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Old Bag, New AirTag – Providing the knowledge of “where the heck is my bag”

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Recently, I travelled to the USA and made one small mistake. Well, small for me - failed to transfer an AirTag over from one of my other bags. Trust me. I make other mistakes.  Over the past few years, I've found keeping an item tracker is a valuable thing, with it saving my bacon on more than one occasion.  That could be a Tile or one of Apple's AirTags. In Hamburg, … [Read more...]

Windows 10 End-of-Life – Do you have a plan?

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It's been coming for some time, but Windows 10 is approaching its "End of Life", where support ends for the product on 14th October. What can you do? This advice is targeted at home users or those who have their devices set up for home use. Those on Small Business, Corporate or Enterprise networks, you'd better give your Microsoft Account Manager a ring. Whilst I … [Read more...]

One More Thing – The end of macOS on Intel Platforms

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On Monday, Apple unveiled macOS Taohe with its new design language, improved Spotlight search, among other things, at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The interesting part for owners of older Macs was in the Platform State of the Union address, which was announced after the main keynote, stating that macOS Taohe will be the last version to support Intel-based … [Read more...]

Data Storage Adventures with a UGreen NASync – PART 6: My next steps, Backup Strategies and some resources

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Data Storage Adventures with a UGreen NASync Part 6: My next steps, Backup Strategies and some resources Part 1: Some Background and “Why Now?” Part 2: Which NAS to go for? Some thoughts and design work Part 3: Building, Configuring and Deploying the UGreeen NASync DXP 4800 Part 4: Data Transfer Tips and Tricks Part 5: Making this storage monster grow … [Read more...]

Data Storage Adventures – Part 4 – Moving data around using ROBOCOPY

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Data Storage Adventures - With UGreen NASync 4800 Part 4: Data Migration using ROBOCOPY (or don't let a GUI do what a command prompt can do better...) Time for the bit that everyone loves - data migration.   Part 1: Some Background and “Why Now?” Part 2: Which NAS to go for? Some thoughts and design work Part 3: Building, Configuring and Deploying the UGreeen … [Read more...]

Data Storage Adventures with a UGreen NAS – Part 2: Which NAS to go for?

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Data Storage Adventures - With UGreen NASync Part 2: Time to Shop - for both Hardware and Storage, as well as Deployment Considerations Part 1: Some Background and “Why Now?” Part 2: Which NAS to go for? Some thoughts and design work Part 3: Building, Configuring and Deploying the UGreeen NASync DXP 4800 Part 4: Data Transfer Tips and Tricks Part 5: Making … [Read more...]

Does AppleCare+ work worldwide (Or at least in Singapore)?

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With the Apple iPhone 16 and 16 Pro launching later this week, I want to share a story that might make you consider purchasing AppleCare+ when you buy your new toy. Earlier month, I was in Singapore, where my iPhone 14 Pro was pickpocketed. After a lot of back and forth (there was drama... a story for another day), I found it had been handed in by a kind person. But … [Read more...]