2013 Advent Calendar Day 3
Blake Transmitter In 1877 Francis Blake invented a carbon microphone for use in the telephone, shortly after Thomas Edison invented a microphone that also used carbon contacts. Blake used a…
How to block calls messages and facetime on your iphone with ios7
This is a great feature on the new ios7 for your iPhone: blocking callers. to block someone from phoning you when you have ios7: open the phone app go to…
Only allow calls from selected contacts in iphone
This post is great: it shows you how to silence your iphone, except from a selected number of contacts. to set this up on your iphone, with ios7: settings >…
Ios7 wish list
There have been a lot of posts going about the blogosphere in the last few months from people talking about their ios7 wishlist. I thought I'd publish mine. 1) ability…
Mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives
This post is a comparison of the various email clients available on mac osx (and some mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives if you are looking for them -…
How to identify duplicate contacts in mac osx contacts addressbook
This post will show you how to identify duplicate contacts in mac osx contacts addressbook. open addressbook go to card > identify duplicates the contacts app will scan for duplicates…
How to merge duplicate contacts in mac osx contacts app
This post will show you how to how to merge duplicate contacts in mac osx contacts app open addressbook / contacts highlight the duplicate entries you want to merge [shift…
Send email / imessage / facetime directly from addressbook contacts
In osx mountain lion you can send imessage messages (or google chat / facebook chat if thats setup in your messages app) directly from the addressbook / contacts app open…
How to merge or show all imessage contacts in one window or contact list
This post will show you how to merge or show all imessage contacts in one window or contact list. open imessages goto preferences > general tick the box that says…
Connect ios6 to facebook
Ios6 has facebook integrated into it, like twitter. to set up the connection goto: settings > facebook you can then log in and post from siri / share things direct…
How to enable icloud tabs to sync open tabs between iphone and mac
Safari in mountain lion has a cool new feature - icloud tabs. icloud tabs let you sync your browser tabs between devices, eg you can open a tab in your…
How to sync your twitter followers with your osx addressbook contacts
This post will show you how to sync your twitter contacts with your osx addressbook contacts. It will add the twitter account details of the people who are already in…
How to sync your LinkedIn contacts with your iPhone addressbook
This post will show you how to sync your LinkedIn contacts with your iPhone addressbook. Goto the LinkedIn app Goto the 'you' section Click the gear Click on 'download connections'…
How to sync your twitter followers with your iPhone contacts
This post will show you how to sync your twitter contacts with your iPhone contacts. It will add the twitter details of the people who are already in your addressbook…
How to sync Facebook contacts with iphone
This post will show you how to sync all of your Facebook contacts details with the contacts in your iPhones addressbook. It will only add the information that your Facebook…
Iphone productivity apps
A rundown on some productivity apps that I use with my iphone first and foremost, I use google a lot. I have my iphone set to sync all my contacts…
How to add a new contact from a sms text message on iphone
I tried to add a new contact from an sms message in my iphone, it was not obvious at first jow to do it. what you have to do is:…
How to show contacts list in messages app osx imessage
Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only…
Osx mountain lion
The interwebs are all a-tweet with the news of osx mountain lion. it will bring with it a few things that I had pointed out for osx lion, most notable…
Use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person or author
You can use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person. To do this you use the keyword 'author' author:bob final report Will bring up all the documents…
Set custom ringtone for contact iphone
This will show you how to set custom ringtones for contacts on your iphone. 1) open contacts 2) pick the contact you wish to have a custom ringtone 3) click…
Find your friends location using siri
This one is pretty cool, you can find your friends location using siri on your iPhone! make sure you are logged in to your 'find my friends' app (get it…
Make snow leopard more like lion
Make snow leopard more like lion: you can use most of the features of osx lion / icloud right now. using google. mail: to sync all your mail on all…
How to get your basecamp ical in google calendar
This post will show you how to get your basecamp ical in google calendar (and onto your iphone, mac, etc) goto basecamp goto the main dashboard goto the bottom of…
Syncing iphone notes app and mail app using gmail
Here are the detailed instructions on syncing iphone notes app and mail app using gmail . This will enable bi-directional syncing: you can edit the notes on any device and…
Using ichat for msn, twitter, irc, icq etc
Using ichat for msn, twitter, irc, icq etc - iChat can use jabber (xmpp). xmpp can use 'transports' to let you connect to other networks, like MSN, icq, irc, twitter,…
Syncing all your webmail email accounts to gmail
This tutorial is about syncing all your webmail email accounts to gmail, and then sync that to your apple mail.app and your iphone the hardest part about having so many…
SEO seminar with Rand Fishkin
SEO seminar with Rand Fishkin - I work as a web developer. its a great job, and its great fun (especially since I'm a geek). One of the companies we…
Syncing your iphone or ipad with google
Syncing your iphone or ipad with google: Here are the detailed instructions on syncing your iphone or ipad with google gmail calendar and contacts. After doing this you will have…
Sync your google calendar with ical
This post will show you how to sync your google calendar with ical. jump to: instructions for osx lion, mountain lion and mavericks instructions for snow leopard faq How to…
Maximising your iphone battety
You probably know this already: turn off push in mail ( settings > mail > fetch new mail ) and set the schedual to hourly or manual - manual will…
Aduim, addressbook, iphone contacts synced properly with google contacts gmail etc.
you hopefully have all your contacts synced between your iphone / ipod touch, your mac addressbook and your google contacts. if not see my blog post about it here once…
Quick roundup of my mac posts
This is just a quick roundup of some of my mac posts. how to transfer your itunes library from an xp or vista pc to a mac this one is…
How to sync your mac osx contacts to gmail contacts.
This post will show you how to sync your mac osx contacts to gmail contacts. This will allow for a two-way sync - ie when you add a contact to…
More on emails… migrating from hotmail to gmail
Migrating from hotmail to gmail. I've written before about how I like to keep everything in the one place - contacts, IM people, and email. Up until now I have…
More on the social networking, and a crescendo…
Well, ive been ranting on about social networking this and that recently, and ive almost cracked it. almost. there are a couple of problems with all these social networking things…
Syncing all my contacts
This post is about Syncing all my contacts. Ok, so I have a lot of contacts, they are all in different places. all I really want is to have one…