برچسب: Computing

If you’re out and about with your laptop, or just in a different room than your charging cable, you want to eke out as much time as possible before the next recharge—and an important part of that is knowing which apps are draining the battery the quickest. Once you know who the worst offenders are…

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 wondering which browsers are best for keeping our online habits to ourselves. Whether you’re an activist concerned about surveillance, someone doing research in a country where your topic can get you…

Even if you don’t use a PC, you probably know about the Blue Screen of Death (or BSOD). This iconic error screen has been a core component of Windows since the OS’ first version (though it looked a bit more like something out of The Matrix back then). The BSOD isn’t something you necessarily want…

You may have seen a headline this week imply that OneNote, the extremely popular note-taking application from Microsoft, is shutting down. That’s not the case—only a specific version of OneNote, named “OneNote for Windows 10,” is shutting down. What’s this mean? If you don’t use Windows, this news doesn’t affect you. If you do use…

Scheduling your computer to do something every day, every time you log in, or whenever the screen wakes up isn’t impossible on most computers, it’s just not convenient. Task Scheduler on Windows and Automator for macOS work if you’re willing to dig in, but there’s a learning curve. Task Till Dawn (which I found via…

Quick: Send me a large file. Even today, decades after a famous comic about this exact problem , it’s not necessarily simple. Messaging services don’t allow truly huge files; neither do most email providers. You could stick the file in a cloud storage space , sure, but only if you’re paying for enough storage space…

Typing with a keyboard is second-nature to most of us at this point. Typing on a game controller, however, is not. For as long as I’ve played games, I’ve loathed having to slowly hover my on-screen cursor over each key with a joystick. It just isn’t fun. It seems Microsoft agrees with the challenges of…

I’ve tried all kinds of time-tracking apps over the years and they can be helpful, but it’s easy to get bogged down in the numbers . Sometimes all you need is a little self-awareness about how long you’ve been on the computer, either all day or during the current session, without the burden of long-term…

GIMP, the free and open source image editing application long seen as the best free Photoshop alternative , just released a major update: Version 3 . The update brings long-awaited improvements to working with filters, layers, and text. There’s also a sleeker user interface with improved UI scaling. Among the biggest changes is nondestructive filters.…