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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, August 29, 2022
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to back up and restore your Chrome bookmarks
• Q&A: How do you rename a Windows PC?
• Q&A: What’s the best lens for portrait photography?
• Video: This guy installed his own ‘solar power plant’ and cut his electric bill to zero
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Today’s quick tech tip….
How to back up and restore your Chrome bookmarks
If you use Google’s popular Chrome browser you probably have a long list of bookmarks that facilitate fast one-click access to your favorite websites and online services.
Have you ever considered what might happen if you were to lose those bookmarks to a hard drive crash, a lost or stolen PC, or some other unfortunate incident?
You could always spend an hour or two re-creating those bookmarks from scratch, but if you take a few moments to back up your bookmarks now you’ll be able to quickly restore them if they ever get lost or corrupted.
Backing up your Chrome bookmarks is easy. Just follow these steps:
1 – Connect a USB flash drive to your computer to receive the exported bookmarks.
2 – Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner of the window.
3 – Select Bookmarks and Lists >Bookmark manager from the menu.
4 – Now click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner of this window, then select Export bookmarks.
5 – Navigate to the USB flash drive you inserted in step 1, then click the Save button.
That’s all there is to it. You should now have a file containing your exported Chrome bookmarks on the USB flash drive. I recommend that you store that drive in a safe place in case you ever need to restore your bookmarks.
If you ever need to restore the bookmarks, simply repeat the steps above and select Import bookmarks when you get to step 4.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Q&A: How do you rename a Windows PC?
This post has step-by-step instructions.
• Q&A: What’s the best lens for portrait photography?
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• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Video: See how this guy installed his own ‘solar power plant’ and cut his electric bill to zero
Wondering if you can do it too? Watch this short video.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit
• Satellite-to-phone companies are thrilled about SpaceX / T-Mobile deal
• MacBook self-repair program highlights Apple’s flawed repairability progress
• NVIDIA made too many GPUs, which could be good news for gamers
• James Webb telescope captures surreal images of Jupiter’s auroras
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