Windows

Photoshop brushes, both free and premium, are widely available. You will find you’re often spoiled for choice when it comes to a particular type of brush for Photoshop and rarely will you fail to find what you’re looking for. The same can’t be said for GIMP which isn’t as popular …

File Explorer on Windows 10 can generate a thumbnail preview for common file types. These are mostly images but again, not all of them. For some RAW image files, you have to install an app to get a thumbnail preview. It would of course be tedious to install an app …

When you run a batch file, you get one of two things; a persistent Command Prompt window that will remain visible until the script is done or until you tap a key to dismiss it, or you will see a fleeting glimpse of a command prompt window appear and disappear. …

The cursor is an essential UI element that must, normally, be visible at all times in order for you to interact with your system. There are some exceptions to this; media players and games. When you’re watching a video, whether it’s in your browser, in a dedicated media player, or …

Scheduling a shut down on Windows 10 is simple but you’ll be surprised to learn that it is just as difficult to schedule sleep on Windows 10. The command-line argument that claims to sleep a system actually hibernates it. The common method around this is to first disable/turn off hibernate …

There are many apps that can keep a system from going to sleep if they’re busy, and some can even shut the system down once they’ve completed an action. This last type is rare. In fact, you’ll find that it’s mostly torrent clients that have this sort of feature. The …

Running an app at system startup is easy; you can add it to the Startup folder on Windows 10, or if the app has an option to automatically start at startup, you can enable it. Many apps that need such an option e.g., Dropbox, have one built-in. These apps run …

All accounts on Windows 10 are not created equal; there are ordinary user accounts, and there is the admin account. The admin account has far more rights and privileges than an ordinary user account and you need it to make certain changes to the OS e.g., installing a new app, …

iPads can be used with external keyboards and newer iPhone models can also work with Bluetooth keyboards but you may not always want to carry one with you, or you may not be able to. If you happen to work on a Windows 10 PC, you can use it to …

Professionally edited audio files go through a lot of changes post-production. If you’re new to recording any sort of audio, it is possible that the tracks/files you have contain quite a few silent parts. The audio file will pass through several rounds of editing and in that editing process, you …