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Nest originally started with just a smart thermostat, but the company has grown quite a bit over the years. And now, they have their own security system called the Nest Secure. Here’s how to install it and set it up. RELATED: Nest Thermostat E vs. Nest Thermostat: What’s the Difference? In the box, the Nest Secure comes with two keychain tags (to easily arm and disarm your system without entering in a passcode), two sensors (which can act as a motion sensor and an open/close sensor for doors and windows), and the main unit that acts as the keypad, alarm, and another motion sensor....

How to Install Apps on Apple Watch When you open the Watch app on your iPhone and go to the App Store tab, you’ll find that it’s empty. The App Store has now moved to your wrist starting in 2019’s watchOS 6 update. To install apps on your Apple Watch, press the Digital Crown to open the Apps screen. Here, locate the new “App Store” icon and tap on it....

Slideshows are sometimes used to display images at events, such as weddings or trade shows. Whatever the occasion might be, you’ll want to loop your PowerPoint presentation so your guests aren’t staring at a blank screen. Here’s how it’s done. Set Up Your Slideshow to Be Looped First, open your PowerPoint presentation in which you would like to loop. Once open, navigate to the “Set Up” group of the “Slide Show” tab and then select the “Set Up Slide Show” button....

It seems like every browser has a hidden game these days. Chrome has a dinosaur game, Edge has surfing, and Firefox has . . . unicorn pong? Yep, you read that right—here’s how to play it. First, open Firefox. Click the hamburger menu (the three horizontal lines) at the upper right, and then click “Customize.” On the “Customize Firefox” tab, you’ll see a list of interface elements to configure the toolbar....

On Windows 10, you can print a document to PDF from any application, thanks to the built-in Print to PDF feature. You no longer have to use the old XPS Printer or install a third-party application. To get started, open the document you want to print to a PDF file. Find and open the Print dialog box in the application. Where this is located will vary by program, but you can usually go to File > Print, or just click a printer icon....

A data series in Microsoft Excel is a set of data, shown in a row or a column, which is presented using a graph or chart. To help analyze your data, you might prefer to rename your data series. Rather than renaming the individual column or row labels, you can rename a data series in Excel by editing the graph or chart. You might want to do this if your data labels are opaque and difficult to immediately understand....

When setting a default browser or email app on your iPhone or iPad, a setting ensures that every relevant link opens the assigned app. That’s not the case with music apps. Instead, as long as you’re running iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, or higher, Siri will ask you which audio app you’d like to use and remembers your choice. RELATED: How to Change Your Default Email App on iPhone and iPad...

To help you share your schedules with other people, your iPhone allows you to share your entire iCloud calendars with anyone in read-only mode and with specific people in editing mode. We’ll show you how to make your calendars available to others. Requirements If you share your calendar with specific people, those users will need an iCloud account to join your calendar. They can then read your calendar as well as make changes (if you allow this option)....

When you create a Minecraft world you select your game mode and that mode is fixed for the lifetime of the world. Or is it? Read on as we show you how you can sidestep the gamemode lock and permanently change your game’s mode. Why Do I Want To Do This? When you create a new world you select your game mode. You can choose from creative, survival, and hardcore modes....

Note that you can’t directly translate your recorded audio files with this service. You must play your files when Google Translate is listening to translate your content from its source language to the chosen target language. RELATED: How to Translate a PDF Translate Audio With Google Translate on Desktop If you’re on a Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, then first, open your preferred web browser and launch the Google Translate website....

Like many things in the Android world, you have many options for editing videos. For the majority of people, the best option is the one already installed on your device. Google Photos is a popular app that has video editing capabilities, as does Samsung’s stock Gallery app. We’ll cover both. How to Trim Videos with Google Photos Google Photos comes pre-installed on many Android devices. If you don’t have it already, you can easily install it from the Google Play Store....

Some laptops come with “Wi-Fi” function keys or switches that can quickly enable or disable your Wi-Fi. If your PC doesn’t have one of these, though, you can make one with the tools built into Windows. You’ll need to start by creating a desktop or start menu shortcut. Once you’ve done that, you can invoke it with a keyboard shortcut, if you like. Step One: Find the Name of Your Wi-Fi Connection First, you’ll need to check the name of your Wi-Fi connection....

If you’re running Windows 10 and you don’t need an application anymore, you might want to uninstall it. There are several ways to do it, depending on what type of app it is. Here’s how to uninstall a program in Windows. Uninstall an Application Using the Start Menu If an application has been installed using the Microsoft Store, you can uninstall it quickly via the Start menu. To do so, open the “Start” menu and locate the application’s icon, then right-click it....

Connect your Bluetooth mouse or trackpad to your iPad from the Bluetooth section in the Settings app and instantly you’ll see the cursor on the screen. How to Use The Cursor on your iPad The new cursor on the iPad isn’t something that Apple ported from the Mac. It’s also not just a replacement for your fingers. It’s somewhere in between. The small grey circle is about the same size as your fingertip, sure, but it’s also dynamic....

With conditional formatting, you can highlight data on your spreadsheet automatically. If you have a sheet where you need the dates easier to spot, you can use conditional formatting in Google Sheets based on date. You might have a spreadsheet containing due dates for bills or deadlines for project tasks. You can make dates like those past due or coming up soon pop and easy to see. Whether a column, row, or cell, you simply set up the conditional formatting rule, and when the data matches, you’ll see the highlight you choose apply....

Pivot Tables are both incredibly simple and increasingly complex as you learn to master them. They’re great at sorting data and making it easier to understand, and even a complete Excel novice can find value in using them. We’ll walk you through getting started with Pivot Tables in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. First, we’ll label the top row so that we can better organize our data once we apply the PivotTables in a later step....

Git tracks commits over time, allowing you to follow the progression and history of your code. While you can always use Github online to view the public repository, navigating your local repo requires the use of CLI tools to view the Git commit history, like git log. The Non-CLI Solution: Just Use a Git Client While you should definitely learn to use Git from the command line, as it helps to understand everything you’re doing, this is one of the few times where it really does just make more sense to have a proper interface for viewing Git history, especially when you take into account multiple branches, remotes, tags, and contributors....

RELATED: How to Show Windows 10’s Hidden Floating Performance Panels Performance monitoring is something typically associated with high-end Windows machines, but there’s no reason why you can’t be interested in these statistics on a Chromebook, too. It’s surprisingly easy to do. On your Chromebook, enter chrome://sys-internals/ in the address bar and then hit “Enter” on your keyboard. This opens the “System Internals” overview page. There are three columns for “CPU,” “Memory,” and “Zram....

RELATED: The 10 Best Comedy Movies on Hulu Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Play Video It may have started out as a James Bond parody, but Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery quickly became its own unique phenomenon, thanks to writer-star Mike Myers. Myers created and plays the title character, a swingin’ ’60s superspy who was cryogenically frozen in 1967 and revived 30 years later. Austin is amusingly out of touch, but still eager to go after his longtime nemesis Dr....

Carnival Row Play Video Set in a unique world that’s part sci-fi, part fantasy, and part alternate history, Carnival Row is a murder mystery with a supernatural twist. Orlando Bloom plays a detective in a world that resembles Victorian England, where mythical creatures like fairies and fauns have emigrated to live among humans. Cara Delevingne co-stars as the hardened fairy criminal that the detective is in love with. It’s a stylish and gritty series that successfully moves among genres while telling an engrossing story with complex characters....