F.lux is a handy little app that warms the light from your computer screen in the evening to help you sleep better. Philips’ Hue lights can also adjust their color temperature. This clever integration links the two, so your screen and your general room lighting change together. Why Would You Want to Do This? RELATED: Artificial Light Is Wrecking Your Sleep, and It’s Time to Do Something About It...

While you can control your Belkin WeMo Switch from your phone, you can also turn it on and off automatically using the smart outlet’s automation features. Both the regular WeMo Switch and the WeMo Insight Switch come with automation features that allow you to turn them on and off automatically at set times, making them great for putting lamps on timers or setting a limit on a space heater. Plus, the process for setting it up on either switch is the same....

You can customize the bullets on bulleted lists in Word using different symbols and colors. However, what if you want to use your own picture as the bullets on your list? Replacing the standard bullets with pictures is easy and we’ll show you how. NOTE: We used Word 2016 to illustrate this feature, but this procedure will work in Word 2013 as well. Highlight the bulleted list for which you want to change the bullets to pictures....

Using the Terminal in OS X is probably the most powerful and immediate way to affect deep changes on your Mac. If you’re a fan of using the command line, then it’s always nice to learn a new trick. We’re never opposed to learning new ways to “hack” OS X through the Terminal. For example, we know we can prevent our Mac from sleeping using the “Caffeinate” command. Another great trick is to change where OS X automatically saves screenshots....

Are you picture straightener? When you walk into a room, do you immediately notice when something hanging on the wall is crooked? Do you want everything to be level and perfect? With an iPhone, you can certainly try! RELATED: How to Create Voice Memos on Your iPhone We live in an imperfect world full of crookedness, and for anyone who notices, it can be very annoying. Oftentimes, all it takes is a slight adjustment and everything is fine, but sometimes it may just not seem right....

Installing extensions in web browsers can provide some very useful features. However, if you install a lot of extensions in multiple browsers, you might forget which you installed in which. We have an easy solution if you use Chrome, Firefox, and/or Internet Explorer. RELATED: How to Reset Your Web Browser To Its Default Settings BrowserAddonsView is a free tool from Nirsoft that lists the details of all add-ons, extensions, and plug-ins installed in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (IE)....

While most of us never need administrator level access to complete our work on our computers, there are times when it is necessary. When we do need that level of access, is there a fast way to do it while UAC is enabled? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful answers for a reader seeking a faster, more streamlined approach. 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 use a Mac, then you well know by now that keyboard shortcuts are an essential component to mastering OS X. Nowhere is this more true than Safari, where keyboard shortcuts make quick work of many routine web browsing tasks. Safari actually has quite a few keyboard shortcuts that you may know about, as well as quita a few you may not know about. Today we want to talk about some of our favorites....

Touch on Windows laptops, in one form or another, has been around for quite some time. For most of that time, it was bad. No wait, bad is too generous–it was nearly unusable. But as much as no one wants to admit it, that’s all changed. Touch is quite good on Windows 10. That doesn’t stop people from wondering why they’d want touch in the first place. Touch is for tablets, laptops can be laptops, they say....

Over the past few years, automakers and tech giants have been dumping billions of dollars into making the first true accident-free self-driving car. It’s been a dream for nearly as long as cars have existed: getting in your car, cranking up the tunes, and kicking up your feet as a self-correcting, self-driving computer swivels and swerves effortlessly through traffic better than any human ever could. but how close is that dream to a reality?...

The majority of streaming media players on the market are those devices that plug into an HDMI port on your TV. However, a few companies make TVs that skip the middle man for a more integrated and seamless experience. Roku Built-In The concept of a Roku TV is really pretty simple. Every smart TV has some sort of interface for getting to your TV channels and launching apps. What if that interface was the same one found on Roku devices?...

Much is changing in Windows 10. Chief among these is a driven move from the old Control Panel that we all know so well, to the new-look, touch-friendly Settings. Today, we want to discuss what is changing from Windows 8.1 to 10. Microsoft is making substantial interface changes in Windows 10 and while the Control Panel is still alive and well, it seems the writing is on the wall for it....

The Office Upload Center is part of Microsoft Office. Install Office on your computer, and this tool will appear in your system tray. Sure, you can hide this icon, but should you? What exactly does it do, anyway? What Does It Do? When you save a Microsoft Office file to an online location–for example, when you save a file to Microsoft OneDrive or a SharePoint server–Office doesn’t just save the file directly to that server....

The winlogon.exe process is a critical part of the Windows operating system. This process is always running in the background on Windows, and it’s responsible for some important system functions. 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, rundll32.exe, Adobe_Updater.exe, and many others. Don’t know what those services are?...

U2F is widely regarded as the best way to secure your important accounts since it relies on access to a physical key before the account will be unlocked. But what happens if you lose that key? What is Universal Two-Factor (U2F)? First off, we should take a closer look at what U2F is. While we have a much more in-depth explanation of what U2F is, we’ll cover the quick and dirty version here....

When you reach the point where you are learning how to configure your computer’s start-up settings, you may find yourself confused about BIOS and CMOS. Which one are you actually accessing to alter those settings? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. 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....

Ever sit down to watch a trailer for the latest video game, only to find yourself out of the chair and dancing with excitement by the end of it? “The graphics look so good, and did you see that explosion? It was like I was actually there!” Unfortunately, over the past few years we’ve been taught that expectations rarely meet up with reality in the world of game trailers. But why is that?...

Unlocking your phone using your face is the new hotness, mostly thanks to Apple’s Face ID. Android has had a similar feature since 2015 called Trusted Face, but it’s not even close to the same thing. How Does Face ID Work? Apple put a lot of tech into getting Face ID to work in a way that was not only intuitive and accurate but also incredibly secure. In short, it creates a 3D map of your face by using a combination of infrared light and image capture....

Windows 11’s New Calculator App Microsoft has shown off all the details of its new Windows 11 calculator app, and it looks quite powerful. Starting with the app’s look, it features Microsoft’s app theme setting, which allows you to make the calculator look different from the rest of Windows 11. Of course, it also features the rounded edges that we’ve come to expect from Windows 11 applications. The new calculator features a standard calculator for all the basic math that looks like an upgraded version of the existing app....

The most exciting update announced by Google is the fact that your Chromebook’s camera will now function as a document scanner. Google said, “Have you ever wanted to use your Chromebook to share a physical document or image, but weren’t sure how without the help of a scanner? You can now use your Chromebook’s built-in camera to scan any document and turn it into a PDF or JPEG file.”...