Windows

Optical Character Recognition has been around for years and it’s improved so that photographs of printed text e.g., from a book, can be read accurately. Most OCR apps target scanned documents or PDFs that do not allow users to copy text. That said, if you ever need to extract text …

File previews are an incredibly useful feature on a desktop OS. Windows 10 provides previews for a few common file formats but not all of them. If you happen to have the Office suite installed, you will get previews for Office documents and spreadsheets but for a lot of other …

Facebook messenger can be used from the desktop via your browser, or via the newly released apps for Windows 10 and macOS. The apps and the web interface will tell you when a friend is online, and how long ago they were last online. The service also tells you when …

When we talk about an internet connection’s speed, we normally look at what the ISP is providing, and the data plan we’ve purchased. In most cases, those two things are what’s really important when it comes to a connection speed but they aren’t the only deciding factor. Desktops systems connect …

Windows 10 logs almost every single activity on the system. You can view it from Event Viewer but the Event Viewer isn’t exactly the most intuitive to use. The events all have their own IDs and there are a lot of events that are recorded making it a time-consuming task …

Desktop messengers aren’t as popular as they used to be. There was a time when messaging didn’t exist as a web app or service and you had to install a desktop app to chat. This is back when Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and others were popular. Now, messaging …

Windows Defender is always running and it scans your system whenever it is idle. On average, the anti-virus will scan your system twice a week to make sure nothing malicious is running on it. That doesn’t mean it’s ‘off’ or ‘disabled’ outside those scan periods. Not only does it scan …

A mouse is possibly one of the least problematic hardware devices you’ll ever connect to a Windows PC. It is highly unlikely to give you any trouble unless you’ve dropped it or it’s rusted. That said, if your mouse starts to act up, and randomly stops working in part, or …

Computers on the same network can talk to each other i.e., they can see each other on the network, and send/receive files. It might take a little effort to set up an easy to use transfer method but it is do-able. One advantage of transferring files between computers over the …

Team Fortress 2 doesn’t always run in the correct resolution. Sometimes it’s only a little bit off but other times, it can be drastically low even though you have a screen that supports better, higher resolutions. If that’s the case, you can use a simple little trick to run Team …