You’re about to start a meeting and you need a webcam only to find that you do not have one handy. As it turns out, the camera on your Android or iPhone device can work as a wireless webcam; all you need is the right software and perhaps a few…
Every WiFi printer will have an IP address assigned to it that will allow the printer to connect to your home or office network successfully. If you’re having issues printing to your WiFi printer, knowing the IP address can be helpful when you start troubleshooting. It’s also useful to know…
There are many ways to save web pages for offline reading. You can either save pages within your web browser (perhaps in a reading list) or export the web pages outside your browser as screenshots, images, a Word document, PDF files, etc. PDF files are portable, print-ready, and easily shareable.…
Need an app that lets you get creative with your voice on VOIP apps like Zoom, Discord, Skype, Microsoft Teams, and more? We highlight some tools that let you change your voice in real-time on mobile devices and computers. By altering your voice, these apps allow you to play pranks…
Do you sometimes struggle to read texts or make sense of images on your laptop’s display? Learning to use magnification tools can make your life easier. Magnifiers let you zoom in and zoom out on your computer’s screen. You’ll find these tools useful if your computer’s screen is super small…
Have you ever gone poking around in your computer and found partitions or disk volumes you didn’t know existed? Or, have you noticed that a Windows installation makes two partitions; a large one and a smaller one? The small one is either 100 MB or 600 MB in size. What…
BitTorrent is perhaps the most famous peer-to-peer file transfer protocol. Certainly, it’s the one that kept most music and film executives up at night since it’s mainly known for enabling piracy. Yet, torrenting itself isn’t illegal and can be a cost-effective and useful way to share files with people without…
The WEBP format offers images visually comparable to those encoded using traditional standards such as JPEG and PNG but at a significantly reduced file size. You’ll mostly come across them on desktop browsers since they make web pages load faster. But while support for the WEBP format has grown since…
There are a lot of different ways you can use to transfer your files online. For example, you can simply do it over email or use one of the numerous apps and sites that offer this service. However, if you need to transfer your file with added security, you might…
While you can highlight text in a PDF, edit PDFs to add or remove information, or add your signature to a PDF file, many PDF readers don’t make it easy to write or draw on a PDF file. If you just want to write letters in a crossword or draw…