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How to Digitize Old Slides and VHS Tapes (Before They Disintegrate into Oblivion)
You know that giant box buried in the back of your closet? The one crammed with dusty old slides and VHS tapes—the last surviving evidence of a time when snapping a photo meant waiting a week for the film to…
Making Sense of the Fine Print: How to Use AI to Read Documents
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe You can use AI to read documents for you: paste the text, upload the file or snap a photo of a contract, bill, letter or form into a chatbot like ChatGPT or…
Why Rely on Your Brain When You’ve Got a Smartphone? A Senior’s Guide to Using Your Smartphone to Capture Instructions You’ll Never Remember
I knew I was in trouble. I was in my basement. The plumber was giving me a walk-through of the new water softener he just installed. As he started in about the buttons, levers, maintenance and magic incantations, I had…
Is Paze Safe? To Paze or Not to Paze
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Is Paze safe? Yes. Paze is an online checkout service owned by major U.S. banks, and it keeps your real card number hidden from the stores you shop with. If you’ve never…
Grandparents vs Snapchat: Delightfully Weird
This video is… well, let’s just call it what it is: delightfully weird. It stars a cast of grandparents bravely venturing into the strange world of Snapchat. Now, if you’re not familiar with Snapchat, buckle up—I’ll explain. It’s an app…
How to Clear Your Browser Cache: A Senior’s Guide to Smoother Surfing
Does it ever feel like your computer’s dragging its feet when you’re surfing the web? Pages are slow to load. Images seem like they load one pixel at a time. It’s like your web browser is wading through digital quicksand!…
8 Tips for How to Lower Your Internet Bill
You know how they say the best things in life are free? Well, clearly, they weren’t talking about your internet bill! That thing seems to climb higher every month, kind of like it’s in a competition with your electric bill…
How This Grandmother and Grandson’s Viral Arguments Bring People Closer Together
Grandma Bobbi and grandson Matthew have taken the internet by storm with their adorable back-and-forth banter! This video shows the two as they engage in the sweetest arguments you’ve ever seen (Bobbi’s got a mouth on her so some of…
The Senior’s Guide to Saving Printer Ink: Draft Mode and Other Clever Tricks
Have you ever felt like your printer is in cahoots with a bank robber, stealing your life savings one drop of ink at a time? You go to print out a simple recipe for chicken noodle soup, and suddenly, you’re…
How to Organize Your Digital Photos: A Senior’s Guide to Tackling the Digital Jungle
Remember the good old days when we had shoeboxes full of printed photos (or even *gasp!* slides)? We’d spend hours flipping through them, reminiscing about the past and laughing at our questionable fashion choices. Now, instead of shoeboxes, we’ve got…
