OK, this is embarrassing. After I published “TipBITS: Disable Live Text for Easier Selecting in Preview” (5 July 2022), Ken Nellis commented that after he read the article, he noticed that Preview in ...

The news comes via Android Authority, which reported finding a new way to access Gemini on Android devices. They spotted this new change when digging through the Google app beta version ...

I hope I’m not alone in using Preview for many basic graphic manipulations. As Josh Centers and I outlined in Take Control of Preview, the app has a surprising amount of power for cropping screenshots ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

If you cannot select or highlight text in a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader on a Windows PC, then this post will be able to help you resolve the issue. If you can’t select text in a PDF, it might be the ...

Soon users will be able to select text and directly ask Gemini about it. The functionality works in different apps, but it may not work in all apps. Our testing found that it works fine in browsers ...

You may have encountered an issue where Microsoft Word can’t select or highlight text with the mouse. This post discusses what you can do if your mouse is not working in Microsoft Word. Why can’t I ...

The Android Gemini app could get a new “Select text” feature. This will allow you to select a portion of a prompt’s response instead of needing to copy the whole thing, as you do today. It is unclear ...

Although the Mac offers fantastic support for opening and editing PDFs in the built-in Preview app, the simple act of copying and pasting text from a PDF can still be a nightmare. For instance, ...

Bing Search now lets you select text within the search results page and search for that selected text. I believe Bing was testing this for a while, and so has Google Search, but now it seems to be ...