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When you upgrade to Windows 10 from another version of Windows, the operating system pulls a nasty trick that could confuse non-techies that don’t know how to go digging around in system settings. The ...

As Apple's default web browser, and given the iPhone's high user rate, it's not surprising that Safari is still one of the most popular mobile browsers out there today. Long-time iPhone users are ...

Back in the early days of OS X, Apple’s desktop operating system shipped with an Internet preference pane that let you change, among other things, your default Web browser and email app. At some point ...

A default app is the one you'd like your operating system to use to open certain files or links. Understandably, out of the box, Android defaults to Google applications. For instance, the default web ...

How to Customize Your Default Apps in Windows and macOS Want to make sure photos open in Photoshop, web pages open in Chrome, and text files open in Word? You can control which app launches when you ...

I’ve spent the last few months using iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on a daily basis while writing Take Control of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, but only recently was I able to try out one of the most exciting new ...

The beauty of the Windows 11/10 operating system is that you’re spoiled for choice regarding app selection. For every action, protocol, or file type, you have many apps that can handle it. Windows 10 ...

Microsoft Edge, in Windows 10, does not support WhatsApp Web thus forcing users to try out known compatible browsers Microsoft Microsoft's Windows 10, which has been released to the public, provides ...

Popular web browser DuckDuckGo on Wednesday released an update that enables users to set the iOS app as a system default in iOS 14. The latest version 7.53.0 of DuckDuckGo for iOS adds support for a ...