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I’m a big fan of film photography, but one problem is that physical photos are hard to share. Everyone uses Instagram or Facebook now. Thankfully, it’s relatively simple—though not necessarily cheap—to digitize film photos. So, whether you’ve found a box of old photos in your parent’s basement you want to put online, or you just shot a roll of 35mm film last week, here’s what to do. Film photos come in two forms: developed photo prints and the original slides or negatives....

Microsoft Office is packed with enabled-by-default features, like “pick up where you left off.” Some people find this feature useful, but others…not so much. If you’re willing to make a couple of quick changes to the Registry, you can disable this feature. As the name implies, “pick up where you left off” brings you to the point you were at in a document when you last closed it. So, if you were on page 32 of your Word document when you exited the program, the next time you open it, you’ll be back on page 32—with your insertion point at the same location, too....

If you used Bing Rewards in the past, you’ll be familiar with this. The program has been rebranded “Microsoft Rewards” and also rewards you for using Microsoft Edge. It’s still only available to US residents. Here’s how it works. There are also other bonus offers–when we wrote this, there were 170 points extra worth of bonus offers in the Rewards dashboard. Microsoft offers a new batch of bonuses once per day, too....

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a great security tool, and we always recommend it. Office 365 admins can enforce MFA for users, which means you can help protect anyone sharing your Office 365 business subscription. To do this you’ll need to be an Office 365 administrator, which only happens with a business plan. If your Office 365 subscription comes as part of a domain hosting package, then you’ll have access to the Admin console....

How to Find Bucket Size from the GUI From the S3 Management Console, click on the bucket you wish to view. Under Management > Metrics > Storage, there’s a graph that shows the total number of bytes stored over time. Additionally, you can view this metric in CloudWatch, along with the number of objects stored. You can use this to add the bucket size to a graph in a CloudWatch dashboard....

Twitter can be a great place to be, sharing ideas with like-minded individuals on the opposite side of the globe. But it can be full of abuse, too. That’s where filters come into play, and here’s how they work on the iPhone. Twitter offers a couple of different ways to filter out the noise when using its official iPhone app. Both of them go some way to preventing people from jumping into your life and offering nothing of value—something Twitter has found itself in the news for all too often....

When you use LinkedIn, it’s all about who you know. However, to import contacts, you normally have to permit the service to access your email and give up some privacy. Here’s how to export your contacts as a CSV file and then import them into LinkedIn. How to Export Your Contacts The first thing you need to do is to export all the contacts from your email account that you want to import into LinkedIn....

Using a Windows driver inside of Linux may also give you faster transfer rates or better encryption support depending on your wireless card. If your wireless card is working, it is not recommended to install the Windows driver just for fun because it could cause a conflict with the native Linux driver. Download Wireless Card Driver The first thing you need to do is figure out what wireless card you have....

Use an Excel Budget Template You can get a jumpstart on your budget by using a template. Microsoft offers several budget templates already in Excel or via the Office Template website. RELATED: How To Create Custom Templates in Excel To see the budget templates in Excel, open the application and select “More Templates” in the Home section. Enter the word “budget” into the search box and you’ll see many options....

Windows 10 has a new Settings window for configuring printers, but you can still use the old Control Panel tools, too. Here’s what you need to know about installing, configuring, sharing, and troubleshooting printers on Windows. How to Add a Printer To add a printer, head to Settings > Devices > Printers & Scanners. Click the “Add a Printer or Scanner” button to search for nearby printers, whether they’re hooked up to your PC or connected to the network....

Set Up Contacts Account The first thing you’ll want to do is set up an account to which you can sync and save your contacts. Open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad and go to “Password & Accounts.” Here, tap on “Add Account.” Choose from one of the services where you already have your contact book. This can be iCloud, Google, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, or a personal server....

When your recipient receives the image, it will be a blurry image with a spoiler tag on it. When this tag is clicked, the image opens as usual. RELATED: How to Use Spoiler Tags to Hide Messages and Images on Discord Spoiler an Image in Discord for Mobile On your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, use the official Discord app to send spoiler images. To do so, first, launch the Discord app on your phone....

You can easily merge and split cells in Microsoft Word to make your tables more interesting and more suited to the data you are trying to share. When you merge two or more cells, you are bringing them together in one cell. When you split a cell, you are dividing it from one cell into multiple cells. You can merge and split tables on the individual cell level, as well as on the larger, table-wide level....

If Microsoft Teams keeps reinstalling itself on your Windows PC and launching itself at boot, there’s a solution. You can’t just uninstall Microsoft Teams the usual way: You have to uninstall it twice. It’s silly, but that’s how it works. Specifically, you’ll have to uninstall both “Microsoft Teams” and the “Teams Machine-Wide Installer.” If you just uninstall the Microsoft Teams application, the machine-wide installer will reinstall it every time you sign in to your PC....

RELATED: How to Use Snapchat: The Basics of Sending Snaps and Messages What Happens When You Pin People on Snapchat When you pin a conversation, it always appears at the top of your “Chat” screen, even if you receive new messages in other conversations. If you no longer want a chat at the top, you can easily unpin that conversation. Snapchat also lets you customize the icon used to display the pinned chats....

One of the fun things about the Google homepage is “Doodles.” These are usually artistic versions of the Google logo, but sometimes they’re full-blown games. For the 2020 Summer Olympics—happening in 2021—Google went all out. Typically, these are simple one-click games with minimal graphics. But for the Olympics, Google launched “Champion Island.” This is the largest Google Doodle game we’ve seen so far. Champion Island is an RPG with a bunch of minigames and areas to explore....

RELATED: How to Play Wii and GameCube Games on your PC with Dolphin Why Bother with Emulators? There are plenty of reasons for emulating a game rather than playing it on official hardware. Better Graphics: Emulated games can push the limits of your gaming PC, offering much higher graphics quality and in some cases even increased performance. While The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild runs at 720p at around 30fps on a Nintendo Wii U, Cemu can very easily manage 4K@60fps on high-end systems, with texture and graphics mods to boot....

If you want to display a picture instead of your webcam feed, or you simply wish to have a picture assigned to your profile, it’s easy to put a picture in your Zoom account. Here’s how to do that on desktop and mobile. When you add a profile picture to Zoom, you can show that image in place of a video feed in your video conferences (alternatively, you can share your screen with a still picture of your choice)....

Make It Quick and Easy Your inbox is not a to-do list; it’s an inbox. It’s tempting to leave emails in your inbox because it’s easier, but then tasks you need to accomplish are buried in the incoming deluge of email. Here’s why people run into trouble. The manual process for turning an email into a task often goes something like this: Open your preferred to-do list manager. Create a new task....

Windows PC: Use the Game Bar The Windows Game Bar is intended for recording PC games but will work in any app. Make sure it’s enabled by searching for it in the Windows Settings app and making sure the “Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar” toggle is on. Now, from within Google Chrome or any other app you want to record, you can open up the Game Bar by pressing Windows+G....