Even though Windows 10 has scaling options that can make things generally easier to see, you may want to keep the screen resolution how you like it, but also have the ability to make fonts much bigger. The Windows 10 October added a separate control for scaling the size on fonts. Here’s where to find […]
The next big update of Windows 10 (in April) will mean that Microsoft will reserve 7GB of your device’s storage in order to accommodate its future ‘quality updates’ or new versions of the OS. Measures you can take to check that you will have enough reserved storage space or to avoid storage space problems include: […]
If you use Google Chrome and you’d like to make sure that you know when you’re visiting a site that’s been hacked, and you’d like to set up a watch list for sites that you regularly visit, or those that store personal data, here’s a handy browser extension that could help. The HackNotice extension for […]
If you’re planning a trip to an exciting destination you can now create your own travel itinerary in the Bing search engine. Here’s how: Sign up to (Microsoft Outlook) and into Bing Maps – see https://www.bing.com/maps Click on ‘My Places’. Select the ‘Itineraries’ tab. Open ‘New Itinerary’. Select the places you want to go, add the […]
Google’s Voice Access App (for Android 5 or later) lets you navigate your entire phone just by using your voice and Google’s voice assistant. If you’d like to make controlling your smartphone an easy, hands-free experience here’s how: – Install the Google app and the Voice Access app (see Google Play). – Set up ‘OK […]
The Windows 10 phone app means that you can get instant access to your Android phone’s photos and texts on your computer. Here’s how to get it: – Make sure you have latest version of Windows 10. – Go to this page to launch the app: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/phones – Follow the steps to link your Android […]
We all use apps on a daily basis, but if you’d like to know which apps are the most useful for small business, here is a list of the top 25 that could help you: Go to: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/small-business/20-apps-small-business-owners/
In a creative and fun step, the latest update to Microsoft Windows now means that you can achieve maximum personalisation in your written communications by using the ‘Microsoft Font Maker’ to turn your handwriting into a font that you can install and use on your computer. Here’s how (N.B. It works best with a digital […]
With the new Windows 10 update and the new ‘Cloud Clipboard’ feature, you can avoid losing text that you’ve copied, see a history of the text and images you previously copied (via the new Cloud Clipboard feature), and even pin frequently used content to the clipboard permanently. Here’s how to use it: Hit the Windows […]
Microsoft’s Windows 10 contains speech recognition linked to Cortana that allows you to dictate speech through your Windows machine’s microphone, and convert it into typing in a text field. Here’s how to use it: – Go to Settings. – Go to Time & Language > Speech > Related settings and click "Speech, inking and typing […]