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Can I sync from Edge to Safari?
QRobert Irvine’s Easy When You Know How column in Issue 624 (page 74) on using Raindrop.io to sync bookmarks across browsers was very interesting. I use Edge on my Windows 10 PC and Safari on an ipad and two iphones, but I can’t find a way to automatically sync bookmarks between them. Will Raindrop.io be able to include Safari? If not, what is the best way to manually sync Edge bookmarks with Safari? Allen Knight
AYes, this will work because the Raindrop.io extension is available for Safari on IOS and ipados. Perhaps Robert could have mentioned this, but he’d already covered numerous other browsers, and it would have been impossible to cover every eventuality.
Regardless, we’re happy to explain how to achieve this. First, download the Raindrop.io app from www.snipca. com/40925. You’ll need this installed on your ipad and your two iphones. With that done, you then need to enable the Raindrop.io extension so that your collection of bookmarks stored in Raindrop.io can be accessed in Safari.
To do this, open iphone/ipad Settings, then tap Safari followed by Extensions. There, under the Allow These Extensions heading, tap to flip the Raindrop.io slider to its On position (see screenshot below).
Finally, to access Raindrop.io in Safari, on an iphone tap the double-a icon at the top left and then tap Raindrop.io. In ipad Safari you can alternatively tap the Raindrop.io icon that appears on the right-hand side of the address bar.
Why can’t I beat Microsoft’s restrictions?
QI have tried to follow the ‘Beat Microsoft’s restrictions to install Windows 11’ Workshop in Issue 618 (page 38). However, I received a message that I don’t understand (see screenshot above). Can you explain why and what I should do, please?
Malcolm J Reid
AYour screenshot shows a standard Windows 11 message, asking you to choose what you want to keep. However, it also has a note saying that, for a variety of reasons, your apps and personal files cannot be kept. That can happen even with a standard upgrade and the causes – and thus the solutions – are many and varied.
You can proceed but that would result in a clean install, where all your stuff is deleted – though you would end up with a fresh copy of Windows 11. As we stated in the Workshop, you can do this, but be sure to back up everything first.
Otherwise, you’ll have to work through everything that might be preventing the other options from working.
Could you have built in better graphics advice?
QI’m wondering if, in your reply to Phil James, in Issue 624’s What Should I Buy? column (page 26), you’re sure the advice you gave is correct? Coincidentally, I’m in a similar position to Phil, and I have conducted my own research. Everyone I’ve spoken to has said that, where graphics-hungry software is used, both integrated and discrete graphics cards would be the best solution – in other words, two graphicsprocessing units (GPUS). However, your response was to “recommend a PC with a built-in graphics card”. Aren’t all graphics cards built in? By which I mean, integrated graphics. I think it would be helpful to Phil, myself and all the readers of your excellent magazine if you could clarify your response with a little more detail. Dennis Bailey
AWe borrowed Phil’s own terminology when replying. This evidently caused some confusion for you. By ‘built-in’ we did indeed mean ‘integrated’, which is how graphics cards that are really just part of the centralprocessing unit (CPU) are more commonly described. On reflection, we should have stuck with this common description.
You are right that a discrete graphics card – meaning a GPU that plugs into the motherboard via its own expansion card – will almost always be better than an integrated GPU. If you want the best performance when doing anything that’s graphically demanding then modern discrete graphics will typically outperform any modern integrated alternative.
However, remember that Phil asked us a specific question. We concluded that for Phil’s ‘everyday’ needs, integrated graphics as part of a newer CPU would be the better bet, because graphics were not his primary concern. But, if your own requirements are skewed more towards the graphics side of things, a discrete graphics card and last-generation CPU might be a better bet. Or, if money permits, a discrete graphics cards with a current-generation CPU – but Phil didn’t have the budget for both.