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.
How to Set Up Activity Zones on a Security Camera
A security camera that alerts you about everything effectively alerts you about nothing. Once the notifications start arriving…
How to Set Up Outdoor Solar LED Strip Lighting at Home
Solar LED strip lighting is the easiest way to light a garden path, a deck rail, a fence…
How to Set Up Voice Control for Elderly Parents
Voice control is the rare piece of smart home technology that gets easier as people age, not harder.…
How to Stop Your Router From Overheating and Dropping
Wi-Fi that works perfectly in the morning and falls apart every evening is rarely a coincidence. Heat is…
How to Sit With Sciatica Without Making It Worse
Sciatica has a cruel relationship with chairs. Sitting is the position that most reliably provokes it, and it…
How to Split Game and Chat Audio on Your PC
Running game audio and voice chat through the same channel works until it does not. Teammates shout over…
How to Tell If Your Graphics Card Is Failing
Graphics cards rarely die cleanly. They start with a flicker of coloured dots in one game, then a…
How to Set Up a TV Antenna for Free Channels
Free over-the-air television is one of the last genuinely free things in home entertainment, and all it takes…
How to Stop a Washing Machine From Shaking and Walking
A washing machine that thumps, rattles and slowly walks across the laundry floor during the spin cycle is…
How to Set Up a TV Stand and Hide the Cables
Most living rooms have a television sitting at the wrong height on a console with a tangle of…
How to Solder LED Strip Connectors Without Damage
Soldering is the most reliable way to join LED strip lights, but also the fastest way to ruin…
How to Set Up a Video Doorbell in a Rental Apartment
A video doorbell is one of the few security upgrades that pays for itself immediately in a rental:…