While many newer social media platforms, such as Clubhouse and Instagram’s Threads, are slowly losing their charm, Snapchat still stands as a timeless icon. There’s no rocket science behind this ...

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As most Windows watchers know by now, Windows 7 has some cool interface tweaks, starting with large, eye-pleasing program icons that take up residence in the taskbar. Of course, this is little more ...

Inevitably, just like any laptop, your MacBook will freeze up on you. Here are some ways to use keyboard shortcuts to shut ...

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Are you looking to personalize your iPhone's Home Screen beyond the standard layout? Changing app icons is a creative way to customize your device's appearance and make it uniquely yours. Whether ...

To let you know that an icon is just a shortcut, Windows will conveniently place a small blue rounded arrow on the lower left. For reasons unexplained, this otherwise usefull symbol is sometimes ...

In the January 2008 issue (page 80), I told how to eliminate those annoying little arrows in Windows XP’s shortcut icons by running Microsoft’s free Tweak UI tool. At that time there were no free ...