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 carbon button design that initially would not stay in adjustment, but with later improvements proved to be workable. Alexander Bell Read more…
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 recent calls find the number / contact you want to block tap the (i) info button next to the number Read more…
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 > do not disturb > in ios7 you have options for ‘manual’ and ‘scheduled’ manual means that you can turn this Read more…
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 to pick default browser and email client. infact, the ability to pick default apps for lots of things would be Read more…
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 – Ive included sparrow in the list aswell so that others might learn its awesomeness) 1) mail.app features: imap, pop, exchange, Read more…
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 and will ask you if you wish to merge the duplicates
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 + click, or cmd+click on them to select multiples] goto card > merge selected cards
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 addressbook / contacts find the contact you want to message click on the ‘mobile’ or ‘phone’ or ’email’ tag next Read more…
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 ‘show all contacts in one list’ you are now done :D
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 to facebook. you can also update all of your contacts with their latest facebook info!
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 ipad, and then view it in your iphone or on your mac! to enable icloud tabs on your mac: open Read more…
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 your addressbook to those entries. Goto System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars add your twitter account if not already Read more…
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’ You are done :)
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 to those entries. It won’t fill your addressbook with twitter usernames! Goto iphone settings > twitter Click ‘update contacts’ Done Read more…
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 contacts have allowed to be synced, so if bob or joe don’t want you having their new cell number or Read more…
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 and calendars with google calendar and contacts you can also sync the notes from notes.app with your gmail account evernote Read more…
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: scroll to the very first message from that contact. you will see an ‘add to contacts’ button. you can then Read more…
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 going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…
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 are airplay mirroring for your desktop, notes from the ipad, reminders from the ipad, imessage and notification center :D there Read more…
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 made by bob [or sent from bob] that match ‘final report’ There are other keywords you can use: name, date, Read more…
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 ‘edit’ 4) scroll down and you will see ‘ringtone’ and ‘text tone’ 5) click ‘ringtone’ and pick the rington you Read more…
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 from the app store if you dont already have it) ask siri ‘where is contactname’ and it will look them Read more…
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 your devices you need gmail. this first post will show you how to setup gmail in your macs mail.app this Read more…
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 the page copy the link for the iCalendar goto google calendar goto the bottom of the left hand bar goto Read more…
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 it will be synced to the others automatically =) After doing this you will have all your notes on your Read more…
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, etc. Update: there is a way to do this now without having to resort to using a jabber service. You Read more…
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 email accounts and social networking accounts is finding the time to log into them all and check for mail and Read more…
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 do a lot of work with have a lot of good contacts. one of them is @randfish – founder of Read more…
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 all your google contacts on your iphone or ipad, and all your google calendars on your iphone (or your ipod Read more…
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 sync your google calendar with ical in osx lion, mountain lion and Mavericks In osx snow leopard it was possible Read more…
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 only get mail when you open mail, it will also control the updating of calendars and contacts :) turn off Read more…
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 you have the whole syncing between your mac addressbook and the cloud (and then with your ipod / iphone) then Read more…
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 for moving your itunes library from a pc with xp, vista, windows 7, windows 2000, or anything else that itunes Read more…
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 your addressbook, its automatically added to google and when you add a contact to google its automatically added to your Read more…
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 been using various ways of checking my various email accounts – outlook, windows live mail desktop and thunderbird to name Read more…
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 – the first is that you sign up to 50 of them. the second is that you have to put Read more…
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 list of names, email addresses and phone numbers.I want this list in my phone and on all the services that Read more…