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These include methods that allow you to crop unwanted outer areas, touch up your image with filters, or make more advanced changes. If you want to crop a screenshot on a Mac, here’s what you’ll need to do. Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for Taking Mac Screenshots Before you know how to crop a screenshot, you might need to know how to take a new screenshot first. There are different methods for taking a screenshot on Mac, but the quickest way is to use one of several keyboard shortcuts....

If you want to declutter your Messages app, there are a number of different approaches you can use. Here’s how to delete messages on Mac. How to Enable or Disable Messages in iCloud Messages in iCloud is a setting that allows you to sync your Messages across all of your devices that are signed in to the same Apple ID. With this setting turned on, deleting Messages on your Mac will also delete them on all of your other devices....

Or maybe it’s not about the policy change and you’ve just decided to use a different app such as Telegram or the privacy-focused Signal. Either way, deleting your account is easy. Here’s how. Why Cancel WhatsApp? WhatsApp has recently announced some changes to its privacy policy. These changes, the company says, concern the app sharing data with its owner, Facebook, so companies can communicate with users in a simpler fashion....

How To Disable the Outlook 2010 Auto-Complete and Clear the Auto-Complete Cache In Outlook 2010, click the File menu and select Options. In the Outlook Options window click the Mail tab. Scroll down roughly halfway until you see Send messages. Uncheck the Use Auto-Complete List to suggest names when typing in the To, Cc, and Bcc lines box. Optional Step: To clean out the Auto-Complete list, just click the Empty Auto-Complete List button....

While this tool is less effective in Windows 10 than older versions, it still allows you to quickly access some of your most important (and possibly hidden) settings. It’s basically a super control panel where everything is located in one central location. If you want to enable God Mode in Windows 10, you’ll have to follow these steps. How to Enable God Mode in Windows 10 God Mode allows you to quickly access important Control Panel settings from a single location....

Find Apps on Windows 11 Start Menu by First Letter To get started, click on the Start button or hit the Windows key on your keyboard to launch the Start menu. Then click the All apps button at the upper-right corner of the menu. Note: My Start button is on the lower-left corner of the screen. If you like the look of that, you can make the Windows 11 button appear on the left, too....

How to Find Chromebook End of Life Date If you want to find your Chromebook’s End of Life date, here’s what you’ll need to do: For example, in the shot above, the Chromebook in use will keep getting automatic software and security updates until June 2024. After that date, it will no longer receive automatic software updates. If your Chromebook isn’t working (or you can’t access it currently), you can check whether your model’s EOL date by looking up the Chromebook End of Life list using the Google Support website....

Locate an Item Using Your AirTag For an item you misplace nearby, like in your home, you can use the Precise Location feature for the AirTag (Settings> Privacy > Location Services > Find My). This shows exactly where the item is, how far from you it’s located, and you can have it play a sound. For an item away from home, you can see its last known location, its current spot on a map, and get directions to it....

Unfortunately, issues with links in your browser can pop up from time to time—even in a browser like Google Chrome. The good news is that you should be able to fix the problem in Chrome. If you’re having problems with links not working in Chrome, follow the steps below. Open the Links in Incognito Mode One of the first things to try if links aren’t opening in Chrome is opening a new window in incognito mode....

The first step is to understand why it’s occurred. A BSOD is usually a sign that something is wrong with your PC, serious enough for Windows to shut itself down to protect your system from further damage. BSODs usually come with difficult-to-decipher names, and an NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM (or NTFS File System) error on a Windows 11 or 10 PC is no different. This error typically points to a problem with your system drive....

If you’re lonely in the Clubhouse world and want your friends to come aboard or know a coworker or associate who would enjoy the audio platform, we’ll show you how to easily invite someone to Clubhouse. What You Need to Know About Inviting Others Before you start sending invitations, it’s important to keep a couple of things in mind regarding the Clubhouse app. Clubhouse is currently only available for iPhone and iPod touch....

You can customize every section of your page, from your page title to your header and footers. For instance, you can add different footers in Words, allowing you to customize how each page looks. If you want to make different footers in Word, follow these steps. How to Make a Footer in Word Before you can make different footers, you need to know how to make your first footer. Here’s how to add a footer in Word: Your footer is now created....

Unfortunately, after time, Google Chrome can slow down and drain your system resources. Tabs are slow to load or will crash entirely. If that happens, you’ll want to know how to make Google Chrome faster. Luckily, here are some tweaks you can try to speed up your browser performance and get the most out of Chrome. How to Make Google Chrome Faster You can do several things to make Chrome faster, from basic actions to more in-depth tweaks....

You may prefer that your PC starts up automatically. If you’re running Windows 11, you can set your PC to start automatically at a specific time each day. If you time it correctly, you can have your PC and apps ready to roll when you sit down in front of your computer. Depending on your working environment, you may want a PC to boot up remotely at the start of each day so you can remotely connect to it using RDP....

If you pick the Original option, Google only gives you 15 GB of space — and that fills up quickly. If you pick the High-quality option, Google offers you free unlimited storage. The trade-off? Compressed files. Compressing image files so that they consume less storage space does not necessarily mean lower image quality — but it can. Either way, the odds are that the changes Google Photos makes to your images will be barely noticeable to the naked eye, even when you blow them up and print them....

Export Safari Web Browser Data and Bookmarks and Import to Windows 10 Your first step is to choose which browser you’ll use once you get to Windows 10. Apple stopped the development of Safari for Windows a few years ago. I personally use Mozilla Firefox because of its speed, performance, and superb syncing. Whichever browser you choose, you should be able to import Safari bookmarks. Method 1: Export as an HTML File To export your Safari bookmarks, open Safari, and click File > Export Bookmarks....

What you’ll need: An Android phone running version 2.2 or higher. Go here to help on finding which version of Android you’re running.A MicroSD card, which typically comes with your device, so chances are this is already in your phone. If you want to add even more storage to your phone, oftentimes you can get a larger capacity MicroSD card, but you’ll want to make sure your device can handle that....

How to Delete Photos on Mac When you delete photos on Mac (and videos), they’re placed in the Recently Deleted album in the native Photos app. They’ll stay there for 30 days before being automatically removed from iCloud and your devices, including Mac. Beneath each photo is information on when the photo will get deleted. Some important points to consider: If you aren’t using iCloud Photos, any deleted photos and videos in the Photos app on Mac are only removed from that device....

How to Reset Your Windows 8.1 PC From the Metro interface, click Settings on the Charms bar and select More PC Settings. The Metro-style Control Panel opens. Scroll down and select General and Get Started under Reset Your PC and Start Over. Windows displays bullet points of what a PC Reset will do. Remember, everything will be wiped clean from your system. Make sure you have all of your important data backed up before proceeding....

Why root your Kindle? Well if you are reading this then you have quite a few reasons in mind already. For those that don’t know, a rooted Kindle Fire can: Install the official Android MarketUse apps that require root. (e.g.: Droid Wall, Root Explorer, Titanium Backup Pro, etc…)Set permanent custom lock screen backgrounds.Install custom soft-keyboards.And more! Disclaimer: Although the risks involved with rooting are low, there is a possibility something could go wrong....