If you’ve set up two-step verification to protect your Microsoft account, it won’t be long before you attempt to sign in to a Microsoft app or your old Xbox 360 with your account name and password only to be greeted with a message telling you that your regular password is no good and you will …

How big a file is that video you just recorded? How large are the files of those photos you just exported? There are any number of reasons to check the size of a file on your Mac — the most obvious being so you can free up space by rounding up the largest files and deleting or moving them. Here …

Now that the calendar has turned to March, It’s time to start paying attention to college basketball beyond its ongoing corruption scandal. Selection Sunday is less than a week away, which means you have precious little time to study up to prepare your NCAA tournament bracket. Will North Carolina repeat as champions of college basketball? Is this the year that …

Hollywood will gather tonight to fete itself. The 90th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 4 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Who’s hosting? Jimmy Kimmel returns as host. Kimmel hosted last year, which ended in the most memorable fashion when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced “La La Land” as the Best Picture winner instead of …

If you don’t want to spring for a pricey peanut sensor, then you can use your phone to avoid foods that contain nuts. Here are three free apps that can help peanut allergy sufferers. ShopWell ShopWell is a health app that helps you achieve a wide variety of health goals, but for our purposes here, I’ll focus on its bar …

Pitchers and catchers report. When I see or hear those four words, I know the end of winter is near and baseball is gearing up to return. Pitchers and catchers reported to their respective spring training camps a few weeks ago, with position players arriving in Arizona or Florida a few days later. Now, spring training games have begun, and …

Having a beautiful Retina display doesn’t do you any good if you can’t see what’s on it. Thankfully, MacOS has a number of settings to help you see more clearly what’s on your Mac’s screen, from making text and icons larger to increasing the contrast and reducing the transparency of windows. Now playing: Watch this: 7 settings that will help …

An iPhone ($285 at Amazon) looks pretty good right out of the box, but after you slip it into even the slimmest of cases and start using it under a variety of lighting conditions, the screen and body can lose some of their luster. I can’t help you with the case situation, but I can help you improve the look …

AirDrop is the fastest and easiest way to shuttle files and photos between iPhones ($285 at Amazon) and Macs. I use it to send screenshots from my iPhone to my Mac. I use it less frequently to send files from my Mac to my iPhone or another Mac, and each time I do, I dig around for it before giving …

One of the ways Windows Defender keeps your computer safe from internet evils is by employing its SmartScreen tool to keep you from downloading potentially harmful files or visiting malicious sites. On some occasions, however, you may find SmartScreen overstepping its bounds and blocking you from downloading a file you know to be safe. I don’t recommend turning SmartScreen off …