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Google Nest Hub If you’re feeling like an extra sweet grandchild, you can buy your grandma or grandpa what ReviewGeek has dubbed 2018’s product of the year—the Google Nest Hub (previously called the Google Home Hub). Jason Fitzpatrick, Founding Editor of Review Geek, loved this product so much he called its Ambient Mode the “Best Picture Frame Ever.” The nice thing about the Nest Hub is it’s not just a digital photo frame—it’s a device that could add a little extra functionality into your grandparent’s life (with a little learning curve, of course)....

Forgetting to sign out of Gmail on an unknown computer can be a huge privacy risk. Luckily, it’s easy to sign out—from a device that you no longer have access to. Here are four ways to sign out of Gmail. How to Sign out of Gmail on the Web When you’re done using your Gmail or Google account, always remember to log out of the account if you’re on a shared computer....

Smartphones are all about different apps working for you do to certain things. Today more and more apps are being developed, everybody. The increased use of this is clearly visible when you look at the richest peoples list. Many app developers have gained the millionaire rank by just developing a smartphone app. The users for different app had increased steadily on the few previous years. When apps have come out in numbers problems and issues have also in the same number....

Multitasking is essential for being productive on a computer. Being able to see more than one app at a time has tons of uses. We’ll show you how to split the screen with apps on your Chromebook. Just like Windows and macOS, Chrome OS supports the ability to quickly snap windows to the sides of the screen. In fact, it works almost identically to how it does on Windows 10/11....

Just like desktop applications, the application packages on your Synology NAS need an occasional restart—but unlike desktop applications, it’s a little less clear on how you do so. Let’s dive into the why, when, and how of restarting application packages. Unlike the apps that you open and close with frequency on your desktop computer, application packages on your Synology NAS are more akin to server services than desktop apps, and it’s best to leave them running all the time unless you have some pressing need to turn them off....

When you visit a news website, you’ll often see a pop-up asking you to subscribe to their latest posts. If you agree to this, you’ll get periodic notifications from the website via the Chrome app. Fortunately, you can disable the notifications for a website and the notification subscription pop-ups from the Settings menu. You can do this on the Chrome desktop app as well. RELATED: How to Stop Websites From Asking to Show Notifications...

Click-to-play plug-ins allowed you to prevent video plug-ins from starting as soon as you load a web page, but more and more websites are moving to HTML5 video. Thankfully, it’s still possible to prevent autoplay in many browsers. The tricks below will also prevent HTML5 audio from automatically playing. Any websites that use the and tags to play back multimedia will be affected. Unfortunately, only some web browsers allow you to do this....

In yet another bid to get your attention while browsing Facebook on your mobile device, Facebook now has videos set to automatically play the audio in your news feed. Here’s how to turn that annoying new “feature” off. RELATED: How to Stop Facebook Videos from Auto-Playing Last year, Facebook rolled out a similar feature that automatically plays videos without you clicking on them. Thankfully, you can disable it, but now they’re back with another update that automatically plays videos with the volume on....

Google Calendar integrates several other Google apps on the web. One is Google Maps, which is in the sidebar and opens when you select an address. If you don’t like this feature, though, you can disable it. If you click an address in an event, it will open a preview of the location in the right sidebar. To open the location on the Google Maps website, you click “Open in Maps....

Up until 20 years ago, thanks to typewriters, it was common to see sentences written with two spaces the period. At long last, Microsoft Word has started marking double spaces as an error by default. If you’re a two-spacer who hates this idea, here’s how to prevent it from happening. Microsoft has confirmed that it will start marking double spaces as a typo, so if you’re keen on the two-space side of the argument, you’ll soon find out that your righteous two spaces after a period are suddenly sullied by a red dotted line....

Screen timeout prevents your phone’s screen from remaining on when you’re not using your device. However, there are times when you don’t want it to do this. Fortunately, you can disable it on your Android phone or tablet. The screen timeout simply determines how long the screen will stay on after you’re done using it. This is usually 30 seconds to 1 minute, by default. If you’re using your phone for something that doesn’t require touching the display, you might find the short screen timeout annoying....

Hulu Subscribers to Hulu ($5.99+ per month after a 30-day free trial) can watch all 250 episodes of Modern Family. Take in the antics of the various extended branches of the Pritchett/Dunphy clan, from family patriarch Jay (Ed O’Neill) to his younger kids and grandkids, some of whom grow from babies to adolescence over the course of the series. Peacock Paid subscribers to Peacock ($4.99+ per month after a seven-day free trial) can also catch all 250 episodes of Modern Family....

Google Docs lets you suggest edits on a document when you’re collaborating with others. After you suggest an edit, the document’s owner can then accept or delete it. Here’s how it works. RELATED: How to See Recent Changes to Your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides File How to Suggest an Edit in Google Docs When you’re viewing a document in Google Docs, you’re doing so in one of three states:...

Changing from Verizon to T-Mobile is pretty easy. You have to identify what plan you’ll like to be on or what plan would work best for you. Choosing a plan suitable for you and your phone is what would be best and most important to do. Steps to take when switching Below is the process you’ll have to follow if you would like to switch from your Verizon to T-Mobile....

But suppose you’ve made your way into a profile that’s not yours. How to switch Hulu profiles on Vizio TV? To exit one profile for another, you will need to head over to the Profiles navigator through a given profile’s Account icon. Once you find the Profiles tab, you should be able to choose the correct profile, or whichever profile you were looking for. How Do You Find the “Profile” Tab?...

Using multiple user accounts on Windows 10 is a convenient way to control access to files and applications. Switching between accounts preserves what you’re working on without closing anything. Find out a few ways to switch between accounts here. How to Switch User Accounts There are two ways you can change users in Windows 10. One fully signs out the current account and closes all of the running applications, exactly like what happens when you restart your PC....

First smartphone screens replaced wallet pictures as the way to show off your photos and now you can put your photos right on your wrist. Read on as we show you how to sync your favorite photos to your Apple Watch. How Does It Work? The Apple Watch can store up to 500 photos from your iPhone (as long as the feature is enabled the Photo app on your phone and the Photo app on your watch work seamlessly together)....

Kodi is still one of the most powerful media center applications around, and it works on everything from powerful media PCs to small Raspberry Pis. But if you have multiple TVs in your house, wouldn’t it be nice if they all stayed in sync? By default, if you have multiple Kodi machines, they won’t recognize each other. Episodes you watched on one TV won’t show as “watched” on another. Wouldn’t it be nice, though, if your bedroom Kodi box knew what you watched in the living room, and vice-versa?...

Taking a screenshot on an iPad is as easy as pressing two buttons at once on your device—or you can use an alternative onscreen method. Here’s how to do it. What Is a Screenshot? A screenshot is a direct capture of exactly what’s on your device’s screen. With a screenshot, you can capture what you’re seeing, and then save it for later or share it with others without having to take a photo of your device with a camera....

Stories have been one of the biggest social network features of the last few years. Snapchat rolled them out first, but now every social network from WhatsApp to Instagram has stories. There’s also been a shift away from disappearing messages. People no longer seem to really want the photos they take to vanish into the ether. To that end, Instagram has recently added a Stories Archive. Now when you create an Instagram Story, it’s automatically saved to the Archive....