I need to get some screen shots of our program running on my Windows computer. Now that I’m running Win10, what’s the smart way to do this so I can crop to size and save the screenshots as PNG files?
I’ve been using a PIN forever and it works, but my friend has a cool unlock swipe pattern. He just zips his finger across the screen and it’s unlocked. Cool. How can I switch to use that too?
I’ve got Ubuntu Linux running on one of my old PC computers and don’t log in very often. When I do, how can I update Firefox to ensure it’s the latest version?
I like to keep our copy of Office 365 updated, but I read that the next update of Office 365 ProPlus will switch the default Chrome search engine to Bing? WTH? How can I restore the default search engine to Google if that does happen?
I find it really annoying to have to log in to my iMac every time I start it up. Is there some way to set it up so it’s just logged in and ready to go every time I power up?
I borrowed a friend’s Jeep Cherokee and paired my phone so I could talk hands free. Great. But how do I now delete my phone from the car so she can’t see all my contacts, etc? I think it’s running UConnect, whatever that is.
I was trying to update my Windows 10 laptop yesterday and noticed that it wouldn’t actually apply the update because of “Battery Saver”. How can I force an update or disable this feature?
Is there a way I can identify the duration of an MP4 movie file on my Mac system without actually watching the movie? Get Info shows size, but not duration.
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