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When you install an extension in Chrome, it shows you a comprehensive list of the permissions it needs to run. You can accept or decline to give it permissions. If you choose to decline giving the extension permissions, it won’t install. That makes it seem like you don’t have much …

Apple’s software is not immune to problems. They may not be as big or as frequent as those experienced by users on other platforms but they exist nevertheless. If you’re trying to update or install apps but the update refuses to start or you have stuck downloads in the Mac …

You can ping a website or a computer from your desktop. All you need is a command line app. Command Prompt on Windows 10, or Terminal on macOS do the job. The ping is of course only sent from your system and your current location. This comes with limitations; if …

When you open Gmail in your web browser, it defaults to the Inbox. The Inbox is where all you email goes but Gmail allows users to sort their messages using labels which are inboxes on their own. You can create as many custom labels in Gmail as you want and …

When you install apps on Windows 10, you can install them anywhere. Normally, they’ll recommend installing to the C drive which is where Windows installs by default. In many cases, you can install an app elsewhere with some exceptions. Steam is no different; you can install it on the C …

Chrome lets you add a custom search engine to it which is basically any website that you search frequently. It happens automatically if you search a particular website often enough. Once added, all you have to do is type the first few letters of the URL, tap the Tab key …

Chrome has a password suggestion feature, and also a built-in password manager which, if you’re not a fan of services like Lastpass, you might actually use. The passwords in Chrome are saved whenever you login into a website. Chrome offers to save them or you can set it to always …

Apple doesn’t take it’s Linux users seriously, even though a good chunk of people on the platform use iPhones. Due to their negligence, there isn’t a good way to use iCloud on Linux and users can’t access their data, photos, notes, etc. To make up for Apple’s unwillingness to make …

If you use Chrome as your default browser, it may have shown you a message telling you Flash is going to be discontinued in December 2020 which, technically, is a good year away. Still, the warning comes with a little button that lets you disable Flash right away. If you …

Windows search, by default, only searches the C drive or whichever drive it is you’ve installed Windows 10 on. It’s not a bad feature if it works and to have it extend to other drives on your system can make it all the more useful. Of course, out of the …

Chrome’s internal pages don’t all have keyboard shortcuts  associated with them. You can open the Downloads page with the Ctrl+J keyboard shortcut, the History page with Ctrl+H, and  that’s about it. There are other internal pages that you might need to access with a keyboard shortcut. You might be able …

Residual problems with a Windows 10 update tend to drag on. You might discover something wrong with your installation months after you’ve upgraded. Windows 10, as of version 1903, now reserves storage space for updates. As it turns out, that’s not the only bit of space Windows 10 is taking …

The Start Menu was changed on Windows 8/8.1, and refined on Windows 10. For the most part, the Start Menu on Windows 10 is functional and not the disaster it originally was when Microsoft first attempted to change it. You still have tiles that are a quick way to launch …

Firefox has a ‘Find bar’ that you can use to search a web page, or a PDF, or any other text based file. Firefox offers live search; as you type a letter, it updates the matches it has found. Once you’ve written a complete word or phrase, you can tap …

Virtual memory is essential on Windows 10. By default, the OS will manage the virtual memory on its own. It will set a value based on what it thinks is best and how much RAM you have. You can however, change virtual memory size on Windows 10 to whatever you …

One of my favorite Windows 10 features is the mobile hotspot. Older versions of Windows allowed you to share your internet from your desktop but enabling it was tedious since you had to run commands in the Command Prompt. On Windows 10, you literally only have to click a toggle …

If you need to automatically post YouTube videos to Twitter, you’ll find the all guides point to a now obsolete method. YouTube, before January 2019, allowed users to connect their Twitter account to the service and automatically share videos. It has now removed this option. In order to automatically post …

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 …

Chrome is capable of downloading multiple files. In fact, it’s the default setting however, it does have one small road block. If you attempt to download multiple files from the same website, it will block them. This is a security measure. A malicious website may download more than one file …

When you close Chrome, whether you do it normally, it crashes, you force close it, or your system restarts, the browser keeps a list of all the tabs you had open. When you next launch it, you will see an option to restore tabs if Chrome did not shut down …