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About Harry Guinness

Harry Guinness writes occasionally when he’s not busy skiing, sailing, partying, lifting weights, or otherwise dodging responsibility. His main areas of interest are himself, gin, and crazy people with interesting stories to tell. When people won’t pay him to write ill-thought-out opinion pieces, he covers photography, technology, and culture. You can follow him on Twitter.

Latest Articles

Should You Repair Your Own Phone or Laptop?

While it can be tempting to take a crack at repairing your own laptop, phone, or tablet, there are times to do it.

How to Report YouTube Videos and Comments

YouTube is a wild west of content.

How to Quote Someone In WhatsApp

If you’re part of a WhatsApp group chat, the conversation can move fast.

What to Do If Your Smartphone Is Hot

Unlike your computer, your smartphone doesn’t have fans or any other active way to keep itself cool.

Why Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Explode?

While lithium-ion batteries are, on the whole, incredibly safe they do very very occasionally catch fire or explode.

How to "Snooze" Someone for 30 Days on Facebook

Until now, there was no way to temporarily remove someone from your News Feed on Facebook.

How to See Your Archived Stories on Instagram

Stories have been one of the biggest social network features of the last few years.

How to Quickly Change Audio Devices on the iPhone

There are few things more annoying in life than making a phone call from your iPhone, and then realizing that it’s actually connected to your Bluetooth speaker---which don’t have a microphone.

How to Use the Foreground and Background to Create Stronger Photos

Photography can be very technical, especially in the digital age.

How to Remove Apple Music from the iPhone's Music App

Apple Music is heavily integrated into your iPhone’s Music app.

How to Blur Faces and Text in Photoshop

There are plenty of reasons you might want to blur some part of a photo in Photoshop.

How to Use Emoji in Photoshop

In the last few years, Emoji have become a huge part of pop culture.

How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms

Twitter threads (aka tweetstorms), where someone posts a series of related Tweets one after the other, sit in a weird place: everyone claims to hate them, but lots of people post them anyway.

How to Search WhatsApp Chat Messages

Trying to find a specific message in your huge WhatsApp chat log? There are two ways to search, so you can find what you're looking for quickly.

How to Save Photos from the iPhone Notes app to Your Photo Library

If you’re a heavy user of Apple’s Notes app on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed a slightly weird behavior: unlike almost every other app, if you take a photo in Notes, it isn’t saved to the Photos app.

How to Make Phone Calls from Your Mac Through Your iPhone

With Continuity, your Mac and iPhone work pretty well together.

How to Share Your Location With Your Friends in WhatsApp

Meeting up with your friends in an unfamiliar spot is a pain.

Change How Long Your iPhone Screen Stays On Before Auto-Locking

By default, when you leave your iPhone or iPad unlocked, it will lock itself and turn off the display after one minute.

How to Make Your iPhone More Secure When Locked

Locking your iPhone does a pretty good job at keeping people away from your personal information, but there are still some things someone unscrupulous can do without typing in your passcode.

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