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If you have a newer Liftmaster or Chamberlain garage door opener, it’s likely that it has MyQ capabilities, which allow you to open and close your garage door from the MyQ app. Her’s how to add a MyQ shortcut to your phone’s home screen foreven quicker access. RELATED: How to Control Your Belkin WeMo Switch from the Home Screen MyQ makes it really convenient to not only open and close your garage door from your phone, but to also check and make sure that you closed it after you left for work–that seems to be everyone’s biggest worry about their garage door anyway....

Using Microsoft’s free PowerToys utility, you can easily reassign any key to work like any other key (or even give them a novel function like muting your audio). In our case, we’ll be assigning the Windows key function to a key of your choice. (By default, the Command key on a Mac keyboard functions as the Windows key if plugged into a Windows 10 machine. There’s no need to use this trick when you’re using a Mac keyboard with Windows—just use the “Command” key as your Windows key....

How to Disable Siri on iPhone and iPad Disabling Siri can be achieved in a handful of steps. First, open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad and then select the “Siri & Search” option. Here, tap on the toggle next to the following options to turn each item off: Listen for “Hey Siri” Press Side Button for Siri Allow Siri When Locked (if you only want to disable Siri on the Lock screen)...

This setting is available on your Steam account preferences page. To access it, click your Steam account name at the top-right corner of the Steam window and select “Store Preferences.” Scroll down to the “Community Content Preferences” section. The options under “Chat Filtering” control Steam’s chat filter. If you want to disable Steam’s chat filter, select “Do not filter strong profanity or slurs” under “Language Preferences.” You can also select “Allow strong profanity, but filter slurs....

How to Find The Model Number of Your iPhone or iPad You can find the model number of your iPhone or iPad using the hardware or the software. The fastest way is using the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. First, open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad. Then, go to the “General” section. Here, select the “About” option. Now, tap on the number next to the “Model Number” option....

Your Mac’s serial number is a unique identifier that distinguishes your Mac from all others. You have to provide your Mac’s serial number when requesting warranty service. You may also want to look up your Mac’s serial number if you’re reporting it stolen. The easiest way to find your serial number depends on your situation. If your Mac turns on, you can find the serial number right in the interface....

Watches are things that people like to put on their wrist and forget about. The Apple Watch is no different, except for the added functionality it offers. That’s great when it works, but if your watch isn’t vibrating when it’s supposed to, here’s how to fix it. The Apple Watch is without a doubt the most popular smart watch on the market, and with the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple has upped the ante considerably....

If you’ve ever wanted to change the look and feel of Windows 10, there’s an easy way to do it thanks to Stardock Curtains, a new paid utility from the makers of Fences and WindowBlinds. Here’s how to set it up. WhatIs Stardock Curtains? Curtains is a software utility that allows you to customize Windows 10’s appearance with styles that change the look of window borders, interface buttons, and the taskbar with different themes....

Whether you’re an inexperienced terminal user or a grizzled veteran, you won’t always know the right thing to type into the Linux terminal. There are quite a few tools built into the terminal to help you along. These tricks will help you find the command to use, figure out how to install it, learn how to use it, and view detailed information about it. None of these tricks require an Internet connection....

Google Cloud Storage is an object storage service that allows you to upload files to a virtual bucket, providing quick and easy file storage for your applications. It competes with AWS’s S3 storage service on both price and features. How Much Does GCP Cloud Storage Cost? Overall, GCP Cloud Storage is priced similarly to AWS S3. There are a few different storage classes with different prices; the following prices are based off the us-east1 region, one of the bigger (and cheaper) regions:...

Include captions in your Microsoft Excel graphs to provide rich and meaningful labels. The labels can be used to display extra information that is not plotted on the graph. By linking them to cell values, you can make these captions dynamic. Why Include Captions in Excel Graphs? When you create a chart in Excel, you are provided with label elements. These include the chart title, data labels, and axis titles....

Option 1: Change Your Wi-Fi Password The easiest, most secure method is merely changing your Wi-Fi network’s password on your router. This will forcibly disconnect all devices from your Wi-Fi network—even your own. You’ll have to reconnect to the Wi-Fi network by entering the new password on all your devices. Anyone who doesn’t have your new password won’t be able to connect. Let’s be honest: If you have a lot of devices, reconnecting them all will be a pain....

If you want to restrict editing in a Microsoft Excel worksheet to certain areas, you can lock cells to do so. You can block edits to individual cells, larger cell ranges, or entire worksheets, depending on your requirements. Here’s how. Enabling or Disabling Cell Lock Protection in Excel There are two stages to preventing changes to cells in an Excel worksheet. First, you’ll need to choose the cells that you want to allow edits to and disable the “Locked” setting....

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations are great, but they are not as easily accessible as videos. Luckily, you can convert your presentations to videos with a built-in option. We’ll show you how. Why Convert a PowerPoint to Video? There are many reasons to turn a presentation into a video. Maybe you want to send someone a presentation but they don’t have PowerPoint installed. Or, maybe you want to upload your presentation to a site that only accepts videos....

LinkedIn Privacy: An Overview Unlike other social networks, privacy on LinkedIn isn’t just about managing who can see your posts and your profile, it’s also about managing who can see what you do on the site. Because LinkedIn is all about forming professional connections, having other users see some of your activity is enabled by default. For example, changes in your employment status, new connections, and even whether or not you’ve looked at someone’s profile is information that may be accessible to others....

Need to quickly silence your phone? If you’re running iOS 14 or later on an iPhone 8 or newer, you can mute the volume by tapping the back of your phone two or three times. This is possible thanks to a feature called Back Tap and a custom shortcut that’s easy to create. Let’s set it all up! How Does Back Tap Work? Back Tap is an accessibility feature on the iPhone that detects finger taps on the back of your iPhone using its built-in accelerometer....

If you’re a long-time Mac user, you might be familiar with the Disk Utility. It’s the app that lets you manage and format internal and external storage. While it works great for SSDs and hard drives, it’s a bit weird when it comes to formatting SD cards. RELATED: How to Use Your Mac’s Disk Utility to Partition, Wipe, Repair, Restore, and Copy Drives Thankfully, there’s a quicker and easier way to format an SD card....

If things aren’t acting like they should on your Android TV (set-top box or software installed on your television), it may be time for a restart. Simply restarting the device can often solve problems you’re having. Here’s how to do it. If you use electronics, you know that the common advice of “turning it off and on again” often works. This applies to Android TV devices as well. Sometimes a simple restart can make a world of difference....

Google’s WEBP image format is pretty cool: its unique compression systems can display images at approximately two-thirds the size of the same image rendered in JPEG or PNG format. Despite years of development, being prominently featured in Google products, and experiencing widespread adoption, WEBP still isn’t fully supported by some of the most common image tools around, like Microsoft’s Photos app — though it is supported by the older Windows Photo Viewer....

Security Security Security Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, once famously said, “You can never be too rich or too thin.” We’ve updated this for our modern, interconnected world: You can never be too careful or too secure. If your computer accepts incoming connection requests, such as Secure Shell (SSH) connections, or acts as a web or email server, you need to protect it from brute-force attacks and password-guessers. To do so, you’ll need to monitor connection requests that fail to get into an account....