Lisa Hendrickson is the owner of Call That Girl. She is an Outlook Expert and Microsoft 365 Consultant.
We’re always trying to find ways to maximize our profits and minimize our expenses. But, can excessively minimizing your expenses negatively affect your business? The answer is YES. Here at Call That Girl, we many times see clients using free email services for their business needs. Now is the time to move off of the free services and move to your business branded email. The transition is easier than you think, we will help you and can set up your new email so everything matchs on your computer, iPhone, iPad, Tablet, Surface, etc. No more band-aiding your deletes and calendar appts.
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The 3 (4) titans can play together nicely, finally.
If you are having issues syncing your Gmail calendar to your iPhone to your Outlook, give me a call and I’ll help you with this issue. I cannot guarantee a 20 minute set up, but it should be under an hour either way.
Today was interesting. I had a client book some time with me today to work on a Outlook, Gmail calendar and contacts sync issue.
Since he is using free Gmail, you are held hostage to not being able to sync calendars anymore and forget about contacts unless you use a 3rd party tool. And while there are many out there, I tend to lean towards CompanionLink or Gsyncit. Both work, but I’m finding Gysyncit is working better. Less snags in the setup and first round of syncing.
So the client and I set up CompanionLink, he is on a slow internet connection and we find the syncing very slow and required us to close his Outlook and reboot a couple of times to see the actual Outlook calendar on his Samsung phone. We used the Google option for syncing. I also had to configure the settings a few times and I will guess that an average user of CompanionLink would not know about this, the snooping around I do very fast and furiously. When a client is paying per hour, you wan this to just work!
End of the job, we found appointments syncing. Client happy. Until later, no joy. Now we will try Gsyncit tomorrow. I tell ya, free Gmail is not always free folks. I hate telling clients this, but for me it’s not the best if you love and heart Microsoft Outlook like I do!
Just a warning folks, iTunes updates are back at it again, failing and corrupting your current iTunes setup. Your music should be fine as it’s saved in a music directory, but hey….are you backing up your music just in case? Never know. I’ve had my iPhone blown away from a bad update and thank goodness, a restore was done recently.
Updates, need ’em, but how bad? I’m willing to risk it sometimes.
So tonight I am doing the famous bad update to see what happens. So far, so good. Half way there. And after it was done, all set. iTunes still works. But let’s look at what programs I don’t have, that some of my clients did have on their system that may have caused the update to crash. (*I haven’t rebooted my computer yet either, so we will see if that happens tomorrow am!)
From what I have seen, the Apple Mobile Device services were the partial cause. You can try to start the services again and it might work, but I had to do a full clean up and reinstall on the computer I fixed last.
What is the repair you ask? Basically remove all Apple products from your computer, run a cleaner to remove all registry items associated, reboot and then install from scratch. Be sure to back up your music before hand.
Need our help? Give us a call, we can get it fixed quick for you. 612-865-4475
I purchased Office 2013 many months ago, and while I was kind of not looking forward to the new products (always a learning curve, or getting used to the new look), I have to admit that I do now enjoy Outlook 2013 more than I expected. Here are my top 3 reasons to upgrade.
1.) It’s fast! I love the speed they gave this product. This could be because I have 8 gigs of memory on the computer, but I have noticed the speed on even my 2 gig memory computer. I have noticed while surfing between my folders that this version of Outlook just goes right through them and the search feature even seems faster.
2.) Not as many “White screens of death”….this is compared to the good old Windows blue screen of death. If you are an avid Outlook user and maximizing it (meaning, many emails being checked, many folders and PST files), you have to had a few “white screens”. Outlook 2013 has very few. I have gotten them, but that’s usually when I’m doing mad crazy work. I overclock it.
3.) Social Network Connector, it’s awesome! I signed in with my LinkedIn and Facebook, and now anytime I get an email from someone who has an account with that email in LinkedIn or Facebook, it shows their picture and links to view their social networks quickly. Pictured above is how you add it and below is how an email looks after receiving an email.
If you are of the many folks who use “LogMeIn” to log into your home computers from work, or vice versa…the big news is that it’s no longer free and you will have to pay to continue to use the service. There are many alternatives, but here is my recommendation. As a professional remote support specialist, I believe in paying for what works. If this product has worked for you for years without issues, I recommend paying the fees to upgrade to LogMeinPro and continue using it. It’s important that your day to day stay consistent. I have found that trying new products to stay free, only costs you money in the long run. To remote into 2 computers for a year is $99. I pay that a month for my remote support tools (that allows me day to day remote access to your computers LogMeInRescue). I find this acceptable in terms of price. I know it would be great to find something cheaper, but as I said, if this is working now, upgrade and no time is wasted. If you spend a lot of time finding other software and tools, what is your time worth? If you do not want to pay, then be careful of other free services that are out there and will be popping up here due to the LogMeIn free going away. Be careful if people start calling you, especially from other countries. Scam artists know what people want and how to sell you things fast. If you have any questions, please email Lisa@callthatgirl.biz.
