What Is Sidewalk? You may already have heard of devices like smart home sensors that operate using Z-Wave or Zigbee technology. These wireless protocols also operate in the 900MHz range, as do old cordless phones, the walkie-talkie technology in some cellular phones, and amateur radio broadcasts. The advantage of using this low-frequency band of the radio spectrum is that the signals are extremely robust and can move around or penetrate obstacles with ease....

A reported security hole in Eufy’s security cameras and video doorbells was highlighted by security expert Paul Moore. Moore said his Eufy camera was uploading pictures of his face, and identifiable user information, to the cloud, despite him not having used a Cloud Storage subscription. This was followed up by someone else mentioning that the data uploaded isn’t even encrypted, making matters worse — one of the promises of Eufy’s cameras, alongside local storage, is that whatever it does record will be fully encrypted within your device....

Custom app icons are the latest iPhone trend, and they look awesome. People can give their iPhones a unique aesthetic with unique icons and widgets. There’s just one problem: Custom app icons slow down your iPhone. If you’ve set up custom app icons on your iPhone with iOS 14, you’ve already seen this problem in action. But, if you’re thinking about setting up custom app icons on an iPhone or iPad, you should know what you’re getting into....

The Windows Store has always had its fair share of growing pains, and since its debut in Windows 8, it has been dwarfed by Google and Apple’s offerings. In Windows 10, however, it finally looks like the Windows Store has turned the corner. The Windows Store has had a rocky start. At the outset, it had little going for it. App selection was sparse and Microsoft failed to attract the kind of big name app developers that Apple and Google were attracting....

Being notified about changes or updates to privacy settings on occasion is one thing, but when you are repeatedly bombarded with the same exact message day after day no matter what you do, then something has to give. Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful suggestions to help a very frustrated reader get rid of an annoying reminder message. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....

If you’re tired of having to open up the SmartThings app to arm and disarm your setup every time you leave or come home, here’s how to do it all automatically without even touching your phone. RELATED: How to Set Up the SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit While SmartThings makes it easy to control all of your smarthome products and automate certain tasks, the platform also makes for a great DIY home security setup using the various SmartThings-branded sensors....

Today’s Internet services rely heavily on text-based passwords for user authentication. The pervasiveness of these services coupled with the difficulty of remembering large numbers and symbols of secure passwords tempt users to reuse simple, easy to guess passwords at multiple websites, making their accounts vulnerable. RELATED: Why You Should Use a Password Manager, and How to Get Started We always recommend you to use a password manager — it allows you to not only use strong, complicated passwords that you don’t need to manually type, but also makes use of unique passwords for online accounts simple....

Not all charging is equal. If your smartphone (or tablet) is low on battery and you only have a limited amount of time to charge it, here’s how you can get the most juice possible. These tips should work for practically anything that charges via USB, including cameras, peripherals, and any other device you might have. Don’t Charge From Your Computer’s USB Ports RELATED: USB Type-C Explained: What is USB-C and Why You’ll Want it...

Whether you’re heading somewhere or you just want to see how congested a specific street is, it’s easy to check the traffic delays with Google Maps on both your desktop and mobile. We’ll show you how to do that. RELATED: How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps What Do the Colors Mean in Google Maps? To show you the different levels of traffic, Google Maps uses various color codes....

Even though most of the included Windows 10 apps have already garnered their fair share of negative press, some of the core pieces of the puzzle like the Mail and Calendar apps have proven themselves as worthy additions to the overall lineup. We’ve already shown you how to get your Gmail account working in the Mail app, however, if you run your own email server or rent one from another independent provider, setting up a POP3 email account can be a bit more complicated than a standard configuration....

The great thing about having a keypad lock like the Schlage Connect is that you don’t need physical keys at all. Instead, you just enter in a key code (aka user codes) and you’re off to the races. Here’s how to create and manage key codes for the Schlage Connect smart lock, both on the lock itself and on your phone. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Schlage Connect Smart Lock...

The Stickies app for macOS gives you Sticky Notes for your desktop, turning your Mac into a virtual bulletin board and letting you jot down short bits of text to remember later. The notes are desktop specific, so you can organize them however you want, and they’ll retain their layout and contents even after closing the app. Getting Started With Stickies Stickies is an old app, and recent versions of macOS have buried it in the “Other” folder, along with a lot of other utilities....

The Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2013 provides quick access to many features and options by default, but it can be further customized to fit the way you use it. You can add a custom tab to the ribbon or you can add commands to the existing tabs. To add commands to an existing default tab on the ribbon, right-click on any empty space on any tab and select “Customize the Ribbon” from the popup menu....

While the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge’s curved side panels may seem like a pointless feature to some, it’s actually a super useful and versatile tool to have. It makes more sense on the Edge phones than a standard “flat” display, since it basically stays out of the way until you need it. The ability to customize this area is just the icing on the cake, and Samsung has included some really useful tweaks here....

How to Disable Blood Oxygen Monitoring on Apple Watch You can disable the blood oxygen monitoring from the “Settings” app on your Apple Watch. Ensure that you’re viewing your Apple Watch’s watch face and press the Digital Crown. From the app gallery, open the “Settings” app. Here, scroll down, and choose the “Blood Oxygen” app. Tap the toggle next to the “Blood Oxygen Measurements” option to disable the feature. Now, the Blood Oxygen app, along with background readings, will be disabled....

Some Windows 10 devices ship with “Device Encryption”, but other PCs require you to pay another $99 to get BitLocker on Windows Pro for full-disk encryption. If you’d rather not, you can use the free and open-source VeraCrypt software to get full-disk encryption on any version of Windows. RELATED: How to Enable Full-Disk Encryption on Windows 10 Encryption is the best way to ensure attackers can’t read your files. It scrambles your files into random-looking gibberish and you need a secret key to access them....

We all know that password security is important, and both iPhone and iPad can save your passwords for you. That means you can see them at a moment’s notice, which is super convenient. But how do you check up on the passwords iOS has saved? Let’s take a look. If you have iOS save your usernames and passwords, the next time you need to enter them the system will suggest those passwords, automatically filling them in so that you not only don’t have to remember them, but you don’t even have to type them manually....

Generally speaking you image an entire drive to do a drive-at-a-time backup and restoration. Now and then you may find you need to mount a drive image you’ve created to retrieve a file or two. Read on as we show you how to mount a Macrium Reflect backup image as a Windows drive. Why Do I Want To Do This? Ideally you have parallel backup practices: one backup workflow for things like /My Documents/ and your photos and a tandem backup process for your entire system drive so you can restore your computer in the event of a failure or serious problem....

Adobe hides the standalone Flash Player very well. It’s actually called the “Flash Player content debugger” on Adobe’s website. Visit the Debug Downloads page on the Wayback Machine’s copy of the Adobe Flash Player website to get it. Click the “Download the Flash Player projector content debugger” link under Windows, Mac, or Linux, depending on which operating system you’re using. On Windows, you’ll have an EXE file that needs no installation....

TikTok, which is currently the frontline of viral video content, is a social media app that allows people to record, edit, and share short videos. However, if you encounter any sexual, violent, or otherwise inappropriate content on the app, you can easily file a report. How to Report a TikTok Video As you scroll through the videos in your TikTok feed, you might see content that violates any number of the app’s rules or community guidelines, or even laws....