While you can get professional systems installed that hook up your lights to your doorbell, you can use an existing smart video doorbell (like the Ring or SkyBell HD) and Philips Hue bulbs to have your lights blink whenever someone rings the doorbell. Here’s how to set it up. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ring Video Doorbell Why Would I Want to Do This? Many of these kinds of setups are used in houses where the person living there is deaf or at least hard of hearing....

OneDrive is a free online storage service that comes bundled with Windows or Office 365 — it’s deeply integrated into everything in Windows and Office. But what if you want to move the folder to a different drive? Depending on how big and how many files you’ve synced, your OneDrive folder might take up substantial space on your hard drive, so if you have a second and bigger hard drive in your computer, moving the OneDrive folder makes a lot of sense....

Creating and joining a team in Microsoft Teams is easy. Visually identifying a team from a long list of teams, on the other hand, can be more difficult. Give your teams a visual identity by adding a unique logo to each one. It’s quite normal to have a list of teams in Microsoft Teams, each of which is represented by an icon with the initials of the team name in it....

When you install the iCloud client on your Windows computer, it configures the shared folder in a specific location. You can, however, move this folder to another location, even another shared cloud folder or backup drive. We talked about installing iCloud on Windows, which will then allow you to sync your photo stream and use iCloud Photo Sharing, manage your iCloud storage, and even sync your Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer bookmarks....

You may not have anything to hide when we surf the Internet, but you still may want to clear your history every now and then. It’s pretty easy on Safari for OS X and only takes a couple clicks. Clearing your browsing history doesn’t have to be an intricate chore. On Safari, all you do is click the “History” menu and select “Clear History…” at the bottom. Once you do this, you will be given a choice, you can delete “the last hour”, “today”, “today and yesterday”, and “all history”....

Deleting site data, such as cache and cookies, is helpful for when a site is misbehaving. However, removing all site data in Google Chrome will sign you out of every website. Here’s how to delete data from a single site. Fire up Google Chrome and head to the website to which you want to delete the site data. Click on the menu icon in the top-right corner and then select More tools > Developer tools (or you can press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+i [Windows and Chrome] and Cmd+Option+i [macOS] to open Developer tools)....

First, open Oculus Browser on your Quest 1 or 2 headset (these instructions work for both models). You’ll find the browser in your app library. In the Oculus Browser window, select the menu button (three dots) in the upper-right corner. In the menu that appears on the side of the window, select “Clear Browsing Data.” After that, a small “Clear Data” window will open. If necessary, place a checkmark beside “Browsing History” (and any other items you want to clear), then click the “Clear Data” button....

Every new version of Word brings new features that are not available in the previous versions. In Word 2007, in addition to adding new features, Microsoft changed the file format for Word documents and the file extension changed from “.doc” to “.docx”. Files saved in the newer .docx Word format cannot be opened by versions of Word prior to Word 2007. However, what do you do if you need to have someone work on a document that has Word 2003 or older?...

Everyone likes their devices to charge quickly, right? That’s why aptly-named quick charging technology is so popular—almost every chip maker has its own version of it at this point. Still, there are occasions when fast charging may not be the best solution. Thankfully, Samsung realizes the need to disable this feature on-the-fly, and there’s baked-in a way to do it on Galaxy devices running Marshmallow, like the S7/Edge, S6 Edge+, S6, and Note 5....

Once this functionality is enabled, sending or receiving crypto is as easy as looking up a user’s profile. Unfortunately, as of May 2022, the Tips feature is only available in the mobile app and not on Twitter’s desktop website. To begin, open up Twitter and tap your profile picture in the upper left corner. A side pane will open. Tap “Profile.” Now on your profile page, press the “Edit profile” button....

The quickest way to see which graphics card your PC uses is by using the built-in Task Manager utility. To launch Task Manager, right click the Start button and select “Task Manager” in the list. When Task Manager opens, click the “Performance” tab. If you have more than one GPU in the machine, each one will be listed under names like “GPU 0” or “GPU 1” in the sidebar. Click the one you’d like to find information on....

Microsoft OneDrive is a pretty solid cloud storage offering, and it’s deeply integrated into Windows. Not only does it do a good job syncing folders, it also allows you to remotely fetch files on your PC. OneDrive can be a bit of a network bandwidth hog, but with the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, you can now set transfer speed limits. RELATED: How to Configure OneDrive to Sync Only Certain Folders in Windows 10...

If you want to create a newsletter, announcement, or other marketing message with your company brand, you can use Gmail Layouts, which are basically email templates. These handy templates are customizable so you can add your logo, colors, and links. Use a Layout Email Template in Gmail To view the Layouts available and pop one into your email, head to Gmail and create a new message with the Compose button on the top left....

Chrome isn’t the minimal web browser it once was. Originally named Chrome because it was designed to get out of your way, Chrome is no longer just a minimal browser — it’s an entire application platform. Google’s browser seems to eat quite a bit of battery life, particularly on Macs. It’s also very memory hungry, which can hurt PCs with low amounts of RAM. Here’s how to minimize the damage....

Have you ever turned on the Caps Lock key ACCIDENTALLY WHILE YOU’RE TYPING? Or turned off the Num Lock key unintentionally and then tried to use the number keypad? No worries. There’s a setting in Windows that can notify you with a sound whenever you press one of these keys. The Toggle Keys setting in Windows provides the option to play a tone when you press the Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock keys....

Nexus OTA updates are a bit of an enigma—they come straight from Google, but they also depend on carrier approval before they can be sent to devices on certain networks. Getting the latest OTA update meant either waiting a few weeks, or manually flashing a full factory image, which can be a bit janky. Now, however, the process is more streamlined, so you can flash the latest update with one command, no waiting necessary....

Despite the increasing storage size of each generation of iPhones and other iOS devices, it’s really easy to stuff them full. If your storage management problem is a result of too much music, there’s a new feature introduced in iOS 10 that makes it easy to optimize your storage and free up space. How Music Storage Optimization Works RELATED: What is Apple Music and How Does It Work? Introduced in the spring of 2015, Apple Music—Apple’s answer to Spotify and other music streaming services—makes it pretty easy to find new artists and download music to your iOS device....

If you’re a fan of hibernating your computer, you’ve likely noticed that neither Windows 8 or Windows 10 offer hibernate as a default power menu option. Don’t worry, it’s really simple to bring the hibernate option back. RELATED: Should You Shut Down, Sleep, or Hibernate Your Laptop? Readers unfamiliar with hibernation mode may be curious why so many people miss the feature and want it back. While we’ve written about it in detail before, a short summary is in order....

Most people know that you can create PowerPoint presentations with pictures, music, images, web content, and text, but one little known trick is the ability to save PowerPoint presentations as videos. PowerPoint presentations have been a long time favorite for use in business and academic presentations all over the world. They are highly versatile and offer a wide variety of features that you can use to enhance them. In order to save your PowerPoint as a video you will first need to create a presentation or download the sample we used for this tutorial....

Usually, you use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to extract text from an image. However, as of Google Chrome 76, you can use an experimental feature to scrape text from images without any additional software. When you use OCR to detect text, it’s computationally expensive. However, hardware manufacturers have supported shape detection for quite some time. Enter, Shape Detection API. It relies on hardware acceleration from the device it runs on....