Dave W. Shanahan
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PowerToys is such a handy utility that it’s hard to pick which specific utility is the most useful for your productivity. Keyboard Manager, Image Resizer, and PowerRename are all great utilities by themselves, but discovering another PowerToys utility that you … Read more
If you are using Windows 10 and are looking for free ways to record your screen, there are options available. There are three free ways to record your screen on Windows 10; using the Xbox Game Bar, using PowerPoint in … Read more
Have you ever wanted the ability to rename files in bulk instantly on Windows 10? PowerToys has your back with PowerRename, another amazing utility offered by the recently updated PowerToys suite of Windows 10 tools. In addition to Image Resizer … Read more
If you are already using PowerToys, you may already know of all of the helpful utilities available to make your life easier, including Keyboard Manager. Another bonus of PowerToys is the Image Resizer utility, which allows you to ability to … Read more
Have you ever wanted to change keyboard shortcuts on Windows 10 to something else? In the past the process of remapping keys or keyboard shortcuts usually involved downloading a difficult-to-use third-party application. Now, the process is a a whole lot … Read more
Are you ever in the middle of something on your Windows 10 PC and you are interrupted and have to log out or turn off your PC? Do you wish there was a way to pick up where you left … Read more
There are several ways to lock your Windows 10 PC, but did you know that you do it with an onscreen shortcut you create? Creating a shortcut to lock your Windows 10 PC can come in handy if you want … Read more
Your Phone is a Windows 10 app that allows you to see your Android and iOS phone messages and more on your PC. However, sometimes you might not want Your Phone to pop up automatically at startup. Here’s a quick method … Read more
Windows 10 has a lesser-known feature that allows you to save time and see all the items that you copy, cut, and paste on your PC called Clipboard history. Previously referred to as Cloud Clipboard, Clipboard history first appeared in … Read more
Microsoft Teams is a great way to communicate with people at work. Recently, Teams has added a number of great functionalities, including the ability to respond to specific messages starting next month. When using Teams on Windows 10, you may … Read more
If you are new to Microsoft Edge, here is a useful tip to help you automatically clear your browsing history every time you exit your browser. Here’s what you need to do. Launch Microsoft Edge Go to Edge settings (three dot … Read more
Today, Intel officially unveiled the details on its 11th-gen Rocket Lake-S processors. led by the new flagship Core i9-11900K, with 8 cores, 16 threads, boosted clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, support for DDR4 RAM at 3,200MHz, a total of 20 … Read more
Today, Microsoft acquired The Marsden Group, a leader in industrial technology innovation and rapid prototyping, for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft’s acquisition is to help customers build more quickly vertical solutions using Microsoft Azure cloud, edge-computing, and AI services, in particular. … Read more
Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 is here and it comes new features including Windowing improvements, JSON fragment extensions support, read-only panes, and more as detailed by a recent blog post by Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft. You can install both … Read more
No Man’s Sky is getting its first content update allowing players to tame, breed, and bond with wild animals in the game. In an announcement on Xbox Wire, Hello Games, the development team behind No Man’s Sky, announced that the … Read more
In case you are looking for a webcam to use on your PC, you can use the Xbox Kinect as a webcam on Windows 10. Once you make your Kinect a webcam on Windows 10, you can use it for … Read more
For those looking to add some flair to your Windows 10 desktop, there is the suite of customization features available in Stardock’s Object Desktop. Yesterday, Stardock announced a major update for their popular Tiles customization tool, one of the tools … Read more
There’s another Free Play Days event for Xbox Live Gold members this weekend. Starting today through Sunday, January 14, Star Wars: Squadrons, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and Yooka-Laylee will be free to play with Xbox Live Gold, and limited-time discounts are … Read more
Since the announcement that all future Star Wars games will fall under a renewed Lucasfilm Games brand, Ubisoft and Lucasfilm Games are working on a new open-world Star Wars game. Of course, there are no specific details about the new … Read more
Microsoft corporate vice president of Commercial Management Experiences, Brad Anderson, is leaving the company after 18 years. As noted in a post on ZDNet, Anderson will join Qualtrics as President of Products & Services. Anderson posted about his decision to … Read more
On Twitter, Bethesda Softworks announced that one of their game development studios, MachineGames, will work with Lucasfilm Games to develop a new Indiana Jones game. MachineGames is behind the popular Wolfenstein game series on Xbox One, starting with Wolfenstein: The … Read more