Tag Archives: Gmail
Google Calendar, Contacts Mail and the iPhone
Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
As I write this, I’m expecting Jonathan Cliff to write a comment saying I’m making this too complicated and that I’m doing this all wrong, but I thought I’d share some of the technology frustrations I encountered today and how I fixed them.
One of the greatest leaps in technology in recent years was the ability to share my work calendar with my wife. No longer did we have to have long conversations of when I might be available, but instead, she’d just make appointments on my calendar for me.While I was on a PC, there were some good syncing apps between outlook (what I used) and google calendars (what she used). When I switched to a Mac, it got hard again. Then when we switched to Google Apps at Gateway, all was well. However, now my wife uses her iPhone 90% of the time rather than her computer.
For the past 18 months (at least), Sara has had an iPhone and she’s had access to my calendar and all has been well. However, for the past 2-3 months, she’s not had access to my calendar. I’m not sure what happened, maybe Apple or Google changed something.
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Hacked again!
Posted on 30. Aug, 2011 by Kenny.
On Saturday, my good friend Matt McKee helped me with a Q & A session with Jim Wideman during the first general session. We took questions via text messaging that came through my Google Voice account which is a part of my Goolge/Gmail account. Because my computer was being used elsewhere, I logged into my Google Voice account on Matt McKee’s computer.
He informed me yesterday via a public tweet that his computer was still logged into my gmail account. Perfect. I only have the last 7 years of personal email storred in that account. Good thing I trust Matt… otherwise he might know all my secrets.
It took me a few hours to recognize though that he did indeed leave record of his presence.… Read the rest
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Multiple inboxes with gmail
Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
I think most of you know by now that I’m a big google fanboy, maybe as much as Sam Luce is an Apple fanboy. 
So I’ve been using multiple inboxes for gmail for the past 6-8 months and I’ve not really thought a lot of it. Corey, my children’s pastor from our South Campus came to me today and said, “you gotta show me how you split your inbox up that way.” Again, I kind forgot that I was using multiple inboxes, so I had to remember how I did it. I found this post from lifehacker and it reminded me how I did it to begin with and gave me some ideas for some of the inbox panes.
Don’t know what I’m talking about?… Read the rest
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The day I quit Entourage
Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by Kenny.
Yesterday I stopped using Entourage. Done. For good.
I switched to a Mac over a year ago. There was a lot of things to get used to. Some of them good, some of them bad. Email was one of the bad.
I’ve been an Outlook user for years and for the most part, it was a great product. It did most things I needed pretty well. The problem has always been syncing. Getting my calendar to sync with my wife’s calendar is MONUMENTAL. Almost two years ago, Google created a program that would sync my outlook calendar with my google calendar. It was an answer to prayer and all was happy in the Conley household. Then I switched to a Mac.… Read the rest
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Is your ministry in beta?
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by Kenny.
I came across this interesting article last week. I’m a big fan of Google. I like the way they think. Interestingly, Sara and I had long discussion (we’ve agreed to disagree) on the whether Google is really an evil company or not in how they run their AdSense program. That’s another post.
So, Chrome came out of beta but Gmail remains beta-licious for who knows how long.
So, why is Chrome out of beta and Gmail not? Chrome is a downloadable application and Google wants market share. So far Chrome has a respectable user base that has mainly come as a result of word-of-mouth and advertising. However, Google want’s more users. Google wants Chrome to come pre-installed on machines along with internet explorer or firefox.… Read the rest
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Google Video Chat
Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I remember visiting the Sharper Image store when I was a kid and playing around the video phone. I don’t know if it really was an actual product or just a gimmick. Well, the video phone never really caught on like it was envisioned in the 80′s, but video conferencing is alive and well. I first started dabbling in this five years ago using an external web cam and yahoo chat. In recent time I’ve used skype to video chat with my missionary friend in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Now that I have a Mac, I absolutely love iChat for the 2 or 3 people I use it with(except it’s only available for Mac users… come on Steve Jobs. I’m not drinking your cool aid and your closed and proprietary products don’t impress me, no matter how “great” they are.… Read the rest
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Creating a better Outlook experience
Posted on 10. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.
A good friend passed this on to me last week. I finally installed it on my computer last night (it’s free). Now I wish I had done this earlier.
When I was between jobs, I stopped using Outlook. The only reason I used Outlook was because at church we usually had an exchange server and we could take advantage of email, calendar sharing, tasks and all the other things that come with Outlook. However, since I wasn’t a part of all of that, I just used my gmail account. As soon as I came on staff at Gateway, I started using Outlook again. I immediately missed using gmail as my primary email. The search function of gmail is so amazing and it absolutely puts Outlook to shame.… Read the rest
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