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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, June 14, 2024
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to crop a screenshot before you even capture it
• Extend your iPhone’s battery life and protect your privacy
• What will happen to your Gmail account after you die?
• Life tip: Never allow yourself to lose the desire to learn
• June’s Tech Tips Giveaway: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC 1500VA/1000W Sinewave UPS System
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Monthly Tech Giveaway….
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Congratulations to Sean T. from Moreno Valley, California for winning the TP-Link Deco AXE4900 Tri-Band WiFi 6E Mesh WiFi System in May’s Tech Tips Giveaway.
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Today’s featured tech tip….
How to crop a screenshot before you even capture it
You probably know you can snap a “picture” of all or part of your computer screen.
These “pictures” are called screenshots, and they can be incredibly handy.
What you might not know is you can easily “crop” a screenshot before you even take it in order to capture the exact section of the screen you want to include in your screenshot image.
Follow these instructions if you have a Mac:
1 – Press the Command+Shift+5 key combination.
2 – Click the icon that looks like a rectangle made of dashed lines.
3 – Drag the edges of the rectangle to enclose just the part of the screen you want to capture.
4 – Click Capture.
Follow these instructions if you have a PC running Windows 10 or Windows 11:
1 – Press the Windows+Shift+S key combination.
2 – Use your mouse to place the + (plus sign) at the top-left corner of the section of the screen you want to capture a screenshot of (don’t release the mouse button).
3 – Drag the mouse downward and to the right until the box covers the entire area of the screen you wish to capture, then release the mouse button.
That’s all there is to it. Your computer’s Clipboard now contains a partial screenshot depicting just the area of the screen that you selected.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Extend your iPhone’s battery life and protect your privacy
It just takes a few quick taps.
• What will happen to your Gmail account after you die?
This is a very important question to answer (plus directions for telling Google how you want them to handle the situation when the time comes).
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
Rick’s Daily Pick…
Kodak Mini 2 Retro 4PASS Portable Photo Printer
Looking for an easy and affordable way to make high-quality prints of your smartphone photos? This little gem will let you print them directly from the phone!
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Life tip: Never allow yourself to lose the desire to learn
Keep life interesting.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Google Phone app rolling out ‘Lookup’ reverse number search
• Finnish startup claims it can make CPUs 100x faster
• $837 million lawsuit accuses Valve’s Steam of overcharging PC gamers
• Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s ‘Glue Pizza’ problem
• Phishing emails abuse Windows search protocol to push malicious scripts
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