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If you’re browsing the web with Mozilla Firefox and you’d like to quickly open a Private window, there’s no need to reach for a menu. Here’s how to start private browsing in Firefox with just a keyboard shortcut on Windows, Linux, and Mac. First, open “Firefox.” With any Firefox window active, press one of the following shortcuts depending on your computer platform. Windows or Linux: Press Ctrl+Shift+P Mac: Press Command+Shift+P...

Working with images in Microsoft Word isn’t necessarily difficult, but there are some tricks to positioning your pictures. If you have two or more images that you want to overlap with each other, we’ll show you how. Adjust the Image Layout Options Before you can overlap your images in Word, you must be sure you’re using a supported layout option. You can check this a few different ways. Select the image and click the Layout Options icon that appears to the right of it....

Microsoft Teams faces high demand for improvements to its video chat feature as telecommuting becomes the new norm. On a Teams video call, you can pin or reframe individuals to focus on the people you really want to see. Unlike its competitors, Zoom and Google Meet, which feature several different layouts for video calls, Microsoft Teams focuses primarily on professional digital communications for businesses and organizations. Seeing an ocean of many faces during a video call is fun, but not necessarily productive—so you’ll only be able to pin the video feeds of the speakers that are most relevant to you....

Press Alt+Enter while you’re playing a full-screen game to enable windowed mode. You can press the shortcut again to switch out of windowed mode and re-enable full-screen mode, too. This keyboard shortcut doesn’t work in every PC game. It’s up to the game’s developer to support it, but it does work in a wide variety of games—both modern PC games and older Windows PC games going back to the 90s....

We all wish our iPhone battery would last longer. Luckily, Apple includes a handy feature called Low Power Mode that allows you to squeeze extra life out of your device, and you can launch it quickly from Control Center. Here’s how to set it up. What Is Low Power Mode? Low Power Mode saves battery life by temporarily disabling system features such as “Hey Siri”, email fetching, and background app refreshing that usually run in the background while using other apps or while your device’s screen is turned off....

By default, when you open your Windows 10 Start menu, you’ll see recently added apps at the top of the app list. This section shows some of the apps you have installed most recently. If you’d like to remove that, it’s easy to change. Here’s how. Here’s what a typical “Recently Added” section looks like at the top of the Start menu app list. It’s a small area that shows the names and icons of recently installed apps....

If you run a multiple-monitor setup on a Mac, it’s easy to add some personal zing to your productivity experience by setting a different desktop wallpaper for each monitor. Here’s how. RELATED: How to Use Multiple Monitors on Your Mac First, click on the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of the screen and select “System Preferences.” In System Preferences, click “Desktop & Screen Saver.” If you have more than one monitor attached to your Mac, a window will pop up on each one....

Have you ever wanted to charge your iPhone or iPad using a cable hooked to your Windows 10 PC, but every time you plug it in, iTunes starts up? It can get annoying pretty quickly. Here’s how to fix it. The culprit is a small Apple program that runs in the background called “iTunes Helper.” This program gets installed when you install iTunes, and it detects when an Apple device is plugged into a USB port and opens iTunes automatically....

If you’re like most, you surf the internet across multiple devices, including a smartphone and a computer. The key to making those work together is allowing tabs to sync between devices. Thankfully, Microsoft Edge syncs tabs and history, but only after you set it up. If you’re unfamiliar with tab syncing, the concept is pretty simple. Let’s say that you use Microsoft Edge on your PC and your smartphone. With tab sync enabled, you can view the tabs open on your phone from the PC....

Using a simple combination of button presses, it’s easy to capture a picture of your iPhone’s screen to an image file that gets saved to your Photos library. Here’s how to do it. What Is a Screenshot? A screenshot is an image that usually contains an exact copy of what you see on the screen of your device. A digital screenshot captured within the device usually makes taking a photo of the physical screen with a camera unnecessary....

As long as you have an iPad or an iPad Pro with a compatible Apple Pencil (first or second generation), you’ll be able to use a shortcut to take a screenshot directly using your Apple Pencil. And you won’t have to press the Power and Volume button combination. On your iPad, go to the page you want to take a screenshot of. From there, take your Apple Pencil and swipe in from the bottom-left corner of the screen....

Any Laptop Can Transform Into a Desktop Transforming your portable PC into something more permanent is easy with a few cables and the necessary peripherals. The best part is that your laptop doesn’t have to remain tethered to your workspace, and any time you need to get on the move, just disconnect the cables and you’re good to go. Let’s go through the basics of a DIY setup to get on the road to big-screen glory....

Depending on how you use Adobe Photoshop, smart objects might be one of your favorite features—or a source of constant annoying dialog boxes. If you’re in the latter camp, here’s how to stop Photoshop from placing everything as a smart object. What Are Smart Objects in Photoshop? But first, let’s just go over what you’re losing out on. Smart objects do a few different things but their biggest advantage is that they preserve the original data of the embedded image or vector file....

With the holiday season upon us, it’s time to pull out the holiday card list and get writing. However, how would you like to save some money this year and also help save the environment? We’ve assembled a list of websites that allow you to create electronic cards (eCards) you can send (using email, Facebook, or other electronic delivery methods) to friends and family for the holidays, or for any other occasion....

Why Your AirPods Need a Case If you’ve ever dropped your AirPods case, you’ll be familiar with this problem. As the case hits the ground, your AirPods are ejected at high velocity across the room (or worse, the street), leaving you wondering how earbuds can travel so far, so fast. The hard plastic case does a good job of protecting your AirPods from immediate damage but little to stop them from becoming projectiles....

Your providers—from your cable company to your trash company—are more than happy to raise your rates and gouge you for money. But unless you get in their face about it, they’ll never lower them. The key to saving a pile of money is strategic negotiation. There are countless articles on the internet that claim you can save money “just by asking for a lower rate”, but few really get into the nitty-gritty of making that call....

In late 2020, Apple released several Macs that use the new Apple Silicon architecture. You may have heard that not all Mac software “natively” supports Apple Silicon yet. But what does that mean? Native Software Runs Faster Software that is “native” to a certain computer system has been written especially for that type of computer (otherwise known as an “architecture”). Native is a relative term. If software is non-native, it was created for another type of computer than the one you’re using....

Chrome 90 brings some new window management tools, a much-needed fix for the Reading List, and plenty of improvements under the surface. The update is rolling out now to Chrome browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux. To go with the 90th stable release of Chrome, Google made a silly 90s themed video to explain some of the features. It’s worth a watch if you can handle the cringe. Play Video...

Microsoft Outlook 365 received a nice update for Mac in the fall of 2020. Along with an enhanced look came new and improved features. With everything from a customizable toolbar and better search to the ability to snooze emails, let’s take a look at all that’s new in Outlook 365 for Mac. Try the New Outlook If you’ve already installed Microsoft Outlook’s fall 2020 update (16.42 (20101102) or later), then you can switch to the new look easily....

Most of the time our AC adapters and power supplies tend to be quiet, but what does it mean when one makes a whining noise? Should you be concerned? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a worried reader’s questions. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. Photo courtesy of Bart Everson (Flickr)....