To provide your Google Home with even more capabilities, you can connect a few different smarthome devices and control them using nothing but your voice. Here’s how to set it up. RELATED: How to Set Up Google Home Update: Google’s app has changed a bit. See Google’s website for the most up-to-date instructions. The first thing you’ll want to do is open up the Google Home app on your smartphone and slide open the menu on the left-hand side and choose “Home Control....

LinkedIn allows you to delete your account, completely erasing your profile from the website. If you’d rather leave your account open and just make those annoying emails stop, you can put a stop to LinkedIn’s emails—but this is the truly nuclear option. What You Need to Know RELATED: How to Stop LinkedIn’s Annoying Emails for Good Once you delete your account, you’ll lose access to all the data in your account....

Unless you’re working in the accounting department, you really don’t need the Caps Lock key—and let’s face it: you’re probably not going to be using a Mac if you work in accounting, so all the Caps Lock key ever does for you is ACCIDENTALLY MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU’RE YELLING. Here’s how to disable the Caps Lock key entirely, or remap it to something else. Start off by heading into System Preferences, and then click on the Keyboard icon in the list....

Today’s tip is brought to us thanks to How-To Geek reader Konc. First, use the Alt+D shortcut key sequence to move the focus to the location bar… and keep the Alt key held down. Now simply hit the Enter key (since you’ve got the Alt key held down). This will open up the current URL into a new tab, basically duplicating the tab. Once you’ve done it once or twice, you’ll realize that it’s extremely easy to use—just use Alt, D, Enter, and the tab is duplicated....

Two-factor authentication is a more secure way of protecting your online accounts. You really should enable it on every service that offers it, and here’s how to turn it on for Instagram. RELATED: What Is Two-Factor Authentication, and Why Do I Need It? Two-factor authentication is so named because it relies on two separate factors to verify your identity to an online service—something you know (your password) and something you have (your phone, tablet, or PC)....

It’s bad enough that your kid never goes to sleep, but now your Mac is doing the same thing! Sure, it may not be crying, but your Mac just sits there, awake, without giving you any indication as to why. What’s going on? It could be anything. A file transfer or backup may be ongoing, or you might have prevented your Mac from sleeping only to forget later on. The only real way to find out is the open the Terminal, which you can find by using Spotlight or by heading to Applications > Utilities in the Finder....

Whether you’re citing content that requires footnotes or discussing chemical or mathematical formulas, knowing how to use superscript or subscript text is extremely important. Here’s how to format text in Google Docs or Slides using a couple of different methods. For this guide, we will be using Google Docs for the entirety of our examples. However, the methods can be used for Google Slides as well. How to Format Superscript or Subscript Fire up your browser, head over to Google Docs or Slides, and open up a document....

Spotting things in a spreadsheet can be much quicker when you use colors that jump off the screen. With conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel, you can make finding blank cells or formula errors easier. How to Automatically Highlight Blank Cells in Excel When you have a spreadsheet full of data that you expect to fill every cell, you can easily overlook cells that are left empty. And a lack of data can be just as detrimental as incorrect data....

Have you switched to Google Chrome from another web browser? Or maybe you’ve moved from using Chrome on one device to another? Either way, you might want to import your old bookmarks into Chrome. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Back Up and Restore Your Chrome Bookmarks Locally What to Know About Importing Bookmarks With Chrome In Chrome’s desktop version, you can directly import bookmarks from most major web browsers, including Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Internet Explorer....

If you’d like to use your Windows 11 laptop with an external monitor, mouse, and keyboard, it’s often nice to keep the lid closed. Here’s how to close the lid without putting your PC to sleep. First, open Windows Settings by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or you can right-click the Start button and select “Settings.” In Settings, click the search bar and type “lid,” then click the “Change what closing the lid does” result that appears beneath it....

Like other modern web browsers, Apple’s Safari has a few features that send your data over the Internet. For example, Safari sends all your searches to Apple with the default settings. We don’t recommend you disable all these features, as they do useful things. But we’ll explain what the various options do so you can make informed decisions. If you just want to browse privately without leaving tracks on your own PC, open a private browsing window by clicking File > New Private Browsing Window....

If you want to make your home a little smarter, but aren’t sure where exactly to start, we’ve got you covered. Here are the best starter smarthome gadgets, and how to find ones that will work well together in your house (or apartment). RELATED: Are My Smarthome Devices Secure? Ask Yourself: What Do You Want to Do? Once you’ve answered those questions, you’ll have a better idea of what kind of things to look for as you shop....

Need to shrink that large logo that has its own layer on your photo? Make use of Adobe Photoshop’s various options to resize your layers. We’ll show you how to do just that. You could resize a whole image using Paint 3D or another common photo editing application, but a more powerful tool like Photoshop gives you finer control over the different elements in your photo. Photoshop in fact gives you multiple options to resize layers....

If your Windows 10 user account is currently a Microsoft account (by your choice or because you got, one way or another, roped into it) it’s easy to revert it back to a local account if you know where to look. Read on as we show you how. Update: Windows 10’s interface has changed a bit, and Windows 10’s installer is pushing Microsoft accounts harder than ever. Follow these instructions to switch to a local user account on the latest version of Windows 10....

Google is a powerful tool, but you’re missing out on a lot of that power if you just type words into it. Master Google and find the best results faster with these search tricks. Whether you’re an inexperienced user or a seasoned professional, you’ll probably find at least one search operator you weren’t aware of here. Many of Google’s search operators aren’t very well-known. Exact Words and Phrases One of the most basic and widely known search tricks is using quotation marks to search for an exact phrase....

When you’re creating graphs or charts in Google Sheets, you don’t need to stick with the default layout. Google Sheets will try to pick your X- and Y-axes automatically, which you might wish to change or switch around. To do this, you’ll need to open your Google Sheets spreadsheet and select your chart or graph. With your chart selected, click the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner and then select “Edit The Chart” from the drop-down menu....

PayPal is a useful service for sending and receiving money, and it’s just about everywhere…at least, on the internet. But what if you have a bunch of money in your PayPal account and want to use it somewhere PayPal isn’t offered…like an actual brick and mortar store? You can transfer money to your bank, of course, but the three- to four-day waiting period to transfer funds isn’t very convenient, and it isn’t always an option—especially if you’re a freelancer that gets paid via PayPal and you have bills to pay....

The web can be an ugly place. Sites with useful information can also be cluttered with sidebars, advertisements, and popups asking you to subscribe to a newsletter. That’s what makes Safari’s Reader View so nice. This feature extracts all the text and images from any page, then slides over whatever you’re reading with only those things. It’s a quick way to read anything without the clutter, and you can even customize the colors and fonts....

If you’re looking for a unique way to represent your data in Microsoft Excel, consider using icon sets. Similar to color scales, icon sets take a range of values and use visual effects to symbolize those values. With a conditional formatting rule, you can display icons like traffic lights, stars, or arrows based on the values that you enter. For example, you can show an empty star for a value of 10, a partially filled star for 30, and a completed filled star for 50....

If you use Calibre, the veritable Swiss Army knife of ebook management, you might not realize it can also view and organize digital comic books—though it’s a little janky out of the box. How Calibre Handles Comics RELATED: How To Organize Your Ebook Collection with Calibre A fresh installation of Calibre handles ebooks right out of the gate, without any tweaking. Throw some EPUB, MOBI, or other ebook formats at it, and it will automatically open all of them with the internal ebook reader packaged right with Calibre....