How To
Step-by-step walkthroughs for setting up, troubleshooting and maintaining the gear in your home office. Each guide is written while actually doing the task, with the dead ends and error messages left in rather than tidied away.Start here when something is already broken and you want the answer without a preamble.
Where to Place Security Cameras Around Your Home
Most home camera setups fail not because the hardware is poor but because the cameras are pointing at…
How to Set Up a DIY Home Security System, No Contract
Professional monitoring contracts made sense when home security meant a hardwired panel, a phone line and an engineer…
How to Test Your Home Water Hardness Before Buying
Buying a water filter before you know what is in your water is a bit like buying medicine…
How to Clean Hard Water Stains Off Glass Shower Doors
Glass shower doors look spectacular for about six months. Then a cloudy film creeps up from the bottom,…
How to Map Your Wi-Fi Signal With a Free Heatmap App
Everyone has a room where the Wi-Fi mysteriously falls apart. The usual response is to buy an extender,…
How to Position Your Desk Relative to a Window
Where you put your desk in relation to the window decides more about your working day than the…
How to Light Your Face Properly for Webcam Video
Ask anyone who works with cameras what improves an image most for the least money, and the answer…
How to Install an AIO Liquid CPU Cooler Step by Step
An all-in-one liquid cooler looks intimidating in the box, but installing one is mostly a sequence of careful,…
How to Mirror Your Phone Screen to a TV
Showing something from your phone on the television should take five seconds, and sometimes it does. The rest…
How to Balance a Wobbly Ceiling Fan in Simple Steps
A wobbling ceiling fan is unnerving to watch and easy to misdiagnose. Most people assume the fan is…
How to Install a Filtered Shower Head Without Tools
Swapping a shower head is the rare home upgrade that costs little, takes ten minutes, and produces a…
How to Load a Dishwasher for the Cleanest Results
Two people can put the same dishes into the same machine and get completely different results. One opens…