by Surur
1 day
We recently noted that one of the best features of the Opera browser, besides the free VPN, was its sophisticated Picture in Picture video pop-up, which worked on all video, was intuitive and easy to activate, and offered a large ...
by Surur
4 days
Windows 10 no longer has any easter eggs, but it does have a large number of usability features that are not very well know, and which can increase your productivity if more widely used. The Windows key pressed with the v key is o...
by Surur
3 months
Twitter has made it increasingly difficult to use 3rd party clients for your news feed, meaning it is also more difficult to avoid their personalized algorithm and ads. If there is one thing worse than a personalized news feed it ...
by Xian He
7 months
A few months ago, I injured my back while moving apartments. Since I live alone, not only did I have to adjust how to walk or sleep as to avoid pain, but also how to carry out day-to-day tasks around the rooms. For example, gettin...
by Surur
7 months
Regular readers will know I am not a fan of the Windows 10 Volume pop-up (aka Media Overlay), as I feel it is too big, it’s in an obtrusive position, cannot be repositioned, it takes too long to disappear and there is no opt...
8 months
Google is finally working on adding a reader mode to Chrome, years after Apple’s Safari and Microsoft’s Edge. This reader mode isn’t yet generally available but can be found by Chrome 75 users in the flags page. ...
by Surur
8 months
Windows 10 is no longer making regular backups of your registry and have not been doing so for a while. In a recently published support article, Microsoft confirmed that since the April 2018 Update for Windows 10 they had been mak...
by Surur
8 months
My hate of the Windows 10 volume overlay is well known – it is too big, it’s in an obtrusive position, cannot be repositioned, it takes too long to disappear and there is no option to disable it. I recently celebrated ...
by Surur
12 months
There is a number in each one of those circles, and if you don’t see one in all of them you may be one of the 10% of men with some degree of colour blindness. (You are meant to see 45 8 29 in the first row and 56 6 25 in th...
by Surur
1 year
Some tips are so simple and easy that you can feel like you really missed out not knowing them. Today we have a great one for when you occasionally use the CMD prompt. Occasionally you have to open the CMD prompt in a specific f...
1 year
Like all modern operating systems, Windows has a time server that keeps your device up to the correct time. Typically the Windows clock should keep in sync with the Windows server, ensuring you don’t miss your appointments. ...