How to Buy the Right Scanner for Your Needs: Photos, Documents and More

Did You Know? The White House has 132 bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, and 28 fireplaces spread over the six levels of the residence. Geek Trivia The Majority Of History’s Massive Volcanic Eruptions Have Occured Where? Australia → Africa → The Pacific Ocean → Iceland → Advertisement Free eBook: Improve Your Team's Mobile Productivity With Office 365 Office 365 and its cloud-based tools provide the proper support for mobile workers so they can access data securely and collaborate - regardless of location. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Work with Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive How to Scrub Through Audio and Video Slowly in iOS How to Buy the Right Scanner for Your Needs: Photos, Documents and More Is There a Difference Between Name Server and Domain Name Search Results? How to Tune Your Guitar with the Amazon Echo How to “Hide” Contacts on the iPhone for Greater Privacy How to Disable the Delete Confirmation Dialog Box in Outlook How to Teach Siri Who People Are (for Faster Calling) How to Take Screenshots and Record Videos on an Xbox One The Five Most Useful Features in Nova Launcher for Android Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Wraparound In the context of video games, the term Wraparound refers to the elimination of conventional/standard boundaries on single screens so that objects “leaving” one side of the screen immediately reappear on the opposite side of the screen. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Linksys WRT routers won't block open source firmware, despite FCC rules - Ars Technica New rules that affect open source firmware on Wi-Fi routers will be implemented on June 2, but not all network hardware will prevent the loading of third-party software. [ArsTechnica] Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show Leaked internal guidelines show human intervention at almost every stage of its news operation, akin to a traditional media organization [The Guardian] Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes "In Civ 6, it's the city itself that's being altered." [Polygon] People Understand How to Make Good Passwords, But Still Don't A recent study shows people are actually pretty good at making strong passwords, they just don't use them in their day to day lives. [Motherboard] Fallen down an internet rabbit hole recently? Blame your dopamine-driven brain Searching for things online, checking social media, even looking up directions is all entirely a little too rewarding for our stimulation-oriented brains. [Quartz] Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years After shutting down, an online community plans to preserve its data on a micro-etched metal plate. [The Atlantic] How to Work with Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive Microsoft Office files are still very common, but if you’re more of a Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides user, you can still edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in Google Drive–if you know how. Read This Article → How to Scrub Through Audio and Video Slowly in iOS In audio/video parlance, “scrubbing” is the act of fast-forwarding or reversing through the audio track or video to a particular location.  Most of the time, the default speed is fine, but if you’re looking for a particular location (especially in a long video), it helps to slow down the scrubbing speed. You can do that easily in Apple apps like Safari and Music, and also in some third-party apps. Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Buy the Right Scanner for Your Needs: Photos, Documents and More Not all scanners are created equal. Even if you buy a top of the line model, it might not be the right tool for the job, and you’ll waste time, get inferior results, and curse the day you bought the wrong model. Read This Article → Is There a Difference Between Name Server and Domain Name Search Results? When looking up information about a website, there are different amounts of data you can find based on the type of search you do. You may also find yourself wondering if the same type of search goes by more than one name as well. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a confused reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Tune Your Guitar with the Amazon Echo While the Amazon Echo is known for providing news and traffic info, or playing music and reading your audiobooks to you, that’s really just the tip of the iceberg. Using an add-on Skill, you can use the voice-controlled device to help you tune your guitar without any extra tools. Read This Article → How to “Hide” Contacts on the iPhone for Greater Privacy Do you have contacts on your iPhone that you want to keep private? Or, maybe you have a bunch of contacts that you want to keep, but don’t want appearing in your address book. iOS actually has a built-in way to do just that. Read This Article → How to Disable the Delete Confirmation Dialog Box in Outlook If you delete a lot of emails when sifting through your Outlook inbox, you might have turned on the option to automatically empty the deleted items folder when exiting Outlook. That's handy, but you most likely have to confirm the deletion of the emails every time. Read This Article → How to Teach Siri Who People Are (for Faster Calling) Calling people with Siri is a great little shortcut, but it isn’t always natural to say “Call Jane Smith” instead of “Call Mom”. Luckily, you can teach Siri who people are–your parents, your doctor, or anyone else–for even more convenient voice calling. Read This Article → How to Take Screenshots and Record Videos on an Xbox One Microsoft’s Xbox One allows you to easily capture a screenshot or record the last thirty seconds of gameplay as a video. You can also use the Game DVR app for more fine-grained recording options. All video clips are saved in 720p resolution at 30 frames per second. Read This Article → The Five Most Useful Features in Nova Launcher for Android Nova Launcher is an unofficial fan favorite for Android power users, and with good reason—it's chock-full of nifty customization features to help users make Android look how they want. But it's also full of useful time-saving features that can make your life easier. Here are five of our favorites. Read This Article → Advertisement Free eBook: Improve Your Team's Mobile Productivity With Office 365 Office 365 and its cloud-based tools provide the proper support for mobile workers so they can access data securely and collaborate - regardless of location. Click here to download