You can also take advantage of more than 100,000 Alexa Skills to create routines and further customize your smart home and improve its functionality. How to Create an Alexa Routine Making a new routine in Alexa is simple. There are three main steps involved. Once you learn how to do them, you can set up all the Alexa routines you want. Take a look. Open the Alexa app and tap the More tab in the lower-right corner to open the menu....
In this article, we’ll cover 10 ways to troubleshoot and fix this issue. We’ll start with the most basic fixes and work into the more time-consuming solutions, so start at the top and work your way down. 1. Check Your Network Connection If you aren’t connected to the cellular network, you won’t be able to make calls. You can check your network coverage at the top of your screen. If you’re out of reception, you may be in a dead spot or there may be a network outage, so try moving around a bit....
Ultimately, your typing speed will improve over time as you type more often. However, if you’d like to speed up the learning process, there are many tips you can use. Let’s take a look at some of the best. Start By Learning Touch Typing This is by far the most important step you can take to improve your typing speed. Touch typing is the ability to type without looking at your keyboard....
One of the first things that many people do when they get a new phone and begin texting is to turn off read receipts. No ones like having someone else believe that they’re ignoring them, and that “R” has gone as far as to end relationships. Most people want their messages responded to immediately after they’re read. You may have never realized it, but this same effect exists in email—except it’s much more difficult for the average user to “turn it off....
The PS2 did this for PS1 games, and early versions of the PS3 were backwards compatible for PS2. Unfortunately, though, the PS4 doesn’t have this feature for any PS3 games. However, there are some workarounds to this that can allow you to play some PS3 games on your PS4. The PS4 Pro and Slim editions are also not backwards compatible, but you should be able to use the same methods here to play some older Playstation games on them....
For example, if you want to quickly create a list of all files and folders inside of a Window directory and send it to someone in a nice easy to view format. Earlier I had written about how you can use either the command line or third-party apps to print a list of all files and folders in a Windows directory, however, those options only output to text, Word or Excel....
There’s plenty of bad that could happen and it’s only a matter of time. Let’s see what’s in store for you if you keep just pulling it out, and why these bad things could happen. How Do USB Drives Get Damaged by Removing Without Ejecting? How a USB drive and a computer interact together is surprisingly complex. First, the computer must provide power to the USB drive so that it can work....
Luckily, there’s a free online way you can enhance the quality of your dark or jerky or low-res videos so that they appear half decent. You can always use desktop video editing software, but you normally have to shell out cash, use up computer resources or waste time learning the interface and features of a new piece of software. YouTube has graciously provided its billions of users with a free tool to enhance videos that does a pretty good job....
Occasionally, however, your browser doesn’t save or remember passwords. For example, incorrectly configured settings, password exceptions, conflicting browser extensions, etc., can cause this problem. Work your way through the fixes below to get your browser to start saving and remembering passwords again. Enable Password Saving for Your Browser If your browser fails to save passwords for every site you sign into, you may need to activate the option that remembers your login info....
In Adobe Premiere Pro, there are many transition effects available, and endless ways you can alter them to suit your video. In this article, you’ll discover where to find transition effects, how to insert them into your project, and how to incorporate them so they look the way you want them to. Once you get the hang of transitions, it’ll be an important tool for you to use on many future projects....
Each internet browser does this a little differently, but they all provide you with the necessary tools to stop websites from using your camera and/or mic. You just need to know where to look. Once you’ve told your favorite browser to quit letting websites use your camera or mic, you’ll have to return to the settings described below to permit access, like if you want to record yourself with your webcam....
Don’t You Already Have a Copy of the Invoice or Receipt? Repeat the steps above to find and print multiple receipts/invoices. From there, you can print the invoice as you normally would. How to Find and Print a Gift Receipt After Purchase Gift receipts are different from regular receipts or invoices. You can choose to send a gift receipt during checkout by selecting the This order contains a gift checkbox. You can also find and print a gift receipt after you’ve made the purchase....
However, it can actually be a big privacy or security issue. For one thing, you never know what kind of text you’ll receive and who might happen to see it. With default settings, anyone who is within eyesight of your phone can read messages when they arrive because your phone will light up. If they can physically touch the phone, they can not only read messages, but actually reply to them from the lock screen....
Depending on your purpose, place, and audience you can make different custom filters to entertain your Snapchat followers. Some filters only work in specific locations, while others are only suitable for special events. There are also filters that you can create and use for free, while for others you’ll have to pay. Let’s take a look at how to make a Snapchat filter. Decide What Type Of Filter You’re After When it comes to making a custom Snapchat filter, it’s best to begin with setting your goals....
If you have kids, pets, babies or even a window behind you displaying the outdoors, you have all of the ingredients of a recipe for disaster. In this article we’ll cover some of the most common issues that could lead to embarrassing online meetings, and how to prevent them. Online Meetings: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? One of the most famous examples of just such an embarrassing moment happened to Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on television by the BBC....
How to Print an Email from Gmail If you use Gmail on your computer or your mobile device via the Gmail app, you can print an email in a few quick steps. Computer (Windows/Mac) There’s no Gmail app for computers, but you can open Gmail on your web browser and print an individual email message or all messages in an email thread/conversation. Android On your Android phone or tablet, you can print an email from Gmail through the Gmail app or your web browser if the Gmail app is not working....
There are currently no default tools built into Windows that you can use to resize videos. You can use Windows Movie Maker to edit videos and add transitions, etc, but not to change the actual video resolution. If you do a search for RESIZE VIDEOS in Google, you’ll get a list of a bunch of commercial applications that you would have to shell out cash for! So if you’re lucky enough to have run across this post, I’ll show you a couple of free ways to resize videos quickly and easily....
You can install Android beta and iOS beta to get a glimpse of what’s to come before the public release is offered to everyone. When you hear about Apple or Google releasing a new feature in an upcoming system update, you can almost always get that same feature early with the beta software. However, it’s important to be aware that the operating systems are not fully developed. They’re instead pre-releases, meaning that they’re still being worked on, the bugs still being squashed, and the features still being ironed on....
And while a good antivirus does help, it’s always better to prevent the entry of malware in the first place rather than try to fix the damage. But what exactly can you do about it? Is there any way to check your browser for any security vulnerabilities? Let’s try to answer these questions. Does Browser Security Even Matter? At first glance, the idea of having to secure your Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser sounds strange....
Here are five ways to turn off your Android phone using the hardware keys, system settings, and ADB commands. Method 1: Switch Off Your Phone Using the Power Button On older Android models, pressing and holding the power button will open the power off menu. After that, simply tap Power off to turn off your phone. However, from Android 12 onwards, pressing and holding the power button will no longer open the power off menu....
