Posts tagged ‘Apple Mac’

Setting OS X Desktop Picture Based on Time of Day

Posted Thursday, April 25th, 2013.
Filed under General with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, AppleScript, GitHub, How-to, technology

I recently changed jobs (Hello, FireEye!) and was issued a new MacBook Air. I spend a lot of time looking at the screen and was getting bored with the supplied desktop pictures. I also start work very early most days (7am-ish), and thought it would be nice to have a desktop picture that matches the [...]

Importing Google Contacts into iCloud

Posted Sunday, November 20th, 2011.
Filed under General with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, Google, How-to, iCloud, iPhone, technology

I signed up for the new iCloud service, and wanted to sync my Google contacts so they will show up on my various Apple devices. MobileMe, iCloud’s predecessor, had built-in support for syncing with Google accounts, so I assumed iCloud would be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, it turns out iCloud does not auto-sync with Google. Here are some instructions for manually syncing your contacts.