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Server here, viewer there How-To Geek's Nate Pangaro installs the free Spacedesk server on the main Windows machine and the client on the old laptop, puts both on the same network, and the second screen appears with no cable involved, because a laptop's HDMI port is a video output and never an input; Wi-Fi carries the picture, an Ethernet cable is the fallback when the wireless link turns unstable, and his Windows 10 laptop connected to a Windows 11 machine without trouble.

Vault inside the sync folder MakeUseOf's Afam Onyimadu creates a Cryptomator vault, drops it into his Google Drive sync folder and unlocks it as a virtual drive when he needs the files, so Drive keeps syncing, versioning and recovering the data while seeing only scrambled names and contents; he is straight about the price of that, since file sizes, timestamps and the existence of the vault stay visible, and inside an unlocked vault you lose previews and search.

Edit, Markup, redact pen Android Police's Akshay Bhalla walks the new redact pen that now sits beside the scribble pen in Google Photos Markup: choose Mosaic, Mosaic Light or Blur, set the thickness, slide a finger across the account number or the address, then tap Save as copy so the untouched original stays in your library; it is rolling out on Android only, with no iOS date confirmed, so it may not have reached your app yet.