Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Google Plus Redirect
When I go to Google Plus it always doesn't go there. It goes to a page to find friends. When using Google Plus I am at worked I am going there to complete a task. I would like to keep working. I don't think friends are going to do my job for me. No option to not have this launch again and again and again.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Google Contact Mystery
Why do some Google Contacts go missing?
There are some people that when I add them to my contacts from an email it fills in their name. I thought this name completion was great since I find it annoying (and a step backwards) that with most contacts added from email I have to type in the name when it was clearly already available. The joy ends when I switch to my Android phone and the new contacts are not to be found. Ends up their name is lost and they get filed under their company name on the phone only. (Our IT person figured this out for me as I thought they were not transferring to the phone at all.) Since the contacts look fine on the web it is not clear the best way to fix. Deleting their name and general editing back and forth on the web appears to work as does making the change on the phone. The real problem is you don't know who this is going to apply to. Now a month after the initial mystery I have to check my phone for each new contact I add. I don't know if it is Google Plus or corporate Google email or just certain companies.
There are some people that when I add them to my contacts from an email it fills in their name. I thought this name completion was great since I find it annoying (and a step backwards) that with most contacts added from email I have to type in the name when it was clearly already available. The joy ends when I switch to my Android phone and the new contacts are not to be found. Ends up their name is lost and they get filed under their company name on the phone only. (Our IT person figured this out for me as I thought they were not transferring to the phone at all.) Since the contacts look fine on the web it is not clear the best way to fix. Deleting their name and general editing back and forth on the web appears to work as does making the change on the phone. The real problem is you don't know who this is going to apply to. Now a month after the initial mystery I have to check my phone for each new contact I add. I don't know if it is Google Plus or corporate Google email or just certain companies.
Yesterday
I am enjoying that my first post on "Today on Google" is titled "Yesterday."
I am also enjoying that my Google vent blog is on Google's Blogger.
It is still early so my Google interface to this point has only been with Google's Blogger via Safari on my iPad. So far no issues so I am going to vent a bit about yesterday.
Chrome on my laptop was not my friend yesterday. Of course the spell correct substitutions were failing. So I went through and closed all my drafts and closed Chrome. When I reopened Chrome any drafts that were started as blank emails reopened and secured themselves to the bottom. When I went to a new tab it would carry the graphics from the previous active tab over. So while one would think you might be in your mail with drafts open it was just an unresponsive image. After several tries and realizing the chat portion was saying that it could not connect while everything else was I did a complete laptop reboot. This solved the four issues above (for a time).
My other challenge with Google yesterday had to do with Spam. That is going to deserve its own post.
On a more positive note I did learn one tip for viewing your calendar. On the little calendar on the side bar you can highlight several weeks and get a view of those weeks only on the big calendar. When you need to do some schedule planning for more than a week, less than a month, or weeks that overlap two months this may be a handy view. I haven't actually used it to do anything beyond view so stay tuned for potential pitfalls.
Also learned yesterday that although Contacts that was in the Google Bar is not in the Google Square it is still available. It can be found by selecting the drop down on the word Mail on the mail interface. This follows the general rule of Google that you always have to pick the thing you are sure you don't want.
I am also enjoying that my Google vent blog is on Google's Blogger.
It is still early so my Google interface to this point has only been with Google's Blogger via Safari on my iPad. So far no issues so I am going to vent a bit about yesterday.
Chrome on my laptop was not my friend yesterday. Of course the spell correct substitutions were failing. So I went through and closed all my drafts and closed Chrome. When I reopened Chrome any drafts that were started as blank emails reopened and secured themselves to the bottom. When I went to a new tab it would carry the graphics from the previous active tab over. So while one would think you might be in your mail with drafts open it was just an unresponsive image. After several tries and realizing the chat portion was saying that it could not connect while everything else was I did a complete laptop reboot. This solved the four issues above (for a time).
My other challenge with Google yesterday had to do with Spam. That is going to deserve its own post.
On a more positive note I did learn one tip for viewing your calendar. On the little calendar on the side bar you can highlight several weeks and get a view of those weeks only on the big calendar. When you need to do some schedule planning for more than a week, less than a month, or weeks that overlap two months this may be a handy view. I haven't actually used it to do anything beyond view so stay tuned for potential pitfalls.
Also learned yesterday that although Contacts that was in the Google Bar is not in the Google Square it is still available. It can be found by selecting the drop down on the word Mail on the mail interface. This follows the general rule of Google that you always have to pick the thing you are sure you don't want.
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