Look, sometimes routers need to be rebooted. If you’re a Google Wifi user, you could go unplug all of your units—or you could just reboot them from your phone. RELATED: How to Pause Internet Access on Google WiFi The option of controlling nearly every aspect of your network from your phone is a godsend, especially when you have multiple Wifi units on your network. For example, I have three—the main one in the living room, one in the office, and one in the bedroom....

When you have to send someone a large image file through email, it’s a good idea to resize the image file to make it smaller before sending it. Outlook makes this easy and allows you to resize the image file as it’s sent. Some companies and email services still have small attachment limits. So, resizing images can avoid having your message bounced back to you. It’s also an easy way of resizing images for yourself....

Bookmarks are so last decade. If you find an article online that you want to save for later, stick it in Pocket–a free web service that saves articles and syncs them to all your devices, without ads or unnecessary formatting. You can even read them offline. Read it later services are plentiful, and while you may already have a favorite, our choice is Pocket, which just seems to do it all better than everything else....

Although it took a few years, WhatsApp now allows users to search for and send GIFs from within the app. Here’s how to do it. Open your WhatsApp chat with the person you want to send a GIF to, and tap the + icon in the bottom left. Next, select Photo & Video Library. If the GIF you want to send is already saved on your phone, you can select it from here and skip the next step....

Earlier this month, Google added a Goals feature to the Google Calendar apps for iOS and Android. Goals automatically finds free time in your calendar and schedules recurring events to help you achieve your goals. Here’s how to get it all set up. The Google Calendar app is installed by default on Android. If you use an iPad or iPhone, you can add your Gmail, contacts, and calendar to the built-in iOS apps, but you’re probably better served downloading the official Google Calendar app for its extra features, like reminders–and now, goals....

Though you might not know it yet, there’s a livestreaming revolution brewing just around the corner. As social media juggernauts like Twitter look past pre-recorded video and into the world of “live as it happens” streams, the apps that make it possible for users to instantly get moving images off their phones and into the ether are starting to flood in. Plus, with all the news of cops confiscating cell phones and deleting entire albums worth of evidence from the scene of the crime, nowadays it’s more important than ever to have a way to get an event out to the eyes of the world as quickly, safely, and effectively as possible....

To record audio or talk to people on the internet, you’ll have to turn on your Windows 10 or 11 PC’s built-in microphone (if it has one). You can activate it for all your apps or specific ones using Settings. We’ll show you how to do that. The good thing about Windows’ mic management is that you can allow and deny access to your mic to any app. This way, you can let your trusted apps use the mic while denying access to all other apps....

If you need to manipulate data in Google Sheets, the QUERY function can help! It brings powerful, database-style searching to your spreadsheet, so you can look up and filter your data in any format you like. We’ll walk you through how to use it. Using the QUERY Function The QUERY function isn’t too difficult to master if you’ve ever interacted with a database using SQL. The format of a typical QUERY function is similar to SQL and brings the power of database searches to Google Sheets....

Much has been made of Apple’s new Live Photos feature and with good reason, it’s really cool and a great way to preserve special memories. If you own an Apple Watch, you can view Live Photos and even turn them into watch faces. In order to view Live Photos on your Apple Watch, you first have to sync photos to it. We explain how to do that in great detail, but for the purposes of this article, we want to show you how to cut to the chase....

QR codes are plastered on advertisements, billboards, business windows, and products. They appear to be very popular among marketers, although it’s rare to see anyone actually scanning one. These barcodes can be captured with a smartphone camera — for example, a typical QR code may contain an URL. Scan the QR code with a mobile phone and you’ll be taken to the website the QR code specifies. What is a QR Code?...

So who is this “not quite a Mac Pro” for? What Is the Mac Studio? The Mac Studio sits somewhere between the Mac mini and Mac Pro. Those are two very different machines, with very different target audiences, not to mention form factors. But somehow the Mac Studio fits neatly into the chasm between them, offering serious performance in a relatively small desktop form factor. It’s the first seriously powerful desktop-class Mac that’s equipped with an Apple Silicon processor....

Building your own desktop isn’t as difficult as it looks—it’s often called “LEGO for adults.” And while that phrase might be a bit condescending (adults can enjoy LEGOs too, ya jerks), it’s not wrong. Even so, the sheer breadth of choices, options, and compatibility issues can be intimidating, especially for a first-time builder. Here’s a collection of online tools to help you make sure that process goes as smoothly as possible....

The Verge confirmed in its review of the new MacBook Air that the base model (8 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage) has a single NAND chip for internal storage, while the other storage capacities use two chips. That gives the new M2 MacBook Air slower read and write speeds than the old M1 Air — the same downgrade present on the new MacBook Pro. Dave2D on YouTube included more specific disk benchmarks in his video review....

Wi-Fi cameras are great for keeping yourself safe or just checking in on pets, but what happens if the Wi-Fi goes out? Does a Wi-Fi cam turn into just a…cam? RELATED: What You Should Know Before Buying Wi-Fi Cameras Convenience is the name of the game when it comes to Wi-Fi cameras. You can place them pretty much anywhere, as long as the power cord reaches an outlet. From there, they connect to your home’s Wi-Fi network, and the magic starts to happen....

What Is a Backhaul? The term backhaul is used across the telecommunications industry, broadly, to refer to the connections between the main network and the peripheral subnetworks. For instance, the link between your cellular provider’s main network and the local tower’s network near your house is a backhaul. Your phone talks to the local network maintained by the tower and then the equipment in the tower communicates over the backhaul back to the main network....

iOS 11 has a completely new Control Center, which squeezes in more settings onto one screen without needing to swipe back and forth. However, on top of what’s currently available in Control Center, there are even more settings that you can access from that screen with a simple 3D Touch or long press. RELATED: What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Available Now The new Control Center gives you quick access to Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Cellular toggles (although, beware about them actually working properly), do not disturb, music control, and more....

By default, programs’ title bars in Windows 10 are white. You can change the color of the active program window, but what about the title bars on inactive windows? No worries. There’s an easy registry tweak to solve that. Here’s what a normal background window looks like in Windows 10, with no color: When we’re done, it’ll look like the image at the top of this article, using the color of our choice....

Microsoft killed off the much-loved Windows Media Center years ago, which is bad enough for home theater PC enthusiasts. But it gets worse: you’ve also got a now-useless MCE remote gathering dust somewhere…or do you? Get that MCE remote out of the drawer, because it’s still useful. If you’ve already found an alternative to Windows Media Center, a free piece of software called Advanced MCE Remote Mapper Tool lets you remap the buttons on your remote to keys or keyboard shortcuts....

Why dig around for your phone or remote control when you could just control your TV from your wrist? Here’s how to set up your Apple Watch as a remote for your Apple TV. To add an Apple TV to your Apple Watch, first open the built-in Remote app on your Watch and then note the code that it gives you. From the settings menu, select “Remotes and Devices”....

Cookies are small files that websites put on your computer to store small bits of information. A cookie can keep you logged into a website by writing ID information to a cookie file. Cookies can also be used to store the items in your shopping cart. However, not all cookies are used for benign purposes. A lot of cookies are used to track your online activity. Ad servers send cookies along with ads to identify viewers and track their habits....