Apple has introduced an upgraded version of the “AssistiveTouch” accessibility feature in beta 3 of iOS 5. The feature takes the previously available custom gesture support to the next level and ...

In “TipBITS: How to Mirror Selected Screens in a Multiple Monitor Setup” (22 October 2019), I teased readers with a talk that automation guru Sal Soghoian gave at MacTech Conference a few weeks ago.

I counted 201 buttons on the control panel (Figure 6, below). Each button has backlights with familiar white, red, and green indicating the active buttons. I tend to use the Software Control panel ...

The new plug-in version of Brilliant’s wired smart switch is simpler to install and just as easy to use. But still-limited integrations keep it from being truly brilliant. If you buy something from a ...

We’ve all dreamed of controlling a Star Trek-style control panel, managing a computer’s functions through physical buttons and tactile commands. Well, some crazy bastard on the internet has really ...

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...

Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows’ 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has either ...

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If you often open the Control Panel to access various tools and options, then you can add All Tasks and Disk Management to it on your Windows 11/10 computer so that you can access more features from ...

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...