Evil Week: How To Hide Porn On A Mac
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games,…
The Easiest Way to Zip and Unzip Files on Your iPhone
Screenshot: Khamosh Pathak Zip files are a useful but cumbersome solution to compressing multiple files together. They come in different ways—an archive of photographs for a project, or the need…
How to Recover a Microsoft Office File You Forgot to Save
Photo: Ground Picture (Shutterstock) You’re working diligently on an Excel spreadsheet, making sure all the figures are accurate and everything looks great. You’re a machine: There’s nothing that can stop…
You Need an ‘If I Go Missing’ File
Photo: Maxx-Studio (Shutterstock) Statista reports there were 521,705 missing persons cases files in 2021, the lowest number in the United States since 1990. It’s certainly uncommon for someone to go…
How to Finally Cut, Copy, and Paste Files in Google Drive
Photo: monticello (Shutterstock) One of the most frustrating things about Google Drive has finally been fixed: You can now cut, copy, and paste files using standard keyboard shortcuts when using…
You Really Should Automate Your Windows Storage (and How to Do It)
Photo: Bloomicon (Shutterstock) If you frequently keep running out of storage space on your computer, it’s past time to take just a few steps to sort your problem out. Many…
How to Delete Space-Hogging ‘Other’ Files on Your Mac
Photo: Lane V. Erickson (Shutterstock) Storage management on any device can be a challenge. Often without warning, your Mac is like, “Hey, I’m full, friend. Delete some stuff.” Of course,…
You Should Change Your Default Download Location
Photo: Jacob Lund (Shutterstock) If you go to a library to look for a book, it shouldn’t take much time to find what you need. That, of course, is because…
You Can Now Restore Recently Deleted Instagram Posts
Instagram is adding a new “Recently deleted” folder to the app’s menu that temporarily stores posts after you remove them from your profile or archive, giving you the ability to…