What’s happened? Microsoft is testing a tiny, helpful tweak in the latest Insider Preview of Windows 11. Copy any text, and a small paste gleam appears in the Windows Search box on your taskbar. Click ...

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen. In my article series about programming for the text console using the ncurses library, I showed you how to draw text on the screen and use basic ...

Many times, we need to copy error messages, error codes, or other text from images, dialog boxes, or open windows that are otherwise “un-copy-able.” While one can ...

Most of our devices these days have touchscreens. They allow us to mix the best of both worlds: Type when it makes sense to type, and write when it makes sense to write. Microsoft is finally adapting ...

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You may have noticed that some Windows dialog boxes, like the Error Message boxes, do not let you copy the text on them. There may be times when you want to copy ...

Every website is, at this point, a place to share screenshots from other websites. Reddit is full of pictures of Twitter and Facebook posts, for example, and those sites are full of pictures of Reddit ...