Category: General tips and hacks

Best Easy Phone Upgrade Ever!

Best Easy Phone Upgrade Ever!

My USB-C charging and headphone socket had become unreliable. I look after my phones and have never broken, loosened or otherwise adversely affected a charging socket before but had to assume that’s what had happened because it was difficult to charge (long leads that put a bit of weight on the connection would fail part …

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UPDATED: MacOS Cloud Desktop – new instructions for OneDrive

UPDATED: MacOS Cloud Desktop – new instructions for OneDrive

Using a cloud-based folder (eg a folder within your sync’d Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive) means its possible to a) synchronise the contents of your desktop across multiple devices, b) make it available from elsewhere, and c) back it up. Previously I wrote instructions that, as at the time of writing this article (February 2022), …

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Using a cloud-based desktop folder on MacOS X & Windows 10

Using a cloud-based desktop folder on MacOS X & Windows 10

These instructions no longer work for MacOS – but these do Using a cloud-based folder (eg a folder within your sync’d Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive) means its possible to a) synchronise the contents of your desktop across multiple devices, b) make it available from elsewhere, and c) back it up. On MacOS X First …

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