Picture this: your smartphone is like a book. Every action you take corresponds to a page of the book. You want to check your next appointments, you open the book and turn the pages, stopping at the page labeled “Calendar”; you want to make a phone call, you go to the page called “Phone.” If every page corresponds to an app or feature on your smartphone, then what should correspond to the Table of Contents? Well, the Table of Contents would be the launcher app, the first thing you see after you turn on your smartphone, the central app you use to reach everything else. That first screen of the launcher is called the “home screen.” Fortunately, the home screen is never something standardized and impersonal, but instead, it is one of the most customizable and personalizable aspects of an Android device. You can add shortcuts to your most frequently used apps, and you can even have interactive widgets to help you do whatever it is that you most frequently do on your smartphone, like setting the alarm, monitor your device's battery consumption or control your music player. In this tutorial, we will show you the ways in which you can customize your Android device's home screen so that it fits your personality and preferences:

You probably know that you can use special symbols and characters from fonts installed on your Windows computer or device. Character Map is the best tool for finding and selecting those. But what about making your own special characters in Windows instead of using symbols created by others? Yes, you can do that. In this guide, we will show you how to create and save your unique symbols using Private Character Editor. They can be inserted into any document, whenever you need, as long as you intend to use them for your own use only. If you are curious to see how it works, read this tutorial:

In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft introduces many new features. One of the most interesting ones, from a productivity standpoint, is the fact that you can pin contacts to the taskbar and the Start Menu. That makes it easier and faster for you to keep in touch with the people who matter most in your life. They are now just one click or tap away, for sending both emails and Skype messages. Here is how to pin people to the taskbar or the Start Menu in Windows 10:

Are you tired of opening files and folders in Windows, by double-clicking or double-tapping on them? Do you want to open them like on your smartphone, with a click or a tap? You can do that if you change a particular setting in Windows. In this guide, we share four ways in which you can change the double-click action with a single click. Read on:

If you use Windows 10 or Windows 8.1, then you are also using File Explorer more often than not. The built-in Windows file manager is easy to use and offers plenty of features and tools to work with. However, there is a big chance that you often use just a few tools, like creating new folders, renaming folders or undoing things. That is what the Quick Access toolbar from File Explorer is all about. If you want to know how to do things faster with File Explorer, read this article:

Many people hate passwords because they are long, hard to remember, they have to be complex and so on. To keep your security at a decent level and make it faster for you to sign in, Microsoft has created several authentication methods for Windows 10. You can use your user account password, and you can also create a short PIN to sign in or a picture password on which you draw quick gestures. Here’s how to create a PIN and a picture password, and how to use them to log into Windows 10:

Do you need a shortcut on your Android smartphone to direct dial or direct message a person? You may need to quickly call a co-worker, or your wife, or your father. This can be done with ease if someone shows you how. The procedure involved is not intuitive unless you have done it before or you have seen someone else doing it. That’s why, to help you out, we have created this guide that shows how to add a direct dial shortcut on your Android smartphone:

If you want to change the way your mouse cursors look, you have two options: you can manually set a specific pointer for each mouse cursor, or you can install a mouse cursor scheme that changes all the cursors you see in Windows. The latter is the faster and the easier way of changing how your mouse cursors look. If you want to know how to install a mouse cursor scheme, in all Windows versions, read this guide. It is easier than you think:

When Microsoft launched Windows 8, many users were disappointed by the removal of the Start Menu. To win them over, Microsoft had to please users in Windows 10 and decided to bring back the Start Menu. The good thing is that they didn’t just restore the Start Menu’s former self from Windows 7 and before, but they redesigned it from scratch, and they have made it better than ever before. One of the Start Menu’s best features in Windows 10 is that it can be resized. Read this guide, and you’ll find out just how easy it is to do:

In this tutorial, we will show you how to customize the WinX menu from Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 using a free application called Win+X Menu Editor or by making changes manually in Windows. After you read this article, you will be able to add or remove items from the WinX menu or create and configure new groups of items. We walk you through the complete process of downloading, installing, starting and using the Win+X Menu Editor application, as well as show how to use a small command line tool called hashlnk to add new shortcuts to the WinX Menu directly in File Explorer.