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Revealing too much of your screen in a single image can actually threaten your security. Instead, you can take a screenshot with precise cropping so you include only what you want.

• On a Mac, press Command + Shift + 5. A rectangle will emerge, which you can resize and move as much as you want.
• On a Windows PC, press the Windows logo key + Shift + S. A point on the screen will appear. Move it with your mouse to create any shape you want. You can also click the search bar or icon in your dock and type Snipping Tool. Click New, and you’ll see a similar box you can drag to any shape over your screen.

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You probably have thousands of photos on your phone eating up space, and you want to preserve those memories. IDrive is the perfect solution for backing up and protecting all your precious photos and videos. Use it to back up all your devices: PCs, Macs, servers, iPhones, Android phones and more. Sync everything to one account.

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Amazon Prime gets you fast, free shipping and a lot more. Don't want to shell out $139 for a year of membership? No problem. We rounded up ways to try it out for free or get a big discount, along with 11 cool perks you'll use all year.

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The jet engine is one of the great engineering marvels of our time. It uses compressed air and a fuel source to create an enormous amount of thrust. That has, in turn, allowed us to travel all over the world. But what if you took one of these behemoths and strapped it to a bike? Would it even be rideable?