Windows

When you play games on Steam, you have to first create an account, install the app, and then use the account you created to download games. It’s fairly simple stuff but your account comes with a social aspect as well. Most information, by default, is public which means information about …

An external hard drive often has a different icon than the internal drives. This is because the external drives provide their own icon and doesn’t rely on Windows 10 to give you one and these icons sometimes also highlight the manufacturer of the external drive. That said, you can always …

When you enable the mobile hotspot on Windows 10, it will remain On so long as a device is connected to it. In some cases, if a device is connected but it isn’t actively using the connection, the hotspot will turn off. This means that you will have to turn …

Video editing can be both simple and complex. It all depends on the kind of footage you have to work with. The more complex a video edit is, the more advanced and feature rich an app you’ll need to edit it. That said, if you want to make a picture-in-picture …

Windows plays a specific sound when you disconnect hardware from your system. This sound plays if the hardware is properly stopped and disconnected, or if it is simply removed without warning. In some cases, e.g., with phones or external drives, you might see a message telling you a device was …

Microsoft Edge, the preview version, is now available for iOS and Android. According to Microsoft, people wanted Edge on iOS and Android. The apps aren’t available on the respective app stores just yet. They’re still in beta but it’s a public beta. If you’re interested in checking out the app, …

The good folks over at XDA have covered a neat tool that lets you control your Android phone from Windows 10. It’s fairly easy to set up but there are quite a few things that can go wrong even if you follow the instructions exactly. Scrcpy lets you control your Android phone …

Audio video calls have changed the way we communicate. A few years ago, Skype was the only app that could reliably make both audio and video calls but since then, a whole host of other messaging apps have joined the fray and are actually doing better than Skype. Skype has …