How to Digitize Old Photos with Your Smartphone

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But those filters aren’t perfect, and occasionally you may see messages you want getting sent to the spam folder. Read This Article → What Do the Emoji Next to My Snapchat Friends Mean? Next to some of your Snapchat friends, you'll see little emoji. Read This Article → How to Digitize Old Photos with Your Smartphone We all have old photos that are important to us. Vacations, family members who are no longer with us, good times in our lives—you know, important stuff. The thing is, pictures fade. The best way to keep these precious memories safe is by digitizing them, and what was once a lengthy process can now be done—with pretty exceptional results—directly from your phone. Read This Article → What Are the Flexible Spring Tabs on the Side of Computer Cases For? If we need to remove the side panel on our desktop computers, we usually do not give much thought to the series of flexible spring tabs around the outer edge of the case, but what are they actually there for? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Control Your Amazon Echo from Anywhere If your Amazon Echo can't hear you from the other room, or if you just want to control it when you're away from home altogether, you can do so with a handy third-party app. Read This Article → How to Tell Which Application is Using Your Mac’s Webcam Mac webcams include a light that turns on when your webcam is in use. With the right command, you can check which application is actually using your webcam. Read This Article → Pluto.TV Brings Channel Surfing to Cord Cutters—for Free Five hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, so you’ll literally never be able to watch everything. The real challenge is sorting through everything that you could be watching and deciding what sounds good—like you could in the old days of TV. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Mastering Tabs in Google Chrome You like tabs, we like tabs. Tabs are the coolest thing to happen to web browsers since private browsing and bookmark syncing, but just how much of a tab guru are you? Read This Article → How to Unlock Your Chromebook with a PIN If you don’t use Smart Lock to automatically unlock your Chromebook when your phone is nearby, it can get pretty annoying to type your password every single time you want to log in. Fortunately, there’s a tweak that allows you to use a PIN instead of a password, making the unlocking process much faster. Read This Article → How to Change the Firefox’s Default Search Engine Back to Google The Search box to the right of the address bar in Firefox allows you to quickly search the web without opening a search engine website on a tab. Yahoo is now the default search engine when you install Firefox, but that's easily changed. Read This Article → How to Prevent Windows Users From Changing the Screen Saver There may be times when you want users of a computer not to be able to change the screen saver. Here’s how to prevent it from happening. Read This Article → How to See Who's Viewed and Screenshotted Your Snapchat Story Snapchat is all about transparency. You can always see exactly who's seen your Story and, most importantly, if anyone has taken a screenshot of it before it disappears. Read This Article → Is Microsoft Edge Really Safer than Chrome or Firefox? Microsoft is heavily pushing their Windows 10-exclusive browser, Edge. Ads built into Windows 10 are now claiming that Edge is “safer” than Chrome and Firefox. How did Microsoft determine that, and is it really true? Read This Article → Advertisement Download Interview Errors Don't make these costly mistakes during the interview process. Sitting down with the employer of a job you sincerely desire often is intimidating. Hundreds of different thoughts may be racing through your mind, and when you walk into the interview, if you are not prepared for that, you will be anxious.Click here to download