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Step away from the keyboard, and pick up your phone. A Microsoft tool for Android phones and iPhones ($899 at Amazon) can convert words and numbers on a sheet of paper into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a couple of seconds. With Excel’s Insert Data from Picture tool, you can snap a photo of data in …

It seems like everyone on social media is talking about a new challenge that makes you look, like, really old. It’s called the #AgeChallenge and you can try it yourself using FaceApp on any phone. I tried this myself, and it was shocking to see the change. Let’s just say, I’d prefer to stay young forever. The gist of it is that you …

Instagram said Thursday it’s rolling out changes to how it decides what accounts to take down, a sign that the photo sharing site is getting tougher about removing offensive content that violates its rules. The Facebook-owned company will start removing accounts that rack up a number of violations within a window of time. Currently, Instagram takes down accounts that have …

Current-generation iPads ($170 at Amazon) have been on sale a lot lately — right now the 2018 iPad 9.7 costs just $250 at Amazon, in fact — so it’s a good bet lots of folks are upgrading. If you’re one of them, you might find yourself debating the fate of your old iPad: keep it or sell it? The latter …

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup has some new camera features, including the ability to zoom out on before taking a photo with just a couple of taps. If you just unboxed and set up your shiny new Galaxy S10, here’s what you need to know to work the camera app and get the best shots possible. Now playing: Watch this: The …

Apple’s iPhone XS ($899 at Amazon), XS Max ($427 at eBay) and iPhone XR have a new feature built into their cameras that gives you more control over photos captured in portrait mode. Instead of having to live with the amount of background blur, also referred to as bokeh, captured in each photo, the most recent crop of iPhones now let you …

Now that you know how to copy an iPhone photo album to your PC, let’s look at another important process: converting those photos to a more common format. As you may recall, with the release of iOS 11, Apple switched over to HEIF technology from the long-standard JPEG. That means any photos (those taken after installing iOS 11, anyway) copied …

It was a pretty typical weekend project: My daughter’s graduation party was coming up, so I wanted to put together a photo slideshow. Of course, like most parents, my wife and I had years’ worth of photos trapped on our iPhones. How could we quickly and easily move them to a laptop and into a slideshow-builder? It proved a surprisingly …

Google Lens is ready for its close-up — so to speak. The “future of search” uses your phone’s camera to identify objects and then gives you information about those objects — basically a sort of real-time reverse image-lookup, or, if you prefer, an augmented reality (AR) Google. However you choose to describe it, Google Lens can perform some cool tricks. …

WhatsApp is rolling out a new Status feature to all users. Instead of the text-only status that lets people know whether you’re busy or available to chat, the new Status feature uses photos, text, emojis and sketches to show what you’re doing. If that sounds familiar, it could be because it appears to be inspired by Snapchat. And unlike Snapchat …