Organizing links from Twitter can be a troublesome, but these tools will reduce the effort greatly: Instapaper saves web pages so you can read them at a later time. Not only does it save an online article to read later, but also gives you several choices for where you want to read it. Instafetch brings the simplicity and readability of Instapaper, that non-iOS mobile platforms users (Android and Windows 7) have long been waiting for....

Microsoft OneNote 2016 is a great free note-taking tool, not just for yourself, but also if you want to collaborate on notes and projects with others, such as colleagues or family members. We’ll show you a few different ways you can share your OneNote notebooks. RELATED: How to Sync OneNote 2016 Notebooks to Your OneDrive Account and Access them Anywhere To share your notes and notebooks in OneNote 2016 with others, make sure your notebook is synced to your OneDrive account online, so others have access to it....

Just the other day I was trying to use Remote Desktop to connect from my laptop in the living room to the desktop downstairs, when I realized that I couldn’t do it because the desktop was running Windows Home Premium—that’s when I realized we’d never covered how to upgrade Windows, so here you are. You can upgrade from any version of Windows to the next version up, but it’s obviously going to cost a bit of money, and there’s a very good chance that you’ll have no reason to upgrade....

Photoshop and Illustrator both have a dark point many users choose to avoid—the notorious Pen Tool. It may be intimidating, but it can be mastered, and surely is not impossible to use. Keep reading for tips and videos to help. The Pen Tool and vectors are important parts of Photoshop, and pretty much run the show within the confines of Illustrator. Scared off yet? If not, carry on, and see both how easy (and how complex) the Pen Tool really is....

Windows 8 allows third-party browser to replace Internet Explorer in the Metro environment — except on Windows RT. You can use Google Chrome in Metro today, and Firefox for Metro is on the way. When Windows 8 is released, changing your Metro browser will be as simple as installing Firefox or Chrome and setting it as the default browser. Getting Firefox for Metro at this point would involve compiling it yourself....

Mac gamers are real. If you work in one of the creative industries, there’s a good chance you have a beast of a Mac that’s more than capable of playing modern games—although not at maxed out settings. The real barrier is trying to play anything not in the Civilization series with a trackpad. To play other games, you’ll need to set up a controller. Got a DualShock 4 controller for your PlayStation?...

Last year we showed you how to tether your Android phone to your computer, no rooting required. The only catch was that it cost $16—now we’re back with a just as simple but free-as-in-beer solution. Our original guide was inspired by a reader email, asking us to help configure their Android phone and laptop for tethered browsing, and detailed how to use the robust PDAnet to tether. This guide is inspired by the recent release of Tether, a free application from Koushik Dutta, the brains behind the awesome ClockworkMod package for Android....

Microsoft’s Security Essentials has been our favorite anti-malware application for a while—it’s free, unobtrusive, and it doesn’t slow your PC down, but now it’s even better with the new 2.0 release, which adds network filtering, heuristic protection, and more. Just to be clear and direct with you: we absolutely recommend Microsoft Security Essentials as your anti-malware / anti-virus utility over any other option—and how can you argue? It’s totally free!...

Have you ever find yourself frantically clicking your mouse to get to the right slide that your audience ask you? If you do, we have some simple tricks that you can use to move between slides easily. To accomplish this, we’ll show you how to create a sidebar navigation and slide numbers to get to the right slide. Sidebar navigation A sidebar navigation is our own fancy word for a section on our slide that shows each slide title....

A little known feature about this handy utility is the ability to have system information automatically saved to a SQL database or some other data file. With a few minutes of setup work you can easily configure BGInfo to record system information of all your network computers in a centralized storage location. You can then use this data to monitor or report on these systems however you see fit....

These new approaches to software development allow more people to get involved. Creating a new solution from scratch is costly, time-consuming, and reliant on the availability of highly skilled individuals. Low- and no-code platforms provide opportunities to turn existing staff members into part-time software developers. Most current platforms are aimed at businesses and seek to facilitate workplace automation. The idea is to take the traditionally opaque concept of “software development” and make it as accessible as writing a document or creating a spreadsheet....

If you have trouble reading text, seeing specific colors, or making out things on the screen, Chrome OS has accessibility features bursting at the seams designed to help you. You can manage them individually from the system menu or the Settings app to use on everyday tasks. RELATED: How to Add Accessibility Features to Google Chrome How to View Accessibility Features The easiest way to enable/disable each accessibility feature without having to open up the Settings app each time is directly from the system menu....

What is “Pre-Saving” Music? If you’re unfamiliar with pre-saving, it usually goes down like this. An artist will ask their fans on social media to pre-save an upcoming single or album. This request is accompanied by a link to a third-party website with buttons for Spotify, Apple Music, and any other platform they use. When you click the link to the service of your choice, you’re asked to give the website access to your streaming account....

At Mashable they’ve gathered up 10 hidden Google tricks beyond the new “do a barrel roll” Easter Egg including a playable Pac-Man logo, crooked search results, and ninjas that leap around Google Reader. Hit up the link below to check them all out. Beyond Barrel Roll: 10 Hidden Google Tricks [Mashable]

Apple’s macOS Mojave will launch on September 24. Mojave’s most exciting features include a Dark Mode, Stacks for organizing your desktop files, and a beautiful Dynamic Desktop wallpaper. This free update will support most Macs from 2012 and onward. Mojave was announced at WWDC 2018 and was available as a beta for several months, so we’ve had time to play with it. Dark Mode macOS 10.14 has a new system-wide dark mode option....

Once a week we round up some great tips from the HTG tip box and share them with you; this week we’re looking at location based to-do reminders for Android phones, how to make your own floppy drive symphony, and an easy way to enjoy anywhere access to your manuals and product documentation. Location Alert Issues Location-based To-Do Reminders Usi writes in with the following reminder tip: Sounds like a workable solution, Usi, thanks for sharing....

Here’s something you may not know: that HDTV that you love so much probably doesn’t show the whole picture on its screen. In fact, up to five percent of the picture can get cut off around the edges—this is called overscan. It’s old technology that’s left over from the CRT (cathode ray tube) televisions of yesteryear. Here’s why it existed in the first place, why it’s still used today, and how to (hopefully) turn it off on your TV....

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Auron wants to know: What can Auron do? By default, when this key is pressed alone it opens the Start menu. Many applications and a great number of games work in fullscreen mode, and if you press this key accidentally, most of times because you wanted to press the Ctrl or Alt keys, the application usually freezes for a while and minimizes itself....

There are some terrible people out there, and services like Twitter can bring out the worst in them. Often, the only option for dealing with a troll is to block them. Here’s how to do that. What Does a Block Do? When you block someone on Twitter: They automatically unfollow you. You automatically unfollow them. You can’t follow each other again. Their Tweets won’t appear in your Timeline, even if they tag you....

A comprehensive network filtering system is overkill if all you want to do is block a handful of web sites. Read on as we show you how—with nothing more than your router—you can selectively block and temporarily restrict individual websites. For many people a massive commercial internet filter is overkill. What if you just want to block Facebook when your kids are supposed to be doing their homework or Reddit when you’re supposed to be getting work done?...