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  • iPhone cookie error when adding a Google account

    If you are on iOS 12.0.1 and getting a you’ve reached this page because we have detected that cookies are disabled in your browser error message every time you try to add a Google account to Mail—and you’re certain that cookies in Safari are indeed not blocked—update iOS (to 12.1, as of this writing), and…

  • Using Santa to block an .app

    Acknowledgements Special shoutout to @bur on the Mac Admins Slack for help with some command-line syntax. Santa can be complicated, but doesn’t need to be Google has a project on GitHub called Santa, which is quite powerful and complicated. As the project’s readme says, though: Documentation: This is currently limited.. I just wanted to do…

  • Setting up GAM: “Click the 3 dots to the right of your service account” not showing

    GAM is a neat little command-line utility for admins to manage the G-Suite for their organizations. The setup process is fairly straightforward, even though there are a lot of steps. I did notice one little bit of weirdness that actually has nothing to do with GAM, but it put a little wrench in my GAM…

  • iPad Gmail Mail “password missing” error

    This randomly happened after we set up a slew of iPads with the same email account (Gmail on Mail), and sending messages put the outgoing message into the Outbox with an error that the password is missing, with the options to Cancel or go to Settings. Going to Settings, though, offers no option to input…

  • Finding commercial songs to legally put in a YouTube video

    If you’re making a movie and want commercial songs you can legally put into your YouTube-uploaded video, Google has a collection of licensed, ad-supported songs: Ad-supported music