Most of my articles include tips and tricks using the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro laptops. But I have an experience to share with you.

About every six months, my daughter, Jennifer, complains that my hair looks too shaggy and says customers won’t want to come over for a computer repair.

So I decided to try a new hair dresser at Beyond Beauty at the Nagasako shopping center. There, a nice lady named Crystal cut my hair, and for the first time, I walked out not looking like Kim Jong-un. Now I’ll need more guns and bigger dogs to keep you ladies away from me.

So let’s get on with the good stuff. I went over to a home to install a new HP printer. Get ready to buy a bottle of Tylenol! When you press the start button, a message pops up on the printer LCD screen telling you to go to a website to set up the printer.

So with my iPhone, I had to open up Safari and go to 123hp.com/setup. There I found the most complicated set of instructions ever to follow.

You have to have Bluetooth and the Wi-Fi working and set-up a username and password. Afterwords, you have to download the app in order to be able to scan anything onto your laptop.

Wow — that was not user-friendly.

One of the most asked questions when setting up a new printer is how to scan. Well, with the Mac, there is a simple way to do this.

Use the Image Capture App. To do this, click Go at the top of the screen and choose Applications. Scroll on down to Image Capture App and open it up. Under Shared, choose your printer, and then put something on the flatbed to scan. Choose Scan. If you look at the far left box, that is where the scan will be placed. You can choose where you want it by clicking on the up and down keys. I placed my on the desktop.

But get this: you can choose E-mail, and it will instantly open up e-mail and the scan will be placed on the page. All you have to do is fill in the person’s name you want to send it to.

If you need to scan more than one document, choose PDF for the format and click on the box “Combine into single document.” So now you don’t need any three-party software to scan. It’s really easy, so try it out.

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