1. Use your keyboard to scroll on webpages
Use the space bar to scroll down on any webpage. You can even hold the shift key and the space bar at the same time to scroll up.
2. Your headphones double as a mic
Need a microphone but don’t want to spend your money?
Grab any pair of headphones lying around, then plug them into the microphone jack, and start talking.
3. Grammarly
If you’d like a little extra help when writing online, spell checking, grammar, and definition Grammarly is highly recommended. This tool gives you tips and suggestions for grammar, spelling, and general sentence construction whatever you’re doing on the web or email. And it’s free!
4. Use emoji on your Desktops
If you thought emoji were limited to mobile devices, you can use them on your desktop or laptop, too.
For Mac: Press control+command+spacebar to get the emoji menu.
For PC: The latest version of Chrome has an emoji menu. Simply right-click anywhere you can type and click “Emoji” in the menu to access all the available emojis.
5. Quickly re-open a closed browser tab
If you accidentally closed an important tab in your browser, you can easily re-open it by pressing command+shift+t on a Mac or control+shift+t on Windows PC. This can be used multiple times too, so keep pressing to open all the tabs you’ve closed recently. It even works after you’ve entirely closed and re-opened your browser too.
6. Find the cheapest place to stream a movie from
For those of you who have already cut the cord “cable cutters”, you’ll fall in love with this site: CanIStream.It tells you where any movie is available to stream – and at the lowest price too.
7. No internet? Play a game
When your internet connection goes out and the Google Chrome browser gives you an error page, press the spacebar to start a T-Rex game. At least you won’t be bored while you wait to get online again. If you find your internet returns and ruins your game, no need to worry, you can carry on online here.
8. Hide people on Twitter without blocking them
Twitter’s mute button is a little-known trick that is severely understated. It allows you to keep following an account but hides its tweets and retweets from your timeline.
It’s a simple way to rid a person from your Twitter without unfollowing them and thus offending them. They’ll never know when you mute them! Just click on the settings menu to the right of someone’s profile, and then select Mute.
9. Remotely log out of Facebook
Have you ever checked your Facebook on a strange device and then realized you forgot to log out?
Never fear – you can still log out of your session. Go to the “settings” drop-down menu on your Facebook, then select “security”, and navigate to “where you’re logged in”.
From there, you can see all open sessions and close any of them.
10. DIY cord protector
To prevent your charging cables and other cords from fraying: Grab the spring out of a ballpoint pen, then stretch it and wrap it around the part of the cord that tends to bend, and it’ll keep it straight forever, thus stopping it from wearing down over years.
11. Get coupon codes with Honey
Download the Honey add-on extension to your Chrome browser to instantly begin saving money. It automatically applies coupon codes during checkout at any online retailer. Woohoo!
12. See if your email is involved in a data breach
There’s a brilliant website known as HaveIBeenPwned.com. This site simply monitors your email address to alert you if and when it is compromised in a data breach.
Any publicly revealed hack that includes your email address will be highlighted with this tool. If you check it and find your email in any of the lists, make sure you log out of your email when you are finished and use a password manager to keep things secure in future.
13. Easily close any online account
A website called AccountKiller.com, gives step-by-step guides on how to delete online accounts from popular websites with ease.
14. TP roll cable organizer
Every tech enthusiast has a draw, box, or bag full of cables somewhere in the house. But how often do these cables just get tanged up and become an unbearable mess? Instructables has a guide on using empty toilet rolls to hold your cables and keep them separate and tangle-free.
15. Clean your Keyboard with Post-its
If your keyboard is filthy, you can rub and slide the sticky end of a Post-it through the gaps to give it a quick and easy clean.
16. Find your passwords
If you’ve asked Google Chrome to save your passwords at any point, then you can access that password via the browser’s settings. The easiest way to get to the setting is by typing this into your browser’s address bar – chrome://settings/passwords. Then you can reveal your passwords for any site.
To find your saved passwords on your iPhone: go to Settings > Passwords > use your FaceID/Touch ID or passcode to unlock and reveal your saved passwords.
17. Find the perfect username
Want to check whether a username is taken or available? Just use Namechk.com. It even checks domain names.