Dave, every time I move a window on my PC, a small white bar appears on the top. If I move the window too close to that mystery bar, it suddenly changes everything on screen and is resized to be 50% of my display. What is that thing and how can I disable it?
Ever wish you had a ring light on your MacBook webcam? The good news is that Apple’s added just that feature to the latest version of its webcam management utility and it’s pretty slick. Here’s how it works…
It’s essential to have a strong, complex password in the modern era, and smart folk also set up a two-factor authentication solution. Better, but the real win is tying your login process to a biometric scan. People can fake a lot of things, but your face or fingerprint are far harder to spoof. Here’s how to set up a biometric passkey for Facebook.
Dave, I have a problem: some of my colleagues have names with special characters in them and I have no idea how to produce those special characters on my Chromebook. How do I create an ñ, for example, so I can write señor rather than senor? Thanks.
I work from a tiny apartment in the Bronx. I don’t mind, but I do hate Zoom calls because everyone can see my messy space. I know that Zoom has some built-in virtual backgrounds, but is there any way to add a library or gallery of great backgrounds I can select on a per-meeting basis?
Android devices keep getting increasingly sophisticated AI-powered photo editing tools. Google’s “Pixel first” approach means Pixel phone users get early access to these features, which eventually roll out to all Android devices. The latest addition, “Help Me Edit,” is a pretty cool example of this trend.
There’s a challenging new casual puzzle game on the New York Times website that might just keep you strategizing for quite a while. It’s a Dominos placement puzzle, and it’s not at all easy. Here’s how it works…
Dave, my partner just moved in with his two children and I’m now wondering if there’s a way to set up my Apple TV device so that they have their own account accounts? In particular, the younger child is seven and I don’t want them to even see any of the more mature content that my partner and I enjoy. Does Apple offer any support in this regard?
I share my PC with my mom and I don’t know what she does but we get a lot of notifications from different websites. They all have the Microsoft Edge icon in the notification window, so are they from Edge? In any case, how can I disable them?
My boss keeps sending me images in the “webp” format to add to our newsletter. Problem is, our layout program doesn’t know what WebP is and rejects them. Is there a way to convert them to JPEG or PNG on my iMac?
