How to send disappearing messages in every damn chat app

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Disappearing messages have two benefits: they save storage space on your phone and provide an extra layer of privacy.Nice. They’re not a new invention, but many people still don’t know they exist. While some apps have offered ephemeral messages for years, others have only recently rolled them....

3 min · 494 words · Jeffrey Burns

How to send ‘view once’ images on WhatsApp

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Last year, WhatsApp rolled out an ephemeral messages feature. However, those messages were visible to the other person for seven days, and that’s quite a lot of days for information you want to disappear. The company has been working on a feature that lets you send‘view once’ photos and videos, and now it’srolling it out to beta versionsof the app across platforms....

2 min · 282 words · Mark Rice

How to separate your work and personal chats in Telegram

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I use Slack for work and other messenger apps for personal conversations. However, I know a ton of friends who have to use WhatsApp or Telegram as their work communication tool as well. This could be really annoying and might make you miss important messages from friends too....

2 min · 227 words · Justin Hanson

How to set a disappearing message timer for all your chats in Signal

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Ephemeral messages are now a core part of popular messaging apps such asWhatsAppand Signal. The latter has had the functionality for a while, and lets you set different timers for messages too. Last night, Signal announced that it’s going to allow you to set a disappearing message timer for all your new conversations by default....

2 min · 266 words · Edwin Wall

How to Shop Efficiently Online

In the last 10 years, shopping for things online has gone from a new and scary thing to something that millions of people do every day. In fact, shopping for things over the internet has become so popular that there is literally too many options available. When you hop onto the web to shop for something it can be easy to quickly get lost in a maze of pricing, reviews and site options....

6 min · 1253 words · Christopher Golden
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