Unfortunately, touchscreens on laptops aren’t perfect. They soon start to collect nasty fingerprints, smudges, and other forms of dirt. You may prefer to keep your hands off your screen—if that’s the case, you’ll be better off disabling your touchscreen entirely. If you prefer to use a mouse or touchpad, you can disable the touchscreen on a Windows 11 PC using the Device Manager or by using the command line....
What is the Windows 8 Power User Menu? To my knowledge Microsoft doesn’t have an official name for this hidden context menu. And maybe that’s for the best considering the company’s horrible record of naming conventions. This menu makes it easy to access system tools from the Desktop or Start screen. Just hit Windows Key + X on your keyboard or hover the mouse in the lower left corner of the screen, and right click the Start tile that pops up....
Embed a PowerPoint Slide There are two ways you can add PowerPoint content into a Word document. You can either paste content by pressing Ctrl + V or insert it as a linked or embedded object. With the latter, you can still with the object in the original app. In this case, after inserting a PowerPoint object into Word, you can double-click the slide to use PowerPoint. As Microsoft explains:...
One of the new visual features users have been asking for is a dark theme which is already available in some apps like Microsoft Edge and Mail and Calendar. But this will give that dark theme throughout all of the OS. Also, if you’re running Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), there are new color themes, including black, in Office 2016 which you can check out here. Windows 10 Dark Mode To turn on the Dark theme, go to Settings > Personalization > Colors....
How to Enable 2FA on Your Dropbox Account To get started, launch a browser on your computer and log into your Dropbox account if you aren’t already. Once you’re logged in, click your profile icon at the upper-left corner of the screen. From the menu click on Settings. Now from the Settings page, click on the Security tab at the top. Then flip on the “Two-step verification” switch from the menu....
In Windows 7, Media Center comes pre-installed – but it isn’t necessarily set up properly. In our two previous articles for Windows Media Center, we showed you how you can set up Windows Media Center for the first time and how you can rebuild your Media Center library. Another thing that Windows Media Center is missing is playback support for Matroska Video (MKV) files. With the rising popularity of the MKV format, this can become quite troublesome....
With the optimized battery charging feature enabled, the battery in your iPhone is kept below 80% until a full charge is needed. This helps reduce unnecessary battery aging and can also improve performance. By default, iOS 13 enables the optimized battery charging feature. If you know that you’ll need your phone to be fully charged, you can turn off the optimized battery charging feature. Read on to find out how....
Unlike the gadget from Windows Vista, the new Feed Reader does not manage its own list of RSS feeds. Instead, feeds are pulled directly from your Internet Explorer Feed Subscriptions. Make sense? Let’s take a closer look! How To Manage and Organize Windows 7 Feed Reader First, let’s bring the gadget to the visible desktop. To do this Right-Click any open space on the Desktop. Then Click Gadgets. The Gadgets window will appear; Right-Click Feed Headlines and then Click Add....
Find Your IP Address on Windows 11 Through Settings To get started, open the Settings menu by going to Start > Settings. Or you can also use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open the Settings page directly. Either way, when you do it, once the Settings app opens, click on Network & internet from the list on the left. On the following screen, you can click on the connection you’re using – Ethernet or Wi-Fi....
If you’ve been using regular cell phones and iPhones for a while, we covered how you can make your own ring tones for free. But, if you have an Android phone you can take the lazy path and just download pre-made ones for free. Why go through the trouble of making them yourself? Let’s get ringing! Note the screenshots in this article were taken using a Samsung Galaxy S (Sprint Epic 4G) so the location of some menu options may vary depending on your Android device....
Then I got a funny email from GE. And I realized that the high-tech nature of my fridge was never meant to benefit me. Here’s the email: Yep, that’s a little pushy there GE. And oddly menacing? You have 8 days to buy one of our fine filters. It’d be a shame if there were an accident with your old filter. So, I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse....
Here I created a few custom playlists in iTunes 11. The default playlists like “My Top Rated” and “Recently Added” won’t be imported, just the ones you create. Import iTunes Playlist to Xbox Music Launch Xbox Music and from the Home screen click or tap My Music. On the next screen select Playlists. Then right click, or on a touchscreen, swipe from the top down. On the menu bar at the bottom, select Import Playlists....
Increase Recent Shown Docs in Word Open Word 2010 and click File > Options from the Ribbon. Click Advanced Tab, scroll down to the Display section and adjust the Option: Show this number of Recent Documents. On my system, I set it to 50. Click OK a few times, and you should be golden. Looking under the File, the Recent Tab should now show the last 50 documents you’ve saved....
Here’s what you need to do to insert links, no matter the type, into a PowerPoint presentation. Adding Links to Other PowerPoint Slides Navigation is important, especially in larger PowerPoint presentations. Rather than endlessly clicking through your presentation, you can insert links to different slides to help you skip anything you don’t need to cover. This is the first step in creating an interactive presentation that you can share with other users....
Adding additional storage allows channels, games, and screensavers to load faster. This is because your Roku deletes the channels and games you rarely use to make room for new ones as you add them. You will still see your channel and game icons, but some will need to re-download first. So, the more drive space you have, the more it can cache on your Roku unit. Note, the microSD card will only store games, channels, and screensavers....
Custom Fonts Apple’s custom font API makes it possible to change the fonts used across iPhone and iPad. On iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 and later, you can find the listing of custom fonts by: By default, there are no custom fonts installed in iOS 13 and iPadOS. You’ll need to find these through apps on the App Store. Installing Custom Fonts When iOS 13 launched in September, the most noticeable freemium font-related app in the App Store was Font Diner....
Wish Wish is an online store with selected products that you can either buy, share or put in a wish list. Share wish lists with family and friends and never get a boring present again! Wish is also accessible online on www.wish.com. Discount Calculator For easier calculations of discounts, Discount Calculator has got you covered. Simply enter the discount percentage and original product price and it should show you how much you’ll save....
The video touts the benefits of upgrading, showing that Windows 10 provides the best of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1… meaning the familiar Start menu of Windows 7 on the desktop and the live tiles included in Windows 8. And also promoting the fact that it’s completely free for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users. According to a new post on Blogging Windows: “Today, we’re kicking off a series of blog posts sharing Windows 10 features like Cortana, Microsoft Edge, the Xbox app, Windows Hello, and more....
Maybe you want a tool with a big collection of templates, one that builds diagrams based on text, or one that has specific objects and connectors. With helpful Google Docs add-ons like these, the ideal diagram tool might be closer than you think. Finding Google Docs Add-Ons While we’ll give you direct links to all of the add-ons below, it’s still useful to know where to find them should you want to browse for more....
OneDrive finally has a feature many users have been waiting for – accessing your music collection via OneDrive. It’s now possible to stream your music from OneDrive via the Xbox Music app. Listen To Your Music from OneDrive All you need to do is add your music to the new “Music” folder in the updated OneDrive. Also, since Microsoft loves to give away OneDrive space, the company is giving you another 100 GB of storage space so you can load it up with your favorite songs....
