How to Add a Smart Home Accessory to Your Apple HomeKit: A Step-by-Step Guide
Want to make your home smarter and more convenient? Adding a smart home accessory to your Apple HomeKit is a breeze! All you need is …
Electronics
How-to guides and articles to help you with your home electronics, like set-top streaming boxes, smart devices, and more.
How to Pair Headphones with an Apple TV: Step-by-Step Guide
Pairing headphones with your Apple TV can be done in a snap. Just make sure your headphones are in pairing mode and head to the …
Kindle Fire vs iPad Mini: Which Small Tablet Reigns Supreme?
When it comes to choosing between a Kindle Fire and an iPad Mini, it can be tough to decide which one is right for you. …
How to Cancel Comcast
If you have Comcast as a cable service provider, then you may eventually decide to switch to a different provider. Whether this is due to …
How to Change the Brightness on a Roku TV
When you first get a new TV, you might find that the settings aren’t making the picture look as good as it could. Your Roku …
Roku 3 vs. Apple TV
With so many people choosing to forego traditional cable and move to streaming, it’s increasingly common to need a device that can make this possible. …
Roku LT vs. Apple TV
The Apple TV is an excellent device to have in your home if you already have iPhones or iPads, and you want to take advantage …
How to Change the Theme on the Roku 3
The menu screens on your Roku device have some graphics and styles that make them nice to look at. You are likely accustomed to the …
What is a Mac Mini?
Many people are familiar with some of Apple’s product offerings, like the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro, but they sell some other products as well. …
Roku 1 vs. Google Chromecast
Streaming devices like the Roku, Chromecast, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire Stick have become an important part of more and more people’s home theater environment …
How to Watch YouTube on the Roku 3
Longtime Roku owners may have gotten into the habit of using some creative ways to watch YouTybe videos on their TVs, since there was no …
How to Turn Off Menu Clicks on the Roku TV
While some of the feedback sounds that you hear when you are using a digital device can be helpful, these sounds may be grating or …
How to Enable Cloud Storage on Xbox 360
The update to the Xbox 360 Dashboard in December 2011 added a “Cloud Storage” feature that allows you to add saved game files to the …
How to View Remaining Battery Life on Apple Airpods
While the AirPods can last for a few hours on a single charge, you might be planning to use them for a long time. This …
Roku Express Review
There are a lot of options available now that let you stream movies and TV shows to your television. With many people opting to cut …
5 Things to Know Before You Buy an Amazon Fire TV Stick (2023 Update)
When you want to be able to stream TV shows and movies to a TV or display that doesn’t have its own apps, then you …
How to Delete Apps on Firestick (6 Quick Steps)
Your Amazon Fire TV Stick has a lot of different channels, apps, and games that you can install. It’s a pretty diverse ecosystem of content, …
Guide to Changing Firestick Name from an iPhone
As you start to add more Amazon devices to your Alexa app, you will discover that the default names aren’t ideal. This is even more …
How Does Netflix Streaming Work?
Netflix is a massive company that has become synonymous with video streaming. You are able to create a Netlfix account and use it on all …
How to Turn Off the Screensaver on an Amazon Fire TV Stick
If you don’t press any buttons or navigate with the remote control, your Amazon Fire TV Stick will start to display a screensaver. A lot …
What is the Bell Symbol on My Amazon Fire TV Stick?
If you are using your Amazon Fire TV Stick to stream movies or TV shows and you see a bell icon appear at the top …
How to Sign Out of an Amazon Account on an Amazon Fire TV Stick
It’s pretty common for multiple people in a household, or several family members, to have their own Amazon accounts. This can make things a little …
How to Enable Sideloading on the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
While the Amazon fire TV Stick is a good choice for anyone that wants to be able to stream content to their television easily, it …
How to Use a Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard with the Apple TV
Your Apple TV has Bluetooth functionality which means that you can connect some accessories to it. While this might include things like headphones, it also …
Helpful Accessories for Your New Laptop
When you first purchase a computer it can be exciting to set it up and start browsing the Internet, working, or playing games. But many …
How to Sign Out of Amazon Prime on Roku 3
The Amazon Prime subscription gives you free shipping, but it also provides a number of other features. One of these is a subscription to the …
How Do I Find My WiFi Password?
A lot of homes and businesses will have wireless, or WiFi networks, that people can use to connect to the Internet. If you have one …
How to Edit Temperature Presets on Nest Thermostat
Once you go through the process of buying and installing the Nest Thermostat you are probably excited to take advantage of the features that it …
How to Turn Off Nintendo Switch Sleep Mode
The battery life on the Nintendo Switch is pretty good, and it’s likely that you can play it for several hours before you need to …
How to Delete a Channel on a Roku TV
All of the channels on Roku are found in the Roku channel store, and are one of the best reasons to use a Roku device …
How to Disable the Apple TV Screensaver
Many set-top streaming devices have some kind of screensaver to help prevent an image from burning into the screen if it’s left on for too …
What File Format is My USB Flash Drive?
If you aren’t able to access the storage space of a USB flash drive then it can be frustrating to troubleshoot the problem. If you …
How to Record Video With the Nikon D3200
The Nikon D3200 is a very capable camera with a ton of options. Even if you only bought it to take pictures, it may become …
How to Disable the Screensaver on a Roku TV
Your Roku TV has many of the features that you would find on other smart TVs, as well as having most of the features that …
How to Use a Photo from Your iPhone as Your Echo Show Background
The Echo Show is a very handy device, and you may find that you are looking at and using it pretty frequently. But the current …
How to Turn Off Interest Based Ads on the Amazon Fire Stick
Your Amazon Firestick can let you watch a lot of video content from a number of different streaming services. But you may be seeing some …
How to Turn Off Navigation Sounds on the Amazon Fire Stick
The steps in this guide will show you how to change a setting on your Amazon Fire TV Stick that will disable the sounds that …
How to Enable Automatic Updates for Amazon Fire Stick Apps
The steps in this guide are going to show you how to change a setting on your Amazon Fire TV Stick so that your installed …
How to Restart the Amazon Fire TV Stick
Your Amazon Fire TV Stick, much like your computer or your phone, is an electronic device that runs an operating system. And, just like those …
How to Hide Chat in Twitch on an Amazon Fire TV
The steps in this guide will show you how to hide the chat column that appears at the right side of the screen when you …
How to Use Private Listening Mode in the Roku App
The Roku app that you can download on your iPhone allows you to control your Roku device when you are connected to the same wireless …
How to Make Your TV Automatically Switch to Your Roku Premiere Plus
Depending on the number of devices that you have connected to your TV and the method that you use to manage them, it’s possible that …
How to Enable Device Connect on the Roku Premiere Plus
Your Roku Premiere Plus has a ton of available channels that make it easy for you to watch almost any kind of content that you …
How to Reboot Roku Premiere Plus
Many of the electronics in your home can be left on for an extended period of time. The Roku Premiere Plus is one such device …
How to Enable Closed Captions on the Roku Premiere Plus
Closed captions are an important part of the viewing experience for people with hearing problems. By displaying the video dialogue, as well as information about …
How to Rename an Input on a Roku TV
When you purchase a Roku TV and start using it, the interface that you see when you turn it on is the standard Roku interface. …
How to Reserve an IP Address on a Netgear N600
Do you have a device that is accessed by other network computers via IP address? This is helpful when other folder sharing options aren’t working, …
How to Turn Off the Audio Notification on an Echo Dot
The Echo Dot is a fun, inexpensive device that lets you do a lot of different things. One of its features is the ability to …
How to Turn Your Mobile into a Portable Arcade
In case you didn’t already know, smartphones are more than just a device capable of connecting you to family and friends. Through a combination of clever technology and the power of the Internet, you can now use your phone to connect to a world of information and entertainment. In fact, thanks to the increased efficiency of these devices, more people are using their smartphones for things other than communication than ever before.
Technology in Sport: Positive or Negative?
Since the invention of the World Wide Web at the end of the 1980s, technology has quickly become a key component of everyday life. In …