How to Share a Link to a Particular Phrase
This is very handy when you want to share an excerpt of writing in context, a concept that is totally lost if you just take a screenshot with a highlight. How This Works This feature is made possible by a web standard called Text fragments. It’s been built into browsers for years now; it’s just […]
How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools
More than 30 years after Adobe came up with it, the PDF file—portable document format—remains essential for archiving, sharing, and publishing. It’s a file type that can be opened by just about anyone on virtually any mobile or desktop device, while preserving the formatting, colors, and layout of the original document. Given the ubiquity and […]
How to Disable Google’s Gemini in Chrome
If you use Google’s Chrome browser for desktop, there’s probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but if you didn’t know about it and don’t want it, there’s a way to turn it off. The file […]
How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
Google Chrome just got another generative AI feature: Skills. Skills are repeatable AI prompts you can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut. Add it to the laundry list of AI tools Google has been injecting into all of its software. You can set up your own Skill using Gemini, Google’s chatbot, through the Chrome […]
How to Reduce Browser Battery Drain in Chrome, Edge, and Opera
Click the three dots in the top-right corner of any Edge tab, then click Settings. Open the System and Performance tab, and you’ll see an Efficiency Mode toggle switch. Alongside it are some related settings, including how long Edge should wait before putting tabs to sleep, and whether or not you want Efficiency Mode to […]
How to Use Apple Maps on the Web
The boundaries of Apple’s walled garden aren’t as well defined as they used to be; Apple Maps is the latest app to break out. It has taken a while—the app launched in 2012—but you can now use Apple Maps on the web. You can load it up in a browser on Windows PCs, Macs, iPads, […]
How to Change the Default Search Engine in Google Chrome
Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of course, Chrome has Google’s search engine built right in. However, if you love Google Chrome but you’ve decided […]
How to Create Your Own Browser Extension
Most of us spend a lot of time inside a web browser. If you’re a Chrome, Firefox, or Edge user, then you’ll know these browsers come with a huge number of third-party extensions to augment the features already built into the software. But what if you need some kind of specific extra functionality, some tool […]