You can remove unnecessary pixels from an image directly in Microsoft Word using the built-in cropping tool. You can also crop a photo to fit a specific shape. Here’s how to crop a picture in Microsoft Word. How to Crop a Picture in Word To crop a picture in Microsoft Word, open the Word document, add an image (Insert > Pictures), and then select the photo by clicking it....

Microsoft announced it was bringing an integrated OpenSSH client to Windows in 2015. They’ve finally done it, and an SSH client is hidden in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. You can now connect to an Secure Shell server from Windows without installing PuTTY or any other third-party software. Update: The built-in SSH client is now enabled by default in Windows 10’s April 2018 Update. Here’s how to get the update if you don’t already have it on your PC....

Have trouble remembering the birthdays of all your friends, family, and co-workers? Luckily, the Apple iPhone comes to the rescue with automated birthday reminders. All you have to do is add birthdays within the Contacts app and flip a switch in Settings. Here’s how to set it up. First, for this to work, you must have notifications enabled for the Calendar app. To turn that on, visit Settings > Notifications > Calendar and set the switch beside “Allow Notifications” to “On....

Google Smart Displays and Chromecasts display the dates and location information for Google Photos in Ambient Mode. If this personal information is something you don’t want everyone to be able to see, it can be hidden. Since September 2020, showing the date, location, and other photo information for the Google Photos backdrop became the default setting. This only applies to devices that use Google Photos in Ambient Mode (the screen saver)....

The Difference Between Hiding and Removing Games Hiding is reversible. When you hide a Steam game, it’s hidden from the standard library views. Someone can still see the game with a few clicks, and you can unhide the game in the future. You can even play a hidden game. It’s just a way of sweeping a game under the rug for the moment. Removing is permanent. When you remove a game from your Steam account, it’s permanently deleted....

But what do you do when your Watch battery just doesn’t last long enough? Here are some tips for making your Apple wearable last longer. Disable Always-On Display (Series 5 and Later) The Apple Watch Series 5 and later (except the SE) boasts an always-on display. This means there’s no need to flick your wrist or tap the screen to see the time. Apple uses some clever tricks to reduce power consumption to make this possible, including lowering the display’s refresh rate from 60Hz (60 refreshes per second) to just 1Hz....

Windows has had support for themes, also known as “visual styles”, since Windows XP. By default, Windows only loads Microsoft-signed themes—but you can get around this limitation. These aren’t your standard Windows themes. They modify the appearance of window title bars, buttons, and other visual elements. Windows 10: Install WindowBlinds You can still do this the old-fashioned way on Windows 7 (see our instructions in the next section for that), but it’s not so easy to do on Windows 10....

Connection Type: Can It Hook Up to Your PC? The first question you should always ask yourself when buying a monitor: can it even connect to your computer? You’ll need to check the output on your computer and see what kinds of ports are available (if you have a dedicated video card, you’ll want to look at those outputs). Then, make sure your monitor features the same type of ports — if it doesn’t, you’ll need some sort of adapter or special cable....

Ever wish you could play Wii and GameCube games on your PC? Just like your favorite retro systems, there’s an emulator that can do the job, and it’s called Dolphin. RELATED: How to Play Your Favorite NES, SNES, and Other Retro Games on Your PC with an Emulator Dolphin is an open source Wii and GameCube emulator that supports the majority of games for both consoles. Dolphin can run your collection of Wii and GameCube games very well at 1080p on most new PC’s, and even older systems still can crank out playable speeds in standard definition 480p (which is the GameCube’s native resolution)....

Remember floppies? Back in the day, they were essential. Eventually, they were replaced, and floppy disk drives vanished from new computers. Here’s how to access a vintage 3.5- or 5.25-inch floppy disk on a modern Windows PC or Mac. There’s a Catch: Copying Data Is the Easy Part Before we begin, you should understand a huge caveat. What we’re going to cover here—copying data from a vintage floppy disk onto a modern PC—is only half the battle....

Google Maps can do so much that it’s easy to miss some of its most useful features. It’s good at remembering the places you frequently visit, but you can also simply save your favorite locations. That way, you always know where to find them. If you use Maps with a Google account, you can save locations to lists. The default lists are “Starred” and “Favorites,” but it’s also possible to add your own....

RELATED: How to Take a Screenshot on Windows 11 Take a Screenshot with Print Screen (PrtScn) The Print Screen key on your keyboard can take a screenshot. Depending on the keyboard shortcut you use, you can save the screenshot as a PNG image file or copy it to your clipboard so you can paste it into any application. The prtscn key is usually found between the F12 key and Scroll Lock key on the top row of your keyboard....

The WhatsApp app on iPhone and Android comes with a built-in tool for searching, sending, and staring GIFs (backed by the superb GIPHY service). Everything happens from the keyboard view in the chat. To get started, open the “WhatsApp” app on your phone and navigate to a chat. Here, tap on the Stickers icon at the end of the text box. This will replace the keyboard with the stickers section....

If you’d like to keep some of your favorite Safari bookmarks a quick tap away on your iPad, Safari lets you enable an on-screen Favorites bar. Once it’s enabled, you’ll find it under your address bar. Here’s how to turn the Favorites bar on (or off, if you want to hide it). First, launch Settings. Locate the grey “gear” icon on your iPad and tap it. In Settings, scroll through the list and tap “Safari....

RELATED: The Best Action Movies on Netflix in 2022 The Matrix Play Video Siblings Lana and Lilly Wachowski draw on influences from comic books, cyberpunk, martial arts films, anime, and more to create this landmark action movie. Keanu Reeves plays Neo, a seemingly ordinary office worker who discovers he’s living in a computer simulation and is actually humanity’s chosen savior. Freedom fighters Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) show Neo the true nature of the universe and help him take down the sinister computer program known as Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving)....

Want to keep the chatter down on your Facebook posts? Unfortunately, Facebook limits how and when you can prevent other users from commenting on your posts. We’ll show you where you can and how to do it. What to Know About Disabling Facebook Comments For the personal posts you publish on your Facebook timeline, you must set the visibility to “Public” to manage comments for them. Also, you can’t fully disable comments on your posts; you can only limit comments to friends or friends of friends....

The keyboard is the only thing between your thoughts and the computer that’s in front of you. Being a fast typist means getting your ideas out quicker, being more efficient with your time on the computer, and eventually letting your eyes wander away from the keyboard while you type. Learn Where You Are in the Levels of WPM Now if you already know what your rate of words per minute WPM and want to improve, but don’t know where to start, then keep reading....

How to View the Notification Center from the Menu Bar The Notification Center is part of the menu bar on your Mac. If you’re running macOS 10.15 Catalina or older, you can click the Notification Center icon from the right edge of the menu bar to open the Notification Center. If your Mac is running macOS 11 Big Sur or newer, click the date and time from the menu bar to view the Notification Center....

You probably know NordVPN from its pervasive marketing—for a while there, you couldn’t turn on your computer or TV without seeing an ad for it. IPVanish is known for having been pretty good in the past—until scandal caught up with it. Let’s see how they fare when pitted against each other. Ease of Use NordVPN and IPVanish are visually striking services, so we’ll start with a discussion of their respective interfaces....

When Will My Phone Get Android 11? Google has already begun pushing Android 11 to Pixel smartphones. All Pixel devices starting from the Pixel 2 can download the over the air update right now. Go to Settings > System > Advanced > System Update and tap “Check for Update” to begin the upgrade process. In addition to the stable release for Pixel phones, several select devices from ASUS, OnePlus, Xiaomi, OPPO, Realme, and Samsung can try the Android 11 Beta....