Frame rate or ping? Two shortcuts tell you which kind of lag you have, and the right settings fix most of it.

A step-by-step afternoon project for kids, parents and teachers, built and saved in the Scratch app on Windows.

Three commands and one slider turn a page of curve sketching into something you can actually see.

Cores, playlists, a working gamepad and save states, set up in one relaxed evening.

When the XAMPP Control Panel turns red, a busy port is usually to blame, and you can find and fix it yourself.

The classic ad blocker's lighter sibling works differently, and four slider positions decide whether a site looks clean, cluttered or broken.

Write your mail at midnight, deliver it at nine, and catch the typo before it leaves: here's how timing works in new and classic Outlook.