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Your guide to digital effectiveness, where we share practical tech tips while documenting our own newsletter's growth journey from day one.

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📲 The Substack app does more than you think. Here is what you are missing.

📲 Plus: A save feature that rescues articles from your inbox, how to find the audio tab, and why the app and email work better together than either…

Jun 17•Alexander Verbeek

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Sharing Video on Substack

Plus: the automatic transcript Substack generates for every video, why Notes are the fastest way to share a quick video, and a phishing warning for…

Jun 12•Alexander Verbeek

📲 The Free App That Turns Three Phone Clips Into One Polished Video

📲 Plus: how to add music without drowning out your voices, when iMovie is a better fit, and how to stabilize shaky clips

Jun 11•Alexander Verbeek

📲 The Phone Call That Sounds Like Your Family Member — But Isn’t

📲 Plus: Android’s new call verification feature explained, a journalist friend nearly falls for a personalized AI scam, and how to set up a family code…

Jun 3•Alexander Verbeek

📲 You Can Turn Off AI Search Results — Here Is How to Do It

📲 Plus: the AI image filter most people don't know exists, how to switch search engines in two minutes, and the scam hiding at the top of results

May 28•Alexander Verbeek

📲 Google Just Changed How Search Works. Here Is What Is Different.

Plus: how to use the new conversational search, why your results may look unfamiliar, and what AI Mode actually does

May 25•Alexander Verbeek

The Rental Car Tricks That Stop You Paying Twice What You Expected

Plus: why comparison sites don't show the real price, the insurance you may already have, and two free apps that do the searching for you

May 20•Alexander Verbeek

Stop Losing the Articles You Meant to Read

Plus: the built-in reading list hiding in your browser and phone, what happened to Pocket, and the app that fills the gap

May 18•Alexander Verbeek

The Package Tracking System Already Built Into Your Phone

Plus: a new Apple privacy setting worth switching on, how Gmail shows package status without any searching, and a scam arriving as a delivery…

May 13•Alexander Verbeek

The hotel booking mistake that costs travelers hundreds every year

Plus: why Instagram just made your direct messages less private, two apps that help you travel smarter for less, and a scam hitting Android shoppers…

May 11•Alexander Verbeek

How to Print From Your Phone in Under a Minute (Once You Know the Trick)

Plus: how to print by email, the Wi-Fi network problem most households have, what to do when your printer is genuinely too old, and a free way to print…

May 6•Alexander Verbeek

How to Show Anything From Your Phone on Your TV (Without Cables, Without Stress)

Plus: the difference between mirroring and casting, two free apps for the living room, and the single check that solves most TV-mirroring problems

May 4•Alexander Verbeek

How You Can Spot a Fake Online Store Before It Takes Your Money

Plus: why countdown timers are always a lie, how to check if a website is three weeks old, and what scammers do with your money in the first 24 hours

May 1•Alexander Verbeek

What Your Voicemail Is Actually Doing (And the Settings Most People Never Touch)

Plus: how to read voicemails as text, send specific callers straight to voicemail, and turn voicemail off entirely if you want

Apr 29•Alexander Verbeek