With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Every time you're on your Mac, you're using ...

Did you know that just about any command (e.g., clear formatting or insert a copyright symbol) in Word can be assigned your own custom keyboard shortcut? If you didn't know, here's how to use this ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Tapping open Apple’s new Shortcuts app for the first time is like being a painter staring at a blank canvas: daunting. The app introduced with iOS 12 lets users automate a series of tasks to create ...

It may seem cliché, but there are two types of people: those who use keyboard shortcuts, and those who don’t. On the one hand (pardon the pun), some people waste time putting hand to mouse, cursor to ...

There are two kinds of Mac users. The sad, harried folks who don’t know how to use this easy, essential, life-changing Command key trick. And the happy, efficient, relaxed people who learned it years ...

Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri, and Samsung Bixby are all available voice assistants that help you find information, navigate hands-free, have some fun, and manipulate ...

One of the adjustments those new to the Mac need to make is to familiarize themselves with the Command key. Although I switch hit and use Windows at work and a Mac when I'm not working, I've always ...

Computers excel at repetitive tasks. So why are you opening the same menus and submenus, looking for the same commands again and again? OS X lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to menu commands so you ...

I use the ipconfig command in the cmd prompt so much, I was wondering if it was possible to make a shortcut to it. I usually go start, run, cmd, then type it, but I am curious if it is possible to ...