Some of your phone's more useful settings and features are buried in menus, several taps deep. Why waste time when you can use your voice to accomplish the same task? Case in point: Turning on the flashlight next time you're in a dark room or struggling to read a menu.

Screenshots are common practice, but you often capture more than you need. Revealing too much of your screen in a single image can actually threaten your security. Instead, you can take a screenshot with precise cropping, so that you include only what you want.

On a Mac, press Command + Shift + 5, and a rectangle will emerge, which you can manipulate as much as you want.

On a Windows PC, go to Start, enter the Search Bar, and type Snipping Tool. This will give you a similar box that you can drag to any shape over your screen.

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With shady activity and privacy breaches constantly occurring on Facebook, it's not surprising if you're thinking about leaving the platform for good. But before you go, you'll want to find a simple way to take all your important photos with you. Thankfully a tool makes the process super easy. We'll give you step-by-step instructions on how to do it.

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Getting the care you need to stay healthy shouldn’t be hard — or expensive. Everyone should be able to afford their medications. That’s why you should check out GoodRx.

With GoodRx, you can instantly compare prices for your prescription at every pharmacy in your neighborhood and save up to 80%. GoodRx is free and easy to use. And many times, your savings with GoodRx are better than just using your insurance copay or Medicare. Plus, with GoodRx, you can find discounts for your prescriptions at over 70,000 pharmacies, like CVS, Kroger, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Vons and Walmart.

Apps are getting more sophisticated and can eat up a ton of space on your phone. Thankfully, this app will show you the biggest resource eaters and help you remove them quickly. We'll show you how to use it.

If you are curious about QR codes and their expanding uses, you've come to the right place. While companies everywhere seem to be using them, they have practical purposes in your personal life as well. We'll show you how to generate QR codes and why you want to.

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In the U.S., over 80% of the products sold are packaged in cardboard. That’s over 120 billion separate pieces of cardboard. With it being so ubiquitous, it might surprise you what goes into creating and manufacturing it. It’s not nearly as simple as you may think.