iPhone. It gives you more control over the uploading and downloading of songs.
Google beat Apple at their own game – 3 must have iOS apps by Google.
I have been keeping an eye on three iOS apps that Google have been playing with over the last few years, and they have all come to age at the same time. I’m not sure if the timing is coincidence or some kind of subversive move by Google but Google have nailed these three wonderful iOS…
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 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 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…
How to set up Apple mail to work with a Gmail account. (This is the original article from 2013)
How to set up email for Google gmail on your mac.
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!
How do I speed up my webpage?
Safari can tell you how many files your webpage needs to load, and how big they are. Here’s how.
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 get the Best Free OS X software
Here’s a list of some programs that you can download for free from versiontracker.com or find via a google search to supplement the software that comes with your mac.
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?