TechByter Worldwide 2017-08-06: Make Your Scanner Happy with VueScan. Some Help for Selfies from Waterloo. Short Circuits. Spare Parts.

If you use your scanner more than a few times a week, the application that the manufacturer provided is probably disappointing you. There's a better way. The University of Waterloo in Canada is working on research that people may eventually find on their phones to improve selfie photos. In Short Circuits: The end is near for Adobe Flash; please hold your applause until 2020. Microsoft has hiked the amount it's willing to pay for information about serious bugs in its software. Expect the latest update for Windows 10 this Fall. We'll take a quick look at some of the features that are coming. In Spare Parts (only on the website): It looks like some of the top security firms in the computer industry have more than a little work to do on their own security. A quick look at my older daughter's progress following the medical event that resulted in cancellation of the mid May TechByter program. And AnchorFree says that it has an application that can be used to protect users if the Federal Communications Commission kills net neutrality.