If you just bought smart bulbs for your home, read further to know how you can connect and control the light bulb using Google Home voice commands. Content Connect Compatible Smart Bulb to Google Home Google Home connected to your home WiFi can control almost all the smart devices. However, there are only a few smart bulb lights that come with official compatibility for Google Home speakers, like C by GE....
So when you’re at a desk, it pays to hook up a large monitor to make things a bit easier. And you can even carry on using the laptop screen for extra desktop real-estate. An increasingly popular option is a portable monitor which you can carry around with your laptop and power from a USB-C port. Lenovo’s M14 – shown above – is a good example, and isn’t horribly expensive at $199 (around £220 in the UK)....
This way you don’t have to remember to manually create restore points. Because really, not enough people use this excellent tool which, figuratively speaking, reverses time. A Restore Point is kind of a record of your OS at a particular time. Using it, Windows can restore itself to a previous point in time when you didn’t have the problem you’re currently facing. This is why it’s always ideal to create a system restore point before you install or uninstall something that could potentially cause problems....
However, one area that is often left relatively untouched is the Start Menu. It’s probably the first thing you click on once your PC or laptop has booted up, but many choose to stick with Microsoft’s default layout. If you’d like to spice up what you see when you click the Windows icon, here are five aspects of the Windows 10 Start Menu that you can customise. Resize the Start Menu By default the Start Menu takes up about almost half of the screen....
System Restore is one the most useful features of Windows. As part of Windows System Protection, it can resurrect a PC that’s stopped working, by returning it to a state when it was known to be working. These states are known as system restore points and can be created automatically during software installations or configuration changes, or manually by the user at any time. Also see: How to use System Restore to fix a Windows 8 PC or laptop However, these system restore points can contain a lot of data that could eventually start to fill up your system drive – especially if you have a lower capacity drive such as an SSD....
Downloading video from certain services might be against their terms of use, so do support your favourite creators by watching adverts before their videos wherever possible. Most people ask how to download YouTube video, but it’s really the same process no matter which website the video is on. And most video downloader apps and websites support all the popular video sites – they’re not exclusive to just one site....
Let’s get started. Enable Flip to Shhh on Google Pixel Google Pixel phones have the Flip to Shhh feature inbuilt. Like many other Pixel features, including squeeze and shake, the Flip to Shhh is a gesture, and you can find the setting on the gestures settings page. From now on, you can simply flip your phone face down to silence it. This is much more useful when the morning alarm annoys you, compared to smashing your phone or fiddling with the on-screen controls while you’re struggling to wake up....
In this post, we’re going to show you how to enable the Google Chrome Live Captions feature and get live subtitles for all media playing. Enable Live Captions on Google Chrome First, make sure you’re on the latest version of Chrome whether you use Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS, or any other desktop OS. Google’s new Live Captions are available on Google Chrome browser version 89 and above only. Once turned on, Chrome will download the speech recognition data....
How to Enable Motion Detection on Alexa Devices You can select it again and switch it to Off if you need. If you turn off motion detection on the device, features that use motion detection don’t function as intended. Customize Alexa Motion Detection Sensitivity You have some options to customize the motion detection on the sensitivity. you can adjust the motion detection sensitivity on this screen. This will give you additional control over the sensitivity and range you can set from this screen for the Alexa Ultrasound Detention....
See also: Quick fixes for common Windows 10 problems Disabling the Lock Screen in Windows 10 Turning off the lock screen involves creating, or editing, a file in the registry. While this might sound a bit intimidating, in reality it’s actually a straightforward process. To begin hold down the Windows key and press R, then in the box that opens up type regedit and press enter. Now you’ll see a file tree appear....
How to get found online: Search engines First up, this isn’t an article explaining every last detail about search engine optimisation (SEO). There are entire books on the subject, and it is well worth reading up on SEO to more fully understand it. Here, we’ll explain the basic principles of how to ensure your website gets found by customers. Most search engines will automatically pick up your site, so there’s no need to manually add it using their online forms....
One of the quickest ways to find out your number is to ring another phone that you can access. So long as you haven’t chosen to withhold your number, it will be displayed on the other phone’s screen as an incoming call. If the other phone already has your details stored as a contact your name might appear instead, but a quick visit to the contacts app and a search for your name should bring up all your contact information, including your number....
Twitter is celebrating its eighth anniversary by allowing everyone to view their first Twitter postings. You can find out what anybody on Twitter first posted. Want to know how your heroes got started on Twitter? Here’s how to find out. We’ll also show you how you can read your old Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. We also tell you why you should know what you posted long ago on Twitter....
Luckily a damaged screen doesn’t mean you need a new phone, as there are a few different options available to you depending on how extensive the damage is. Is your iPhone feeling slower than usual? Check here to see if Apple is slowing down your phone. How to fix your phone screen Step one First of all, assess the damage. Carefully look around your phone to make sure you have a good idea of the extent of the break, ideally in properly lit conditions and on a solid surface....
Apple Music has many things going for it, especially the audio quality. There’s no official Apple Music app for Windows PC, though. But if you want to listen to high-quality music on Apple Music using your PC, there are many ways. Listen to Apple Music on Windows Using iTunes iTunes might be dead in Apple’s ecosystem, but it still lives on Windows. If you’ve ever used it, though, you would know it’s not the best thing to happen to Windows....
If you have been waiting to get the Snapchat dark mode, we will take you through the steps to enabling it on your phone. How to Make Your Snapchat Dark Mode on iPhone Snapchat uses a light mode for its Android and iPhone apps by default. You can, however, switch the Snapchat to the dark theme permanently or you can switch to light/dark to match the iPhone settings. Let’s see how to enable Snapchat dark theme on your iPhone....
With delicate electrical components such as RAM, graphics cards and CPUs, caution and delicate handling are always watchwords. CPUs in particular can get fried very easily by errant static electricity. However, avoiding this potentially expensive disaster is a simple matter of properly grounding yourself before handling any components. Read on to find out how. For more CPU guides, check out our guide on how to monitor CPU temperature, or our comparison of AMD vs Intel: which processor is best?...
“If you’re a Windows Phone customer and love to try the latest stuff before anyone else, or a Developer or IT Pro who works with Windows Phones, joining the Windows Insider program and trying out this build may be right for you. You’ll be getting an insider’s view and getting builds that normally would have only been available to Microsoft engineers in the past,” said Microsoft in a blog post....
Your washing machine is one of your priciest home appliances. It’s also one of the items you’d most struggle to do without. So, we’ve got some tips to help you ensure that you never have to. Just a general note of caution to kick things off: before you go digging around into hoses and filters and wandering feet, unplug your machine from the electrical supply. It’s safer that way. The other thing to bear in mind is that if you’re in doubt about anything to do with your machine, check the instruction manual....
In this tutorial, photographer and illustrator Tigz Rice shows you how to use the Render Flames tool to add a fire to an unlit fireplace in a digital composite. Tigz also provides a wide range of tips and techniques to blend the flames into your artwork and create a realistic glow. We’ve used Adobe Photoshop to complete this process, which is available separately or as part of Adobe Creative Cloud....
