Why manually dim the lights during movie time when your media server can do it for you? With a little tweaking, you can set Plex Media Server to automatically adjust your Hue smart bulbs with custom lighting schemes for movie time, intermission, and the end of the film. We’re pretty big media center fans here at How-To Geek, and we’re passionate about good lighting, especially during movies—you are watching TV with a bias light, right?...
Multitasking was introduced in iOS 9, allowing you to use multiple apps at once on an iPad. There are three different types of multitasking—Slide-Over, Split View, and Picture in Picture—and they are all on by default. RELATED: How to Use Multiple Apps at Once on an iPad The Slide-Over feature allows you to interact with a second app in a pane on the right side of the screen (in portrait or landscape mode) and the Split View feature allows you to drag the divider between the apps and interact with both apps (only on newer iPads, such as the iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4, in landscape mode)....
Though it’s less common these days, many sites still use JavaScript or an HTML attribute to disable right-clicking on their pages. It’s a practice we hope goes away, but in the meantime, it’s not too hard to get around those restrictions. RELATED: Prevent Annoying Websites From Messing With the Right-Click Menu in Firefox Many of these sites seem under the impression that disabling the context menu in your browser is a good way to keep you from stealing their content....
While Apple has made serious improvements to the HomeKit smarthome framework, there are still more than a few ghosts in the machine. Let’s look at how to banish the extremely frustrating “Address is not registered with iCloud” error to get your system back up and running. What’s the Deal With This Error? Errors are always a hassle. They’re arcane, you can’t understand what’s causing it, and you have to Google around until you find the answer....
If you’ve accidentally turned on Caps Lock too many times–we’ve all been there–here is a solution. You can add an indicator to the top panel that shows the status of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock keys, that notifys you when one of them is pressed. RELATED: How to Disable or Reassign The Caps Lock Key on Any Operating System Sure, you could disable or reassign the Caps Lock key, but if you use it occasionally, this is the next best thing....
Your gas light comes on right after you pass your favorite gas station on the way home. That’s okay, you’ll fill up in the morning, right? Except you know you’re going to forget. If you’re using Dash with an OBD-II adapter, you can set a reminder so you know when you need to fill up. For this, we’re going to use a service called IFTTT (If This Then That). If you haven’t used IFTTT before, check out our guide to getting started for info on how to create an account and connect apps....
Intel’s integrated graphics have improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years, but they still aren’t as speedy as dedicated NVIDIA or AMD graphics hardware. Here’s how to squeeze some more gaming performance out of your Intel HD Graphics. Onboard graphics like Intel HD Graphics aren’t designed for high-end gaming, so expect to turn they settings way down if you want to try playing modern games. But a surprising number of games are playable, even if you have a low-powered laptop with Intel HD Graphics built-in....
It may seem rudimentary, but if you’re new to Windows–or just upgrading from Windows 7–the simple option to sign out of your account is a bit hidden in Windows 8 and 10. And even we geeks can be baffled at times, especially when Microsoft decides to hide common features away in new places. You can still sign out of Windows from the Start menu; it’s just not part of the Power options any more....
By now, you’ve probably seen the viral tweet about the woman who turned herself into a potato during a Teams meeting and couldn’t turn the filter off again. Here’s how you can make yourself a potato in your next meeting using Snap Camera. In case you haven’t seen this story, here’s the original tweet. — Rachele with an e but pronounced Rachel (@PettyClegg) March 30, 2020 We wouldn’t recommend doing this in a professional video conference, but if you do want to look like a potato when you’re in a Teams meeting—for some reason—this is how....
By default, the Echo doesn’t provide any kind of audio signal before or after you give commands. It’s one of those things that’s really useful, but (for some reason) it’s ever-so-slightly buried within the Alexa app. Start by opening up the Alexa app on your phone and tap on the menu button in the top-left corner of the screen. Tap on “Settings”. Select your Echo at the top of the screen (or if you have multiple Echos, select one that you want to enable the feature on)....
If you’re trying to save space on your system drive—say, if you have a space-starved solid state drive—moving Windows’ temporary files to another hard drive makes sense. Here’s how to do it. If you have a small SSD, it’s nice being able to free up as much space on it as you can. We’ve looked at how to move your personal folders to another drive and how to move your OneDrive folder (or Dropbox folder) before, but the Windows temporary folder can also be pretty a pretty big space consumer....
Would you like to know how many days old are you today? Can you tell what will be the date 78 days from now? How many days are left till Christmas? How many days have passed since your last birthday? All these questions have their answers hidden within Windows! Curious? Keep reading to see how you can answer these questions in an instant using Windows’ built-in utility called ‘Calculator.’...
Playing music in your Zoom meetings is easy and fun. You can pick a music track from anywhere on your computer or the web and play it during your meetings. Here’s how to do it. To use the music play option in Zoom, you will utilize the screen sharing option, though you won’t actually share your screen. RELATED: How to Set Up a Zoom Meeting Play Audio During a Zoom Meeting If you offer fitness meetings, gaming sessions, or anything similar, music can greatly enhance your virtual meeting experience....
Every time you turn the thing on, however, Fandango’s Movie Store and TV Store is up in your face, taking a prominent place in the menu beside core settings like “Channels” and “Settings.” There’s also a “News” section for some reason. Can you get rid of these things? Yes, though the setting is just slightly obscured. From the home menu, head to Settings > Home Screen. From there you can turn off both the Fandango stores and the News section by toggling them from “Show” to “Hide....
So you accidentally made a vertical video. Annoying, especially when the footage itself is clearly supposed to be horizontal. What’s a well-meaning videographer to do? RELATED: How to Rotate a Video on iPhone You can rotate a video right from your iPhone, but if you’ve already transferred it to your Mac, QuickTime can do the job in a flash. First, open your video with QuickTime. This program is capable of opening the videos created by most cameras and phones (the video used in this demonstration came from an Android phone, for example....
Docker’s normally used to containerise background applications and CLI programs. You can also use it to run graphical programs though! You can either use an existing X Server, where the host machine is already running a graphical environment, or you can run a VNC server within the container. First it’s important to understand what Docker actually does. A Docker “container” is a form of encapsulation which seems to be superficially similar to a virtual machine....
Thinking of giving an old hard drive to a friend, or taking it to be recycled? Be careful. When you delete a file on a mechanical drive, it’s not really gone—at least, not physically. Your file system marks the spot taken up by the file as “free space,” which is why you can sometimes recover deleted files. RELATED: Why Deleted Files Can Be Recovered, and How You Can Prevent It...
Most streaming boxes have a huge inconvenience: you have to sign in to each and every app separately using your cable subscription credentials. But with a new feature in tvOS 10, you can sign in once and be done with it. Here’s how to set it up on the Apple TV. RELATED: How to Set Up and Configure Your Apple TV Single Sign-On, as it’s called, sounds really convenient (and it is!...
Mobile virtual reality is the new hotness out right now—phones that users can strap into headsets and get a real, genuine VR experience are a great way to see what VR’s all about without the huge price tag. And when it comes down to it, Google nailed it with Daydream View. RELATED: How to Set Up and Use Samsung Gear VR We’ll look at how to set up Daydream View in a second, but first, let’s talk about which phones are compatible and how Daydream View works....
The Canary home security camera is an easy-to-use camera that connects directly to your Wi-Fi network (or over ethernet) and lets you see what’s going on while you’re away from home. Here’s how to set it up and get started with it. While the Nest Cam is one of the most popular Wi-Fi cams available, the Canary is a popular option that comes with some pretty cool extra features—like temperature monitoring, or the ability to provide humidity and air quality levels in the room that it’s in....
