The SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit comes with a small handful of sensors and an outlet switch, but if you need more than what comes in the starter kit, you can easily add additional sensors and devices to your SmartThings setup. RELATED: How to Set Up the SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit The starter kit alone can actually be a complete setup for some small apartments, as the two open/close sensors can be put on the front door and the patio door, and the motion sensor can likely cover most of the apartment if you have an open floor plan....

Facebook is the world’s most popular social network, and with that comes a load of problems. Not only do you have to deal with all the regular trolls you find online, but crazy exes, stalkers, and fake profiles looking to con you are all permanent fixtures. Thankfully, you can block these kinds of users. Let’s look at how. What Does a Block Do? When you block someone on Facebook:...

According to a recent report released by the Freelancer’s Union, in 2015 there are approximately 53 million people in the United States who count freelancing as a part (or the core) of their working resume. Thanks to the power of the Internet, the task of telecommuting has almost become second nature to our economy, and allows those who want to forge their own path to either do what they love for a living, or at least pull in a little spare cash on the side of their ordinary 9-5....

Windows 10 includes several little-known but very useful ways to automatically organize your open windows, and they’re only a click away on the taskbar. Here’s how to cascade your windows automatically. Let’s say that you have a messy window arrangement such as this one, and you’d like to organize it. Maybe you have so many windows open that you aren’t sure which ones are which. One way to take control of the mess is to cascade the windows....

Why You Would Want to Do This RELATED: Should You Buy Google’s Nest Learning Thermostat? In many of our articles here at How-To Geek we open with a quick explanation as to why you would want to do something and what benefit you’d receive from following along with our tutorial. In this case the reason is particularly straightforward, as it builds on on the investment you’ve already made in smarthome technology....

Hanging indents is a text formatting style that’s often used in academic citations or bibliographies. Although it’s more commonly used in Word documents, you might occasionally need to use hanging indents in your Google Slides presentation. Create a Hanging Indent Using Your Keyboard There’s a pretty quick way to add a hanging indent in Google Slides using only your keyboard. First, place your cursor at the beginning of the line you want to indent....

You’ve got your collection of Windows ISOs and maybe you’ve burned installation DVDs or flash drives for them. But why not make yourself a master installation drive that you can use to install any version of Windows? RELATED: Where to Download Windows 10, 8.1, and 7 ISOs Legally Setting up a bootable USB Drive that includes multiple ISOs is actually pretty easy, We’re going to do it using a clever little free tool named WinSetupFromUSB, so go ahead and download the latest version of that....

Google Forms is the easiest way to make a fillable form online. Most Google Forms look similar, but you can make your form stand out and fit with your event, website, or company’s branding. Selecting a Template The first way of customizing a Google Form is by selecting a template from the gallery. Google offers 17 different templates that you can use to quickly set-up the kind of form that you need....

Open Your Mouse Configuration To find Windows’ mouse settings, you’ll need to start by opening up the Settings app from your Start Menu. Once here, open the “Devices” section, highlighted here: After this window comes up, select the “Mouse and Touchpad” tab, where you should see the following window: It’s in this window you’ll find a sliding scale that you can use to change how many lines the scroll wheel will skip at a time for every notch it scrolls through....

Touch ID and Face ID are convenient, but not as secure as only using a strong passcode (mostly because biometric data doesn’t have the same legal protections). If you want to turn them off, here’s how. We’re talking here about how to actually turn off Touch ID or Face ID on your iPhone. There’s also a way to temporarily disable these unlock functionalities by rapidly pressing your power button five times (or, on the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, or X, hold down that button while pressing either volume button)—the same shortcut that pulls up the emergency calls screen....

While there are many alternatives, Microsoft’s Remote Desktop is a perfectly viable option for accessing other computers, but it has to be properly secured. After recommended security measures are in place, Remote Desktop is a powerful tool for geeks to use and lets you avoid installing third party apps for this type of functionality. This guide and the screenshots that accompany it are made for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10....

Your Apple Watch has a total of 8 GB of storage on it, with about 5.6 GB of usable space for apps, music, and photos. If you start running out of room, you can easily check which apps are taking up the most space. To check storage space usage, make sure the Home screen on your phone is active and tap the “Watch” app. Make sure the “My Watch” screen is active....

If you use a few Excel spreadsheets daily, it would be handy if you could open those spreadsheets automatically every time you start Excel. Thankfully, Excel has this feature built-in–if you know where to look. For example, maybe you open a time sheet file every day to keep track of your hours as you work on projects. Excel created a folder called XLSTART when you installed the program. Any file you place in this folder will open automatically when you start Excel....

You’ve got a file to share—a huge document, video presentation, or set of images. You can’t just email it, because you’re running up against your—or your recipient’s—email size limit. Here are several ways you can share large files over the internet. We’re going to look at a few different ways you can get large files to someone, and they’re all useful in different situations. Maybe it’s a one-time thing, and you just need to get a file to someone quickly....

Why Do I Want To Do This? Fortunately for you, us, and anyone else looking to load apps on their Fire TV we can take advantage of the developer options included with the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick to load any Android application we want. What Do I Need? The first technique involves using the command line interface on your computer to send Android installation files (APKs) right to your device....

If you use a Mac almost exclusively, but you’re still an Android holdout, you can manage your device’s storage using a handy, free app called Android File Transfer. Unlike on Windows, you can’t just plug your Android device into your Mac and access its file system. To do that, you need a special application. Android File Transfer is the best way to transfer files from your Android device to your Mac and vice-versa....

Printers come in all shapes and sizes, but they have similar problems. Troubleshooting a printer on a Mac is similar to troubleshooting it on a Windows PC, but the options you’ll need to check are in different places on Mac OS X than they are on Windows. Before doing any of this, ensure the printer is plugged in, powered on, and connected to your Mac. If it’s a Wi-Fi printer, ensure it’s connected to the same Wi-Fi network your Mac is on....

If you’re having seconds thoughts about jailbreaking your iOS device, here’s how to easily unjailbreak it and go back to normalcy. RELATED: Jailbreaking Explained: What You Need to Know About Jailbreaking iPhones and iPads To unjailbreak, many how-to guides say that you need to put your iOS device in recovery or DFU mode, but that’s actually not the case at all. In fact, it’s a lot easier than that–you just need to erase your device, then restore it from a backup....

This is where bootable antivirus solutions come in. They can clean malware from outside the infected Windows system, so the malware won’t be running and interfering with the clean-up process. RELATED: Not All “Viruses” Are Viruses: 10 Malware Terms Explained The Problem With Cleaning Up Malware From Within Windows Standard antivirus software runs within Windows. If your computer is infected with malware, the antivirus software will have to do battle with the malware....

For the longest time, notifications in the Windows operating system have been something of a joke. In Windows 10, however, users are finally treated to a notification center they can use. Notifications can make or break a system, and in each one be it Android, iOS, or OS X, notifications comprise an important aspect of user/app interaction. Windows 8 introduced its own toast notifications, which were small rectangular boxes that slid out from the top-right corner....