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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Tekee Tim's Tips
Tekee Tim is full of useful hints and tips to get more out of your computers, tablets, smart phones and systems, and online services, so bookmark this page and keep coming back for more tips.
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.
Running out of space after Windows 10 update?
Microsoft's Anniversary Update for Windows 10 added a lot of new features and makes Windows 10 even more secure. However you may find that after you've installed it, you have a lot less free space on your C drive, here we'll show you how to free up this space.
Easily transfer to a new iPhone or iPad
If you replace your iPhone or iPad, it's easy to get it back up and running on the new device by using your iCloud backup and we'll show you how to do that here.
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.
Check what's using your battery on your iOS device
If you have an iPhone or iPad and need to work out what's using up all your battery, you'll find great new info about your battery usage in Settings.
Changing your DNS servers
If you find yourself having intermittent problems with websites loading slowly, email not working and seeing out of date websites, you could be having problems with your DNS servers.
All Internet Providers provide DNS as part of the connection and these convert a website name such as bbc.co.uk into the actual address of the website which is something like 63.194.125.69. Unfortunately the DNS Servers that you get with your Internet connection are usually pretty bad. They can be slow and out of date and we always recommend using better ones.
In this tip, we'll show you have to switch over to using faster and safer DNS on your Mac, Windows PC and your home router.
How can I edit text on my iPhone or iPad?
When you're writing an email or a document on your iPhone or iPad, you'll often want to correct typos or edit the text as you would when you're using a desktop PC. This is nice and easy on both the iPhone and iPad and we'll show you how.
When do I right click?
One shortcut that can save a lot of time on Windows and Mac computers but not everyone knows about is using the right mouse click to pop up a menu giving quick access to some often used commands. The commands that you can access when you right click change on what your mouse is over at the time but usually always provide a quick way to access commands that you might usually go back to the menu for.
How can I set my default printer?
If you have more than one printer, perhaps a mono laser for letters and an inkjet for photos, you will often print to one of them more often than the other and selecting the correct printer each time can become annoying.
On both Windows and Mac you can set the default printer easily so when you print you don’t need to change anything.
How can I easily backup all the data on my computer?
It's always important to ensure that your Windows PC or Mac is backed up. This not only protects you if you accidentally delete a file, but it can help to protect you if your computer is infected with any malicious software that tries to delete or encrypt your files.
Setting up a complete backup on the latest versions of Windows and macOS is very easy and we'll show you how to do it below.
How can I run two things at once on my iPad?
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.
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