Remove Dotted Border Around Icons on Windows Desktop You will be glad that you did Have you ever noticed that sometimes Windows will give your desktop icons a dotted line border? It’s really annoying and definitely doesn’t look good with the neat and sleek Aero interface of Windows 7. Here is what I mean: Grrrr! I’m one of those picky Windows users who likes things to be a certain way and I just hate that dotted line border that appears on my desktop icons!...

Scale Down an Image in Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android Get those photos to the right size So you just downloaded some pictures from your new fancy Canon or Nikon camera? Well, get ready for some huge pictures with lots of resolution! You’re talking about 20+ megapixels and extremely high resolutions! The prices are always coming down and the quality is always going up. For most people, it’s overkill. Additionally, it’s sometimes hard to manage all that extra quality in terms of size, storing and sharing your pictures with others....

Windows 8/10 Desktop Gadgets You need to use a third-party app In Windows 8, Microsoft is moving away from desktop gadgets. Instead they want developers to write Metro-style apps, which also have the ability to be docked to the right-side of the display like a gadget. Of course, if you were happy using gadgets in Windows 7, you can continue using them in Windows 8 and it works fairly well....

Log on as Administrator in Windows 10 It’s disabled by default - here’s how to get in By default, the local Administrator account in Windows 10 is disabled. There are certain programs that require the user to be logged in using the local administrator account in order to install software or perform some action on the computer. Even though you normal user account is considered an “administrator” account, you will still be prompted by UAC when performing certain actions on the computer....

Remove Duplicate Contacts on iPhone Including ones with different names but same info I love my iPhone and I also like iCloud, but what I hate is that I have a ton of duplicate contacts! Why is that? Well, it’s because I use the same iCloud account on multiple iPhones and iPads. All the contacts from my wife’s iPhone and my sister’s have been merged into on giant list and there were a bunch of duplicates....