Windows Help & Advice - UK (2020-04)

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Every month in

Explore you’ll

discover some

great ways to do

more with your PC,

whether it’s mastering the

basics, or getting productive

with all kinds of apps.

This month, we’ll show you

how to record your own

podcast (p24); touch up

portrait shots in Luminar (p27);

use emoji in your writing, but

maybe not to the bank

manager (p30); speed up your

typing with predictive text

input (p32); use the same

Microsoft account across

multiple PCs (p39); update

Action Centre and notification

settings (p42); and prevent

online snooping using the TOR

browser (p44). Have fun!

Ian Evenden

Editor

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24 Record your own podcast with

Audacity and a USB microphone

27 Use Luminar’s new tools to

improve portrait photos

30 Fun with the emoji keyboard

32 Type faster with predictive text

34 Create HDR images in free

image-editing program GIMP

39 Use the same Microsoft account

across all your Windows 10 devices

42 Stay on top of notifications, and

master Action Centre settings

44 Stop all online snooping using

the free TOR web browser

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“Fancy being a podcaster? All you

need is a nice microphone, your

PC and an interesting idea”