By default, your Apple Watch screen turns on when you raise your wrist. Also, by default, when the screen turns on due to a wrist raise, the watch face displays, even if you were performing a different activity on your watch when the screen went off. The “Resume To” setting on the watch allows you to specify whether you want the watch face to display every time you raise your wrist, or whether the previous activity is resumed....

If you’re going on vacation soon, and don’t want to be bothered changing the thermostat as you’re trying to wrangle the family, the Ecobee actually allows you to schedule the thermostat to go into an away mode ahead of time. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ecobee Smart Thermostat Setting up a vacation on the Ecobee is essentially just putting it into an away mode, which lowers the temperature settings so that your heating or air conditioning doesn’t run as often while you’re out of the house....

Your Android device came with a default image set as the wallpaper on the Home screen. However, if you want a different image as your wallpaper, this is easily changed. There are several images included in the Android system or you can use one of your own images. Touch and hold anywhere on the empty space on your Home screen. A popup menu displays. If part of the menu is hidden, click and hold on the menu and drag it up to view the rest of the menu....

You’re sitting at your PC and you receive a text message, so you pick up your phone, unlock it, read the message, and type one back using the tiny touch screen keyboard. Why not use your PC instead? If you’re already sitting at your computer, you can easily take advantage of your computer’s keyboard to send and receive text messages. While this certainly isn’t a new idea, it has come a long way over the last few years....

The Belkin WeMo Switch can turn just about any ordinary appliance into a smart appliance. Just plug it in, and control it from anywhere. Here’s how to set it up. While you can get smart lights like Philips Hue, they can be pretty expensive, especially with the starter kit priced at $199, but if you have lamps that you wish you could turn on and off remotely, getting a smart outlet is the next best option....

Many hotels still limit you to one or two Wi-Fi devices per room–a frustrating limitation, especially when traveling with someone else. Connection restrictions can apply anywhere you have to log into a Wi-Fi network via a portal instead of a standard passphrase. Here are some ways to get around that limitation. Connect to the Wi-Fi with Your Laptop and Share the Connection If you’re carrying your Windows or Mac laptop with you, it’s fairly easy to share your hotel’s Wi-Fi connection with other wireless devices–especially if you do a little bit of planning ahead of time....

As its name implies, the “Developer” tab in Office programs allows you to create applications to use with Office programs, write macros, run macros you previously recorded, use XML commands and ActiveX controls, use form controls, and is not available by default. Even if you are not a developer, you may want to work with document templates in Word, add some form controls to your document in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, customize the Office programs using macros, or use a custom form in Outlook....

Why Would You Want to Do This? One thing to keep in mind about sideloading apps is they won’t be able to receive automatic updates. That process is handled by app stores, which we’re not using. You’ll need to manually re-install new versions of apps and games if you want to stay up to date. RELATED: How to Sideload Apps on Android The first thing we need to do is get an APK file to download....

Now that it has extension support, Microsoft Edge is becoming a more and more viable browser. One feature people seem to either love or hate is the pop-up preview you get when you hover over a tab. There’s no built-in setting that lets you turn tab previews off, but you can do it with a simple Registry hack. RELATED: How to Install Extensions in Microsoft Edge Turn Off Tab Previews by Editing the Registry Manually To turn off tab previews in Edge, you just need to make an adjustment to one setting in the Windows Registry....

Microsoft is technically selling two phones with Windows 10 built-in, but it hasn’t released the update for older phones just yet. If you have a Windows phone, though, there’s a good chance you can upgrade it to Windows 10 now, even if your cellular carrier is planning to delay or block the update. For years, the Windows Insider Preview Program has let Windows phone users get the latest Windows operating system for their phones without requiring the approval of any cellular carrier....

Thanks to the Internet, activities like “going outside” or “being a productive member of the community” are becoming increasingly optional parts of daily life. When your inner hermit feels like putting on his vampire cape, simple tricks like ordering a pizza or calling in some Chinese are old news, and only make up a small part of a much broader network of delivery services which will keep you fed, bathed, and entertained from the comfort of your sweatpants....

With Apple TV, you have ability to log into iCloud so you can view your photos stored there. It’s easy then to use these photos as your screen saver or a slideshow, which you can then proudly display on your TV. You might be well-acquainted by now with iCloud photo sharing. Basically, if you own an Apple device and you back up your photos to iCloud, then anything you store there will propagate to any other Apple devices logged into that same account....

Variables 101 Variables are named symbols that represent either a string or numeric value. When you use them in commands and expressions, they are treated as if you had typed the value they hold instead of the name of the variable. To create a variable, you just provide a name and value for it. Your variable names should be descriptive and remind you of the value they hold. A variable name cannot start with a number, nor can it contain spaces....

When you type text in a cell, Google Sheets automatically hides anything that extends beyond the size of the cell. If you don’t want to double-click a cell to see its contents, here’s how to use the wrap text feature. By default, whenever a cell contains more characters than physical appearance, instead of spilling over onto the next line, extra characters are hidden from sight. To show all the text contained in a single cell, we’ll use the wrap text feature to format and see the entirety of the cell....

The premium router market is increasingly saturated with high-priced and powerful routers. Even in such a market the D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router stands out both in size and styling as well as performance. Read on as we take a closer look at this flame red and feature packed model. What Is The D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router? The D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router (or DIR-890L) ($299) is D-Link’s current flagship router and a beast both in physical size and power....

What Is an “F?” You’ve just described, in great detail, a terrible day to your friend via text. You got rained on, you lost your wallet, a dog bit your leg, and your partner broke up with you. In response, your friend sends you back a single letter, “F.” It’s confusingly short, and you’re not sure what it means. On the internet, “F” is a slang term used to “pay respects” or commiserate in a tragic incident....

An ad hoc network is a local area network you can build spontaneously in a pinch. It allows computers and devices to communicate directly with each other within a small radius. The ability to create an ad hoc network has been possible since XP and is a way to quickly share data and an Internet connection to other wireless devices. For this tutorial you’ll need the host computer to be hardwired and have wireless capabilities such as a Netbook or Laptop....

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has films from almost every decade, and you can watch some of the service’s movies from your living room. These flicks are 10 of the best options from TCM that you can stream through HBO Max. The Blob Play Video The Blob follows the story of Steve Andrews and his girlfriend as they investigate a fallen meteor. But things go from bad to worse when they see a farmer being devoured by a protoplasm blob, and they go to tell the town....

It’s not like the processes take a lot of memory… I just get irritated when there’s a process that restarts for no good reason. You disable it, and then somehow it’s back. Annoying! RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My PC? This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Task Manager, like svchost.exe, dwm.exe, ctfmon.exe, mDNSResponder.exe, conhost.exe, rundll32.exe, Adobe_Updater.exe, and many others....

BitLocker disk encryption normally requires a TPM on Windows. Microsoft’s EFS encryption can never use a TPM. The new “device encryption” feature on Windows 10 and 8.1 also requires a modern TPM, which is why it’s only enabled on new hardware. But what is a TPM? TPM stands for “Trusted Platform Module”. It’s a chip on your computer’s motherboard that helps enable tamper-resistant full-disk encryption without requiring extremely long passphrases....