Monday, 16 July 2012
OS X Activity monitor
Just been having a play with activity monitor, one thing that I like about the Windows Task Manager is that it has a separate tab for Open Application vs Processes.
Well I just discovered that there is a drop down which you can select which processes to view; one of them being "Windowed Processes" which then just lists the Applications that are open, brilliant!
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Things email integration
Wonderful things are a foot; I have discovered email integration with Things. There are two scripts;
1) Send email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/MailToThings - This allows you to send an email to yourself with subject line "Add to things" and a task will be created in your Things inbox on your Mac with the message body added as the task in Things. Brilliant! This is going to be very useful when I want to set myself a task at work or forward an email that I want as a task; I can change the subject to "Add to things" and it will be waiting for me in my Things inbox when I get home, brilliant! It just requires downloading an AppleScript and adding a rule to to Mail; follow the link it's all explained.
2) Add email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/AppleScript:Create_new_tasks_from_Mail_messages%2C_adding_Growl_notification Similar to the first one, but this is for when you receive an email that you want to make a task out of (which is a regular thing), instead of manually adding to Things you can now select the message(s) and run an AppleScript and each of the messages will be added to the Things inbox as a new Task, with the subject as the task, and message body as the notes of the task. Brilliant! It even gives you a notification message when it creates the task - you just need to install Growl (notification app) you can download that from the App Store here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
Loving Things, and love this email integration, brilliant! :-)
1) Send email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/MailToThings - This allows you to send an email to yourself with subject line "Add to things" and a task will be created in your Things inbox on your Mac with the message body added as the task in Things. Brilliant! This is going to be very useful when I want to set myself a task at work or forward an email that I want as a task; I can change the subject to "Add to things" and it will be waiting for me in my Things inbox when I get home, brilliant! It just requires downloading an AppleScript and adding a rule to to Mail; follow the link it's all explained.
2) Add email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/AppleScript:Create_new_tasks_from_Mail_messages%2C_adding_Growl_notification Similar to the first one, but this is for when you receive an email that you want to make a task out of (which is a regular thing), instead of manually adding to Things you can now select the message(s) and run an AppleScript and each of the messages will be added to the Things inbox as a new Task, with the subject as the task, and message body as the notes of the task. Brilliant! It even gives you a notification message when it creates the task - you just need to install Growl (notification app) you can download that from the App Store here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
Loving Things, and love this email integration, brilliant! :-)
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Where are my sent email
1. Sent items from yahoo were not appearing under sent items in mail.app or via mail.yahoo.co.uk. By setting the preferences on the yahoo account to "save drafts on server" the emails then appeared under sent items on mac and yahoo.
2. Sent items on the mac not appearing on the iPhone and iPad under sent. I found the mail.app on os x is storing the mail in "sent messages" rather than "sent". On the mac these two folders are merged under sent. On the iPhone and iPad you can find these other sent items under "sent messages" under the folders, so they are there and accessible, phew!
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2. Sent items on the mac not appearing on the iPhone and iPad under sent. I found the mail.app on os x is storing the mail in "sent messages" rather than "sent". On the mac these two folders are merged under sent. On the iPhone and iPad you can find these other sent items under "sent messages" under the folders, so they are there and accessible, phew!
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Location:UK
Monday, 9 July 2012
How to change email address on Flickr
I just spent several frustrating minutes on flickr trying to change my email address, as somehow it had my work email address as my registered email address... Its very un-obvious, but a quick google gave me this gem;
http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/email/
You can add and remove email addresses, and change which one is the primary email address, done!
http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/email/
You can add and remove email addresses, and change which one is the primary email address, done!
Monday, 18 June 2012
iOS 6 feature compatibility per device
The iOS 6 feature compatibility per device shows that 3GS, iPad 1 users and below pretty much lose out :-( Thankfully I've got a 4S iPhone, so I get flyover and tur-by-turn nav, and Facetime over cellualar network, yeh! But my iPad 2 isn't getting Siri; not happy :-(
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Location:Basildon, Essex, UK
Monday, 11 June 2012
Stop new emails vibrating iPhone
I keep my iPhone on silent, and don't want new emails appearing on the lock screen, but they still vibrated my phone. Now I've found out how to stop this.
Under settings > sounds, leave the vibrate setting to on.
But turn the sound off for new email by setting it to none.
Now new emails won't vibrate, yeh!
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Under settings > sounds, leave the vibrate setting to on.
But turn the sound off for new email by setting it to none.
Now new emails won't vibrate, yeh!
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Location:Canvey Island, Essex, UK
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The Lancaster
The Lancaster is a cafe/bar in Southend on Sea, by London Southend Airport. I had it described to me that there was a cafe by the Lancaster plane in Southend airport, and I never knew of it, and I needed to discover it.
So on some very rough instructions I embarked on a mini adventure and found the place. Its a pleasant cafe/bar located overlooking the airport and runway, and they do a cheap breaky for £0.80 per item until midday, and sometimes they do an all-day breakfast. The staff that were there on my visit were very friendly. Oh and they do a lovely cafe latte!!
To get there head straight ahead at the round about that going right would take you to Pets At Home, follow the road past the train station, and before you get to the end of the road (which has barriers) there is a right turning that also has a barrier, but between the barrier and left-hand carpark there is a road, which once followed takes you to the Lancaster, there is parking here which is free.
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So on some very rough instructions I embarked on a mini adventure and found the place. Its a pleasant cafe/bar located overlooking the airport and runway, and they do a cheap breaky for £0.80 per item until midday, and sometimes they do an all-day breakfast. The staff that were there on my visit were very friendly. Oh and they do a lovely cafe latte!!
To get there head straight ahead at the round about that going right would take you to Pets At Home, follow the road past the train station, and before you get to the end of the road (which has barriers) there is a right turning that also has a barrier, but between the barrier and left-hand carpark there is a road, which once followed takes you to the Lancaster, there is parking here which is free.
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Location:Canvey Island, Essex, UK
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