Computer Skills Tutorials

Brush up your computer skills with hundreds of free tutorials covering macOS, iOS, ChromeOS, Linux and Windows operating systems and applications. Follow our expert instructors who'll help you become more productive and get the most out of computing.

We all want to work smarter, and the collection of productivity tutorials will help you do just that. You'll also find tips on customization, automation, and other essential skills to help you accomplish more tasks in half the time. And then you can take some solid app training to discover how to get the most out of the apps you use.

All Computer Skills tutorials:

  1. How to Create a Chromebook Recovery USB Drive Using Chrome OS

    How to Create a Chromebook Recovery USB Drive Using Chrome OS

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Chrome OS is a pretty stable operating system. Whilst you probably won't need it, it's better to be safe than sorry. In this tutorial I'll show you how to...

  2. How to Create a Professional Technical Document—Part 2

    How to Create a Professional Technical Document—Part 2

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Writing a technical document need variety of tools. Clarify is a native app for Windows and Mac to create technical documents enabling you to focus on...

  3. How to Create a Professional Technical Document—Part 1

    How to Create a Professional Technical Document—Part 1

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Writing a technical document need variety of tools. Clarify is a native app for Windows and Mac to create technical documents enabling you to focus on...

  4. Automating the iPhone With Workflow III

    Automating the iPhone With Workflow III

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this, the third article in the Workflow series, I'll dive deeper into iOS automation and explore advanced variable techniques and control flow.

  5. Why Taking a Photo of a Screen Sucks and How to Take Screenshots

    Why Taking a Photo of a Screen Sucks and How to Take Screenshots

    Tutorial Beginner

    Using a camera to take a picture of a screen isn't the way to take a screenshot, instead you want to use the tools built into macOS and iOS. In this tutorial...

  6. How to Use Siri on a Mac

    How to Use Siri on a Mac

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The headline new feature in macOS is that Siri has finally come to the Mac. In this tutorial I explore how to configure and use Siri on the Mac. Siri's got...

  7. Grab Some Free Design Resources From Envato Elements

    Grab Some Free Design Resources From Envato Elements

    Tutorial Beginner

    Envato Elements is coming soon, and to celebrate, we're offering some fantastic freebies. You can grab some handcrafted fonts, a professional brochure...

  8. International Women's Day: Women in Computing

    International Women's Day: Women in Computing

    Tutorial Beginner

    The 8th March 2016 is International Women's Day. In this tutorial, I'll explain the important contribution women have made, and continue to make, to computing.

  9. How to Change the Web Browser Default Search Engine in OS X

    How to Change the Web Browser Default Search Engine in OS X

    Tutorial Beginner

    Apple's Mac computers ship with the Safari web browser which, by default, uses Google for its search. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to change the...

  10. Sudo Explained

    Sudo Explained

    Tutorial Beginner

    To many people, the command line in the Terminal.app application is hard to grasp. In this tutorial, I'll show you about the sudo command combined with the...

  11. Apple Mobile Device Management Made Easy With Bushel

    Apple Mobile Device Management Made Easy With Bushel

    Tutorial Beginner

    For any business with a number of Apple devices—be that Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod or a combination thereof—the rollout of apps, configuration of email and...

  12. How I Used Blob Storage to Host My Podcast

    How I Used Blob Storage to Host My Podcast

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through the steps of how I set up a blob storage container to host all of the .mp3s of my podcast.