Category: Computing

Spider, Minesweeper, and Hearts—those longtime Windows staples (as well as other familiar titles from Solitaire to Freecell) have disappeared since Windows 8 launched in 2012. […]

Dark or Light Mode: Some people prefer one over the other all day, every day, and they are wrong. The enlightened among us know the […]

Many, but not all, mobile-only apps are available in the Mac App Store for Macs with Apple silicon. Such Macs can hypothetically run any iPhone […]

Obsidian is my favorite productivity tool. I use it for all my writing, as a journaling app , and in place of a lot of […]

Windows does not have a weather app like MacOS and mobile operating systems. Sure, the widget area shows the weather, but it also brings up […]

Finding an unknown folder or file on your computer can be alarming, not least because malware may install temporary files without your knowledge that allow […]

If you like the Kanban method but are tired of using bloated online tools, Kanri is a free, open-source alternative that you can install on […]

If your Windows PC crashes unexpectedly and shows a blue screen error, there is now a solution to this problem. As reported by BleepingComputer , […]

Notifications on a Mac typically appear in the top right corner. In most cases this is fine, but on larger displays you may not notice […]

YouTube Music is a worthy alternative to Spotify, especially if you’re already paying YouTube Premium to remove ads. There’s a big drawback, however: Google doesn’t […]

All folders in macOS look the same – a boring blue image of a paper file. This makes it harder to look through a folder […]

The Start menu is your access point to everything on a Windows PC, from files to apps to settings, and it looks like Microsoft is […]

If there’s something you want to track regularly, it should be in your Mac’s menu bar. The left side of the menu bar naturally displays […]

Whether you want to quickly check where a city is or get an address to share with a friend, opening a full maps app sometimes […]

If you ask me, graphic design peaked in 2001 when Windows XP introduced a bright blue taskbar and a green Start button. Since then, every […]

Want to turn a video file into MP3? Or any video in MP4? If you have PowerToys installed on Windows, you don’t need a third-party […]

Web browsers collect a lot of data and share it with the sites we visit, so if you’re concerned about your privacy, it’s worth considering […]

It seems like the average website has more ads than content. There’s a banner at the top, a square in the sidebar, and in most […]

If you’re out and about with your laptop, or simply in a different room than the charging cable, you need to spend as much time […]

Even if you don’t use a computer, you’re probably aware of the Blue Screen of Death (or BSOD). This iconic error screen has been a […]

Scheduling your computer to do something every day, every time you log in, or every time the screen wakes up isn’t impossible on most computers, […]

You may have seen the headline this week that OneNote, Microsoft’s wildly popular note-taking app, is shutting down. This is not the case: only a […]

Quick: send me a large file. Even today, decades after the famous comic book about the issue appeared , it’s not necessarily easy. Messaging services […]

By now, typing on a keyboard is second nature to most of us. However, you cannot type on a game controller. As much as I […]

GIMP, the free and open-source image editing app long considered the best free alternative to Photoshop , has just released a major update: version 3 […]

I’ve tried all sorts of time tracking apps over the years, and they can be useful, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the numbers […]

Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update is a major one: it fixes 57 security vulnerabilities (including seven zero-day vulnerabilities). This is an update I would advise […]

Microsoft is adding new AI features to Notepad and Snipping in Windows 11, but there’s a catch: some of them are behind a paywall. The […]

Microsoft has announced that it is retiring the old Microsoft Remote Desktop tool that was available from the Microsoft Store. Instead, the company is advising […]

Now there are several ways to use Windows. In addition to sitting in front of a locally installed copy of Windows running on the hard […]

Study after study shows that people actually can’t multitask, but we try to do it anyway. Why is this? I partly blame our nice big […]

Installing multiple applications at once on Windows can be annoying. You need to find the installation packages, download them, and then run them all one […]

Gina Trapani, founder of the website you’re reading now, popularized the text format for to-do lists back in 2006 (please excuse the weird formatting in […]

There is a lot of talk on the Internet these days about hiding Copilot in Windows and tools that can remove it completely . There’s […]

Microsoft Edge continues to position itself as a smart, productivity-focused alternative to Chrome, free of the bloat that Google’s constant feature expansion can sometimes lead […]

Obsidian is the Winamp of productivity tools. If you’re as old as me, you might remember that the best part of this once ubiquitous music […]

Microsoft is testing a new way to make file sharing easier. In the Windows 11 beta, the company released a temporary shelf that appears when […]

One of the annoying things about using PowerShell on Windows if you’re used to Linux is having to run it as an administrator to make […]

Text replacement tools, also called snippet managers, are one of those productivity tools that everyone needs, even if they don’t know it. They allow you […]

Setting up a new computer is annoying, especially if that computer has Windows installed. Microsoft adds a lot of annoying things to the operating system […]