Having cleaned your house, your garden and your garage. The next? Your computer

If you enter one of the millions of people mostly at home during the outbreak 19-COVID, you can set the test time wiping happen to your home or your garden. But it is also a good time to bring your digital life in order. Now is the perfect time to break open the computer, organize files, digitize your old family photos and more. Here are five ways to clean your computer. Use an application scanner to scan important documents Yes, you get a lot of cards in your closet – the old income statements, receipts, birth certificates, what have you – but if it goes up in smoke, that is the end of. Fortunately, you do not need to get a bulky scanner these digitized documents properly. The smartphone camera is recognized as good enough for your documents, depending on the application. It helps to have digitally available to them, if only in an emergency at hand. If you are an entrepreneur through and through, and you know a lot of material related to work you digitize, you can use Microsoft Office Lens app for iOS or Android. It supports OCR to make Word files into searchable PDFs. If you want to import contacts, you can scan business cards and easily import them into OneNote. If you want the versatility, not the cost, you can also check out Scanbot, iOS, and Android. A subscription (or expensive purchase once) Scanbot Pro unlocks a variety of really useful and time-saving features, such as a higher quality scans, automatic loading, creating folders, encryption, and ability to search within documents. Use Password Manager passwords and personal effects Organize Once you scan documents, they must be stored in a safe place. Sure, you can make the most of them remain in a folder on your computer or to a cloud storage service selection, but this particularly personal document should be stored in a safe place. Instead they stick to a password protected ZIP file you are staying in a flash drive in your safe deposit box (just me?) Why not save in a safer and more civilized: Your password manager where you keep the rest of your sensitive personal information (right?). In addition to important user names and store passwords of applications, such as 1Password and LastPass can store other types of data such as bank account numbers, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, medical records, certificates (I think), and much more yet. It is entirely possible and stored safely in your Password Manager in connection with applications for easy access to related documents encrypted and marked for easy reference when you need a series of seemingly unrelated files for a project or event. Use a scanner to digitize the real photos If you try to digitize photos and current, it might not be the best idea not only the tax documents with the smartphone’s camera. While great for there to capture documents with your childhood memory means you are essentially creating a photo of a photo to the original image to get worse down the road. Options? Or a flatbed scanner (or a photo scanner designed to measure) or a photo-scanning service as DigMyPics have to go effectively (even if you look inside as much as possible to stay, you are better off doing it at home). When looking for a document scanner, you are bound to see the scan resolution test, and numbers such as 300, 600 and even 1200 dpi (dots per inch). You can think of it as a point pixels – the higher the DPI, the easier it is to create your photos or to re-zoom. This also means scans with high DPI for larger causes than their counterparts lower DPI files. Think when you look at it is to the maximum of the resolution of the scanner capabilities, there is a difference between the optical and digital resolution. As the optical and digital zoom camera, some false radio scanners, higher resolution pictures of large size advertising simpler digital scans can be done, but at the expense of detail. Use keywords Organize your files and documents Ditch The deaths on a Mac, you can use tags to categorize files by whatever name you think works best for your organization style. In the name of the client for the wedding photos, or add the names of your children on their personal documents or photos that you have scanned. When searching you can use the coding system to catalog and classify files used on the project. organize them by color or actual words used to keep things light. Tagging in Windows is less intuitive, but still possible. You can view a tag file by right-clicking and selecting Properties and then the details pane. And ‘possible to add as many tags as you want, dead simple to look up important files. Name your photos in bulk to facilitate the search, but what is called with the photos from your digital camera, so they are impossible or makes pertinent in any way? You need a batch renamer, man. For Mac Better Finder Rename is an awkward name, but powerful application to rename files that make short work of your vacation photos. The application allows you to rename multiple files, once based on a number of criteria, such as file creation date, file type, EXIF ​​photos and much more. This means that you can (as IMG_3023034.JPG) unreadable into something like 02/03 / 2018-vacation.jpg, change these strangely named files that lets you know when the photo was taken and what the occasion. In Windows, similar applications can solve the same problem (for example, Advanced Renamer). In combination with the software as hazelnut, the files are automatically organized into user-defined default factors or, you can customize your documents in the correct folders, images can take in all the right places and amusing GIF meme in the folder to which they belong.
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