March 2020

Working From Home? 5 Ways to Show Your PC Some Love

Posted on March 24, 2020 by

Whether you’re under self-quarantine or government-mandated isolation, it’s a great time to catch up on any goals you haven’t had time to pursue. Or, you could just take care of your PC. Organize Your Files Getting all your files organized is a great project to take care of when you have extra time. After years

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A Simple New Tool Lets You Open Email Attachments Without Fear

Posted on March 11, 2020 by

Opening email attachments from untrusted senders has long been one of the easiest ways to get hacked. But unlike other common security screwups—using “password” for your password, downloading pirated software from shady websites—there’s no practical way for a modern human to avoid opening the occasional mystery-meat attachment. Now one technologist has produced a solution. Micah

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3 Best Online OCR Tools To Extract Text From Images

Posted on March 4, 2020 by

Transcribing text from images can be a real pain. When text is presented as an image or some other non-selectable format, school and work become difficult. The only solution is to put those eyes and fingers to work and get to typing it—or is it? Optimal Character Recognition, or OCR, is the process of converting

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