personal computing

Google mail (Gmail) comes with a default white material design background. If -- like myself -- you find the background mundane, you should change it to something more colorful and fun. Luckily, there's a provision in Gmail that allows users change the background theme of... Read More

There are many reasons why you would want to remove certain programs from your Windows PC. It could be to get rid of bloatware, free up storage space, remove harmful/dangerous applications or to ultimately make your PC run smoother and faster by removing 'heavy,' redundant... Read More

Computers in good working condition produce a low purring sound, not unlike that of a content self-absorbed pussycat. This sound comes from the vibrations of the spinning disk (HDD) and the computer fan. PCs in active use also produce a continuous blast of warm air... Read More

Although Windows 10 does come with some messy and annoying features, it also has some outstanding features. One of such relatively new and useful feature of the Windows 10 OS is the ability to link your phone with your PC and seamless begin a task... Read More

Unlike texts from articles, emails, tweets, chats, blogs, and web pages that are generally easy to copy, extracting text from images is a bit tedious -- not impossible. Thanks to Optical Character Recognition (OR) technology, texts (words, letters, and numbers) from images (magazines, document scans,... Read More

Both your smartphone and computer have programs running on them that tell the hardware what to do and executes other functions like protecting your device from malware, connectivity, and other utilities. Whether it is a system software or third-party applications, an update does well to... Read More

Earlier this year, Skype announced a new feature to the desktop version of its service. The new feature allows users blur our the background of their environment/surrounding during a video call. This is similar to the popular "Bokeh effect" of modern day smartphone cameras. Although... Read More

If you use a new Windows computer, your PC will most likely be free of redundant duplicate files. If, on the other hand, you have used your PC for quite some time now (years maybe), you most definitely have a couple of files that have... Read More

Secure Digital (SD) cards are used in almost all electronic devices and gadgets these days. And albeit many manufacturers now do without SD cards on their flagship devices, they are still very much used in music players, digital cameras, laptops, tablets, as well as other... Read More