Reviving Old Laptops, Migrating Google Data, and the Communal Tablet Problem

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🗓️ 16 August 2012

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week on the podcast we're talking about reviving your old laptop, migrating Google data, using tablets as communal devices, and making grocery shopping suck a bit less. Also, we're answering your questions about our podcasting setup, migrating data between Windows installations, and if Dropbox is really the best file syncing solution out there. And more downloads! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:24.8	Welcome to LifeHacker.
0:26.8	It is Thursday, August 16th, correct?
0:30.6	With me is Wittson Gordon.
0:32.3	Hello.
0:32.6	Adam Duchess.
0:33.7	Thorne Klauski is joining us.
0:35.5	I'm Adam Pash.
0:36.7	Let's jump right into news for this week.
0:39.8	So, Witson, this week you gave your slow overheating laptop a breathe new life into it, gave it an extreme makeover.
0:48.7	Yeah. So it's not exactly news, but I did have...
0:51.6	It's not terribly newsy.
0:52.7	But it's something that all of us need at some point in our lives.
0:56.3	You know, especially with us gadget geeks, we always want, like, the latest and greatest thing.
1:00.3	And it would be amazing to get out of a new laptop every year, but that's over time your laptop gets kind of dirty and it, you know, it gets, you know, heats up more and it slows down.
1:14.1	And it's just not the laptop it once was.
1:16.6	So for this post, you actually, but you had, you got like a hand-it down.
1:19.6	I actually had, well, so it was my girlfriend's laptop.
1:21.7	She just got a new MacBook air.
1:22.7	And her old white MacBook was, you know, from 2006, it was not in the best shape. And so I, um, borrowed it
1:30.0	from her and with no promise of giving it back and full working condition. But, you know, I opened
1:35.1	it up and I, you know, checked out some of the stuff that I could fix and maybe some of the
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