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It’s always exciting to discover a free PC program that offers advanced features you usually have to pay for. It’s also interesting to try new open-source tools from independent developers on GitHub (

Firefox 139, released at the end of May, lets you customise your New Tab page by using your own photos as wallpaper. Previously, you were limited to choosing from the browser’s own selection of wallpa

You can keep a spreadsheet relevant by manually updating the ‘linked’ data it shows. This is data that’s pulled from other sources, such as a budget spreadsheet that gets spending details from separat

Google’s browser dominates the web, but are you getting the most out of it? Craig Grannell digs through the menus and dishes out the best ways to make it work for you…

1 Use this button to toggle between regular thumbnails of your photos, as seen here, and square-shaped images that leave little border. 2 This slider increases and decreases the size of your preview i

Choose different star colours for important emails Over the years, I’ve got into the habit of ‘starring’ important emails in Gmail, so they stand out when I have more time to deal with them. I was fru