The Contacts app on your Mac is a really nice app to save your important contacts in. It offers various ways for you to manage your contacts and keep them in an organized way. If you have some contacts in […]
March 2017
Show Mac Information on Login Screen of Mac
We recently posted about how you can show a custom message on the login screen of your Mac. That allowed you to show whatever text you wanted on the login screen on your Mac. Here comes a new trick for […]
Change Default Search Location on Finder Search
Many of you are likely using the Finder’s search feature to search for files on your Mac. Although Spotlight brings up usually anything you want with its quick search features, Finder is also a great way to search for files […]
Enable Night Mode in macOS Sierra
One of the common mods we have been seeing in almost all the operating systems is night mode. The mode allows users to set different colors for their screens at night time to ensure the screen is easy on the […]
Turn On/Off Automatic Updates for Apps in Windows 10 Store
Part of what makes the Windows 10 operating system so different from anything else we’ve ever seen from the Redmond company is the distribution of applications all over the Start menu. For many, a lot of the apps are just […]
Open Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 10
If you only use your Windows 10 operating system at home, then you might not know anything about Group Policies. If your Windows 10 computer happens to be at work, then the likelihood if you or your administrator knowing about […]
How to Password Protect a PDF File on Mac
Protecting your confidential PDF documents is a must in today’s world as you may not know who is spying on you and reading your documents. One of the ways you can do that is to add password protection to your […]
Stop Apps Automatically Updating in Android
If you have quite a few apps installed on your device, you will likely see new updates coming in for these apps installed on your device. While keeping your apps up to date is not bad, sometimes you may just […]
Completely Uninstall Apps in Android
More often than not, what happens is that when you uninstall an app on your Android device, the app leaves some of its files behind on your device. Although the app itself has gone from your device, its files still […]
How to Show Custom Text on Login Screen of Mac
There aren’t many things that you can customize on the login screen of your Mac. By default, the screen shows a background and a list of users on the machine. You can click on a user and log-in to open […]
How to Import Photos from Android to Windows 10
Backing up photos taken on your Android device is a really great idea as you may not know when your device can get damaged or theft or stolen. By importing your photos from your Android device to your Windows 10 […]
How to Print Documents in Black and White on Mac
Even when you print a black and white document on your Mac, your Mac sends signals to the printer that the document to be printed is a color one. The reason it does so is that you have not specifically […]
How to Include System Files in Search Results on Mac
When you search your Mac using the Find feature in the Finder app on your Mac, you are presented with all of the files you can usually get access to on your Mac. What these search results don’t include, though, […]
How to Enable Debug Menu in Apple Apps on Mac
Most Apple apps come with a hidden menu called debug menu that has options to let you perform some extra actions on your Mac. For example, the debug menu in Calendar app allows you to clear the cache which is […]
How to Add a Charging Chime to Mac
Apple pays attention to every little detail, and that is the reason we see a lot of small yet cool things in its devices. From the Apple Maps icon showing a particular location to the Pages app having the full […]
How to Delete Files on Mac Quickly
When there are files on your Mac that you do not use, what you do is delete them from your Mac. By deleting such files, you are reclaiming the memory space that can now be used for other files that […]
How to Automatically Backup Contacts on Mac
One of the worst things that can happen to us is losing import contacts on our machines. If you have saved someone’s phone number and that is crucial to you, losing it is a problem. To ensure your contacts are […]
How to Import Contacts from SIM Card to Android
Due to very little memory space, most old phones used to store contacts on the SIM card. If you have such a SIM card from an old device of yours and you are now using the card on your Android […]
Update Group Policy Settings in Windows 10
Windows operating systems have something called a Local Group Policy and a Local Group Policy Editor to allow administrators to do the edits within the Local Group Policy. The administrator of Microsoft’s Active Directory network is in charge Group Policy and […]
How to Run Command Prompt as an Administrator
The Command Prompt is the command line that allows people to enter codes and execute commands. The Command Prompt in Windows 10 provides access to over 280 commands that anyone can run to perform a variety of tasks. The Command […]
Enable/Disable Google Chrome Background Tab Throttling in Windows
As of March 16th, there is a new version of the Google Chrome web browser available officially released. It’s called the stable channel version 57.0.2987.110. The newer version of Google Chrome comes with a feature called background tab throttling that […]
Shut Down Computer in Windows 10
If you plan on walking away from your PC for a while, it might be best to shut it down completely. That way you don’t use any additional power, and you also preserve the hardware inside your computer so that […]
Change Windows 10 Network Location to Private or Public
Each computer has a network location. The network location is the type of network the PC is using with a network adapter. There are three types of network locations that are available for the Windows 10 users to choose: public […]
Change Size of Scrollbars in Windows 10
There are quite a few tweaks you can make to the fonts and the font sizes in versions of the Windows 10 operating systems. You can use the ChangeFont tool to change the default Windows 10 font of Tahoma to […]
Change Icon Text Size in Windows 10
One of the simplest tricks you can do with Windows 10 to customize the way it looks is changing the font or the font size. The default font in Windows 10 is Tahoma, but I’ve changed the font on my […]
Format and Clean Install macOS on Mac
As you use your Mac for a long time, it eventually gets filled with a lot of files and that slows down the performance of the machine. If that has happened to you, you will want to get rid of […]
Completely Delete an App on Mac
If you have recently switched to Mac from Windows, you will find that the process of uninstalling an app on the Mac is not as straightforward as Windows. Windows PCs have the uninstall section from where a user can uninstall […]
How to Use WhatsApp on Mac
Until and unless WhatsApp releases an official client for the desktops, you will have to rely on other techniques to get WhatsApp to work on your desktop machines. There have been many ways to make WhatsApp work on desktops, and […]
Remove Password of Local Account in Windows 10
If you are someone like me, password protecting just about everything you have is of the utmost importance because within the walls of what is being password protected comes some sensitive data that I do not want hackers seeing. Take […]
Remove Show Desktop Button from Taskbar in Windows 10
Ever since Windows 7 was released, we have had a feature to the far right of the taskbar that is the Show Desktop button. Basically what it does is show the desktop when you have a window open. The Show […]