Friday, November 22

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Use Apple Shortcuts to Build the Ultimate Daily Digital Journal
15Apr By adminNo Comments
Technology

Use Apple Shortcuts to Build the Ultimate Daily Digital Journal

I started journaling in 2019. It's not that I love keeping a journal, exactly. It's more that I find my brain works better if I spend a little time dumping its contents onto paper every morning. This practice got me through 2020, an extremely difficult year, and I've kept it up ever since.My journal isn't advanced. I've got a few sections recommended by my therapist from around the time I started—there's a section I fill in every day with things I'm looking forward to, for example. I use another section to think through what I'm going to eat and other things I'm going to do that day. All of this is straightforward; I just use a template that includes headers for those things.But there's a bit of information I like to gather and include. Each day's weather, for example. I've noticed that I...
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How to Back Up Your Digital Life (2023): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips
31Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

How to Back Up Your Digital Life (2023): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips

To get started, click Add backup, and Duplicati will take you through the process of setting up an account at a cloud storage provider and entering your login credentials. Then you pick which files you want to back up. A word of caution about something that bit me once during testing: When Duplicati can’t find a file—for example, if you’re having it back up data that’s on an external drive you sometimes don’t plug in—it will halt the entire backup until that drive is available. You can change this behavior in the settings, but by default, this is how it works.If Duplicati isn’t quite what you want, another option is MSP360 (formerly Cloudberry). It’s $30, but there is a free version with limited features. MSP360 worked well in my testing, but I did not find anything about it that convince...
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Things to Do: Our 12 Top Tech Tips of 2023
31Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Things to Do: Our 12 Top Tech Tips of 2023

Want to be instantly smarter? Want to bend technology to your will? Want to impress friends and family? You’re in the right spot.This is a compendium of our 12 favorite “Things to Do” from this past year’s Tech Things newsletter. We’ve got plenty of advice for how to make devices more helpful, safe and fun. Here’s a taste:Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Things to Do: Our 12 Top Tech Tips of 2023
31Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Things to Do: Our 12 Top Tech Tips of 2023

Want to be instantly smarter? Want to bend technology to your will? Want to impress friends and family? You’re in the right spot.This is a compendium of our 12 favorite “Things to Do” from this past year’s Tech Things newsletter. We’ve got plenty of advice for how to make devices more helpful, safe and fun. Here’s a taste:Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Big Design-Software Companies in Talks to Merge
23Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Big Design-Software Companies in Talks to Merge

Synopsys is in talks to acquire Ansys in a move that would create a new design-software giant and mark one of the first big merger deals of the new year. An acquisition of Ansys, which has a market value of nearly $30 billion, could be struck early in 2024, according to people familiar with the matter. The talks could still fall apart, and another suitor could emerge. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Fight Over Apple’s iMessage and Those Green Bubbles
22Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

The Fight Over Apple’s iMessage and Those Green Bubbles

Listen to article(2 minutes)After nearly 10 years, my husband, Will, finally joined the Nguyen family iMessage chat.Will, a staunch Android user, infiltrated the group earlier this month using Beeper Mini. This fresh app promises the previously impossible: turning green-bubble Android texts into blue-bubble iMessages. Unlike other workarounds, Beeper Mini initially didn’t rely on a server, a Mac or an iPhone.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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