Articles in category: “How To”
How to sync and backup your iPhone contacts with iCloud
Building your addressbook is a never-ending task that you carry out throughout your personal and professional life. Your addressbook, ultimately, is a unique and important asset, and you certainly don’t want to lose it in the event that your iPhone gets lost or stolen. A great solution to avoid this risk is to synchronize your contacts with iCloud – in a few simple steps.
How to transfer Google contacts to iCloud (or… how to migrate your contacts from Android to iPhone)
There are many reasons why you may want to transfer your Google contacts to iCloud. Perhaps you’ve moved from an Android device to an iPhone; or perhaps you’ve got your contacts in both Google and iCloud and want to consolidate.
This How-to article is going to demonstrate how to transfer your Google contacts over to iCloud.
How to transfer iCloud contacts to Google Contacts (or… how to migrate your contacts from iPhone to Android)
There are many reasons why you may want to transfer your iCloud contacts to Google contacts. Perhaps you’ve moved from an iPhone device to an Android; or perhaps you’ve got your contacts in both Google and iCloud and want to consolidate.
Transferring contact data from iCloud to Gmail involves two processes, one is to export contact data from iCloud, and the other one is to import the data file to Gmail.
How to export your contacts from LinkedIn and into Gmail
Over the years most of us have built quite a considerable network of contacts on LinkedIn. And yet these contacts remain locked inside LinkedIn – till now!
This how-to will help you export your contacts from LinkedIn and, importantly, import all their important data into your Gmail contacts. From there you can sync them with your iPhone or Android and make proper use of them.
How to add job information to my contacts
When managing your contacts, it is always helpful to have as much complete and up to date data as possible. Company info and job title in particular are invaluable for being able to effectively search through your contacts to find whoever you need.
This how-to article is going to demonstrate two easy ways to add job information to your contacts, both through Gmail and Covve, to facilitate your contact management process.
How to process a Google contacts .csv export in excel
Google contacts provides an easy way to export your contacts to csv (for details on how to export have a look at How to export Google contacts to CSV).
With a bit of data manipulation this gives you a great opportunity to be able to edit your contacts directly in Excel, allowing you to rapidly make bulk changes to your contacts. This is much faster than manually editing one contact at a time from Google’s interface.
How to transfer contacts between Skype accounts
Recently, Skype has fallen victim to virus attacks, where hackers were able to steal usernames and passwords to gain access to accounts and send annoying spam messages. If you are one of those users that claim to receive strange links from random Skype contacts, or if you are just tired of your current username, you may want to export your contact list and transfer it to a new Skype account.
Enhance your contacts’ photos on the fly, using your smartphone
Enhancing a photo, is a great way to breathe new life in it, as almost every image can benefit from a little touch-up, whether it’s brightness imbalances, color correction, or red-eye removal. Luckily enough you don’t need to master Photoshop or Lightroom to perform these touch-ups, but you can do it with a click of a button on your smartphone!
Enhance your contacts’ photos on the fly
Enhancing a photo, is a great way to breathe new life in it, as almost every image can benefit from a little touch-up, whether it’s brightness imbalances, color correction, or red-eye removal. Luckily enough you don’t need to master Photoshop or Lightroom to perform these touch-ups, but you can do it with a click of a button and most importantly, online!
How to add pictures to contacts in Google Contacts
Adding pictures to contacts in your address book is a great way to make the people in it more recognizable and more personal. In this how-to article we are going to see how to easily add a picture to your contacts in Google Contacts.
Automatically keep a record of new Office 365 Contacts in a Google Drive spreadsheet
Automation is a method or technique, of operating or controlling a process, which eliminates the need for human intervention in order to complete a task. Luckily enough, we can apply this same idea to contact management to easily store and find contact information, such as names, telephone numbers and job titles.
Automatically keep a record of new Google Contacts in a Google Drive spreadsheet
Automation is a method or technique, of operating or controlling a process, which eliminates the need for human intervention in order to complete a task. Luckily enough, we can apply this same idea in contact management to easily store and find contact information, such as names, telephone numbers and job titles.
How to Import your contacts in Google Contacts
1. Go to the old version of Google Contacts, by clicking on Go to the old version on the left hand side bar.
How to export Google contacts to a .csv file
There are many cases where you might want to export your contacts from Google to a .csv file. For example, you may want to import them into another address book, manipulate them in Excel or just for keeping a local backup of your contacts.
In this how-to article, we are about to find out how to easily export your contacts.
How to merge duplicate contacts using Google Contacts
In today’s world, smartphones have improved living standards and how people approach things and situations. Even though they have provided great functionality and usage to people, we have all experienced the “headache” of having a ton of repeated entries in our address book.
How to better prepare for the Web Summit – the small things I wish I knew
We exhibited Covve as a Beta start-up in the Web Summit in 2014 and, with so many detailed comms, we were thoroughly prepared for the event. There were however many small things that I wish we knew before we went. This is a collection of lessons learnt and also hacks and tricks to help you get the most out of it.
How we survived Product Hunt – with four hours notice
For those of you not aware of it, Product Hunt is a website that features the world’s coolest new software products every day. It has tons of followers and being featured on PH can mean massive exposure in a period of just 24 hours.
It’s also a tech team’s worst nightmare.