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Apple’s iMovie application comes free with new iPhones and iPads. It allows you to make home videos, combining multiple clips, inserting photos, adding transitions, applying a soundtrack, and using other effects. If you just want to trim a video or cut out a clip, you can use the Photos application. But, for anything more complicated, you’ll want to use iMovie. Get iMovie Assuming your iPhone or iPad was purchased on or after September 1, 2013 and you’ve updated to iOS 8, you get iMovie for free....

If you’re tired of digging through Finder to find a frequently opened file or folder, consider making an alias, which is a shortcut to the original item. Here’s how to do it. What Is an Alias in macOS? On a Mac, an alias is a special type of file that points to a file or folder. Aliases are similar to shortcuts in Windows and symbolic links in Linux. They’re also dynamic, which means that they will still link to the file or folder, even if you change the original item’s location....

Notifications are obnoxious. Few of us actually need a “ding!” from our pocket every time we get a new email. But some emails are more important, and you might want to hear about them immediately with a notification. You may care a lot about an email from your boss, spouse, or even a lawyer. Rather than getting notifications for everything, set up notifications to only happen for critical emails you really care about....

If you have a lot of blank rows in your Excel spreadsheet, you can delete them by right-clicking each once separately and selecting “Delete,” a very time-consuming task. However, there’s a quicker and easier way of deleting both blank rows and blank columns. First, we’ll show you how to delete blank rows. Deleting blank columns is a similar process that we’ll show you later in this article. Highlight the area of your spreadsheet in which you want to delete the blank rows....

The Nintendo Switch makes it easy to change the button mapping of your controllers and save them to system-wide profiles that work in every game. You can also disable buttons, swap thumbsticks, and change the orientation of your Joy-Con sticks. Here’s how. Change Button Mapping: Requirements and Features Starting with Switch system version 10.0.0, players can change the function of each individual controller button on a system-wide basis in System Settings....

Want to remove those clickable links from your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets? If so, it’s easy to remove those links or prevent Excel entirely from turning your typed text into web links. We’ll show you how to do both. RELATED: How to Remove Underlined Hyperlinks in PowerPoint How to Remove a Single Hyperlink in Excel To quickly remove an individual hyperlink from your Excel spreadsheet, use an option from your right-click menu....

Microsoft Office saves hidden metadata in your Office documents, including how long you’ve been working on them, the name of everyone who’s worked on the document, when the document was created, and even previous versions of the document. Before you publish Office documents publicly or send them to someone, you’ll probably want to check what hidden information the document contains and remove the sensitive data. This metadata can infringe on your privacy or be potentially embarrassing....

Sometimes you need to capture exactly what you see on your iPhone screen, and that’s where a screenshot comes in. Luckily, taking a screenshot on an iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Mini is just as easy as on the other iPhone models. Here’s how. How to Take an iPhone 12 Screenshot Using Buttons To take a screenshot on an iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Mini, briefly press and hold the Side button (on the right side of the device) and Volume Up button (on the left side) at the same time....

A Windows, Linux, or Mac password just prevents people from logging into your operating system. It doesn’t prevent people from booting other operating systems, wiping your drive, or using a live CD to access your files. Your computer’s BIOS or UEFI firmware offers the ability to set lower-level passwords. These passwords allow you to restrict people from booting the computer, booting from removable devices, and changing BIOS or UEFI settings without your permission....

Deleting files from your Recycle Bin doesn’t mean they are gone forever since a myriad of file restoration programs exist to recover deleted data; which is why you may need to use a program like Eraser to securely delete your personal data. RELATED: How to Recover a Deleted File: The Ultimate Guide Note: While we will focus on Eraser today, there are actually several different free and paid programs you can use to securely delete your data....

I’m sure most of our Chrome users are thinking… why, exactly, are you posting such a simple tip? After posting an unrelated screenshot on Twitter today, I was swarmed with people asking how I made my tabs into icons. So I figured, why not post something about it on the site, just in case other people didn’t know about this easy, built-right-in tip that doesn’t require an extension. Yep, it’s that easy....

Your Roku can do more than just stream from the web. Use it to watch video files you’ve downloaded or ripped yourself, or even play your personal music collection. You can do this with a USB drive or over the local network. Sure, you could just plug a computer into your TV and play back videos with VLC or a similar media player, but using your Roku gives you a convenient remote and interface designed for controlling from your couch....

We’ve been banging on about the horrific and broken Windows software ecosystem for a long time now. Rather than installing applications from Download.com and every other freeware site, you should just switch to Linux if you want to download freeware safely. Yes, we’ve tried to recommend some tips, but the only really good one we can come up with is “just use Ninite.” “Just switch to Linux if you want to download freeware” is another good one....

Industry reports claim NVIDIA has killed off the budget GTX 1660 graphics card, as well as the formerly mid-range RTX 2060. Both cards were solid options for budget gamers who were looking to play games in 1080p at a budget — the RTX 2060, in particular, is the second most popular graphics card on Steam’s Hardware Survey, only behind the older GTX 1060. All models of the RTX 2060 are seemingly being discontinued, including the regular 2060, the 2060 Super, and the 2060 with 12GB of VRAM that was launched in 2020....

As far as what made Opera decide to release a cryptocurrency browser, the company broke down its thought process in a lengthy blog post. The company said, “The Opera Crypto Browser Project is about more than just surfing traditional websites through a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s specifically designed to work with a variety of decentralized apps, or dApps, as well as provide deeper functionality than a traditional browser that has a basic web wallet add-on....

Consoles vs. PCs: The Beasts in the Den The Xbox Series X GPU is based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture and will be capable of 12 teraflops. Meanwhile, Sony’s PlayStation 5 (also based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture) will have a GPU with 10.28 teraflops. That’s a whole lot of flops-ing going on, and it’s comparable, or better, to what high-end consumer PC graphics cards offer right now. As of April 2020, the Radeon RX 5700XT (around $400 at this writing) is one of the top AMD cards, with a 9....

No Limits! We may all like no limits, but is it really such a good idea? Usually, when there are no limits, ‘there’ll be dragons’. It is the same with limits.conf, though for testing servers, a truly unlimited limits.conf helps! What Is limits.conf? The limits.conf file contains resource limit settings for the Linux operating system. When your Linux computer was installed, the file was created as part of the installation and contained values for resources like virtual memory size, the maximum number of files, and more....

Computers for the Masses, Not the Classes Just one year after stunning the world with the Commodore VIC-20, which broke price barriers in the home computing space, Commodore upped itself with the Commodore 64, which included impressive sound capabilities, sprite-based graphics, and a whopping 64 kilobytes (KB) of memory for an equally shocking price of $595 (about $1,804 today, adjusted for inflation). In fact, having 64 KB of RAM in a sub-$600 computer was such a huge deal that it became part of the computer’s name: Commodore 64....

Mac OS X, called macOS these days, first launched as a public beta in the autumn of 2000. Things have changed a lot since then. Stephen Hackett, a blogger and Mac collector, documents this evolution in a massive database of screenshots, all taken on Mac hardware, that’s live as of today. It’s an exhaustive collection made up of 1,502 images, and scrolling through it feels like scrolling through the decades for longtime Mac users....

Emoji 15.0 has been released, and it formalizes the addition of a bunch of new emoji. Among the additions, we have a pink heart, which has been requested by many for years, alongside new light blue and gray hearts. Other ones include leftward and rightward pushing hands, a shaking face, maracas, a moose, a donkey, and a Wi-Fi symbol. With 20 all-new emoji and 11 new sequences, 10 of them being skin tone modifiers, the total is brought up to 31 additions....