Web User - UK (2019-10-16)

72 16 - 29 October 2019

Backing up Gmailworks like
a dream
Issue 484 ofWeb Userfeatured a
workshop about backing up Gmailto
your PC using UpSafe Free Gmail Backup
(bit.ly/gmbu484). I’m a taxi driver and
my weekly invoice (PDF) and customer
statisticscome via Gmail. I’ve been
lookingfor a way to downloadmy emails
from Gmail
and I have to
say that this
program is
the business.
The backup
options,
along with
the email filtering,work like a dream
when sortingmy accounts.
In Step 5 ofyour workshop,you sa y
that “any attached files can be
downloaded from theAttachments tab”.
The thing is, theattachments are
automatically downloaded anyway,
which isawesome, so there’s no needto
download them separately. That’s a minor
point, but UpSafe Free Gmail Backup is
definitely anexcellent, free program.
This issuewas the best £2.30 I’ve
spent thisyear, although I buyyour
magazineregularly and love it.
Graeme Hanson, via email

Stop scaremongering about

smart meters

In responseto your question about smart

meters (Inbox, Issue 485) –yes, we have

one, but I’ve sinceswitched supplier so

the readings are notyet automatically

sent to mynew supplier.They say this

will changevery soon, though, so the

fact that I already have the system in

place andready to use is a bonus.

Meanwhile, the indoor meterstill works

so I can takemy meterreadings from it,

which saves me ferreting around in the

outside cupboard.

Sadly, there’s been some

scaremongering, which has put some

people off smart meters.They are no

different from any other electronic or

mechanical meter,except with the bonus

that readings can bereceived by the

company automatically andyou can see

all readings in thewarmth ofyour home

without havingto dive in cupboards with

a torch. They cost the same andyes, you

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Quiz Answers: Issue 485

The Wizard of Oz

Citizen Kane

A Fistful of Dollars

Cool HandLuke

Duck Soup

12 Angry Men

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n his Page 404column in Issue 485,

BarryCollins raves about the latest

version of Firefox and says that it

“may be aboutto land a sucker punch

on Chrome”. Sorry, but what planet is

Barry living on? Firefox hasn’t got

a hope of winning back users from

Chrome, whether it deservesto or not.

Google has suchcontrol over the

web that its Chrome browser is the

automatic choicefor most people,

and they’ll probably never feel the

needto try anything else. Chrome is

preinstalled on all Android devices,

for a start, and it has all the best

extensions including Grammarly,

Evernote and Ghostery. I know

those same add-ons areavailablefor

Firef ox, too, but whenyou searchfor

them, the Chromeversions always

Firefox is still no match for Chrome

appear first in theresults.

Firef ox had its chance but itfailed to

keep up with Chrome and now it’s fallen

so far behind that it will bevery hardfor

it to regain popularity.Adding afew

privacytools isn’t likelyto help, despite

what Barry thinks, becauseyou can

already get thosefeatures from

add-ons.

In any case, I don’t use Chrome or

Firef ox any more. I switchedto Vivaldi

last year and haven’t looked back. It’s

got much more interestingfeatures

than either of those browsers andyou

can installextensions from the Chrome

Web Store andsync allyour

bookmarks and passwords between

PCs. Asyou covered in your workshop

in Issue 485, there’s also aVivaldi app

for Android now, so I caneven avoid

using Chrome onmy phone.

I’m not bashing people who like

Firef ox – if itworks for them, then fine

• butto suggest that it’s making some
  sort of majorcomeback is laughable.
  Darren Herman, via email

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