These free, open-source tools will make your Windows PC more powerful and give you a serious productivity boost.

Just like you would ask Google Assistant or Siri to accomplish tasks on your phone, you can also talk to your Windows PC to get things done hands-free. While you can use basic commands to perform ...

With the help of Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard app, you can copy and paste items between a PC and Android device. If you have a Samsung phone, try the Link to Windows app. Windows 10 and Windows 11 ...

Do you find yourself typing the same things over and over? If the answer is yes — and if you type enough text during the workweek, it almost certainly will be — I’d highly recommend you install a text ...

Copying and pasting between iOS and Windows is trickier than it is with other operating systems, but it's doable if you know the right tricks and tools. Copying and pasting text has always been one of ...

The Windows Photos app is getting background blur, and Snipping Tool will copy text from your PC or Android screenshots. The Windows Photos app is getting background blur, and Snipping Tool will copy ...

A few keystrokes might not seem like a lot, but they add up over time. That’s why text expanders can be a major productivity boost, allowing you to create shortcuts for commonly used phrases across ...

Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you. To use this ...

Every website is, at this point, a place to share screenshots from other websites. Reddit is full of pictures of Twitter and Facebook posts, for example, and those sites are full of pictures of Reddit ...

Microsoft is addingVisual Search to Edge’s desktop search bar, letting users identify objects, translate text, and find info ...