If you’re going to put an internet-connected thermostat in your house, you should do whatever you can to keep it secure. Here’s how to enable two-factor authentication on your Nest account to help thwart attackers. RELATED: What Is Two-Factor Authentication, and Why Do I Need It? As we’ve explained before, two-factor authentication involves using something you know—like a password—and something you have—like your phone—to log into an account. If an attacker wants to get access to your account, they’d need to know your password and have your phone, seriously decreasing the chances your account will get broken into....

Windows 10’s Creators Update adds themes to the Windows Store, making it easy to customize your desktop with new backgrounds, sounds, and colors. These are the same types of desktop themes originally offered in Windows 7. RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update How to Choose a Desktop Theme Head to Settings > Personalization > Themes to view your installed themes. Under “Apply a theme”, you’ll see the different installed themes you can select....

Previously mentioned Tasker is an Android automation powerhouse. We’ll show you how to export and import profiles so you don’t have to create them from scratch. We also have some for you to download and tweak to your heart’s extent. We’ve already gone through some of the basics of how Tasker works in How To Start Tweaking Your Android Phone With Tasker, so we’ll get right down to some of the more advanced stuff....

You’ve seen it. Maybe it was on an airplane, maybe it was at a friend’s house, but you saw people playing old Nintendo, Sega, or even PlayStation games on their computers. And yet, when you searched for those particular games in Steam, nothing comes up. What is this witchcraft? What you saw, my friend, is called emulation. It’s by no means new, but you shouldn’t feel bad for not knowing about it....

We’ve all had this happen: you start typing a URL in front of all your friends, only for them to see horrible auto-suggestions for sites from your history. Or maybe you incorrectly typee a URL one time and now it shows up every time. The good news is that there’s a really easy way to delete any suggestion from Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. RELATED: How to Enable Private Browsing on Any Web Browser...

When working with decimal values, you may want to round those numbers up or down. Most often it’s necessary with values containing many decimal points. Google Sheets gives you handy functions for rounding your numbers the way you want. Use the ROUND Function in Google Sheets The simplest function in Google Sheets for this task is the ROUND function. The syntax for the function is ROUND(value, places) where value is required, and places is optional....

A picture password is an alternative to typing regular passwords when signing into Windows 10. Setting one up is pretty easy, and we’re going to walk you through it. Windows 8 and Windows 10 each brought in new ways of signing into your account. You now have options like signing in using a PIN or a picture password built into your basic account options. With the right add-on hardware, you can use Windows Hello to sign on with a fingerprint or even your webcam....

You’re busily sharing vacation photos in an iCloud Photo Stream when somebody announces they don’t have an iPhone and can’t participate. What do you do? Like just everything Apple, iCloud Photo sharing is both super simple to use when everyone is using Apple products and also propriety. That means your pals with Android phones and the like just aren’t going to tap into the full iCloud photo sharing experience. You can, somewhat, share the experience but you’ll end up with a situation like you do with iMessage—where some people have green bubbles, some have blue, and it’s the difference between enjoying the iMessage group chat experience or getting left out....

Your local internet service provider probably doesn’t have the fastest DNS servers. That can slow you down, since your browser needs to look up the IP address of every web site you try to view. Here is how to switch to either OpenDNS or Google DNS for faster browsing times. RELATED: What Is DNS, and Should I Use Another DNS Server? DNS servers work by matching the domain names you type into apps—like web browsers—to their associated IP address....

Web apps have been replacing desktop apps for everything from email and document-editing to playing videos and music. You don’t have to keep your web apps confined to a browser window—they can become first-class citizens on your desktop. Modern browsers allow web apps to have their own place on your taskbar, function as default applications, and even run offline and in the background. Web Apps: Out of the Browser and Onto the Taskbar RELATED: How to Turn Any Web Page Into a Web App on a Chromebook...

Windows 10 Enterprise offers quite a few exclusive features that aren’t available in the Professional edition of Windows. You can get these features without reinstalling Windows, and without even having an Enterprise disc. In fact, you don’t even need your own Windows 10 Enterprise key to perform this upgrade. How This Works Why not just buy a product key for Windows 10 Enterprise? Well, Microsoft doesn’t even sell those to us mere mortals!...

Without looking, can you recite your partner’s license plate number? What about your car’s VIN? There are a lot of important pieces of information about the cars in your family that you probably can’t recall off the top of your head. Here’s how to store and organize that information with Dash, plus a little help from an OBD-II adapter. Dash is a useful little app that can store information about your car, track your driving, and diagnose check engine lights for you....

If you’re a long-time Windows user, you’re probably familiar with service packs, but Microsoft seems done with them. Windows 10’s first big update — the “November update” — is a “build” rather than a service pack. Windows 10’s future big updates will be builds, too. Microsoft actually gave up on service packs years ago. The last service pack released for a consumer version of Windows was Windows 7 Service Pack 1 back in 2011....

The app list on the Windows 10 Start menu is presented alphabetically, and grouped by letter. But scrolling through it can be tiring. Click the letter at the top of any group to reveal a quick index for jumping to any section of the list. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update brought a number of changes to the Start menu. One of those is doing away with the separate page for your list of apps and instead presenting them right on the main Start menu....

Some eligible T-Mobile users will soon be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi on their United flights. The carrier already offered free connectivity on select flights from American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and Delta, and United is the latest one to join the list. If you wanted to book flights on United, and you’d love to take advantage of some free Wi-Fi, the perk will be available this fall. The United Express fleet will not be eligible initially, but United Airlines says that availability for these flights will “soon follow....

Over the years, the market has somewhat matured, and a bevy of different options have sprouted up. They’re each designed for different use cases and tastes, so it’s important to keep in mind exactly what you’re looking for. Size is perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind. If you want something that can charge your iPhone from zero to 100 percent more than once, you’ll want to shop for packs that are 5,000mAh or more....

Let’s be honest: Modern web browsers are all pretty solid. Even Microsoft Edge is much better than older versions of Internet Explorer. But we believe Google Chrome is still the best web browser for most people. The Best Overall for Most People: Google Chrome Overall, we prefer Google Chrome. To start, it just feels snappier than other browsers like Firefox and Edge, although Edge has improved somewhat since Windows 10’s release....

Recently, popular photographer Trey Ratcliff said he’s done buying DSLR cameras because mirrorless cameras are the future. Let’s take a look at what these cameras are, and see if Trey is onto something, or just full of hot air. Today, we’ll be learning a bit about the history of cameras, what “mirrored” cameras are, and how this new generation of cameras fits into the history of photography and the development of better and better equipment....

If we need to remove the side panel on our desktop computers, we usually do not give much thought to the series of flexible spring tabs around the outer edge of the case, but what are they actually there for? 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....

If you’ve ever been on the hunt for the perfect font, there are two terms you’ve probably noticed—“serif” and “sans serif.” Knowing what these terms mean will help you better understand what you’re looking for. Fonts and Typefaces First, let’s briefly talk about the terms we use to describe the look of text. What most people refer to as a “font” is actually the “typeface.” For example, the classic Times New Roman is a typeface....