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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Dealing with data breaches
One of the reasons that you might suddenly find yourself getting more spam email, especially spam that claims to know a password that you use, is if your email address has been included in a recent data breach. These happen quite often unfortunately and can result in some of your details being released onto the Internet. This can result in, among other things, an increase in spam emails.
Caching updates with macOS
If you have a house or office with multiple Apple devices, iMacs, MacBooks, iPhones, iPads etc it can be a pain to have to download all the updates for each device separately. This tip will help you get around that problem.
Captioning photos on your iPad and iPhone
One of the new features in the Photos app on iOS 14 for your iPad and iPhone is the ability to caption photos, this makes it much easier to search back and find exactly the photo(s) that you're looking for.
In this tip, we'll show you how to caption and search for your favourite photos.
Using web browsers effectively
When you’re browsing the Internet, search engines can be very useful for finding pages that you don’t know the address for or for looking up information, but if you already know the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) then you can get to the page much quicker by not using a search engine.
Removing unwanted software from your Windows PC
Every PC comes with a lot of handy software installed, such as Adobe Reader and iTunes but after a while you often find that other software has been installed on your PC either as a trial that you never got round to removing or something that got downloaded as part of something else but isn't actually required. Occasionally cleaning up this unwanted software can help keep your PC running fast and stop it getting cluttered.
How can I control app permissions on my device?
Various apps on your mobile devices and Windows and Mac computers need different permissions in order to operate. Skype for example will need permission to access the camera and microphone. We'll show you here how to check what app is using what permissions, and how to change it.
Using Visual Lookup on iOS 15.4
The recent update to iOS 15.4 on iPhone and iPad brought Visual Lookup to the UK, this allows you to look up information about the subject of your photos and see similar photos from the web.
In this tip, we'll show you how to use this new feature on your iPhone.
Switching back to jpeg photos on iPhone and iPad
If you have a modern iPhone or iPad, it will take photos in a newer, more efficient format called HEIF and videos in a new format called HEVC.
If you're using all Apple devices, this shouldn't cause you any problems as they fully support these formats but if you use Windows, this might cause you some compatibility problems so in this tip, we'll show you how to switch back to the more standard formats.
Using multiple desktops in Windows 10
Windows 10 has finally introduced the concept of multiple desktops to all Windows users. It can be very helpful to have multiple desktops on your computer as it means you can have applications open full screen on different desktops and switch between them or group applications together depending on what you use together. We'll show you how to use it here.
Find your WiFi password on iOS 16
One of the handy new features in iOS 16 for iPhone (and coming soon for iPad) is the ability to see the WiFi password of the network you're connected to. This can be very handy if you need to share the password with other people trying to get online.
In this tip, we'll show you how to see your WiFi password directly on your iPhone.
Can I edit my Pages, Numbers or Keynote documents via the web?
If you're a Mac user and you use the free Pages, Numbers and Keynote office suite that Apple supply with each new Mac, iPad and iPhone, then you already know how powerful and easy to use they are.
You might not know that you can actually edit, share and collaborate on documents via the web, just like you can with Google Docs.
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