Here is a little script that will turn off mail for every domain in plesk! I use it as part of an automated domain creation script to be doubly sure that mail is sent from external mail services and isn’t received internally in the plesk machine (preventing users getting their Read more…
Mailbox app imap folders disabled: Mailbox app is a great email app for the ipad. A major bonus also occurs when you link it to your dropbox account – you get a free 1gb extra space! When I tried to setup an account I encountered a problem though: a message Read more…
I use thunderbird at work on my ubuntu machine. one thing that always annoyed me was the lack of a conversation view – one that let me see who had written to me and what I had replied. in-line. without them having to include everything in the reply. basically the 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…
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…
This post will show you how to delete mail in your gmail account from the mail.app in your iphone or ipad without archiving it. 1) make sure your iphone or ipad is setup to get your google mail using exchange 2) goto m.google.com/sync in safari on your iphone or ipad Read more…
This is an awesome tip. if you have ever wanted to quickly email the link to a webpage to someone (i often mail links to my gmail account) its a bit of a drawn out process: highlight the url, copy it, open mail.app, click create new mail, fill in a 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…
It took me a while, but I finally jumped on board the evernote bandwagon. i was happy with the built in notes.app for my iphone and I was happy syncing it via gmail to my mail.app on my mac. i got an iphone 4s, and donated my iphone 3gs to Read more…
This will show you how to sync your notes from mail.app with gmail. [doing this will let you use gmail to sync the notes.app on your iphone / ipad with your mail.app on your mac] 1) setup a google account in mail.app. 2) any notes you enter will now appear Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends who use google talk / gtalk using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: google talk account name: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com open server options server: Read more…
It took me a while to figure this one out, because I didnt have to do anything! i wanted my reminders from my reminders.app in my iphone and ipad to be in sync with each other and with my mac. i thought they might go into mail.app, or ical. turns Read more…
I hate autocorrect. this shows you how to turn off autocorrect in osx! Its one of the first things I do when I install new versions of osx (I do a wipe before I install new versions, e.g. from lion to mountain lion, or from Yosemite to el-capitan) open system 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…
Basecamp is an excellent tool to help manage projects. any type of project. they have an account that lets you have one project for free – this post explains adding basecamp todos and milestones from email :) one problem with basecamp is the time it takes to setup todo lists and Read more…
This one is good if you use the finder ‘column view’ if you find the file names always being truncated then you can resize column view width. you can do it a few different ways 1 ) drag the || icon at the bottom of the column 2 ) right Read more…
jailbreaking your iphone isnt to everyones liking. but if it is then here are my recomendations for the best jailbreak apps to get: mywi it turns your iphone into a mobile wifi router. excellent if you have a laptop or the like and need some access when you are out 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…
this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; 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…
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…
as its the new year its time to loose the flab. this applies to email too. I just read in one of my rss feeds an excellent way to find crap emails you dont want – search your gmail for ‘UNSUBSCRIBE’ then go through them and unsubscribe. which is nice, Read more…
well, its a new year. Happy new year to everyone. I have a couple of things id like to do this year. one of them is sort out the things that I didnt manage to get done last year. Im going to try to show you how to get your 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…