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  • Keep All Your Gadgets Charged on the Road

    Keep All Your Gadgets Charged on the Road

    Messy wires on hotel desk

    Difficulty: Easy

    There are few things more annoying than arriving at your destination and discovering that some important device you brought won’t get charged because of one stupid thing you forgot to pack. Here’s an easy way to avoid that.

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  • Back up a YouTube channel with JDownloader2

    Back up a YouTube channel with JDownloader2

    Overview

    Did you know if that if YouTube deletes your channel, even if they do it in error and it’s “restored,” the content is gone forever–unless you have a backup? I found that using Google Takeout can be really cumbersome with large channels and the collection of files and data it gives you aren’t in a form that is very helpful for restoring things. After searching around (like, a lot), I found a great video on YouTube from GSheets with a whole different approach.

    Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    This tutorial may gloss over some of the Google Sheets aspects he specializes in, so check out his video for that. But I’ll go a lot deeper into how to use JDownloader2 in the process. This is something I originally wrote as part of my job at Portland Community College, but I thought it’s worth making available to the world at large.

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