How to Scan Documents to PDF with Your Android Phone’s Camera

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[The New Yorker] How to Clear Your File Explorer “Recent Files” History in Windows 10 You’ve probably noticed that File Explorer keeps a list of files and folders you’ve recently opened, displaying them at the bottom of the File Explorer window. It’s handy, for sure, but there are times you’ll want to clear that file history. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Disable Notifications in Windows’ File Explorer Microsoft is now testing new “notification messages” in Windows 10’s File Explorer. These messages offer information about new Windows features. They’re first appearing in build 14901, the first Insider Preview build of Windows 10 released after the Anniversary Update. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between Sleep and Hibernate in Windows? Windows provides several options for conserving power when you are not using your PC. These options include Sleep, Hibernate, and Hybrid Sleep, and are particularly useful if you have a laptop. Here’s the difference between them. Read This Article → How to Get Better Performance from Steam In-Home Streaming Steam’s In-Home Streaming is an awesome way to get the top-tier PC graphics you love, with the living room comfort of console gaming. If you’re experiencing less than stellar performance, though, here are a few tips to ensure your games run butter-smooth. Read This Article → How to Scan Documents to PDF with Your Android Phone's Camera The phrase "scanning documents" used to mean spending a silly amount of time in front of a bulky machine, waiting for it to take a physical piece of paper and make it digital. But this is the mobile age, where nearly anything can be done with a phone. And scanning text-searchable documents is stupid easy with little more than your phone's camera. Read This Article → How to Blink Your Lights When Someone Rings Your Doorbell While you can get professional systems installed that hook up your lights to your doorbell, you can use an existing Ring Doorbell and Philips Hue bulbs to have your lights blink whenever someone rings the doorbell. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Automatically Upload Your Phone’s Photos to Dropbox If you regularly take photos on your phone or tablet, uploading them to a cloud service like Dropbox makes it much easier to access them on your PC or other devices. Dropbox actually has a feature that uploads all your photos automatically, as you take them. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Tab Previews in Microsoft Edge Now that it has extension support, Microsoft Edge is becoming a more and more viable browser. One feature people seem to either love or hate is the pop-up preview you get when you hover over a tab. There’s no built-in setting that lets you turn tab previews off, but you can do it with a simple Registry hack. Read This Article → How to Add Tabs to Ubuntu’s Terminal If you work a lot in the command line, you probably keep more than one Terminal window open at once. However, instead of having separate windows, you can condense all your Terminal sessions onto one window using tabs. Read This Article → Should You Use Windows’ Full-Drive Compression to Save Space? Open a drive’s properties window, and you’ll see an option to “compress this drive to save disk space” on Windows. But how much disk space will you save, and what’s the catch? Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 3rd Edition ($30 eBook, FREE) A methodical approach to presenting traditional graphic design theory as it applies to today's website development industry. Click here to download