Chromebooks are known for their simplicity and unique design, but the keyboard and trackpad can take some getting used to for new users. Chromebooks don’t have the same layouts you’d find on a regular Windows or OS X laptop, with several different buttons that are exclusive to Google’s operating system. This guide will teach you how to customize a Chromebook’s keyboard and touchpad to get the most out of your daily web browsing, and make the whole experience feel a bit more familiar....

The Photos app in Windows 10 has been rebuilt as a universal app that allows you to work with your photos across your devices. One of the features available is the ability to allow the app to automatically enhance your photos when possible. The app automatically enhances photos by tweaking things like brightness, contrast, and color, and even removes red eyes or straightens a slanted horizon, if needed. However, you can turn this feature off if you want to....

To make your browsing experience faster, your web browser downloads the resources needed to display webpages, such as images, JavaScript files, and style sheets, into the browser’s cache. When you visit a webpage again, the browser uses the downloaded resources to display the page instead of downloading them again. RELATED: Why Is My Browser Storing So Much Private Data? However, the browser’s cache is useful for more than just loading webpages faster....

There are so many deals that pop up every single day that it can be really difficult keep up with all of them. But there’s an easy way to track only the products you’re interested in, and receive alerts in your email when a certain deal goes live. You might subscribe to a handful of mailing lists from multiple stores just so that you can keep track of deals that pique your interest, but that can clog up your email inbox in a heartbeat....

To quit an app on a Mac, you can just press Command+Q on your keyboard. This however, can lead to unintended consequences, namely accidentally quitting apps if your fingers are in the wrong place. RELATED: How to Change the Cmd+Q Shortcut Key in OS X (to Stop Accidentally Closing Apps) A while back, Chrome introduced a feature that let you switch to a “slow quit”, requiring you to hold Command+Q for a few seconds before an app would actually quit....

Annoyed that Windows 10 gives you only one setting to change the color of the taskbar, Start menu, and Action Center all at once? There’s no way to change each color individually, but we’ve got a quick Registry hack that will get you part of the way there. RELATED: How to Customize Windows 10’s Appearance For whatever reason, the Windows 10 Personalization options provide a single option to use an accent color on your taskbar, Start menu, and Action Center all at once instead of letting you choose a color for each....

Enable Registration Lock to Protect Your Signal Account Your Signal account is tied to your phone number, with no need for a password at all. When you first register for Signal (or re-register a device at a later stage), Signal will verify who you are by sending a code to your number. Enter the code to prove you are who you say you are and you’re good to go. But what happens if someone gets access to your phone number?...

If you drag your feet between iOS upgrades because you don’t want to have to reinstall all your awesome Jailbreak apps, custom tweaks, and fiddle with all the default settings, then follow along as we show you how to easily backup and restore everything for easy iOS upgrading. Those who jailbreak their iOS devices have a variety of extra hassles to deal with when it comes to upgrading their iOS version....

Teams is great for storing, sharing, and collaborating on files. One thing it lacks is a recycle bin, so if you delete a file accidentally, how do you get it back? Here’s how to restore deleted files from Microsoft Teams. Every time you create a new team in Microsoft Teams, a SharePoint site is set up behind the scenes. Each channel gets its own folder in the “Documents” library of that SharePoint site....

The internet went crazy today when somebody figured out that uTorrent was bundling a piece of crapware called EpicScale that uses your computer to mine for Bitcoins, and according to many reports, was silently installed. The even bigger problem is that it doesn’t uninstall clean, so we’re going to show you how to do that today. RELATED: The Best Alternatives to uTorrent on Windows Just like every other piece of crapware out there, this one is included in the uTorrent installer as an optional offer that you can accept or decline....

First, click the Apple logo found in the top-left corner of your Mac’s screen. Select “System Preferences” from the dropdown menu. Head into the “Bluetooth” settings. You can only edit the names of Bluetooth accessories that are connected to your Mac at the moment. RELATED: How to Set Up a Bluetooth Keyboard or Mouse on Your Mac Once the wireless device is connected, right-click its existing title from the list of paired accessories and select the “Rename” option....

I love Chromebooks (and Chrome OS in general), but it has always bothered me that there isn’t an easy way to see how much of my device’s internal storage is actually being used. I get the whole “live in the cloud” thing, but c’mon—sometimes that just isn’t practical. And with the limited amount of storage found on most Chromebooks, you really need to be able to keep a close eye on what’s happening....

Windows 8 introduced Microsoft accounts, which are essentially roaming accounts that allow you to sync settings and files from computer to computer. Today we want to discuss what Windows 10 brings to user account management, and the options available to you. In the old PC settings on Windows 8.1, you were limited to three options, but in Windows 10, those options have been expanded to five and things have been rounded out quite a bit....

If you haven’t already heard of it, Samsung’s Knox is a security environment supported by some of Samsung’s highest-tier smartphones, including the Note 3, Note 4, and Galaxy S5 and S6. The service is only available on devices that have a special encryption chip installed in the factory, and as long as that’s onboard, you can keep the most important details of your daily worklife protected and under wraps....

If you have multiple people in your household and want them all to have access to SmartThings from their phones, here’s how to share access to SmartThings with anyone you want. RELATED: How to Set Up the SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit Since you can use your phone as a proximity sensor through GPS, sharing access to SmartThings with your kids and other family members is a great way to see who leaves and comes home....

Facebook’s “On This Day” feature can at the very least, be annoying, and at the most, it can trigger painful memories that you may not necessarily want to revisit. Here is a way to turn off this feature for at least a year. We won’t lie, we don’t like the “On This Day” feature, and Facebook has been remarkably tone deaf about it. Despite floods of complaints from users stating that they don’t want or need it, Facebook has seemingly refused to allow people to simply turn it off....

Using External Monitors with Your MacBook Using an external monitor with your MacBook can be transformative. You can use the laptop display, along with an external monitor, or hook up several monitors and place your MacBook out of the way. The macOS remembers things like your preferred resolution and window arrangement whenever you connect or disconnect an external monitor. Understanding the limitations of your MacBook is important. Its age and hardware capabilities will dictate what you can and can’t do....

If there’s any drawback to using cloud-based services for all your productivity and organization needs, it’s that if you can’t get an Internet connection, you’re basically out of luck. Thankfully, however, the engineers at Google have thought of a way around this problem and created a setting which will enable you to use their Drive apps and management tools 100 percent offline. From the Desktop If you’re like me, the main place you find yourself booting up Google Drive every day is from your desktop or laptop....

After you’ve unlocked the Able Sisters Tailor Shop in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you will have access to a Custom Design Kiosk, allowing you to upload and download custom designs made by other players. Here’s how to search, upload, and download custom designs in Animal Crossing. Nintendo Online Subscription is Required to Access Designs When you access the Custom Design Kiosk for the first time, you will be warned that only players with internet access and a paid Nintendo Online subscription can use the custom design feature....

Last month, Linux Mint’s website was hacked, and a modified ISO was put up for download that included a backdoor. While the problem was fixed quickly, it demonstrates the importance of checking Linux ISO files you download before running and installing them. Here’s how. Linux distributions publish checksums so you can confirm the files you download are what they claim to be, and these are often signed so you can verify the checksums themselves haven’t been tampered with....