Most of us have half a dozen boxes of old family photos gathering dust in the attic. A few favorites make it into photo albums or slide shows for family reunions, but the rest are tucked away and ...

Do you have a stack of old family photo albums in the attic? A cookbook by your grandmother, scrawled with her handwritten notes? Your parents’ love letters to each other that you treasure? If so, ...

Digitizing old family photos has been on my list of things to do for nearly a decade. But every time I start to collect and organize a lifetime of images, I get so overwhelmed that I jam them back ...

We all deal with piles of pre-digital old media pile, including VCR tapes, shelves of CDs, boxes and boxes of prints handed down from previous generations. This all adds up to a project that’s been on ...

That stack of old photos isn’t going to preserve itself. If you want to keep your memories safe from time, damage, and dust, you need to bring them into the digital age. Scanning old photos at home on ...

There’s something about a physical photograph. It’s a moment frozen in time, sometimes dating back generations. And, if you’re lucky, you’ll find a description of when and where it was snapped ...

PhotoScan is a Google-published mobile app that makes it easy to bring your old, developed photos into the digital age. Google's PhotoScan is available on Android, iOS, and iPadOS, and the app is free ...

I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Consumer technology journalist Jennifer ...

VCR converters are devices designed to transfer video content from old VHS tapes to modern digital formats. With many people holding onto cherished recordings from decades ago, converting these tapes ...