How to Combine Different HomeKit Products Into Rooms, Zones, and Scenes

There’s a very curious short coming in the Apple HomeKit system: HomeKit supports combining your smarthome devices into rooms, zones, and scenes, but if a given app doesn’t support one of those things, you’re out of luck. And no smarthome apps let you create scenes with multiple products from different companies. Enter the Home app, which solves both these problems.

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Geek Trivia: The Phrase “A-OK” To Indicate Everything Is Alright Was Introduced To Popular Culture By?

The Phrase “A-OK” To Indicate Everything Is Alright Was Introduced To Popular Culture By?

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How to Quickly Change Safari’s Default Search Engine in OS X

Are you tired of digging into Safari’s settings to change the default search engine? Dig no more, there’s a much easier way! If you like to use different search engines, or just don’t want to use Google, then there’s a much quicker way to change it from the location bar.

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How to Search for Files from a Certain Date Range in Windows 8 and 10

Say you’re searching for a file, and you know it was last modified during a certain period of time. You can limit your searches to date ranges in Windows, but it’s not immediately obvious.

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How to Skip the “Send as Text” Prompt for Messages on the Apple Watch

The Apple Watch allows you to send text messages with your voice through the Messages app. But every time you do, it’ll ask you whether you want to send a message as text or as a voice recording. Here’s how to get rid of that prompt.

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Solve YouTube’s “Spacebar Problem” with These Keyboard Shortcuts

Does this sound familiar? You start to watch a video on YouTube, and want to pause it. So you press the spacebar on your keyboard, but rather than pause the video, you randomly jump down the page instead.

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What’s the Best Way to Back Up My Computer?

Everyone loses data at some point in their lives. Your computer’s hard drive could fail tomorrow, ransomware could hold your files hostage, or a software bug could delete your important files. If you’re not regularly backing up your computer, you could lose those files forever.

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Geek Trivia: Super Glue Was Invented In Researchers Quest To Create?

Super Glue Was Invented In Researchers Quest To Create?

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How to Use a USB Flash Drive with Your Android Phone or Tablet

Ever want to watch a video on your phone or tablet without wasting its storage space? Or maybe you just need to view a file your friend gave you. Most modern Android devices support standard USB drives, so you can plug in a flash drive just like you would on a computer.

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Geek Trivia: The Fattiest Organ Of The Human Body Is The?

The Fattiest Organ Of The Human Body Is The?

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How to Restore In-App Purchases on an iPhone or iPad

This only applies to purchases you make within apps. If you purchased a paid app from the App Store, you can just revisit the App Store and reinstall the app. As long as you’re signed in with the same Apple ID you purchased the app with, you’ll be able to install it again on any device.

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How to Control Your Amazon Echo from the Web (Instead of a Cramped Smartphone App)

The Amazon Echo has a fantastic little feature that most people are unaware of: a robust web-based control panel that makes modifying and interacting with the Echo a breeze.

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Geek Trivia: Modern Domestic Apples Originated In Which Country?

Modern Domestic Apples Originated In Which Country?

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How to Customize Android’s Quick Settings Dropdown

If you swipe down from Android’s menu bar twice, you’ll get a nice panel of quick settings you can toggle with one tap. Want to hide some of these settings, move them around, or add new ones? You have a few choices.

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How to Insert the Contents of One Word Document into Another

When working on a document in Word, you may find that you need to insert text from another Word document. Maybe you’re collaborating with others and combining multiple pieces, for example.

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How to Scan for (and Fix) Corrupt System Files in Windows

If your PC has been feeling buggy or having trouble during startup, it’s possible that Windows system files have become corrupt, gone missing, or even have been changed by a software installation somewhere along the line. Like most versions of Windows before it, Windows 10 includes a Command Prompt utility named Windows Resource Protection that will scan, verify, and fix system files.

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How to Set Up a New SD Card in Android for Extra Storage

Is your Android device low on space? If your phone has a MicroSD card slot, you can use it to expand your space for music, movies or even apps, thanks to the improved SD card features in Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

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Does Windows Retain Cached Copies of Files on USB Drives?

Most of us never give much thought to what is happening in the background when copying files from one location to another, we simply complete the task and move on. But is there an extra copy left behind that we are unaware of? With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question.

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Geek Trivia: The Apollo Program Space Suits Were Designed By Which Company?

The Apollo Program Space Suits Were Designed By Which Company?

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Quickly Type Numbers and Symbols on the iPhone with This Shortcut

Normally, the default iOS keyboard presents you with the alphabet. When you want to access the numbers, you just tap the “123” key, and then the numbers and symbols will appear. In order to revert to the letters, you have to then press the “ABC” key. There’s a faster way to type numbers, though.

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How to Spell Check Worksheets in Excel

Excel’s spell check feature doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that Word’s does, but it does provide basic spell-checking functionality. You can check the spelling of words in the cells of a worksheet and add words to the dictionary.

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How to Manage Your YouTube Privacy Settings

Thanks to Google’s big Google+ push a few years ago, many YouTube accounts are connected with the real name of their owner. Punch your name into Google, and one of the first results could be your YouTube account, complete with a feed containing all the videos you’ve viewed and channels you’ve subscribed to over the past few years.

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How to Use Windows’ File History to Back Up Your Data

File History is Windows 10’s main backup tool, originally introduced in Windows 8. Despite the name, File History isn’t just a way to restore previous versions of files–it’s a fully-featured backup tool.

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