Taking a screenshot of your device
If you want to capture some information that’s displayed on your screen, such as a receipt, it can often be helpful to take a screenshot.
Luckily this is easy on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
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If you want to capture some information that’s displayed on your screen, such as a receipt, it can often be helpful to take a screenshot.
Luckily this is easy on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
One of the big features in iOS 9 when it was released was split screen multitasking on the iPad. We still get a lot of questions about this and a lot of people aren't sure how it can help them so we thought it was an ideal subject for Tekee Tim to cover.
The battery in your mobile device is very important, without it, your device is completely useless so it's good to know how to make it last as long as possible and, as a lot of newer devices don't let you easily replace the battery, how to prolong its life.
Occasionally, when you're connected to a strong WiFi signal, you may find that you can't actually call up any web pages or send any emails. There are a few reasons why this can be the case and we'll run through some ideas that can help you get online here.
Occasionally, if you're having problems loading a website, it can be helpful to clear your browser cache and history. In this tip, we'll show you how to do this in Safari on macOS.
Apple are due to release iPadOS on Tuesday 24th September and this introduces some big changes for the iPad. Here we'll run through some of the bigger changes.
Keeping a regular backup of the data on your computer and mobile device is one of the most important things that you can do. This protects you against losing any of your photos, music or documents in the event that anything happens to your computer or if any of your files get accidentally deleted.
Apple have just announced that the upcoming iPadOS 16, which was expected in September along with iOS 16 has been delayed while they continue to work out some of the bugs and other issues.
In this tip, we'll have a quick run through of some of the biggest changes coming in iPadOS 16 later this year.
When you're looking for a new computer, there are a few things you need to bear in mind when making a decision.
In this week's tip, Tekee Tim will help you through the process.
If you use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) then you can use OneDrive to keep your documents in sync between your devices and allow you to work wherever you are. If you have an Office365 subscription then you already have 1TB of OneDrive space or you can sign up for a free account and get 5GB of space.
If you're sending photos or PDFs to people it can be very helpful to add your own annotations, whether it's to give someone directions or point something out in the photo. This is very easy to do using Preview on the Mac and below we'll show you how to do it.
In a previous Tekeez Tip, we showed you how to see where your disk space was being used in both Windows and macOS. As this process has now changed in both Windows 11 and macOS Ventura, we thought it was time for a new time to help you see what's using up all your disk space.