When it comes to editing videos, something you may want to do is trim videos. This allows you to only keep the parts of a video that you actually need. VLC includes the ability to trim your videos by cutting them into short clips. You might use these clips in a presentation or post them on social media, for instance. Whatever you need it for, we’ll show you how to trim videos with VLC Media Player for clips below....

Disable Suggested Apps Windows 10 Start Menu There are a couple of ways to turn off or manage these suggested apps. If you see one, right-click on it and select an option from the context menu. If you don’t want to see the app being displayed, select Don’t show this suggestion.To completely turn off the Suggested apps section, select Turn off all suggestions. The other way to get rid of Suggested apps is to head to Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off “Occasionally show suggestions in Start....

Hey Spotify, as the Spotify voice command is known, doesn’t have as many features as other voice assistants. What it does offer, however, is some basic voice controls over your Spotify app. You can ask it to play an individual song, band, artist, podcast, or playlist. If you haven’t used it before, we’ll take a look at how to enable it and use Spotify voice commands. How to Enable Spotify Voice Controls To use the Spotify voice assistant, you’ll need to enable it first on your mobile device....

One on hand, Word on Windows lets see two pages at once using the side-to-side view. However, this feature doesn’t currently exist for Mac users. On the other hand, maybe you want to see more than two pages at a time. The solution to both? Multiple page view. While the feature does have a limitation on Mac, it is available for macOS in addition to Windows. And with it, you can see and scroll through many pages at once, here’s how it works....

Insert a USB thumb drive into your computer. The flash drive needs to be 4GB or larger. I’m using an 8GB drive. Now, download and install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. It’s a free utility from the Microsoft Store. Yes, it’s named Windows 7, but it works perfectly with Windows 8 too. Launch the utility and browse to the location of the Windows 8 ISO. Click Next. Next, click USB Device....

Albeit, these aren’t the best offers in the world by a longshot, but pinned-to-taskbar websites might be one of the few features that Microsoft has over competitors like Opera, Chrome, and Firefox. So, if you are looking for an excuse to try out IE9 –even temporarily- this could be it. Here is what each promotional partner site is giving away: Hulu Starting on March 28th 2011, if you sign up for Hulu Plus through a pinned Hulu IE9 window you will receive one your first month free....

iOS 5 was packed full of features. Some were highly publicized, others not so much. This morning I stumbled across a useful one that up until now, I never noticed. It’s a quick tip however I like it so much I’ve decided to share! Launch the Weather App on your iOS Device With the Weater App Open, Tap anywhere on the screen to open the Hourly weather forecast. Ahh… Another sunny day in Seattle!...

The new service’s website – me.ga (a pretty clever one, I guess) is already up. If you hover the mouse cursor over the logo, you’ll find out that it will “change the world” starting January 20. What’s different from Megaupload, though, and what makes Kim Dotcom so sure that this one won’t be closed by authorities, too? First of all, the website says that data will be encrypted and decrypted in the browser, and the user holds the decryption keys....

Make the Google App Read Articles Aloud on iPhone or iPad To get started, open the Google app on your iPhone or iPad. Then scroll down the feed under the Search bar to find an article. Or search for an article you want to be read to you. If the site supports the Read Aloud feature, you’ll see an icon of a person speaking at the top-right corner. Tap on it....

For example, you can’t do conference calls on Zoom or Google Meet. You won’t be able to use other voice chat apps on your Chromebook, either. Luckily, we have some troubleshooting steps you can take to fix the problem if your microphone isn’t working on a Chromebook. Here are seven fixes to try, whether it’s the built-in microphone or an external microphone you plug in via USB. 1. Restart Your Chromebook If the built-in microphone is not working on Chromebook, there are a few basic troubleshooting steps you can try....

New Dual-Screen Surface Devices In what is the more exciting devices announced today, we’ll start with the two dual-screen folding Surface devices Microsoft announced and showed off today. Surface Duo The Surface Duo is a dual-screen foldable device meant to fit in your pocket. It’s powered by Android and has two 5.6-inch screens that, when unfolded, expand into a larger 8.3-inch device. And it even makes phone calls. Microsoft says it’s not going to be available until “Holidays 2020”, though....

Support for Adobe Flash Ending in Three Years Today, Adobe announced on its blog that it intends to sunset flash in favor of newer technologies like HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly. The plan is to drop support by 2020 officially. Microsoft also contributed details on its plans to remove support for Flash from Windows by 2020. Through the end of 2017 and into 2018, Microsoft Edge will continue to ask users for permission to run Flash on most sites the first time the site is visited, and will remember the user’s preference on subsequent visits....

Windows 10 1803 Update KB4345421 Here is a look at what’s been improved and fixed for Windows 10 1803 in this update: Addresses an issue that may cause some devices running network monitoring workloads to receive the 0xD1 Stop error because of a race condition after installing the July update.Addresses an issue with the DHCP Failover server that may cause enterprise clients to receive an invalid configuration when requesting a new IP address....

Windows 10 RS 5 Build 17723 and Skip Ahead Build 18204 This latest build includes time and accuracy improvements that include Leap Second Support, Software Timestamping, and Precision Time Protocol. Also included are new features for the Mixed Reality Flashlight virtual experience, new Microsoft Edge Group Policies, and an improved Windows Update experience. And a new build wouldn’t be complete unless there were 157 new emoji included. In addition to the new features above, here is a list of the general improvements and fixes to expect for both of today’s new builds:...

One important thing to note here is the company is halting the Friendly Dates feature for this build. It will also not roll it out with the final version of Windows 10 1903, aka May 2019 Update. We covered how to use the Friendly Dates feature before. It allows for conversational names to be added to your files and folders in File Explorer. But starting today, users will see that feature go away – regardless of their build number....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17627 In addition to the improvements that were added to Cortana with yesterday’s Insider release, here is a look at the other general improvements: We fixed an issue where If you try to open a file that is available online-only from OneDrive that hasn’t been previously downloaded to your PC (marked with a green checkmark in File Explorer), your PC could bugcheck (GSOD).We fixed an issue resulting in the Emoji Panel not working in the last two flights....

Office 2016 Preview Update Today Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the Office Client Applications Services Team, Kirk Koenigsbauer, wrote that the company would be adding features regularly for customers to test, and that “About a month ago, we invited anyone to participate in Office 2016 on Windows Preview. We now have over one million customers using the Office Preview across both Windows and Mac platforms.” Here is a look at the highlights Microsoft is touting for this month’s update: Microsoft is rolling out these features over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see them yet, hang tight if you have an Office 365 subscription....

Easy Backup I have to admit that I’m not one to get too enthusiastic about Android device management solutions, and I’ve rarely seen universal easy-to-use solutions. However, Mobogenie has changed my opinion. It demonstrates that it’s possible to build a simple software that caters to an Android user and does exactly as advertised. Plus, it’s free. Installing Mobogenie is done as you would install any other piece of Windows software....

The Novation UltraNova has three oscillators, two ring modulators and a noise generator. The oscillators each have 14 analog waveforms, 20 digital waveforms and 36 wavetables with nine waveforms each. Oscillators can quickly be fattened with the Density control. Density stacks multiple copies of the same oscillator without sacrificing polyphony. Those can be further detuned to add more thickness to the sound. This is ideal for creating the popular supersaw-type waveforms while only using a single oscillator....

Log in to your Outlook.com account and go to More Mail Settings by clicking on the gear icon. Click on Safe and Blocked Senders. From here, you can create a whitelist of emails which includes people who are allowed to send you emails. You can even create a list of senders who are blocked from sending you anything. Any email sent from them will be automatically deleted from Outlook.com. So, to block an email address, click on Blocked Senders....