Executing a factory reset can sometimes fix any errant behavior. If your Nest Hub is running abnormally slow or seems unresponsive, a factory reset might help. You would also want to do this before selling or giving the smart display to someone else. RELATED: How to Factory Reset Your Android Phone or Tablet When It Won’t Boot Unlike a lot of actions and settings within the Nest Hub, you can’t factory reset it from the Google Home app....
Using a mix of media in your Word doc is a great way to provide additional context for your work and make your document more engaging. Here’s how to insert a YouTube video into a Microsoft Word document. To insert a YouTube video into your Word document, open your browser of choice (such as Chrome) and go to the YouTube website. Search for the YouTube video that you want to use by typing the name of the video in the search bar....
This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) has been postponed due to the coronavirus. Fortunately, as you try to stay indoors, you can still enjoy livestreams of the award show and most of the panels while you wash your hands. How to Livestream GDC 2020 on Twitch All the hard work that went into this event is being partially salvaged as many of the originally scheduled talks will be recorded by the speakers themselves....
On Windows, automatic sign-in is convenient because you can have your PC launch programs when it starts. You can even have your PC automatically boot at specific times. For improved security, you can have Windows 10 automatically lock itself and require a password after automatic sign-in. How This Works With automatic lock at sign-in, your PC will automatically sign in and launch and startup programs when it boots—but it will lock itself and you’ll have to enter your password to use it....
By default, Siri only responds when you press and hold the home button on your iPad or iPhone. You can, however, configure Siri to respond when you say “Hey Siri.” Siri is useful as means for doing many things. She’s meant to be something of a digital personal assistant and, as such, can do a great deal more than simply looking stuff up on the Internet. She can take notes, set alarms, place calls, handle directions, and so on....
Do you like to keep Start menu clean, tidy, and organized? All you have to do is open a special Start Menu folder and organize to your heart’s content. Here’s how to get it done. Windows 10 includes all kinds of ways to customize your Start menu, but you can still organize your apps the same way you always could—by arranging what’s contained in Windows’ Start Menu folder. With all the Start menu changes in recent years, how you open the Start Menu folder has changed from version to version....
By default, when you print an Excel spreadsheet, it only includes cells that contain data. Extra content is typically excluded, but it is possible to add a background to your Excel printouts—here’s how to do it. While you can use the “background” option (Page Layout > Background) to add a background image to your spreadsheet, Excel won’t allow you to print backgrounds that are applied this way. You have to use shapes, images, or cell colors as a work-around to achieve the same effect....
Microsoft Outlook’s Conversation View is a really useful tool. If you sort or group your emails by column, though, you’ll lose it. Thankfully, there’s a simple (albeit, less than obvious) way to get Conversation View back. When you turn on Conversation View, it groups all of your emails by conversation, regardless of where they’re located in your mailbox. So, if a reply comes into your inbox, Outlook will show all of the previous emails in that conversation in a thread, even if you’ve moved them to other folders....
How Often Should You Restart Your iPhone? You don’t need to restart your iPhone very often. Generally speaking, iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, should remain performant and responsive even after weeks or months of use. Sometimes, you might encounter issues that call for a restart. For example, if a “core” iOS service or feature is acting up, this could suggest that some aspect of the operating system has crashed....
Puppeteer is a Node.js library which lets you interact with the Chrome web browser. Recent releases also include Firefox support. Puppeteer is commonly used to automate testing, archive webpage data, and generate screenshots of live web content. It lets you control Chrome via a clear API, giving you the ability to navigate to pages, click on form controls, and issue browser commands. Getting Puppeteer running in a Docker container can be complex as many dependencies are needed to run headless Chrome....
The latest version of the Microsoft Edge browser is based on Google’s Chromium software, and the two share many features including the ability to set default zoom levels for one site or every site. Here’s how. How to Set a Default Zoom Level for All Websites Telling Edge to enlarge or shrink all websites automatically is just five clicks away. Launch the web browser, and then click the three horizontal dots in the top right....
Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP for short, lets you lock your email messages so that only the intended recipient with the key can view them. ProtonMail is one of the few email services that supports this feature without any extra software. How Does PGP Work? PGP works using public and private keys. To send an encrypted message to someone, you’ll need to know their public key. Signing your outgoing message with their public key allows them to then decrypt it with their private key....
Dropbox is a handy way to synchronize files across devices via the cloud. By default, Dropbox starts whenever you turn on your Windows PC or Mac, but sometimes you might not want it to. Here’s how to make sure it doesn’t launch when you startup. First, open Dropbox. Click the “Dropbox” icon in the Windows notification area (at the bottom-right corner of your screen) or on the Mac menu bar (at the top-right corner of your screen....
If you use your Windows 10 PC to make telephone calls via applications like Skype, Windows automatically lowers the volume level of other sounds by default while a call is taking place. Luckily, it’s possible to adjust that feature or turn it off. Here’s how. First, right-click the speaker icon in the system tray. In the menu that appears, select “Sounds.” In the “Sound” window that pops up, click the “Communications” tab....
For privacy reasons, both Chrome and Firefox don’t let you capture screenshots in incognito tabs on Android. However, both these browsers let you lift the restriction if you want. Here’s how to toggle on and off the option to take screenshots in these browsers’ private tabs. Taking Screenshots in Incognito Tabs An incognito tab’s purpose is to keep your browsing sessions private. If you or someone else can take a screenshot of these private tabs, your sessions are no longer private—which defeats the purpose of incognito tabs....
How Screenshots Work on the Nintendo Switch By default, whenever you push the Capture button, the Nintendo Switch saves an image of the current screen to a JPEG image file on a microSD card if you have one inserted. If not, the Switch saves them to internal memory. Some parts of the Switch system software (and possibly some games) block screenshots from being taken, but in general, the feature works everywhere....
A repeater sits within range of your Wi-Fi network and “repeats” it, extending your Wi-Fi coverage farther than your router could alone. If your Wi-Fi only covers one half of your house, a repeater placed in the middle of your home can extend your Wi-Fi to the rest of the building. There are three ways to do this: The best way, which is buying a repeater for under $50, a decent way, which is buying $50 repeater software for a PC, and the not-so-great way, which uses a built-in (but free) Windows feature....
To generate link previews, the Signal app uses a privacy-enhancing proxy—the site you’re previewing never even sees your IP address. Link previews are supported on all sites that include HTTPS encryption. How to Enable or Disable Link Previews in Signal Start by opening the “Signal” app on your iPhone or Android smartphone. Next, tap your profile picture, avatar, or username initials found in the app’s top-left corner. Select the “Privacy” option from the overflow menu....
It’s easy to update the Microsoft Wireless Controller (for Xbox Series X|S) using a Windows 10 PC. You’ll just need to download a Microsoft app, plug in your controller, and follow the onscreen instructions. Here’s how to do it. Why Should I Update My Xbox Controller? The Xbox Wireless Controller is the controller that ships with Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, but it also works with Windows PCs, Apple devices, and more....
Wikis are great at capturing information in a simple format that’s easy to read and edit. Microsoft Teams includes a wiki built into every channel that’s added to a team—here’s how to use it. A wiki—a collaboratively-maintained online publication—is a type of content management system that can be anything from a single page to a vast trove of information like Wikipedia. Microsoft Teams includes a wiki as one of the default tabs in every channel that’s created....
