This post will show you how to hide the notifications in osx mountain lion. open the notification center [click on the icon in the top right, next to the spotlight magnifying glass] scroll the page down. it will reveal an on/off radiobutton slider thing. turn notifications off.
This one is useful if you use a mac and an iphone. i like my reminders on my phone, I like having them synced to my mac. i dont like getting beeped at ten times when I have something to be reminded about. once is enough. to turn off the Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to your facebook friends birthdays using ical on your mac 1) login to your facebook account 2) goto events (in the left hand bar) 3) click on the maginifying glass in the top right 4) pick ‘birthdays’ 5) click on the maginifying Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to facebook events using ical on your mac osx 1) login to your facebook account 2) goto events (in the left hand bar) 3) click on the maginifying glass in the top right 4) pick ‘export events’ 5) click on the url 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…
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…
This will show you how to enable wifi sync on iphone and ipad. Wifi sync will let you sync apps and movies and ebooks between your iphone or ipad and your computer, without having to plug your device in during the sync. Once you have enabled the wifi sync you 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…
If your iphone is going slow then you might be able to speed it up significantly by deleting your photos and videos. the first thing to do is to make sure you have all the photos synced to your pc or mac. once you are sure they are all on 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 post will show you how to subscribe to your Basecamp calendar in iphone calendar. For instructions on how to subscribe to your basecamp calendar in google calendar please see this post Basecamp is a great way to keep track of lots of things in your projects. You can use 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…
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…
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…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook 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…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…