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Smart speakers, smart lights and all the other clever smart home devices available now generally Work From Home March 29, 2024 5 Tools To Manage Social Media Posting By Ciara McLaren There’s a huge difference between posting on personal social media and influencing. A regular Joe can post as often—or rarely—as they like. A professional content creator has to post every single day to build a business. Thankfully, there’s an easy way for influencers to manage social media posting: scheduling. March 28, 2024 How AI Can Help You Work Better From Home By Harry Guinness Whether you run a small business, work remotely for an employer or freelance, working from home comes with some challenges. You can’t walk over to coworkers and bounce ideas off each other, you have to really stay on top of your schedule and everything happens online. The latest generation February 16, 2024 How To Be a Virtual Volunteer By Beau Feeny According to the Stanford Center of Longevity, about 90% of people want to volunteer, but only about a quarter of people do volunteer. Inability to travel, distance from population centers and lack of time contribute to the gap between wanting to volunteer and doing it. But volunteering is good December 22, 2023 What is the Difference Between 5 Gig and 5G? By Beau Feeny Comments 6 comments If you’re shopping for new mobile phone or home internet service, you'll come across a whole alphabet soup of acronyms to decode. It’s confusing, so let’s get smart about what 5 Gig, 5G and even 5GB and 5GHz all mean. Why so many G's? Gig is all about gigabit, October 31, 2023 How Much Internet Data Are You Using? By Harry Guinness If you have an internet plan with a monthly data cap, you’re probably worried about going over it. It’s not always easy to know how much data your internet activities are using. So, let’s break things down, look at how internet data is measured and consider the best ways Technology May 10, 2024 What Internet Cookies Should I Accept? By Harry Guinness Almost every time you visit a website you will get some kind of pop-up or banner asking you to accept cookies or telling you what cookies are used. But what should you do? Just click accept? Decline them all? Or ignore the pop-up and browse on? Let’s take a April 30, 2024 When To Use 5GHz on Your Router By Harry Guinness Wi-Fi relies on radio waves to connect your devices to the internet. Those radio waves typically operate at one of two frequencies: 2.4GHz and 5GHz. While your router almost certainly has a 2.4GHz network set up, it might not have the 5GHz channel active. If this is the case, April 12, 2024 How Does Wi-Fi Work? By Harry Guinness Wi-Fi uses radio waves to connect your devices to the internet wirelessly. It’s what allows you to use your smart TV to watch Netflix or your laptop to make video calls without needing a cable between your device and your router. Let’s look a little deeper at how it April 5, 2024 How To Safely Sell Your Used Electronics By Ciara McLaren New electronics are expensive. Old electronics still hold some value. So, why not sell your old laptop, tablet or smartphone to help pay for the latest and greatest model? What’s the worst that could happen? It turns out that the worst that could happen is actually pretty bad. If March 20, 2024 Should You Worry When There’s a Data Breach? By Sara Nguyen Every day you're entering your personal information online. You type in your password to access your email account or give your credit card information to an online storefront. Companies will often store this information, and it's up to them to keep it secure from hackers. But it doesn't always Smart Home May 3, 2024 How To Make Your Home A Smart Home By Harry Guinness Even if your house was built in the 1800s, you can still make your home a smart home with voice-activated lights, a whole-home audio system and all the cool smart home features you want. Smart speakers, smart lights and all the other clever smart home devices available now generally April 24, 2024 How to Set Up Parental Controls on Your Smart Home By Ree Winter Updated on May 2, 2024 It's crucial to use parental controls at a time when technology is deeply woven into our daily lives. Parents often wrestle with an intricate web of devices within their homes. As kids become more familiar with their own personal devices, like phones, computers and April 18, 2024 Predictions on Smart Home Tech to Come By Rachelle Dragani Updated on May 2, 2024 In the ever-evolving world of tech, there’s always new smart home technology on the horizon. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is where we learn about what’s up and coming in the world of cool new products. This show has a February 27, 2024 Choosing the Right Smart Home Monitoring System To Prevent Floods and Fire By Rachelle Dragani Updated on May 2, 2024 Homeowners face an uphill battle against fires and floods. Insurance prices are rising as quickly as disaster can strike, and just the thought of repairs and rebuilding post-calamity can be overwhelming. Thankfully, there are a growing number of ways to protect your home from January 29, 2024 New Smart Home Hubs Are Emerging By Harry Guinness Smart homes aren’t some futuristic fantasy—they're here. Right now, you can build an awesome smart home with lights that come on with a voice command, smart security cameras that beam footage to your smartphone, smart locks that tell you when your door is open and so much more. At Entertainment March 7, 2024 Why Do I Need Subtitles When Streaming? By Derek Self It’s a familiar feeling in the age of streaming: You’re watching a movie at home when suddenly you can’t hear the actors. You turn up the volume, so you don’t miss the plot. But that doesn’t help, and you start to wonder—is it me or my TV? Chances are, January 31, 2024 Guide to the Best Streaming Video Services for Different Genres By Ree Winter If you’re convinced downloading is better than streaming, choosing the right combination of streaming services can be overwhelming. Before you know it, your credit card statement contains several small payments to various services that all add up. According to one survey, the average American spends $39 monthly on streaming November 21, 2023 How Do I Manage My Streaming Accounts? By Ree Winter When you start streaming your TV content, you find a lot of new rules to learn. You come across terms like users, accounts, households or profiles. What do they mean, and how do you set up your accounts so they’re right for the way you want to watch? You September 29, 2023 How to Turn Alexa Into Your TV Remote By Helen Anne Travis She can play your favorite songs, make your coffee in the morning and help you set your thermostat. But did you know you can also use Alexa to control your TV? It’s one of the 100,000-plus skills you can enable on your Alexa device to make life a little September 8, 2023 How and...