If you only want a small section of your Nest Cam’s field of view to be subject to motion alerts, you create “activity zones.” That way, you’ll only receive notifications when motion has been detected only in a certain area—like your driveway, for instance. RELATED: How to Set Up the Nest Cam Most of the Nest Cam’s features can be set up from within the Nest app on your smartphone or tablet....
With Yahoo suffering massive data breaches and selling itself to Verizon, you may want to delete that old Yahoo account. If you still have important data in your account, you can download much of it before you delete it, too. First: Download Your Yahoo Emails and Other Data Delete your Yahoo account and Yahoo will delete all the data associated with it, including your Yahoo emails, contacts, and calendar events....
By default, when you select an email message in Outlook, it automatically opens in the reading pane on the right. Even if you don’t actually click on an email, the first email in the first account is opened in the reading pane automatically. Hiding the reading pane used to be critical for protecting yourself from potentially malicious code in email messages. However, Outlook has incorporated more safety measures when it comes to attachments in emails:...
Last week we showed you how to extend your network without wires, this week we’re looking at how you can use use an existing hardwire network to easily and quickly extend your wireless network using simple access points. After we published our guide How To Extend Your Wireless network with Tomato-Powered Routers, we received a variety of reader questions regarding other tips and tricks one could use to extend a wireless network....
Are you new to the Animal Crossing series? Are you finding yourself behind when it comes to progression, while your friends are flaunting newly decorated homes? If you’re lost on what to do, here are a few ways to get started! Getting Started on Your Island Timmy and Tommy, two non-player characters (NPC) introduced when you first start the game, will help you set up your island. You’ll be prompted to create your character, choose a hemisphere that will impact the starting season in your game, and choose a randomly generated map....
Smart plugs are everywhere nowadays, but if you want one that comes with a physical remote control, Lutron’s Caseta Plug-In Lamp Dimmer is a smart plug to consider. Here’s how to set it up. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Lutron Caseta Dimmer Switch Starter Kit Lutron is the king of dimmer switches—in fact, they invented them. And the Caseta lineup is great for those who want a bit of smarts in their lights as well....
Windows informs you a program has stopped responding, you opt to close the program and nothing happens, you try to terminate it in Task Manager and nothing happens, and there you are, stuck with a failed but unslayable program. What can you do? Read on as we help an HTG reader slay his dragon. Forced into using the app and unable to kill it when it misbehaves? That’s beyond frustrating....
If you frequently use a networked drive (or “share”) with Windows 11, you can map it to a drive letter in File Explorer to make it appear more like a local drive and quickly access it in the future. Here’s how to do it. First, open File Explorer. If you don’t have a shortcut to File Explorer in your taskbar, right-click the Start button and select “File Explorer.” In a File Explorer window, click the ellipses button (three dots) in the toolbar, then select “Map Network Drive” in the menu that appears....
Sometimes you just don’t want to be bothered when you’re at home, so here’s how to temporarily mute your SkyBell HD, so it won’t chime if someone rings your doorbell. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the SkyBell HD Video Doorbell Whether you have a baby napping or it’s just late at night and you don’t want hooligans ringing your doorbell while you’re trying to sleep, this is a great feature to have on a smart doorbell....
Protecting individual cells in Google Sheets is a great way to prevent data in your spreadsheet from getting changed—accidentally or intentionally—by anyone viewing the sheet. Fortunately, Sheets provides a handy tool to prevents people from altering cells in your document. Protecting Cells in Google Sheets One of the best features of Google Sheets (and all the other Google apps) is the ability for anyone with edit access to collaborate on documents in the cloud....
Windows 10 automatically installs updates in the background. Most of the time, this is good, but sometimes you’ll get an update that breaks things. In that case, you’ll need to uninstall that particular update. Windows 10 is more aggressive about updating than previous versions. For the most part, this is good, since way too many people never bothered installing updates—even critical security updates. Still, there are lots of PCs and configurations out there, and an occasional updated that messes up your system can slip through....
Apple Maps has gotten decidedly better since its infamous unveiling a few years ago. Here’s a feature you may not have noticed: you can view a map with public transit routes or with satellite images. Here’s the default view as shown on an iPad. You can do all usual things like zooming and turning as well as searching for a specific place or address. Tap the “i” symbol in the upper-right corner of the Maps window....
If you have ever connected to a Wi-Fi network from your Windows 11 PC, your PC has saved that network’s password. You can view these saved Wi-Fi passwords using multiple ways, and we’ll show you how. RELATED: How to See All Your Saved Wi-Fi Passwords on Windows 10 See Password for the Currently-Connected Wi-Fi Network To view the password for the Wi-Fi network that you are currently connected to, use an option in Windows 11’s Settings app....
Want something a little more ephemeral than iMessage’s “Invisible Ink” allows for? Confide helps you send self destructing messages that are viewed once and then gone forever. How Confide Works in iMessage As we highlighted in our iOS 10 features overview and then dove into with our guide on iMessage apps, iMessage now has an app ecosystem that’s like a miniature version of the iOS App Store. App developers can create standalone and helper apps that inject additional functionality right into iMessage....
Using Windows 10 and Windows 11’s split screen feature, you can use multiple apps at once on your screen. You can pin apps to the sides as well as corners of your screen. We’ll show you how to use this productive Windows feature. There are two ways you can split the screen on your PC. One way is to drag and drop your app windows, and the other one is to use a keyboard shortcut....
Dropbox, by default, syncs everything to all of your computers. But maybe that’s not what you want. If you have Dropbox installed on multiple computers, or share an account with family members, there might be folders synced to the service that you don’t want on all of your machines—especially if you’re low on hard drive space. Happily, Dropbox lets you choose which folders sync to which computers. It’s called Selective Sync, but to find it you’ll have to dig a little bit....
Apple’s top end MacBook Pros come with two graphics chips: an integrated Intel Iris Pro chip and a discrete graphics card with more power. That way, you can use the integrated chip when you need better battery life, and the more powerful graphics card when you’re editing video or playing games. Apple has obviously thought of this, and which graphics card you’re computer is using is determined by a dynamic switching algorithm....
Microsoft has downplayed the Xbox One’s TV features since its launch, but the Xbox One still offers useful TV integration. It’s even been enhanced: You no longer need a cable or satellite subscription to watch TV. You can watch TV for free with an antenna. If you have an Xbox One, you should seriously consider setting up the TV integration. Microsoft clearly spent a lot of time on this stuff....
If you use the Windows command prompt often throughout your work day, you may want or need to periodically clear the command history. Is it possible to do so while the command prompt is still open? 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....
You can actually remap your keys the hard way using a Registry hack like the one we cover for disabling your Caps Lock key. But why use the hard way, when there’s an easier—and free—way. That’s where SharpKeys comes into the picture. It’s a small utility that manages all those Registry keys and values for you, giving you a simple interface for mapping one key to another—or even turning keys off—without you having to bother with the Registry at all....
