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Not only is Adobe Photoshop a powerful hands-on image editing tool, it’s a very powerful hands-off image editing tool. Read on as we show you how to automate repetitive and routine tasks so you can spend your time more creatively, rather than cropping, correcting, and otherwise clicking. Why Do I Want to Do This? Early on in every amatuer and professional photographer’s pursuit of photography and digital editing they realize just how much time they’re spending dinking around in photo editing applications....

It’s easy to use your Windows 10 PC remotely thanks to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which is built into Pro or Enterprise versions of Windows 10. By default, the RDP port is 3389, but you might need to change it. Here’s how. First, sign in to Windows 10 using an administrator account. We’ll need to make a small edit in the Windows Registry to change the RDP port number....

When you call someone using FaceTime, your caller ID is the email or phone number that appears on their screen. If you have many email addresses associated with your Apple ID, then there’s even more chance that you’re calling people with one they don’t recognize. That could lead to calls going unanswered, or an unexpected email address being shared with someone you don’t want to have it. Changing the caller ID that is used when you initiate a new FaceTime call is a relatively simple process, and here’s how to go about doing it....

Windows users have been able to minimize every window on their desktop ever since keyboards with the Win key started showing up — just tap WIN + M on your keyboard, and every window is minimized. For Mac OS X, it’s not quite as simple. You can, of course, use the CMD + OPT + H + M shortcut key combination to hide most windows… but that’s a lot of keys to hit at once, and it doesn’t always minimize everything in my experience....

With a linked table of contents in Microsoft PowerPoint, you or your collaborators can jump to a particular slide or custom show in your presentation. You can also insert an unlinked table of contents for an overview of the slideshow. You can use the outline view in PowerPoint to quickly insert slide titles for your table of contents and then link them. Alternatively, you can create your own table and then simply insert the links to the slides or custom shows....

Google is now pushing Chrome packaged apps, but many Chrome apps are still shortcuts to websites. You can make your own custom web apps that function as shortcuts if the website you want isn’t available in the Chrome Web Store. These Chrome web apps will also appear in the Chrome app launcher on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. You’ll be able to open them from the launcher and set them to always open as a window or pinned tab — you can’t do that with standard bookmarks....

You know what’s cool? Instant messaging with friends, family, and colleagues. You know what’s annoying? Having their face float above everything else on your phone. And that’s exactly how it is with Facebook Messenger—here’s how to turn off the floating face icons on Android. The feature itself is called “Chat Heads,” and it seems like a good idea—hell, some people may even like them. That’s cool! We like that you like them....

The bright white space of Facebook’s interface can strain your vision after long hours of browsing. Give your eyes a break by enabling Facebook’s Dark Mode. Change the new interface from light to dark by activating this setting. Go to Facebook’s website in any desktop browser and log in to your account. If you haven’t already enabled the new Facebook Desktop interface, doing so is as easy as flipping a switch in your account’s settings....

Last week we showed you how to convert your color photos to black and white photos. While the tips and tricks we shared with you yield awesome results, we’re back this week to highlight some powerful techniques to take your image to the next level. Why Do I Want to Do This? If you’re new to reverse engineering modern digital camera photos into black and white ones, we would suggest checking out previous tutorial, How to Convert Your Color Photos to Stunning Black and White Prints, first....

Windows 11 allows you to hide the taskbar on your additional monitors while keeping it enabled on the primary monitor. You’ll have to tweak the settings to do that, and we’ll show you how. Later, you can re-enable the taskbar on all your monitors if you want. RELATED: How to Fix the Windows Taskbar When It Refuses to Auto-Hide Correctly Set Windows 11’s Taskbar to Auto-Hide With Multiple Monitors To turn off the taskbar on your additional displays, first, launch the Settings app on your PC by pressing the Windows+i keyboard shortcut....

Mobile and broadband data caps alike have made people very conscientious of their data usage. Windows 10 includes a built-in network usage monitor that, unlike its predecessor, is actually a pretty useful way to keep an eye on your bandwidth consumption. Read on as we show you how. What Does (And Doesn’t) The Windows 10 Network Usage Monitor Do? In Windows 8 Microsoft introduced new ways to monitor your network usage, albeit the initial incarnation of the built-in feature was shortsightedly limited to just Windows Store apps (such that if you used Skype from the Windows Store it would count that data but if you used Skype for Desktop, aka “normal” Skype then it would not)....

If you’ve completely forgotten the Wi-Fi password, you can usually just read it from the sticker on the router provided by your ISP — but what if that isn’t the right one? You can also recover your Wi-Fi password from your Mac. RELATED: How to Access Your Router If You Forget the Password Of course, you could also go through the router interface to just change the password, assuming you haven’t forgotten your router password as well....

We’ve said before, and we’ll say it again: Bixby sucks. You’re better off using Google Assistant any day of the week. The good news is, it’s now possible to remap the pointless Bixby button without using a third-party app. You Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bixby Bixby is a pretty pointless addition to Galaxy Phones, and you’d be hard-pressed to name anything Bixby can do that Google Assistant can’t do better....

When you insert a hyperlink in a Microsoft Word document, it’s formatted with an underline by default. You can easily remove the underline from the hyperlinked text to maintain consistency of the overall style of the document. Here’s how it’s done. Remove the Underline From a Single Hyperlink You can remove the underline from a single hyperlink without reflecting that style across every hyperlink in the document. Open the Word document that contains the underlined hyperlink....

The “Overview” screen on Chromebooks is part of the “Virtual Desktops” feature. It’s simply a way to literally zoom out and see all the apps and windows you have open. From there, you can jump to one of the windows or switch to a different virtual “Desk” as well. RELATED: How to Use Virtual Desktops on Chrome OS There are actually three different methods for launching the “Overview” screen: keyboard shortcut, trackpad gesture, and touchscreen gesture....

The Default Gateway All of the devices in your home that are connected to the internet such as laptops, desktop computers, cell phones, tablets, and smart devices are actually connected to your local area network (LAN). Because they’re on the same network, these devices can talk to one another if they need to. Most are happy to do their own thing and operate in isolation but if you have a printer, for example, or a network-attached storage device, then some of your other devices will want to be able to connect to them....

Sharing your Outlook calendar is easy, but how you do, it matters if you don’t want the people you share it with struggling to access it. Let’s take a look at how to share an Outlook calendar, whether the recipient is in the same organization as you or not. Whether you share your Outlook calendar with someone inside your organization (that is, people with the same email domain as you) outside your organization, the process for sharing is similar....

You can enable notifications for new activity and posts for an Instagram profile on a per-account basis. To get started, open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android smartphone and tap the Search button from the bottom of the screen. Here, search for and select the profile that you want to enable notifications for. Here, tap the notifications (bell) icon found in the top-right corner. You’ll see a menu slide up from the bottom of your screen....

Programmers often reuse code. In fact, it’s one of the core principles of any good codebase—Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY). What if you want to use a shared project inside multiple other repositories? The git subtree command can help manage that. The Problem of Code Reuse Embedding projects inside other projects presents an issue; Project 1 and Project 2 are both connected to Git, but directly using the shared subproject for both of them isn’t a good design choice....

Web apps are all the rage, but offline apps still have their place. Whether you want better offline support or you just want to keep your sensitive data on your PC, there’s a free desktop app that can replace your web-based productivity app. We’ve looked at web-based alternatives to desktop apps, and now we’ll do the opposite. Here are some solid — and completely free — offline desktop alternatives to popular web apps....