Enable Airplane Mode and Turn On Wi-Fi To avoid this, before you begin the setup process turn on airplane mode in your phone’s settings. Then turn on Wi-Fi (which airplane mode just turned off). Once you have reconnected to your network launch the Google Home or Alexa app and try the setup process again. Falling back to cellular is a common enough problem that Wink makes this same suggestion when setting up its hub....
Finding out how many pages are in a Word document is really easy when the document is open. However, what if you have a lot of documents in one folder for which you want to find out page counts? This is easily done in Windows. Because this is done in Windows, close all open Word files. Open a File Explorer window (Windows 8 and 10) or a Windows Explorer window (Windows 7)....
What’s the Problem? Once upon a time, you could turn your MacBook off by clicking Apple > Shut Down and clean your keyboard without waking the machine up. Those days are gone, with any keystroke on a modern MacBook causing the machine to boot up. You can’t even open the lid without waking a Mac up anymore! That makes it hard to give your MacBook a good clean, which is something you’ll probably want to do often to prevent oil and grime from building up....
Group texts are great because they allow you to collaborate and communicate with several people at once while on-the-go, which is useful if you don’t have mobile Internet access and can’t use a dedicated chat client like Slack or Hangouts. Still, there are those times when people can get overly talkative, or everyone starts talking at once. One minute everything is quiet, the next minute you’re bombarded by dozens of notifications....
Windows 10 comes with Windows Defender, a built-in antivirus tool to help protect your PC from malware. With the Anniversary Update, Windows Defender can keep protecting your PC by providing a second layer of protection, even if you install another antivirus. Generally, you aren’t supposed to run two always-on antivirus programs at once. As such, Windows Defender normally disables itself if you install another antivirus, getting out of the way....
Word makes it easy to format text as hidden so it can’t be viewed or printed. What if you want some text hidden on the screen, but you want to be able to print the hidden text? No worries, easily done. NOTE: To hide text formatted as hidden so it’s not visible on the screen, make sure the “Home” tab is active and click the “Show/Hide” button in the “Paragraph” section....
Whether you’re building your own computer, installing new RAM, or upgrading your PC’s components, you’ll be opening it up and touching sensitive electronics components. While doing this, you should be careful of static electricity, which can harm your computer. You don’t have to be completely paranoid about static electricity, and there’s no need to go overboard and buy an antistatic mat. A few basic precautions are all you need....
The Font dialog box in Word is used to format text, such as changing the font or font size or making text bold or italic, and can be accessed in multiple ways. One quick and easy way is using the context menu. NOTE: We used Word 2013 to illustrate this feature. Highlight the text you want to format and right-click on it. The mini toolbar and context menu displays. Select “Font” from the context menu....
Sometimes you need to quickly see your Desktop in Windows 10, but you don’t want to tediously minimize every open app window or move them and lose their layout. Luckily, several ways to allow you to quickly see the Desktop, then pick up where you left off. Here’s how. How to Show the Desktop Using the Taskbar Button Let’s say you’re casually browsing your favorite website, and you have several windows open like this:...
Remap the YouTube Button The YouTube button on the Chromecast with Google TV remote can be remapped to open any YouTube app quickly. The button supports the standard YouTube app, YouTube TV, YouTube Kids, and YouTube Music. To get started, press and hold the “YouTube” button on your remote. From the menu that appears, select the YouTube app that you want to open using your remote. You will be immediately taken back to the Google TV home screen....
Windows 10 is out, so we’re going from our Macs to PCs with daily regularity. While there are quite a few differences between them, nothing trips us up more than cut/copy/paste. Here is how to remap cut/copy/paste so they’re the same on both platforms. One of the hardest things to get used to when we go from Mac to Windows, or Windows to Mac is cut/copy/paste. On a Mac, this is accomplished using the “Command +” combination, while on Windows it’s done through “Control +”....
OS X is a great, finely polished operating system, but it’s not without its flaws. For years, there has been no way to rename files from the Save dialog–until now. This doesn’t seem that bad, but it means that if you wanted to save a file with a name that was already taken, you first had to open the Finder, navigate to the file, rename the file there, then return to the Save dialog to save your file....
Here are a few tricks you can use to force the login screen to appear in case it doesn’t show. Try Accessing Websites or Router Logins Some networks will dump you on the login page whenever you try to access any website. The first thing to do is simply open a browser and try to access something, like a simple web search or a trusty website (perhaps howtogeek.com). For best results, open a private browsing (incognito) window and access a non-HTTPS website like nonhttps....
If you have ever shot a video on your mobile phone, you might be dismayed later to discover that it is sideways, or even upside down. Don’t worry however, you can easily rotate it using no additional software. Sad as it is to say, the prevalence of video capabilities on our mobile devices has not turned us into the next Scorsese or Kubrick. No one wants to have to turn their head to watch their kid blow out the candles on their birthday cake or view their dogs romping through the park....
In our latest iteration of covering the “If This Then That” ecosystem of apps, we’re going to help you learn how you can use the IF program to apply global rules on your iOS device that will run in the background of your regular activities. On iOS, the IF app is admittedly somewhat limited on what it can do because of Apple’s consistent permissions blocks. But, as more developers of apps like Nest, Twitter, and Facebook open up their source code to partners at IFTTT, it’s becoming easier than ever before to automate many of the tasks that you rely on to make your life as streamlined and stress-free as possible....
Microsoft hasn’t exactly been endearing themselves to tech geeks everywhere lately, with all the privacy concerns and other issues. And now they are automatically downloading all of Windows 10 to your Windows 7 or 8 PC, whether you asked for it or not. RELATED: 30 Ways Your Windows 10 Computer Phones Home to Microsoft To be clear, they aren’t automatically installing Windows 10, but they are downloading the entire installer, which is at least 3 GB, which takes up a lot of drive space, and also wastes your network bandwidth....
You’re finding your Apple Watch really useful and you want to share things like your fitness and activity achievements, your customized watch face, messages you receive, and almost anything else on your watch screen. Fortunately, it’s really easy to take a screenshot of your watch. RELATED: How to Customize, Add, and Delete Apple Watch Faces As of watchOS 3, you need to enable the screenshots feature on your watch. It’s not on by default....
Kubernetes is not known for being approachable. To master Kubernetes, you need to understand how its abstractions fit together. Kubernetes comes with dozens of resource types which you can use within your applications. Let’s look at the roles of the most frequently used resources. Pods If there’s one Kubernetes term to learn, it’s “Pod.” Pods are the fundamental compute unit used by Kubernetes. They host your running containers. For this reason, it’s common to liken a pod to an instance of a Docker container....
Your computer’s RAM is still faster than even modern solid-state drives. RAM disks take advantage of this, using your computer’s RAM as a lightning-fast virtual drive. But you probably don’t want to use a RAM disk, anyway. RAM disks are easy to sell — all you have to do is hold up performance benchmarks showing how much faster it is to read data from RAM than it is from even a fast SSD....
You can now host your own conference calls more easily than ever before. Whether you’re working from home, own a small business, or just want to stay in touch with friends and family, there are dozens of free services available to you. Between audio-teleconferencing, screen sharing, video calls, and text chat, we’ll cover some of the best options for you to get started with free conference calling. Most of the applications we’ll cover below provide support for mobile phones, landlines, and VoIP, which essentially means you can call using the internet....
