Taras Buria

6 days ago | neowin.net | Taras Buria

The Snipping Tool app is already quite a capable program for screenshots and screen recordings. Still, there is always room for improvement, and many users agree that the app needs the ability to save screen recordings as GIFs. Microsoft heard those users, and recent updates introduced the long-requested feature, allowing you to record your screen as a GIF. Here is how to do it. Note: By the time of publishing this article, GIF support in Snipping Tool is only available to Windows Insiders.

1 week ago | neowin.net | Taras Buria

Good news: more Control Panel bits are making their way to the Settings app, giving you fewer reasons to use the legacy UI that Microsoft buried deep inside its operating system. This time, the company is migrating certain clock-related settings, giving them a more modern look in the Settings app. The upgraded Settings app now lets you enable additional clocks in the notification center and adjust AM/PM indicators.

1 week ago | neowin.net | Taras Buria

If you are trying to find a certain file in your OneDrive storage, but the service just won't give you the stuff you need, you are likely experiencing an issue that Microsoft has just confirmed. The company updated the official OneDrive documentation with a list of known bugs to clarify that the service currently exhibits problems with the search functionality. According to Microsoft, the bug affects four platforms: Windows, iOS, Android, and Web (macOS users are spared).

1 week ago | neowin.net | Taras Buria

Windows' volume and brightness indicators have been a running joke among PC users for many years. Microsoft introduced touch-friendly sliders with the release of Windows 8 in 2012, but they remained unchanged for nearly a decade. Even the initial Windows 11 release in 2021 shipped with those unchanged sliders, sparking discontent among users. However, later, Microsoft finally redesigned the volume and brightness indicator, aligning it with the rest of Windows 11's design.

1 week ago | neowin.net | Taras Buria

If you want to try macOS without spending over a thousand bucks on a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, the Mac mini is a perfect choice, especially with a new discount that brought the price to a new all-time low—as low as $469, which is a very tempting deal, considering what the M4 Mac mini offers. The M4 Mac mini is the first Mac mini redesign in quite a few years.