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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How to Back Up Family Photos So a Dead Phone Can't Take Them

Three copies, two kinds of storage, one off-site. One evening of work and about a hundred bucks a year keeps twelve years of your kids safe.

Filters buy you time, the talks do the actual work

Set Up the Internet for Your Kid Before They Can Argue Back

The filters, settings and house rules that work on a seven-year-old, plus the one sentence that does more than all of them combined.

GuideTradesDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How to Become a Diesel Mechanic and What It Really Pays

The licensing, the apprenticeship routes, the tools worth buying first, and the hazards that put techs in the hospital.

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Wipe a device in the right order before you sell it

Sign out first, erase second. Get that backwards on an iPhone or a MacBook and the buyer gets a locked brick and you get a refund request.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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Gaming5 min read

The family room gaming setup nobody in the house resents

How to keep a console in the main room without hostage-taking the TV, waking the baby, or leaving a nest of cables under the sofa.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The pop-up with a phone number is always a scam

What to change on your parents' computer this weekend, what to say so they'll actually call you, and what to do in order if the money's already gone.

GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The router settings that filter every screen in the house

Twenty minutes at the router covers the tablet, the console, the smart TV and the phone that keeps ending up under a pillow.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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GuideGamingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Set up parental controls on every console in twenty minutes

Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and Steam each hide the important switch in a different place. This is where they're and what they miss.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Which chargers and cables to keep, and which to bin

Tip the drawer onto the table, sort it in twenty minutes, and end up with a set that actually charges everything in the house.

GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Buy the memory card before you buy the dash cam

The camera is the easy part. Mounting, power and what happens to the footage are where most people get it wrong.

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideGamingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

The retro consoles worth keeping and the ones to sell

Flip the Wii over before you list it. Model numbers, dying save batteries, and the honest way to price what's sitting in your closet.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Stop paying more for ink than you paid for the printer

Most home printers are sold at a loss and earn it back on cartridges. Pick the right machine once and that stops happening.

Poll

When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Set up a family password manager in one evening

Two hours at the kitchen table, about forty dollars a year, and your household stops running on one reused password.

GuideGadgetsDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

What to buy when your kid needs a phone, not a smartphone

Four categories that actually work, the network trap that kills cheap flip phones, and the group-chat problem nobody warns you about.

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GuideGadgetsDean Shaw22 Sept 20266 min

The home internet numbers that matter, and the ones that don't

Most households pay for speed they can't use and ignore the two things that actually make the connection feel bad.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Gadgets6 min

Three copies of every photo you would grieve losing

Gadgets5 min

How to buy a laptop that's still good in five years

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Pressure-test my business idea

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GuideGadgetsDean Shaw22 Sept 20265 min

Smart home kit that earns its place, and kit that just sits there

A simple test for every connected device in your house, plus the short list worth buying and the longer list worth skipping.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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Gadgets6 min read

Back up everything so a lost phone is just a bad afternoon

Photos are the easy part. The thing that actually ruins your week is losing the ability to log into anything you own.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?

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The watch that keeps telling Grandpa to stand up

Let your teenager write the first draft of the phone rules

Filters buy you time, the talks do the actual work

Set Up the Internet for Your Kid Before They Can Argue Back

How to Become a Diesel Mechanic and What It Really Pays

Wipe a device in the right order before you sell it

The family room gaming setup nobody in the house resents

The pop-up with a phone number is always a scam

The router settings that filter every screen in the house

Set up parental controls on every console in twenty minutes

Which chargers and cables to keep, and which to bin

Buy the memory card before you buy the dash cam

The retro consoles worth keeping and the ones to sell

Stop paying more for ink than you paid for the printer

Set up a family password manager in one evening

What to buy when your kid needs a phone, not a smartphone

The home internet numbers that matter, and the ones that don't

Three copies of every photo you would grieve losing

How to buy a laptop that's still good in five years

Smart home kit that earns its place, and kit that just sits there

Back up everything so a lost phone is just a bad afternoon