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How to Buy Bitcoin

The inner mechanisms of cryptocurrency are complex to the point of being Byzantine (much like its fault tolerance). Buying and using it, on the other hand, has become surprisingly straightforward, and, much like your smartphone or the Internet, you don’t really have to understand how it works to use it. Even though the proportion of the overall population that currently owns cryptocurrency is still quite low, the tools for buying, selling, trading, and managing it have become much more user-friendly and sophisticated than they were even a few years ago. Step 1: Get a wallet It sounds like this is a place to store… Read more

How Scammers Take Advantage of Tax Season

When it’s time to file your taxes, it can be a mad dash to get everything sorted before the deadline. Unfortunately, this mad dash to get your tax returns filed makes for a prime hunting ground for hackers. By using the deadline rush they can slip in their scams while people are in a frenzied state, catching them off-guard and getting their malware onto the victim’s computer. But how do scammers take advantage of the tax season, and what can you do as a taxpayer to avoid such an attack? How Scammers Take Advantage of Tax Season The key to the scammer’s attack is… Read more

How to Schedule Emails in Gmail

Email scheduling is a useful tool for pre-writing emails you know you’ll want to send at a specific time. By scheduling emails, you can be sure the greatest number of recipients will open the email by only sending at peak times. It’s especially useful if you want to send emails to a large number of clients but want to space the messages out to avoid pummeling a server. Emails can be scheduled for an arbitrary time and date in the future. When you schedule emails in Gmail, they will sit in a special section of your outbox until they are ready to be sent. Related:… Read more

How to Make Your Gmail Work and Look Like Google Inbox

On April 2, 2019, Google ceased support of Inbox for Gmail. If you don’t know what it is, Google developed it as an experimental Gmail with some great features. It acted as a testing ground to see what people wanted from their email clients. Inbox worked well, offering people a new way to interact with Gmail and get some new features put into the main Gmail client. Inbox worked so well, in fact, that a lot of features (but not all) were eventually put into Gmail, after which the appeal of Inbox for Gmail waned for Google. In September 2018 Google announced they were shutting… Read more

How to Easily Convert an Image to Video for Social Media

Video is king of the online world right now, and it is expected to have an even greater share of social media in the future. Search algorithms are giving priority to content that has video, making it imperative to have some on your website as well. If you want to gain attention for what you have to offer on the Internet, then creating videos of your content is essential to your success. But creating video is not always easy and can be time-consuming. There are many different video editors that make these videos. However, some of them are expensive, and some are just too complicated… Read more