It’s become an internet cliché—”cartoonify yourself!” But given a few moments in Photoshop, you can cut out the middleman and turn one of your own photos into a surprisingly nice photo filter cartoon. C’mon, you know you have a minute. While some photos will work better than others, it’s possible to turn just about any photo into a “cartoon” image with cool lineart and bright, smooth colors. And, seriously, one minute might even be overstating the case!...

By default, when you close the last open tab in Firefox, the entire browser closes. If you’d rather be able to close the web page on the last open tab without closing Firefox, there’s a simple setting you can disable. Instead of closing the browser when you close the last tab, disabling this setting will make the last tab reopen and display the New Tab page. Maybe you don’t want to end your browsing session, because you want to be able to reopen closed tabs (the list of recently closed tabs resets when you close the browser)....

Need to change a setting on your Mac but don’t know where to find it? There are two fast and easy ways to locate the specific system preference you’d like to change. Here’s how. Search Within System Preferences The most in-depth way to find a setting on your Mac is by searching within the macOS System Preferences app. To launch it, click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of your screen, and select “System Preferences....

If you’ve used an SD card for more advanced purposes than simply storing digital photos (e.g. running a mobile or micro OS), you’ll find it requires a little more finesse than simply formatting the card to reclaim all the space. Read on as we show you how. Don’t worry Suffering, we grabbed a card we’d previously used for a Pi project just to recreate your situation and show you how to get the full capacity of your card back....

Macs have many hidden talents, but if there’s one we’ve found indispensable, it’s the ability to rename multiple files at once. Lets say we have four screenshots we want to rename. To do so, select all of them, right-click, and choose “Rename 4 Items”. A dialog then pops up. You have a few choices here, so we’ll go through all of them. Rename by Format When you first see the dialog, the top dropdown menu reads “Format”, which allows you to completely rename each file....

How to Take a Screenshot on a PS5 Any time you want to take a screenshot on your PS5, press and hold the Create (or Share) button on the controller, which is in the upper-left corner of the controller near the directional pad. On the Dual Shock 4 (when playing PS4 games), the Share button says “SHARE” above it. On the DualSense, the Create button has an icon above it that looks like three radiating lines....

This page lets you configure Prime Video parental controls. At the top of the page, you can click the “Change” button next to Prime Video PIN to set a five-digit PIN for Prime Video. This PIN will be required to authorize the purchase and rental of prime videos, as well as to bypass any parental controls you set here. RELATED: How to Enable Parental Controls on the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick...

In iOS 10, Apple made a change to how you take and attach photos in iMessage. It’s a small change but it might take you a moment, or five, to figure it out. First, open Messages, then open a thread as if you mean to send a new message. Tap the camera icon in the lower-left corner. Up will pop a tiny view of your camera, and thumbnails of your photo library....

Google Authenticator protects your Google account from keyloggers and password theft. With two-factor authentication, you’ll need both your password and an authentication code to log in. The Google Authenticator app runs on Android, iPhone, iPod, iPad and BlackBerry devices. RELATED: What Is Two-Factor Authentication, and Why Do I Need It? We’ve mentioned using two-factor authentication with a text or voice message in the past, but the Google Authenticator app can be more convenient....

Good news: Quest VR headsets don’t need Facebook accounts anymore! If you’re buying a new Meta Quest (formerly Oculus Quest) VR headset, you don’t need a Facebook account to set it up. If you’re already using a Facebook account with your headset, you can unlink the two. Here’s how. What Do I Need to Know? If you already own the Quest hardware, there’s a good chance you’re roughly current on what’s going on with the platform....

Today we bring you a neat little trick: You can set a moving screensaver as your desktop wallpaper on OS X. All it requires is a single Terminal command and a few seconds of time. Sure, this trick doesn’t provide much useful value other than being fun. But it’s certain to prompt some questions from friends or coworkers as to how you did it. Before we begin, however, we first should drop into the screensaver settings and make sure we have the one we want to display....

Installing Software on Linux Installing software should be simple and convenient. How simple and how convenient that turns out to be is largely down to the package manager of your distribution. Package managers are software applications that let you download other Linux programs, and install them. Derivative Linux distributions tend to use the package managers of their parent distribution. For example, the many Debian variants and derivatives use apt, the RedHat and Fedora distributions use dnf, and the Arch family of distributions use pacman....

Portable scanners aren’t exactly brand-new technology, so what makes the Doxie Go portable scanner special? Read on as we take one for a test drive, show you how to set it up in the process, and highlight exactly why the Doxie Go will keep your inbox and file cabinets empty. Editor’s Note: This isn’t a new product, but our team owns a number of these scanners and use them regularly, so we figured a review was in order....

For years, the only way to get Photoshop was to pay hundreds of dollars up front for a license, or take to the dingier corners of the internet and pirate a cracked version. Now, through the Adobe Creative Cloud, you can get Photoshop for $9.99 a month. Feel free to insert your own cups of coffee, pints of beer, fistfuls of baguettes, or other price comparison here. Despite the slightly more reasonable price, there are enough good, cheaper alternatives to Photoshop out there that it raises the question: is Photoshop really worth a hundred or so dollars per year?...

Connect a USB stick to a Windows computer – even on Windows 8 – and Windows will ask if you want to speed up your system using ReadyBoost. But what exactly is ReadyBoost, and will it actually speed up your computer? ReadyBoost was introduced in Windows Vista, where it was a heavily promoted feature. Unfortunately, ReadyBoost isn’t a silver bullet that will make your computer faster, although it may be useful in some limited circumstances....

There’s a piracy app that lets users find any TV show, movie, or song you can imagine. Streams and downloads are both easy to find, and the software is already used by hundreds of millions of people. The name of this dastardly program? Google Chrome. That’s a crazy thing to report, right? Sure, it’s strictly true that you can use Chrome to pirate movies and TV shows: just search for any movie’s name followed by the words “streaming,” “torrent,” or “download....

The packaging that all of your fancy toys came in is no longer just packaging—it’s a part of the product, and many argue that keeping boxes and other packaging can help you sell the item in the future. But is it absolutely necessary to keep all of your tech product boxes? It depends on a number of different factors, including what the item is, how old it is, how much it’s worth, and whether or not you care about the resale value in the first place....

Automatic Pro is a powerful app and OBD-II adapter that lets you monitor your car from afar, log your trips, and even get assistance in an accident. Best of all, you can expand its capabilities by connecting it to third-party apps and services designed to enhance what Automatic Pro already does. Some of them are pretty niche, but these are the ones that are probably worth your time. RELATED: How to Set Up Your Automatic Pro OBD-II Adapter...

iFixit has published a teardown video and accompanying article for the new 10th-gen iPad, showing off the tablet’s hardware components and interior design. The iPad looks like recent iPad Air models from the outside, with the same blocky design and USB Type-C port — but it’s also eerily similar on the inside. iFixit said, “when comparing it against our teardown of the iPad Air 4, it’s clear that we’re looking at an iPad Air 4 rebrand, not a ‘completely redesigned iPad....

It is the kind of question that if you ask ten different people, you will likely get ten different answers, so what are those eight white squares actually called? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some answers for a frustrated reader who wants to use the correct term in his article. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....