customization feature Archives

AppWizard

May 12, 2025

Master YouTube’s caption settings on Android with these tips

YouTube allows Android users to customize captions by adjusting text size, font style, and color through the "Captions" option in the app settings. This feature enhances legibility and personalizes the viewing experience.

AppWizard

March 17, 2025

Hands-on: Google will soon let you customize icon shapes on your Pixel’s home screen

The Pixel Launcher will soon allow users to customize the shape of their app icons, introducing six distinct shapes, including a traditional circle. This feature aims to enhance personalization options, which have been limited in the stock launcher compared to third-party alternatives. The capability for icon shape customization was previously available in Android 11 but was removed. Initial hints of this feature appeared in November, and it has been activated in the third beta of Android 16. The customization process applies a mask to all app icons on the home screen, app drawer, and folders, but does not affect their appearance in other contexts. The six available icon shapes are: “circle,” “square,” “four-sided cookie,” “seven-sided cookie,” “arch,” and “complex clover.” This feature is part of ongoing development for the Pixel wallpaper app, which has been in progress since August of the previous year.

Winsage

February 16, 2025

How to Customize Copilot Key on Windows 11

Microsoft introduced a dedicated Copilot key on its PCs in 2024 to enhance AI branding, but later shifted the strategy to pin Copilot as a web app on the Taskbar, making the key less essential. Users can customize the Copilot key in Windows 11 to either launch Windows Search or a selected application, but customization options are limited to signed MSIX packages, excluding third-party applications. For greater flexibility, users can utilize third-party tools like PowerToys to remap keys. Microsoft is also experimenting with a context menu activation for the Copilot key.

Winsage

February 5, 2025

Microsoft finally allows customizing Windows 11 lock screen widgets, here is how to do that

Microsoft has released a new preview build of Windows 11, designated as 22635.4870 (KB5050087), in the Beta Channel. This build introduces the ability to customize lock screen widgets, allowing users to select which widgets are displayed when their PC is locked. The customizable feature is currently being rolled out to Windows Insiders using this build. To enable it manually, users need to download ViVeTool, run specific commands in Command Prompt, and restart their computer. The customization requires an activated Windows installation.

BetaBeacon

November 1, 2024

Top 25 best offline mobile games to play in 2024

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Winsage

September 27, 2024

Windows 11 ‘Soundscape’ replacing Sounds Settings in Control Panel

An internal build of Windows 11 has revealed a hidden feature called the “Soundscape” page, intended to replace the traditional ‘Sounds’ settings in the Control Panel. The Soundscape panel is currently unpopulated and not available in recent test builds. When activated, it removes the link to the older Control Panel Sound window from the System > Sound settings. The panel lacks functional settings and serves as a placeholder, with a description similar to existing Sound settings in the Control Panel. Microsoft aims to phase out the legacy Control Panel in favor of a modern Settings interface.

Winsage

September 20, 2024

Windows 11 is finally letting you change what the Copilot key does

A new Windows 11 preview build allows users with a dedicated Copilot key to customize its function to launch an "MSIX packaged" app instead of the default Copilot application. This feature is exclusive to PCs with a dedicated Copilot key and can be accessed through Windows Settings. Microsoft limits customization to MSIX packaged apps for enhanced security. Other features in the update include file sharing from the context menu in File Explorer and improved media player controls on the lock screen.

Winsage

September 20, 2024

Microsoft’s Copilot key will be able to launch apps on Windows 11 soon

Microsoft is testing new customization features for the Copilot key in Windows 11, allowing users to designate it to launch any MSIX packaged and signed application. This feature is part of a new beta build rolled out to testers. The Copilot key, which is set to open Microsoft’s Copilot app by default, represents a significant change in keyboard design for Windows. The Copilot experience has been transformed into a web app with the latest 24H2 update, limiting its integration with Windows settings. The customization feature is expected to be available to all Windows 11 users in the coming months.

Winsage

June 10, 2024

macOS Sequoia’s Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows

macOS Sequoia was unveiled at Apple's WWDC keynote, introducing a new feature called Layouts that allows users to automatically snap app windows to various areas of the screen for better organization and productivity.