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How to Ship Packages Without Leaving Your House
When you mail a letter, all you have to do is slap a stamp on it and stick it in the mailbox.
How to Turn Off the LED Lights on Your Eero Wi-Fi Units
Those tiny lights on your Eero router may not seem very bright, but once you turn the lights off in the room, it's like they shine as bright as the sun.
How to Control Your Eero Wi-Fi Network with the Amazon Echo
Thanks to the power of Alexa and its open API, you're able to control a vast number of devices using just your voice.
How to Unregister an Amazon Product to Give It to Someone Else
When you buy an Amazon hardware product, like an Echo, Fire TV, or Fire tablet, it arrives already linked to your Amazon account in order to reduce any friction with the setup process.
How to Re-Program the Hue Dimmer Switch to Do Anything with Your Lights
The Hue Dimmer Switch is a great way to add physical controls to your Hue lighting system but it's a bit rudimentary.
How to Let Anyone Connect Their Phone to Your Google Home
If you have guests over and want them to have access to the Google Home's speaker functionality, you can enable Guest Mode, which allows them to connect without being on your Wi-Fi network.
How to Take Care of Your Home’s Appliances So They Last Longer
Big home appliances definitely aren't cheap, but they can last for a really long time if you take care of them and perform the proper maintenance at regular intervals.
Six Ways the Amazon Echo Can Be Helpful During Game Night
The Amazon Echo can perform tons of tasks with just your voice, like turning on lights, setting alarms, and even playing music.
How to Provide Guest Access to Your Eero Wi-Fi Network
When you have guests over who want to use your Wi-Fi, Eero makes it really simple to create a guest network for them to connect to.
How to Create Family Profiles with Eero to Limit Internet Access
If you have kids, then you might know a thing or two about how difficult it can be to yank them away from their computers and other devices so they get their chores done on time or just spend quality time with the family.
How to Replace an Outlet That’s Controlled by a Light Switch
In some houses, light switches on the wall might control individual outlets, where you can plug in lamps and other lights.
Do LED Light Bulbs Really Last 10 Years?
LED bulbs are bit a more expensive than other types of light bulbs, but they claim to last a lot longer.
How to Customize the News You Hear from Google Home
If you enjoy listening to the news on the radio while you're on your way to work, you can get a head start by having your Google Home tell you the news while you get ready in the morning.
How to Build a Sunrise Alarm Clock on the Cheap
Sunrise-simulating alarm clocks are a great way to wake yourself up in the mornings, but commercial sunrise simulators are ridiculously expensive.
You Can Use Philips Hue Bulbs without a Hub
Philips Hue bulbs connect to a central hub that allows you to control your lights remotely from your smartphone.
How to Control Your Smarthome Devices with Google Home
To provide your Google Home with even more capabilities, you can connect a few different smarthome devices and control them using nothing but your voice.
How to Bring Back Three-Finger Drag on the MacBook's Force Touch Trackpad
With the introduction of the Force Touch Trackpad on the new 2015 MacBooks, Apple also changed some of the gestures around, including getting rid of the three-finger drag that made it easy to move windows around.
How to Set Up Google Home
Google Home is a new entrant in the voice assistant device market, where the Amazon Echo has reigned as the unopposed victor for nearly two years.
How to Improve Your Amazon Echo Experience by Training It to Your Voice
Like all voice assistants, Alexa isn’t perfect at understanding everything we say.
How to Set Up the Eero Home Wi-Fi System
If your house has Wi-Fi dead zones and weak spots, it may be time to ditch the old-school router setup and go with a mesh newtork like the Eero Home Wi-Fi System.