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The Nest Hello Video Doorbell’s theme setting changes the sounds your doorbell makes when it rings, as well as your visitor announcements on Google Assistant devices. When the holiday is over, Nest will default back to a traditional “Ding Dong” theme automatically. To get started, open the Nest app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device, and then select your doorbell from your list of devices. Tap the gear icon at the top right to open the video doorbell settings....

If you use a recent version of Microsoft Word included as part of a Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) subscription or as a standalone app purchased from the Mac App Store or Microsoft Store on Windows, it’s easy to keep it up-to-date. Here’s how. How to Update Word 365 on Windows If you’re running Microsoft Word as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription, it’s easy to update the app....

Windows 10’s handwriting keyboard allows you to enter text into any application with a pen or other stylus. It even works on old desktop applications. RELATED: How to Use (or Disable) the Windows Ink Workspace on Windows 10 This feature is separate from the Windows Ink Workspace, which directs you to applications with special support for pen input. The handwriting keyboard allows you to use a stylus in any application....

iOS 10 made quite a few changes to notifications, and how you interact with them. Let’s take some time today to introduce and explore these changes. RELATED: The Best New Features in iOS 10 (and How to Use Them) The most obvious change is the way notifications look. For example, in the notification center, you see that they’re now a pleasing higher contrasting white with black text, and thus easier to read....

How to Use Speakerphone or Headphones To take a phone call while you do something else on your iPhone, you have to be able to speak to the other person on the line. You can use the speakerphone mode to do this—just tap “Speaker” to activate it. If you have AirPods or Beats headphones with in-ear detection, simply put them in your ears, and your iPhone takes care of the rest....

Solid state drives are the future! Actually, they’re the present. While SSDs were a luxury for computer buyers a few years ago, now they’re more or less standard unless you’re going super-cheap or storing multiple terabytes of data, where conventional hard drives still rule. But if you’re looking to update to a super-speedy flash storage drive, is right now a good time? Short answer: No, unless you can find a really good sale....

How Omnidirectional Treadmills Work The treadmill design everyone’s familiar with uses a belt stretched between two rollers. Exercise treadmills are usually powered by a motor so that the user can adjust the walking or running speed, but they can also be passive, driven by friction from your feet. Omnidirectional treadmills, on the other hand, allow the user to walk or run in any direction. They all look pretty different, though; there isn’t a single universal design for omnidirectional treadmills....

If you’re a Mac-using professional photographer, you’re probably already paying $10 a month for Adobe Creative Cloud’s Photography plan, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom. But what about the rest of us, who occasionally edit images but not enough to justify a $120 annual bill? Are there any free Mac image editors? A few, but none without compromise. Most of the options either don’t offer that much power, or don’t have the best user interfaces....

Play Ambient Sounds Sometimes, all you need to unwind is to shut your eyes and get some background noise going. If that’s the case, saying “Hey Google, help me relax” or “OK Google, play ambient noise” will get Google to start playing one of the following ambient sounds from your linked speaker. If you would like to specify which background noise you want to hear, you can choose from any of them....

ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859… You may have seen these strange monikers floating around, but what do they actually mean? Read on as we explain what character encoding is and how these acronyms relate to the plain text we see on screen. Fundamental Building Blocks When we talk about written language, we talk about letters being the building blocks of words, which then build sentences, paragraphs, and so on. Letters are symbols which represent sounds....

What Is a File? When it comes to computers, a file is an abstract idea. It’s a conceptual object — more precisely, a group of related computer records treated as a single unit. The method by which computer operating systems store and retrieve files from disk is called a file system. Files keep related data together so it isn’t lost or disorganized, and so you can find it when you need to read or process it....

IPv4 addresses on the public Internet are running low. Microsoft paid $7.5 million for Nortel’s 666,624 IP addresses when Nortel went bankrupt in 2011 – that’s over $8 an IP address. IPv4 has technical problems, and IPv6 is the solution. Unfortunately, deployment of IPv6 has been put off for too long. Had IPv6 been implemented years ago, the transition from the older standard to the newer one would have gone much more smoothly....

The Windows 10 Creators Update—codenamed Redstone 2—will begin rolling out on April 11, 2017. Like other updates to Windows 10, it’s free, and includes a host of new features. It will be rolled out slowly like the Anniversary Update, so it will be a few months before Microsoft offers it to everyone. RELATED: How to Get Windows 10’s April 2018 Update Now You can, however, upgrade to the Creators Update right now using an official tool from Microsoft....

Portable devices like iPads, MP3 players, and the like are all capable of outputting sound at a level high enough to damage your hearing. While adults (should) know better and turn the volume down, kids often don’t. Read on as we show you how to protect your kids’ hearing with volume limiting headphones. Why Does It Matter? Generally when we think about hearing loss we think about heavy machinery, a trip to the gun range without proper ear protection, or other loud and immediately painful noises....

Even if you did want to remove Wi-Fi from your home (and you don’t need to!), you’d be better off switching to a wired router and ditching all your Wi-Fi hardware. Skip the “router cages” and “router covers.” “Blocking Wi-Fi Radiation” Means “Blocking Wi-Fi” EMF shields or wireless “router guards” promise to block Wi-Fi radiation. There’s just one problem: “Wi-Fi radiation” just means “Wi-Fi radio waves.” That’s not new, of course: AM and FM radio also use radio waves, for example....

Like clockwork, every couple of months some “fact” about Facebook goes viral. Facebook is going to start charging you money! Copy and paste this status or Facebook will cook your children! As soon as you upload them, Facebook owns your photos! That last one is especially common, so let’s talk about it. What Rights Does Facebook Have to Your Photos? Let’s start by getting on the same basic page: no, Facebook doesn’t own your photos....

There are two big choices when it comes to reading eBooks. You can go with either a dedicated eReader, like a Kindle Paperwhite, or a tablet with an LCD screen, like an iPad — but which is best? The big difference between the two classes of device — eReader and tablet — is the type of screen they have. eReaders have E Ink screens, while tablets have LCD screens. This makes all the difference....

Election season is upon us, and there’s no shortage of ways to watch the debates–traditional broadcast TV, online streaming options galore, and you can even see it in virtual reality. Unlike the near-flaming-hoops you had to jump through to watch the 2016 Summer Olympics coverage this year, you can rest easy knowing that staying abreast of the current U.S. presidential race will be a complete walk in the park by comparison....

Selling your old phone should be a simple, straightforward process. And really, for the most part, it is—if you know all the proper steps. If you don’t, fret not—we’ve got you covered. You may already know that you’ll need to factory reset the phone, but that’s actually the last thing you should do before selling. There are a handful of things that you’ll need to do first, most of which can’t be done after the fact, so it’s important to get them done before the reset....

Oculus Go puts VR on the head of anyone with an extra couple hundred bucks lying around, but what if you already have a Galaxy phone? Is Oculus Go better than Gear VR at double the price? Let’s find out. What is Oculus Go and How is it Different Than Gear VR? First things first: let’s talk about what Oculus Go is. To put it as simply as possible, it’s a fully standalone VR headset that runs Android....