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The race to distill digital chaos into perfect, Google-ready order has a new unexpected hero: the humble snipping tool, freshly reborn in Windows 11 with the powers of artificial intelligence and some undeniably nifty new tricks. It’s as if Microsoft decided that simple screenshots were so 2010...

Take a moment and gaze at your Windows desktop. Maybe it's home to family photos, a few too many icons, or that one meme folder you haven't dared open since 2019. Now, imagine a ticking clock overlaying it all—a countdown not to a vacation, but to the twilight of an operating system era. Because...

Just when you thought taking screenshots on Windows couldn’t get any easier—or any more mundane—the Snipping Tool is about to wow you with a dash of technological magic. That's right, the humble utility that we've been alt-tabbing to for decades is primed to become your unexpected productivity...

You might want to take a seat and cling onto your closest desktop, because if you’re reading this on an aging Windows 10 PC, the digital hourglass is tumbling dangerously low. Microsoft, in a move that has left users gasping more than Clippy at a cybersecurity conference, has urged—nay...

October 14, 2025, is the date Microsoft wants you to remember, and not because it’s National Dessert Day (though, coincidentally, it is). No, this is the day the world’s beloved workhorses, Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019, finally sigh, drop their stack of virtual binders, and take a...

Move over, tedious manual transcription—Microsoft's Snipping Tool just discovered a hidden superpower, and it’s about to change the way Windows users handle screenshots forever. Meet the Smarter Snipping Tool: OCR Comes to Windows Previews When Microsoft quietly nudged out a new update to its...

For as long as computers have brightened our workspaces—and, at times, darkened our sanity—there has existed the peculiar pain of seeing text in an image and wishing, with an ache both innocent and strangely irrational, that you could simply copy those words with a flick of your mouse. The...

Imagine you’re typing out a quick, innocuous email—maybe a last-minute apology for being “slightly” late to a Monday morning Teams meeting—and you feel the unmistakable whir of your laptop’s fan. As you innocently pound the keys, your CPU usage creeps, then leaps. Your device, suddenly...

Microsoft has recently acknowledged a performance issue in the classic version of Outlook for Windows, where users experience significant CPU usage spikes while typing emails. This problem, first reported in November 2024, has led to system slowdowns and overheating concerns for many users. The...

Here’s a quick summary of the information from the TechRadar article: ActiveX Blocked by Default in Microsoft 365 (Starting April 2025): Microsoft is disabling ActiveX by default in Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio). Reason: ActiveX posed major security risks, such as...

Here's a summary of the latest features in the Windows Snipping Tool (version 11.2503.27.0), as reported by Beebom: What’s New? Text Extraction without Screenshot: You can now copy text from anywhere on your screen using the Snipping Tool without needing to take a screenshot first. Just invoke...

Windows 11 Beta build 22635.5235 (KB5055615) has been released for version 23H2 insiders in the Beta Channel with several small updates and fixes. Here’s a summary of the main changes: What’s New in Build 22635.5235 General Improvements: Minor general improvements to enhance the user...

Windows 11 enthusiasts, rejoice: the next evolution of the update experience might just make your life a whole lot simpler. Imagine a world where Windows 11 not only lets you know that an update is underway but also provides an estimated time of completion right on your Update settings page and...

An Insider Look at the Revamped Recall Feature Microsoft's controversial Recall feature is making another appearance—but this time with a renewed focus on addressing serious privacy and security concerns. As Windows Insiders get early access on Windows 11 Build 26100.3902, the spotlight is once...

In today's fast-evolving tech landscape, Windows 11 users are no strangers to bold new features that promise to revolutionize productivity and computing experiences. One such innovation making headlines is Microsoft’s revamped Recall tool, designed exclusively for the upcoming Copilot+ PCs. With...

Windows Update Sparks Controversy and Curiosity Over the "inetpub" Folder In the wake of the April 2025 update, Windows 11 users have been noticing an unexpected change in their systems—a newly created "inetpub" folder. Initially mistaken as a potential Windows update error related to KB5055523...

Microsoft's revamped Recall feature for Windows 11 is turning heads again—this time for all the right reasons. After an initial launch that many dubbed a "privacy nightmare," Microsoft has taken the criticism to heart, reengineering Recall into a highly secure, opt-in tool that promises to...

Hyperion Entertainment is once again proving that passion for legacy computing never goes out of style. In 2025, the Belgian software house released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2—dubbed AmigaOS 3.2.3—a fresh update for classic Amiga systems equipped with 680x0 CPUs and even enhanced by PiStorm...

The latest Windows 11 insider build is turning heads by tackling one of the more persistent annoyances of modern computing—a cramped taskbar. Gone may be the days when you’d find yourself squinting at a cascade of overlapping icons, desperately trying to figure out which app is buried in an...

The recent discovery of CVE-2025-3074—a vulnerability stemming from an “inappropriate implementation in Downloads” within the Chromium codebase—underscores once again that even the stalwart defenders of our digital world have their off days. Assigned by the Chrome security team, this...