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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, July 31, 2022
Topics covered in this issue…
• Format a flash drive to work with both Windows and macOS
• Prevent hackers from spying on you via your PC’s microphone
• Q&A: Should I replace a 4 year old SSD just to be safe?
• Would you travel the world’s most dangerous road?
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Today’s quick tech tip….
Format a flash drive to work with both Windows and macOS
If you ever find yourself needing to share files between a Windows PC and a Mac, you can easily do that using a regular flash drive (assuming the drive has connectors that fit in both machines).
All you need to do is format the flash drive using the exFat file system.
You can format the flash drive with either a PC or Mac, but the process is simpler on a PC. Here’s how:
Important: Before you format any drive it’s a good idea to check to make sure there aren’t any files on it that you don’t want to lose. Any files that are on the drive will be gone after the format process is complete.
1 – Connect the flash drive to the PC.
2 – Press the Windows+E key combination to open a “File Explorer” window.
3 – In the left-hand pane, click This PC.
4 – In the right-hand pane, right-click on the flash drive you want to format, then select Format from the drop-down menu.
5 – Click inside the drop-down box in the “File system” field and select exFat.
6 – Click OK in the warning box to confirm that you really want to format the drive.
7 – Click OK in the “Format complete” dialog, then click the X to close the “Format dialog”.
That’s all there is to it. You can now copy files from a Windows PC onto that flash drive and access them on a Mac (and vice versa).
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Prevent hackers from spying on you via your PC’s microphone
Hackers are using malicious apps to spy on Windows users via their own microphones. This post explains how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
• Q&A: Should I replace a 4 year old SSD just to be safe?
A reader wants to know if she should replace an old, but still working SSD in case the drive should fail. This post has my answer.
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Would you travel the world’s most dangerous road?
To say this road isn’t for the faint of heart would be quite an understatement.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Elon Musk-Twitter trial to start October 17
• Apple Pay may finally work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in iOS 16
• Senate bill aims to restore net neutrality
• Fujitsu’s supercomputer in the cloud could help unlock the mysteries of space
• AST SpaceMobile taps Nokia for its space-based cellular network
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