If you’re looking for new Windows 10-optimized apps that are designed for both desktops and mobile devices, you’ll need to go through the Windows Store. The Store has been completely revamped from its Windows 8 iteration, but it’s not too difficult to navigate (it’s an app store, after all). In the Windows Store you’ll find …

If you want to buy anything from the Windows Store, you’ll need a Microsoft account with a linked credit card (or debit card, or PayPal). Here are some tips for keeping your account save and tracking the purchases you make. Require a password for purchases The Windows Store is set up by default to require a password any time you …

Windows 10’s new search assistant, Cortana, is pretty useful, but she has one big flaw — all her search results go through Microsoft’s search engine Bing. For those of us who live and die by Google, this is pretty unforgivable. For obvious reasons, Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to switch out Cortana’s default search engine — if you want the …

Windows 10 has had some issues with display scaling on high-resolution screens — you may have noticed that some of your legacy apps on Windows 10 have (or had — they’ve been slowly fixing this) minuscule user interfaces, with icons and text so tiny you can barely see them, let alone click them. Well, I have some good and bad …

When you upgrade to a new phone, what do you do with your old one? You might sell it or give it to a friend or family member…or you might stick it in a drawer where it will wait to be discovered by future, nostalgic you. Instead of letting tech waste away in a junk drawer, maybe you should consider …

Online shopping is awesome — there are deals around every corner, you can do it in your pajamas, and sometimes you don’t even have to pay sales tax! But there is a downside: No instant gratification. Once you make an online purchase, you need to wait days or even weeks before it’s in your hand, which can be agonizing. Related: …

There’s a new permanent link on the Start menu/screen in Windows 10: Settings. This new Windows 10 Settings menu is a hub for your device’s basic settings, including basic setup, network settings, and privacy settings. It has a clean interface, bit, touch-friendly icons and toggles and simple descriptions — it looks a little like the PC settings menu in Windows …

Holiday shopping is chaotic — but you can make it a little less chaotic with the help of automation service IFTTT. IFTTT, which stands for “If This, Then That” is a service that uses the Web to connect apps, devices and social networks together so you can automate actions. IFTTT lets you set up “recipes” — when something happens on …

You don’t have to go to a physical store on Black Friday to experience the shopping madness — there will be plenty of madness online. But here’s the real reason you should shop online (aside from the fact that there’s little to no risk of getting trampled to death): It’s cheaper. Thanks to promo codes, cashback sites and sneaky tricks …

Is Target offering a fabulous coupon that gives you 50 percent off your entire purchase? No, of course it isn’t. That coupon is 100 percent fake, but this hasn’t stopped thousands of people from sharing it on Facebook. There are a couple of reasons to care about fake coupons. First, the linked coupons you see on Facebook Timelines and Twitter …