Automation has loads of benefits, but it shouldn't come at the cost of your privacy. These devices let you control your home from your smartphone without enabling voice assistant commands for Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri. You can finally automate your home without worry.

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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If you want to be your own boss, join the gig economy. It's not all driving jobs for Uber, Lyft, Instacart and DoorDash. There are a lot of fun opportunities, too. Here are 15 different ways you can make money from home.

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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, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Vons and Walmart.

If you own a home, you know how many forms, bills, statements and documents pile up — both paper versions and electronic ones. Here's a smart way to keep everything digital related to your home in one spot. Take my advice: Set it up soon while you're thinking about it.

You can print a document, sign it, scan it, send it to yourself and get then back to the recipient — or you can do it the easy way. I've got the easy steps to get the job done on any device, along with a digital signature pro tip to make it easy to spot if someone is pretending to be you.

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Do you have memories of snapping together Lego bricks to make something special? Most of us think fondly of those plastic pieces. (Unless, of course, you stepped on one.) While the company has a wholesome image, it hasn’t always been that way. The real history of Legos is a lot darker than most people realize.