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With a few much less expensive devices, you can create your own home intercom system. It takes a little bit of extra work but can save you a lot of money. A Smartphone Intercom System Since everyone in your home likely has a smartphone, it makes sense to use them as your home intercom system. This solution doesn’t require the purchase of any hardware at all. All you have to do is download a walkie-talkie app that works on both Android and iOS....

When you receive an email in another dialect, you have a few ways to translate it. You can adjust your settings to handle all incoming emails in another language the same way. Or you can do translations when needed. How to Change Your Outlook Translation Setting for Incoming Mail If you regularly receive emails that need to be translated, making a quick change in your settings to accommodate this need is a good way to go....

You can use iCloud for Windows to access Apple apps like Messages and Notes, or you can use the Your Phone app on Windows 10 to type messages, but if you want to enter text into a non-Apple app, you need another option. Enter AirType, which is a free app that allows you to enter text using your Windows PC (or even a Mac) keyboard through a browser. It’s easy to use, and you don’t need to install anything on your PC to use it....

The problem with this is your recommendations—your TikTok feed will fill with recommended videos from accounts you follow. If you aren’t enjoying that content, you might want to reset the clock and unfollow everyone on TikTok. While you can’t bulk unfollow natively in the TikTok app, there are a few workarounds you can try. Here’s how to unfollow everyone on TikTok. How to Unfollow Individuals on TikTok Within the TikTok app, it’s not possible to unfollow everyone at once....

However, this doesn’t always go to plan. A Windows update can sometimes cause your system to become unstable or break down entirely. For example, a recent Windows 10 update caused printers to stop working. While you can’t permanently disable Windows 11 updates (and we wouldn’t recommend you try), you can remove updates and pause them temporarily. This allows you to remove the troublesome update until Microsoft releases a fix or until you figure out the problem....

That said, you can use Google Docs offline from time to time. This allows you to work in your document, spreadsheet, or presentation when you lose connection (or need to limit your data usage). Any changes you make will be synced to your online document when your connection is restored. If you want to use Google Docs offline, here’s what you’ll need to do. How to Use Google Docs Offline on a PC or Mac To use Google Docs in offline mode, you’ll need to use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on Windows, macOS, or Linux....

What Is It? The concept in this game is pretty simple – fly through obstacles and avoid hitting them. As you get to higher levels, you get faster ships that can be harder to control. The only control you have here is the dragging of your finger, so it’s easy on even a small screen. The art needs an iPad to fully effect the stunning visuals. Who Is It Good For?...

— Mike Murphy (@mcwm) November 6, 2017 Do I make typos? Of course, but so do you and with your autocorrect. Do I type faster? I think so when you factor in the overall words per minute. See, there are two things that I always hated about autocorrect and autocomplete. Typing with autocorrect is like bowling with bumpers. After a while, it’s an entirely different game. Instead of trying to bowl straight down the lane, you learn to bounce off the bumpers in expected ways....

Instagram Stories allows you to highlight a particular image and message to your followers. It stays on your Instagram profile for 24 hours, is linked to your profile avatar, and is then archived. If you want people to see the stories after that, you can permanently pin them to the top of your Instagram profile in categories. Today, I will cover how Instagram Stories work, how to create them, and how to pin them to your profile....

Office 2013 Support Ending for Office 365 Business Subscriptions on February 28th Users should note that this explicitly affects the Office 365 releases of Office 2013. Perpetual versions of Office 2013 such as Professional Plus, Professional, and Standard editions will continue to be available for one-time purchases. (Mainstream support for Office 2013 with Service Pack 1 will extend to April 2018 for perpetual versions of Office 2013.) Unlike Office 365 versions of the suite, perpetual versions are rarely updated....

There are several possible reasons for Microsoft Teams not loading on Windows. There could be a problem with the app itself, your GPU drivers could be causing problems, or Windows itself could be corrupted. Typically, repairing or reinstalling the app will get it working, but you might need to try some additional troubleshooting steps. To help you, we’ll show you how to try and get Microsoft Teams running again below....

When you set up an Outlook.com account, your Microsoft address is the default, but you can change it to something else. This is handy when you have multiple email accounts set up and want to use one account for business, another for personal, one for spam…etc. Set Default Account in Outlook.com Log in to your Outlook.com address and click Settings (gear icon). Then select More Mail Settings. In Outlook.com Options, click Sending / Receiving Email from Other Accounts....

The launch event was a Broadway-style affair, led by actor Will Chase and full of funny moments. But the important thing is the device, and it’s most certainly well worthy of a flagship model. The new smartphone is very slim, at a thickness of 7.9 mm, and weighs 130 grams. The S3 was 3 grams heavier, but had a thickness of 8.6 mm. The smartphone runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and comes in two colors, black mist and white frost and has a 5 inch Full HD display (441 ppi), a normal thing for a flagship smartphone these days, as models the competition has released at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona also prove....

Visit Stadiums with Google Street View Google has gone to the trouble of capturing views of all twelve Brazilian stadiums hosting football (soccer for you Americans) matches at World Cup 2014. Some of them are nothing short of spectacular. You can find all of the World Cup stadium street views here, including the beautiful Maracana, a stadium capable of hosting almost 80,000 spectators. Out of the 12 stadiums of the World Cup, five have been purposely built, one has been rebuilt, and the remaining six have been renovated....

The Problem As a new product, email was never designed with an emphasis on security. Instead, it was created as a quick way to get messages from one person to the next. Cloud-based email services have been around for decades. Though features might differ, each operates in similar ways. Through computers or mobile devices, end-users can send emails to others all around the world. These emails and their attachments are kept somewhere in a cloud....

Instead, as Gabe Aul notes, “This update prepares devices to receive the next cumulative updates, as well as improvements to the client-side update experience.” Here’s a look at the series of tweets that Gabe posted late this afternoon: — Gabriel Aul (@GabeAul) January 29, 2016 Windows 10 Mobile Configuration Update You should get this automatically if you’re an Insider in the Fast ring. But if you don’t see it yet or want to get on top of the situation, you can grab it by heading to Settings > Update & Security > Phone Update....

Windows has set the time for years automatically but hasn’t changed the time zone automatically. You’d think that Windows was capable of this already, considering your smartphone and tablet have been doing this since their inception. But I digress, the feature is finally available, and here’s how to enable it. Automatically Switch Time Zones Windows 10 This should be turned on by default on your laptop, but before heading out on a business trip, you might want to double-check....

1. Widescreen is Standard Do you remember when standard monitors had aspect ratios of 4:3? Pepperidge Farm remembers. But anyone born in the new millennium might not. Today’s monitors are 16:9 widescreen, even on dinky netbooks like my EEEPC. What that means is that you have more screen real estate fat-wise than you do tall-wise. Especially when you consider that we scroll up and down web pages, not left and right....

Remove Recent Items on Fire TV Similar to the Kindle Fire’s Carousel, the main menu displays TV, movies, games, and apps that you’ve recently used. Sometimes this is convenient, but you might want to remove certain items. From the home screen, go to the Recent items section and scroll to the item you want to remove. Then underneath the thumbnail of the app or video, select Remove from Recent. You can mirror your Fire HDX to select TVs, but there’s not a lot of them....

People have been editing videos with iMovie on Mac for over 20 years. Available for free to anyone with a Mac, iMovie was initially used primarily by amateur videographers with a digital camera. In recent years, iMovie has successfully transitioned to a world where smart devices such as the iPhone and iPad reign. Though it all, using iMovie hasn’t changed all that much. Editing Videos With iMovie In this article, you’ll learn about the tools required to use iMovie and its different sections....