Use a Digital Camera as a Scanner

This method can be more efficient than taking notes with pen and paper. Image and color quality inferior to scanners. Lighting and framing can be challenging. Digital cameras are portable and don’t need to be connected to a computer. To work well as a scanner, the camera should have a macro mode for good close-ups. Additionally, you must precisely align the camera and scan the subject to avoid common image flaws....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 83 words · Mark King

Use Disk Utility to Clone a Mac's Drive

The restore function isn’t just for drives. Instructions in this article apply to devices running macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and later. It also makes an almost exact copy of the source unit. The results are almost an exact copy of the original. A file copy copies the data file by file. This ensures that block data doesn’t change during the copy process. Dont worry, though; you dont have to do the unmounting....

April 15, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Caleb Smith

Use Filters to See Only Important Mail in Yahoo Mail

You may also sort messages by certain criteria to find important messages without sifting through hundreds of others. Locate the message in your Inbox. Select theStaricon to the left of the subject. The icon turns orange. How to Find Important Yahoo Mail Emails Use the Sort filters to find email messages. For example, sort to see unread messages and hide emails that you opened. Or, find an email with an attachment you need....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 126 words · Joseph Wang

Use Logging to Troubleshoot Email Problems in Outlook

The LOG file contains a detailed list of what Outlook did while sending and receiving messages. turn on the Transaction Log To enable logging in Outlook: Go toFile>Options. In theOutlook Optionsdialog box, select theAdvancedtab. PashaIgnatov / Getty Images In theOthersection, select theEnable troubleshooting loggingcheck box. Close and restart Outlook. When Outlook opens, a notification appears that explains that logging is enabled and may cause performance problems. To locate the LOG file:...

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Jason Guerrero

Use Ragged Right or Full Justification Appropriately

If someone else tells you that left-aligned text is better than justified text, tell them they are wrong. If they are both wrong, then what’s right?Alignmentis only a small piece of the puzzle. What works for one design might be inappropriate for another layout. Pixabay The most appropriate choice is the alignment that works for that particular design. You may find that fully-justified text is a necessity either due to space constraints or expectations of the audience....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Nathan Hughes

Use Terminal to Speed Up Your Mac

One example is the use of animation to shrink an open window down to fit in the Dock. If you’re ready, let’s get started. TheTerminalapp can be found in /Applications/Utilities/. boyarkinamarina/iStock Enter the following command in the Terminal prompt: Pressenterorreturnon your keyboard. Restore the Quick Look window animation by entering the following: Pressenterorreturn, and then reset your Mac. MacOS throttles Time Machine by assigning it a low CPU priority. There’s one exception, though....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 78 words · Jane Dudley

Use the Recovery HD Volume to Reinstall or Troubleshoot OS X

Install DVDs are history; OS X is now available as a download from theMac App Store. All of these capabilities were formerly available on the install DVDs. But the Recovery HD volume is only created on your Mac’s internal startup drive. If anything should go wrong with that drive, you could find yourself in a pickle.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 56 words · John Marquez

Use the Timehop App to See Your Past Social Media Posts

Think of it as a social news feed of your past! All you have to do is scroll up or down to view posts in your feed. The most recent yearly posts are listed at the top followed by the older ones in chronological order. Timehop makes it super easy (and fun) to share your posts again. Under each post shown in your Timehop feed, there’s a share button you might tap....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Mr. Nicholas Santiago

Use These GTA 5 Cheat Codes: From Spawning Stunt Planes to Invincibility

Rockstar Games programmed a slew of cheat codes in all the different versions of GTA 5. The codes can make the player invincible, lower their wanted level or spawn different vehicles. GTA 5 cheat codes come in different forms. I’ve listed out the options for each platform. There are a few things to remember about GTA 5 cheat codes. Codes can only be used in GTA 5’s story mode, not GTA Online....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · Evelyn Powers

Use This Trick to Earn Southwest's 'Buy One, Get One Free' Plane Tickets for Nearly Two Years

Imagine how many trips you and a friend could take over the course of nearly two years. Now imagine how much you’d save if you could snag buy-one-get-one plane tickets for each of your destinations. That’s essentially what you’re free to get by taking advantage of the Southwest Companion Pass deal. What is the Southwest Airlines Companion Pass? Southwest is the only major airline that offers a companion pass with an unlimited number of uses....

April 15, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Sandra Archer

Users Report Multiple Issues With Latest Windows 10 Update

If you do find yourself struggling with this particular issue, there are a few potential fixes. Users can uninstall the update. Microsoft has not revealed details of any official fixes at this time. Piero Nigro / Unsplash

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 37 words · Rick Johnston

Using a Remote Car Starter With a Manual Transmission

Without that, a remote starter could engage with the transmission in gear with potentially disastrous effects. In some installations, it will only check that the transmission is in park. The biggest problem with manual transmissions is that there is no park. Allain Daussin / Getty They have only neutral, which is sort of like park, but the transmission is able to freewheel. There is no parking pawl, which is the component in automatic transmissions that locks the transmission in place....

April 15, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Kevin Brown

Using a Space Heater as an Electric Car Heater

The major pitfalls may include power supply bottlenecks, fire hazards, and heat loss. Leaving a space heater in an unattended vehicle can be a fire hazard. In North America, that means they run on 120V AC. Sharon Meredith / E+ / Getty When you use a residential space heater as an electric car heater, plug it into aninverter. An inverter converts DC power from the vehicle’s electrical system into the AC power that the heater requires....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 212 words · Michele Shaffer