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Translation is Built Into the New Edge Browser We’re covering the new version of the Edge browser here. It has translation features built-in, and we recommend upgrading to it. Just visit the Microsoft Edge website to download and install it on Windows, Mac, and other operating systems. It’s based on Chromium—just like Google Chrome is—so Chrome users will find it especially familiar. If you still have the classic version of Edge that came with Windows 10, you can get automatic translation by installing the Translator for Microsoft Edge browser extension from the Microsoft Store....

MacOS’s Time Machine backup utility lets you back up your entire computer to an external hard drive, but you can also back up to a NAS that’s on your local network. Here’s how to do it. We’ve shown you how to set up Time Machine on your Mac. It’s pretty easy to do when you’re just backing up to an external hard drive that’s connected directly to your computer. However, if you’d rather use your Synology NAS that’s connected to your local network, there’s a bit more work to do (but it’s still pretty easy)....

How much of your life is recorded online? Spend a moment considering this and it’s likely to be a terrifying idea. You may not consider yourself the type of person to keep a journal, or even a blog, but over the years you have probably posted thousands of words on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Add to this the images you may have posted and this is data you may well want to record....

The Unity Launcher in Ubuntu is locked to the left side of the screen. If you would rather have a launcher at the bottom of the screen, there is a way to convert the Unity Launcher into a dock-style launcher at the bottom of the screen. We have previously shown you how to install and use Cairo-Dock to get a Mac OS X-style dock at the bottom of your Ubuntu desktop....

If you have a long list of emails and you’re having difficulty distinguishing among the individual emails in your list, you can select a grid line style to display between each of the emails. This can improve the visibility of each email in your list. To change this setting, first make sure the Mail module is active. If not, click the Mail link at the bottom of the Outlook window....

Apple’s new Photos app bridges the gap between Macs and iOS devices with photo syncing to iCloud. It’s a great little feature, but it’s safe to say some people may not want it. The convenience of iCloud photo sharing isn’t immediately apparent unless you use multiple Apple devices like an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac. The idea behind this photo sharing is as soon as you take a picture with your iPhone, or import it to your Mac, it is synced and you can see it anywhere else you have one of those Apple devices logged into that iCloud account....

Hitting the Windows key on your keyboard by accident can be very annoying. Sometimes, it kicks you out of a full-screen game by opening the Start menu or unintentionally launches a shortcut. Luckily, there’s a way to disable the key on your Windows 10 PC. Here’s how. The easiest way to disable the Windows key is by using Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility. With PowerToys, you can reassign any key to have the function of any other....

If you’re working on your iPad late at night, the bluish light of the screen might strain your eyes and can potentially make it harder to go to sleep. Luckily, Apple includes a feature called Night Shift that tints the screen to a more warm, orange hue. Here’s how to use it. The easiest way to toggle Night Shift on or off is by using a shortcut in Control Center....

We have advised you not mess with your drivers if they are not broken in the past, but from time to time issues arise and later versions of a driver may fix an issue that you are experiencing. Here is how to see which version any driver is at, on any recent version of Windows. RELATED: When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers? How to Find What Version Of a Driver You are Using Drivers in general are handled through the Windows Device Manager....

If you’re like me, you can’t stand having to switch keyboard modes just to hit an exclamation mark or comma in the middle of a body of text. The thing is, this is Gboard’s default setting. Fortunately, there’s a really simple way to fix it. RELATED: How to Add a Shortcut to Google Keyboard’s Settings in Android’s App Drawer You’ll need to jump into Gboard’s settings menu—there are a couple of ways to do this....

From bulleted journals for personal planning, to graph paper for designing complex mathematical charts, dot grid paper has many uses. If you don’t have any on hand, though, you can create a dot grid paper template in Microsoft Word. Word makes it easy to create templates for all kinds of documents. After you create your dot grid paper template, you can reuse, print, or share it. RELATED: How to Create a Template in Microsoft Word...

The Windows 10 Start Menu is really quite busy with all of those live tiles all over it. If that isn’t your thing, luckily you can remove them all really easily. Simply right-click on the tiles and choose Unpin from Start. Once they are all gone, the Start Menu will be nice and slim again. You can also change the color of the Start Menu by right-clicking on any open space on the menu and choosing Personalize from the context menu....

Firefox provides several ways for other programs on your computer to install Firefox extensions, sometimes without your explicit consent. While you can disable these extensions, you often can’t uninstall them via Firefox’s Add-ons screen. Mozilla has become more vigilant in protecting users and now asks you whether you want to enable such extensions after they’re installed. However, a disabled extension continues to clutter your list of installed extensions. Windows Control Panel If the globally installed extension is a well-behaved piece of software, you’ll probably be able to uninstall the extension from the Programs and Features window in the Windows Control Panel....

When working in Microsoft Office, you may have files you open often or a specific folder you use to store all your Office documents. Office programs allow you to pin most-used files and folders to the “Open” screen for quick and easy access. To pin a recently opened file to the “Open” screen, open a document (new or existing) in Word and then click the “File” tab. On the “Open” screen, click “Recent Documents,” if that is not the currently active selection....

Word documents can get huge, unusually long, complex documents with loads of embedded images, fonts, and other objects. But it also seems like documents can grow out of hand for seemingly no reason at all. If you’re dealing with a huge document, here are some things you can try to reduce its file size. When you’ve got a Word document that’s a bit too large, the first thing you’ll try is compressing the images in it....

Install Microsoft Office 2013 and you may see a grayed out “SkyDrive Pro” option in your context menu. This option appears whenever you right-click a file or folder, but it’s useless if you don’t use SharePoint. SkyDrive Pro is used to sync files with a Microsoft SharePoint server, as Microsoft has explained. It is different from Microsoft’s consumer-focused SkyDrive client and removing this option shouldn’t prevent the normal SkyDrive software from functioning....

Every operating system backs up previous versions of files and offers an easy way to go back in time. If you use a cloud storage service, it also keeps previous versions of your files. This is often useful when dealing with some sort of office document. But, any time you’ve modified any type of file and want to go back, it’ll work. Windows 7 RELATED: Use Windows 7’s Previous Versions to Go Back in Time and Save Your Files...

If you prefer to write your emails in Word, there is a way to send them directly to your recipients from within Word. This feature is not obviously available in Word 2013, but rather must be added to the Ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar. We will show you how to make the Send to Mail Recipient feature available on the Quick Access Toolbar in Word and how to use it to send an email using Word....

I’m sure that we are not the only people who carry around multiple devices and only have 1 or 2 mobile data plans. If the device carrying your data plan happens to be your Windows tablet, start celebrating. We’ll show you how you can share that data goodness with your other devices. Note: The following method was tested and confirmed working on a Samsung ATIV Tab. How to Share Your Internet Connection With Other Devices From Your Windows Tablet Press the Windows + R key combination to bring up a run box, type ncpa....

Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family and let them know what’s going on in your life. However, what if you want to post something that you don’t want a specific person to see? It’s easy to hide a post from certain people as well as showing a post to only certain people. To hide a post from a certain person, log in to your Facebook account in a browser and write your post in the Status box....