Author: Mark Snell

Hey there YouTube, welcome back. This week’s episode centers around applying Marie Kondo’s Konmari method of tidying up to your computer. Of course, I could be considered a complete hypocrite by posting this especially if you were to have a quick look at the desk to my left. 🙁

For those that don’t know, Marie Kondo is a tidying guru who penned a book back in 2015 called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up, The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing. It’s a New York Times #1 best-selling book and also earned her a spot in The Times top 100 most influential people of 2015.

2019 has seen a resurgence of her work as Netflix released an 8 part series called tidying up with Marie Kondo on January 1st. I bought the book on Audible in 2017 and enjoyed both the reading and the application.

The basic premise is that we group various things in our lives and keep love and treat well those which bring us joy and thank and let go of those that do not. I won’t go any further into the detail, I encourage you to find someone with Netflix and sit and watch it with them.

I wasn’t able to find anything specific on the konmari.com website about cleaning up your computer, nor have I ever seen Marie use one, so I thought I’d take the premise and make my own.

“Sparking Joy” can be a difficult concept especially with digital stuff, so I’ve broken the concept into a couple of parts. The first is programs. What programs do you have and like using on your computer? Which ones are there because you tried them once and found they weren’t for you? Let’s
head into the Start menu, click settings and apps and you’ll be at the “Apps and Features menu” take a look through this list. Mine is pretty basic as this is my demo machine but even here I was able to find a few programs installed as part of Windows that I didn’t want.

Uninstalling is as simple as clicking on the program name and clicking “Uninstall”. For Windows Store apps that will simply uninstall in place, other programs will take you through an uninstaller that is basically
exactly the same as the Installer you used when you installed it. Take a moment to think about each item in the list if you use it, great. If you don’t know what it is, maybe just leave it, there are a few things installed with Windows that you generally don’t want to get rid of.

For example the Dolby Access app here. This is part of the sound card for this machine and things might not work properly if you remove it. If you aren’t sure, post a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you out.

Another option is to google the name of the program and “Windows 10” and see what comes up. For example, we googled “Windows 10 app Dolby Access” and found this, which was enough to convince us that it was
worth leaving in place. If it’s a program you tried and didn’t use again, or haven’t used in ages, it’s probably worth uninstalling. Say thank you and click uninstall. Worst case, if you have to use it again, you can just download and install it again and know that when you do, you’ll definitely have the latest version, not one that is a year or two old.

On a Mac, removing a program is as
simple as dragging its icon from the Applications folder to the trash.
Remember to say thank you.

Part two is cleaning up your files. The best place to start this is usually the desktop. The desktop is not a place to store your files! You will get to a place where there are so many files on the desktop that you

a) can’t find anything and

b) your computer slows down just redrawing icons.

Create some folders inside of Documents, Pictures and Videos folders
and store everything away. Some people sort by topic, others by time. I’m not really into sorting by time unless it’s photos. If you have a document like a resume or a packing list, it doesn’t really matter when it’s from, it just
matters that you can find it and it’s the current one. It doesn’t make much sense to have a 2010 resume, a 2012 version, a 2015 resume and a 2019 version all in separate folders.

Whatever method you use, don’t be afraid to throw out files if you’ll never use them again. That no junk mail sign that you printed in 2007 isn’t really likely to be used again and won’t take more than 5 minutes to recreate unless it was a real work of art, in which case, by all means, keep it.if it sparks joy.

If you need help creating folders or moving files, Episode 14, should help you out.

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Hey there YouTube! Today I’ve got something slightly different for you.I’m actually reviewing and talking you through the MyLearner’s app from VicRoads.

This app is a new release from VicRoads from December 2018, so it’s less than a month old, which allows you to replace the paper log book for your learner’s.

A bit of history: here in Victoria, Australia you have to have 120 hours of supervised driving on your learner’s and I believe 20 of those have to be nighttime driving hours.

Those hours have to be supervised by fully licensed driver in the passenger seat and previously you had to fill out a paper logbook with all of those hours and each Drive and it’s a slightly painful process!!

Well, VicRoads have now released an app that allows both the learner and the supervisor to have that app, possibly even on the same device (both Android and iOS) on their phone and it actually tracks the drive fully GPS tracked so that there’s no ifs, buts or maybes about whether the drive was done and then at the end of a drive that information is sent back to the supervisor who approves it and it’s recorded as a log. That way there’s no risk of losing the logbook or any of that sort of thing.

The app is called MyLearners. As you can see this is the iOS version. When you install it, at first you have to either log in or sign up. It does require a Vic Roads login, that allows them to authenticate you as a registered, licensed driver. You have to put in your license number and that sort of thing.

A few people have said in the reviews have said there have been some problems with that. I didn’t have a problem but I’m fairly tech savvy that’s why I’m here :), and I will step you through the process in just a sec.

Now I will note that there are some people in the reviews that have said (you’ll see it’s only got a review of 2.9 stars) that they are having trouble with the app crashing, not recording drives that sort of thing. It is brand new, I’m sure it will improve over time. We haven’t had any problems, but we’ve only done 32 minutes of driving so far so we will see.

From here I hit the sign up button, and it took me through to the VicRoads website to sign up for a My VicRoads account. It’s four steps through the process. The first one “Do have a Vic Roads account?” I selected “No”. It says “Do you have a Victorian driver’s license.” “Yes”. I then had to put my driver’s license number in and my address it then verifies my Name, Phone number, email address and a password so that I could log in. Then step three confirms all the details. (I can’t show them here) You have to go through and create all the security questions and answers, the usual sort of thing for an account of this type. The fourth step, it sends you an email so that you activate the account.

That’s the notification you get, that’s the email as it was inthe inbox on my iPhone. I simply click the “activate your account” button, it took me back through, said my account was activated and back in the app it showed me that, I have no drives to verify, I’m not coaching any learners and there’s been zero drives in the past 7 days, which makes sense.

Now, I’ll show you the learners version of this soon but for me, Beccy sent me an invite to say “Will you be a supervising driver for me?” and so I have, in my invites tab, in the learners section, a request from Beccy which I accepted and now she is a learner on my account. It now says I have one learner that I coach with zero drives.

It also has a bunch of tips and tricks that it shows. So, stage one tasks to practice with your learner, practice moving away from the curb, steering, braking smoothly and then I can click the arrow and there’s four or five different tips that it gives. They’re really handy.

Beccy has done a pre-learner’s driving course, so she’s already got about three and a half hours of experience, even before she got her learner’s. It was all done on private roads so it’s not out in traffic or anything like that.

When the learner logs in, this is what they see. Now this is my Rebecca, Beccy as we know her. It was her 16th birthday yesterday and she got her Learner’s Permit at 10 o’clock in the morning so she’s (at the time of this) done 22 minutes of driving. She then went to the supervisor’s tab, hit the plus button up in the top right corner and invited me to be a supervising driver for her, which is the thing that I accepted in the earlier visual.

This is where she is at now, and then when she clicks on the stopwatch down in the bottom middle, it asks her to start a drive. But she needs to select a supervisor first, so she clicks on that. She can choose from either Bernie or myself, she clicked on me, it now says I’m the supervising supervisor for this drive. Click “Start Drive” It then says to “put the phone away. It’s against the law to use your phone while driving” so we simply tap the ok button, and put the phone out of harm’s way.

We don’t necessarily hide it, like putting it down under the seat, is possibly not a good idea because it may interfere with GPS. Some of the people that have been having problems, I wonder if it’s possibly a problem with the GPS on the phone not being able to see the satellites at all.

So off we went on our drive. At the end of the drive, you hit the stop button and it shows the details. I was the supervisor, there were nine minutes of daylight driving, (this was after dropping a friend home from the station) and Beccy had to go through and select the traffic conditions, the weather conditions, types of roads, driving environment and then submit.

Once that’s submitted, it also gives you a little hint, “Basic car control in quiet areas first” This is great for first starting drivers.

Then on her phone it pops up that she has an unverified drive and she has two approved drives.

At this point on my notifications, I then got a notification that there was a drive that I had to approve, so I opened my phone. It shows this drive at 10:05 a.m. as an unverified drive. I tap on that and it says I can either reject or approve that particular Drive. I click the approve button. It’s now an approved drive and back on Beccy’s phone she now gets a notification that says the trip was approved and a comment. “Great work, you need to (supposed to say) relax on the speed changes” and gives the details there.

Beccy now has 31 minutes of daytime driving and a little hint about “are you ready” and then a summary down the bottom of the different types and times of driving that she’s done.

I personally think this is a wonderful app. There is a sort of conflict I guess between having a phone with you while you drive and that being a possible distraction but if it’s managed properly that shouldn’t be a problem. I really like it, kudos to VicRoads for trying something. I think you’ve got done a pretty good job of it. I can’t think of anything I would really change.

I’d love some feedback: if you hate it, love it, whatever! Again, this is the January 2019 version, hopefully, it will improve over time as they think of other things. Again, I’ve done one 9 minute drive using it. My wife’s done 22 minutes so we haven’t had any problems in that 31 minutes of driving. Nor either of us as a supervisor but we will see.

Anyway, thank you so much for watching.

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Hey there YouTube! Another Christmas has come and gone and here we sit in the in-between. That lovely holiday time between Christmas and New Year. Time to enjoy the holidays for most people and plan the New Year’s party and resolutions we make for the year ahead.

But, 2019 isn’t quite here yet, so I thought I’d continue on with the backup theme of the last couple of weeks and introduce you to Dropbox as well.

Why introduce Dropbox when I’ve said I prefer Google Drive? Well, because a lot of people do use Dropbox and it’s quite common for people to share files using Dropbox, so it’s worth knowing how it works.

Failing that, if someone asks, at least you know this episode is here and you
can brush up your skills when you do need them.

Other reasons to like Dropbox include space. Lots of space. They have much larger storage options than Google, starting with 1Tb or a 1000Gb for around AU$150 per year.

Another is excellent multi-way sync. You can connect multiple
computers to a Dropbox account and a file added on one computer will begin to download on your other computers as soon as it’s finished uploading.

To get started with Dropbox, you need to sign up on their home page at Dropbox.com you can even sign in using your Google Account, which is handy because it’s one less password you need to remember. All you have to do is sign into the pop-up with your Google account and allow the Dropbox integration with Google. Then you put in your name and agree to the Dropbox Terms of Service.

The next screen gives you a tour of Dropbox but what we want is the download button behind it, which takes you to the download page where you can download the stub. Once you click this, the mini installer downloads. When you run it, it goes through and downloads the full installer and installs itself into windows. At the end of the install, click “open my Dropbox” and the Dropbox for Windows tool will start.

One of the differences between Dropbox and Google Drive is that Dropbox simply sets up its own folder and anything you put into that folder is synced to Dropbox. It does not backup your existing Documents, Pictures etc like Google Drive does.

At the next screen we selected Dropbox Basic and were rewarded with the message that our computer was now linked to Dropbox. Like Google Drive, the system tray icon gives us access to the Notifications and the Preferences Window.

The Preferences Window has several panels: dealing with your account, the
ability to import any photos from USB drives and memory cards you insert,
bandwidth limitations, proxies, notification settings and the sync options.

I particularly like the selective sync option as it gives you the ability to have a folder sync to your Dropbox and then turn it off on your computer to remove the files from that computer but still have it available in Dropbox and on any other computers that are synced. This is particularly handy if you have a device like a laptop with limited amount of storage space. The files are always available, if you need them, you just have to add them back in to that device’s selective sync and It will download and then untick them when you’re finished to make them disappear from your local storage.

The other great feature is sharing: you can right-click on any file or folder in your Dropbox and select from a variety of dropbox options, including the “share” and “copy Dropbox link”. Clicking “share” will give you a box where you can add someone to share this document with you. If they don’t have a Dropbox account, or don’t have one with this email address, they’ll be asked to create an account with this email before accessing the file.

The second option in the Dropbox section of the drop-down is “copy Dropbox link” which will give you a link that you can simply email to anyone to access and download that file.

I think that’s about enough for now. At The Tech Doctor Network our goal is to help you negotiate the technology maze. Come back every weekend for new videos or subscribe and ring the bell to be notified. I’m here to help. Thank you so much for watching. Have a safe and Happy New Year! Bye!

Hey there YouTube! Before we start, I’d like to wish everyone out there a
Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays if you prefer that.

Last week, we spoke about backing up in general and I recommend Google Drive, so I thought I’d take the time for a quick dive into how to make it work on your computer.

To start with, you’ll need a Google Account. If you don’t have one, we have a Google Accounts article that will explain it step by step.

Login to your Google account at google.com and press on the nine dots (also known as the Rubik’s Cube) up in the top right corner. This displays a collection of the google apps. In this case, we want Drive.

It will show the contents of your Google Drive: possibly showing any Google Docs you might have in your drive. This account is empty as it’s my demonstration account. You can manually upload folders and files but
that’s not very useful, we want automation. Up in the settings cog is a
menu item called “Get back up and Sync for Windows”. (This is
called Drive File Stream if you’ve got a G Suite Account).

Click on the download button for Backup and Sync, agree and download and the Installer will be downloaded. If you’re using a Mac, there’s a version for OSX and the steps will be very similar. Click on the installer down in the corner and the file will finish the download and install.

At the end, click close and the Backup and Sync Setup Wizard will start. We first have to sign in with our Google email address and password and then we get to choose the folders for the Google Backup and Sync to backup.

By default, the folders are Desktop, Documents and Pictures. I tend to choose the ” High Quality” option to fit more photos in and also tick the
Google Photos button at the bottom to allow better access to the photos.
You also have the opportunity to select the folder where the files in your Google Drive will save on your computer and then we can start.

Google Backup and Sync then begins setting itself up and finds your files. The Backup and Sync icon appears in the system tray pictured as a cloud with an up arrow in it, which changes to revolving arrows when it’s syncing. You can click on it to see progress and also links to the Google Drive folder on the computer, Google Drive on the web and Google Photos on the web.

The last icon is a hamburger icon which includes the Preferences menu and some other options. In preferences, we can change our settings including adding extra folders to backup. It also handily gives you an indication of the size of the folder. You can see here I’ve added a folder with over 30Gb to test out the uploads.

If you do run out of space you can click on the link to upgrade which is all handled by Google 1, allowing you to upgrade to 100Gb of space for AU$25 per year or upgrading to 200Gb for AU$44 per year.

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It’s the question I hate asking because I know all too frequently the answer is a horrified Nooooooo.

Do you have a backup?

Stuff happens, hard drives die, Computers get stolen, dropped, caught in floods, fires and various other disasters, both natural and man-made.
There’s also cyber attacks that can lock you out of your data or destroy it.
Or maybe you simply deleted something by accident. There are probably 1001 different causes that all mean you don’t have access to those
files anymore.

But what if there was another copy, a backup tucked away somewhere, far enough away to be out of harm’s way but close enough to be retrieved in a timely fashion if needed?

It sounds so simple; just make a backup. But how? There’s almost as many ways to backup as there are to lose the data in the first place. I’m going to introduce you to several. I’d like you to think about the pros and cons of each.

But please do me a favour and pick one and do it, even if you only do it once a quarter. At least you’ll have something if everything goes bad.

I’ll start by discussing a few terms.

External Storage: If you have an external hard disk plugged into your computer and store your files on it it’s not a backup! If it’s the only copy of that file, there is no backup. Just because it’s external to the computer and on what is often called a “backup drive” doesn’t make it a backup. If the external drive is a copy of all the files on the computer, that’s a backup, of sorts.

On-site and Off-site.

An On-site backup is on the same premises as the computer. That external hard disk plugged into the computer as a backup is great and convenient but also dangerous. If there’s a theft, fire or some other disaster, the backup is likely to be gone as well as the computer.

An off-site backup is somewhere else, preferably several kilometers away.
There’s no point in your neighbour having your backup if their house is  destroyed at the same time as yours.

Back in the dim dark past, my elder sister used to back up her files to CD and give a copy to her younger sister for safekeeping. I think they did it the
other way around as well. They were always a few suburbs away, or further, so it was safe.

Another friend of mine kept a backup CD in her Post-Office Box. Just a permanent envelope at the bottom of the box out of the way but ready to be
collected if needed.

Any sort of backup you do to the Internet or the cloud is by definition off-site.

Automated and User Driven.

A user driven backup requires you to remember to do something: put the DVDs in and out, unplug the hard disk and take it to a safe location, whatever it is. Some people are well suited to these tasks and can just remember or set alarms to do them. Other people are better suited to automated systems to do everything for you in the background. You know what sort of person you are!

Okay then, options. Firstly I’ll cover the user driven backups.

These include: memory sticks, external hard drives and DVDs. These are generally fairly inexpensive but require you to do the work of remembering and then doing what needs to be done. Some of these can be partially automated. I use a three hard disk system for work that backs up to an external hard disk on a 4 hourly basis. This is all fully automated. The manual part comes where I have to swap that external hard disk out on a weekly basis. The drive from the computer into the local safe and then the one from the safe into my car to go home.

Have I ever forgotten? Yes. Is it perfect? No. Is it good enough? Yes, I believe so.

The other consideration of these manual backups is the backup medium itself. Hard drives and memory sticks do die over time, especially if treated roughly. DVDs are single-use and wasteful although you can use the rewritable version but they’re susceptible to damage and loss and age as well.

Automated backups include systems like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive and dedicated backup systems like Carbonite.

Many of these systems operate on a freemium model where you get a smallish amount of space for free and then pay for more if you need it.
Currently, as at the end of 2018 Dropbox gives you 2Gb of data for free,
iCloud and OneDrive give you 5Gb and Google Drive gives you 15Gb shared
with your Gmail and Google Docs.

As you may remember from Maggie’s question a couple of weeks ago, Google will also store all of your photos for free possibly at slightly reduced quality, but not anything you’re likely to notice. Google is currently my favourite for this reason.

There are also dedicated backup systems that will backup not just your documents but also your Programs, Settings and everything else on your computer. I’ve used Carbonite in the past and been quite happy with it. The biggest drawback of any online system being the time it takes for the initial backup and the amount of data from your internet provider that may be consumed.

It’s also worth noting that if you’re attempting to restore from a system like Carbonite, it will take some time to redownload everything and eat into your downloads. It depends a lot on your internet speed and any data transfer limitations that may be in place.

Hopefully that’s given you something to think about.

Post in the comments below to let me know what backup type you use. Maybe there’s something I’ve forgotten.

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On the weekend we looked at WOT, the Web of Trust and in this bonus midweek episode we’re going to look further into trust and the things we trust that others write and say.

Too often we take what others say at face value. What if there a way to check the truth behind the story? Help is out there. Help in the form of snopes.com, the oldest fact checking and hoax busting website on the
internet.

The site began with the intention of investigating urban legends hoaxes and folklore. Founder David Mikkelson started the site in 1984 (so it’s turning 25 next year) and was later joined by his wife and eventually a team to sift through the misinformation of the internet and show the results in as transparent and well researched manner as possible.

The site is simple, you can either browse through various categories or search using the main search bar at the top of the page. This is great for testing the veracity of items you see posted in places like Facebook.

For example; did Smirnoff Vodka take a dig at President Trump with an advert that said “Made in America, but we’d be happy to talk about our ties to Russia under oath”  Yes they did.

Another example of things frequently believed as facts: Does stepping on a rusty nail cause tetanus? No! Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, a bacterium that is fairly ubiquitous in soil. Logically it’s possible that a
rusty nail has been in contact with soil but the connection is much more tenuous than most people think. Type Rust Tetanus into Snopes for all
the information.

If you have too much time on your hands there’s even a randomizer to point you to a random article for your reading pleasure.

I hope you find something really useful in that. Please let us know in the comments what stories you’ve been able to debunk with Snopes.

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I was asked a few weeks ago by Di if I trusted a particular website she wanted to download some software from. It’s not an easy question to answer. I spent a fair bit of time googling the product and the site owner and came to the judgement that the site and what they are offering seem legitimate.

But it’s a lot of work and something I’m asked to do relatively frequently. As part of that investigation, I stumbled upon a product that will do it for me. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great guide. Today I want to introduce you to WOT The Web of Trust extension for Google Chrome and other browsers. We discussed extensions a few weeks ago so I won’t go over that again, I’ll just link it up above and delve into the specifics of this extension.

WOT is a free extension that checks the reputation of each site against WOT’s database of trust gleaned from millions of users across the internet. Any time you do a search WOT scans all the links on the page and puts a small WOT donut beside each link: Green for safe, Yellow for suspicious and Red for unsafe. If the page is unrated it gets a grey donut. It’s worth noting that a great donut is not necessarily a warning, more a sign that the site may get few visitors.

You can also click on the donut to see a detailed WOT page for the site. If you try and go to a site with a poor reputation, a pop-up will appear, warning you that the site is potentially malicious. Really handy.

One other nice feature is that if you’re reading your email in Chrome WOT will highlight the unsafe links in email without cluttering the page with all the safe links. This can be another handy tool for spotting scams in emails.

The other great thing is that you can rate and review any site yourself. In recording this episode I found that a link in my emails to sendgrid.net was marked as red (unsafe). Sendgrid is an email delivery service used by both legitimate and disreputable companies alike. I was able to go in and rate the site as yellow, suspicious which I believe more accurately represents the site and I also left a detailed review explaining why. This then adds to the collective wisdom of the site as a whole.

It’s worth noting that there has been a privacy issue noted with WOT back in late 2016, they were found by a German media outlet to be storing the search data in a way that could be identified. The extension was removed and reworked and re-released in early 2017 with boosted anonymization techniques to protect users. I’m not one to get massively hung up on privacy issues but if you’re really concerned then you’ve been warned.

I personally think this is an excellent extension, especially for users nervous about the websites they’re going to.

A special thanks to Di for her question, I hope this helps you feel safe.

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What is this cloud thing all about? Do I need an umbrella?

The Cloud is many different things depending on who you are, but in its most basic form the cloud is a bunch of server computers that can store and process your data.

Back in the early days of the internet, it would be common to use a diagram of your computer connected to the Internet which was a big cloud then connected to a website or whatever somewhere else. The reason it was pictured as a cloud is because the internet is designed to always find the fastest way but it may not be the same way every time, so it seemed to disappear into a cloud and then come back out the other end.

The internet then sort of became synonymous with a cloud. Later as the internet started to do more than just be pictures and text on webpages,
the concept of internet-based server computing and storage was born and
dubbed Cloud Computing.

What this means for you and I is that the internet (or cloud) can both store and process things for us, without them being tied to our computer. Once this video you are watching was completed and edited by me, I uploaded it to YouTube’s server. The servers there process it into multiple formats and store it for me waiting for you to watch. YouTube is a cloud service.

Gmail is a cloud service. We log into the Gmail site and there is all of our email. Google received it for us, stores it, processes it and, if we ask it to, it forwards it to others or reply or whatever. They also handle the backups for us.

Backups and storage are a huge part of the cloud. Several companies have built huge businesses storing data for individuals and for each other. The massive economies of scale of these giant data centers, scattered all over
the world, with really fast connections in between them, mean companies can store huge amounts of data and quickly replicate it around the world.

It’s really reassuring to know that not only is my file accessible from anywhere it’s stored in many places, so that if a particular part of the world suffers some sort of disaster, it’s not the only copy.

Back in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck the Eastern USA, the data center where I housed several of my websites at the time was mildly impacted, with several outages over a few days. 13 years on, the internet is a different place and that same site can be replicated across the cloud with virtually no downtime.

The theory is all well and good, but how do you, the viewer, make use of the cloud? You probably already are making some use of it, with services like iCloud, Gmail Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook or YouTube.

In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing some more specifics on these topics but I needed to lay the groundwork first.

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