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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Wednesday, January 5, 2021.
Topics covered in this issue…
• Have multiple Apple devices? Enable this awesome feature.
• What to do if your hotel room has a weak WiFi signal
• How to get instant help with Windows Commands
• Like snow? If so, you’ll love this video.
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Today’s Quick Tip….
Have multiple Apple devices? Enable this awesome feature.
Would you like to be able to “copy” something on one Apple device and “paste” it onto a different Apple device?
For example, let’s say you’re reading an article on your iPad or iPhone and you want to use a quote from that article in a blog post you’re writing on your Mac.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to copy the desired text using your iPad or iPhone and then paste it directly into your blog post on the Mac?
Or perhaps you want to send the link to that article to an associate on LinkedIn but you don’t have the LinkedIn app on your iPhone.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to copy the link to your iPhone’s Clipboard and then paste it directly into a LinkedIn message on your Mac?
Or what if you want to copy something on your Mac and paste it on one your mobile devices?
Or perhaps copy on your iPhone and paste onto your iPad?
All of those things sound impossible, right? Well, those things are entirely possible (and very easy to do) thanks to a handy Apple feature called Universal Clipboard.
And guess what? You don’t need to install an app on any of your devices in order to use it.
The Universal Clipboard feature is already present on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. All you have to do is enable it on all of your Apple devices and you’ll be all set.
This page on the Apple website has all the details, including simple instructions for enabling Universal Clipboard on your devices and then using it to copy and paste between them.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips…
• What to do if your hotel room has a weak WiFi signal
One of the most annoying things about traveling is getting stuck in a hotel room in which there isn’t a usable WiFi signal. This post offers several tips that might help.
• How to get instant help with Windows Commands
This post explains how to ask Windows for a quick ‘cheatsheet’ if you need help typing a Windows Command onto the Command Line.
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
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Rick’s Daily Pick…
Amazon Basics 4-Port Car Charger (#ad)
This charger provides three standard USB type A charging ports plus a super-handy USB-C port, pretty much ensuring that it’ll work with every mobile device you own.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Like snow? If so, you’ll love this video.
Can you image getting 17 feet of snow in one calendar month? This intriguing short video shows that looks like.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Asus recalls product after users ‘smell smoke’
• Verizon’s upgraded 5G will cover 100 million people this month
• Classic BlackBerry phones stop working today
• Intel’s new laptop processors aim to topple Apple’s mighty M1 chips
• Intel’s 12th-gen KS-series chips will reach 5.5GHz on a single core
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