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How to Turn Off the Narrator on Xbox One

Have the Narrator stuck on your Xbox One and can’t figure out how to turn it off? This accessibility feature is designed to help people with visual impairments use the console, but if you accidentally turn it on and don’t need it, it can quickly get annoying. How to Turn Off the Narrator on Xbox… read more »

How to Turn Your Amazon Fire TV Stick Into a Fire TV Box

Your Amazon Fire TV Stick is a great device, isn’t it? Ideal for watching Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, or installing Kodi! Then there’s apps like Plex for streaming video from a PC to your TV. But this HDMI TV stick isn’t so good for other things. For instance, you’re limited only to wireless networking. Also,… read more »

How to Turn Off All the Touch Sounds in Android

Out of the box, your phone probably makes annoying sounds for everything you do. These might drive you crazy simply because you get sick of the noise, or maybe because it disturbs those around you. Thankfully, you can disable the dumb sounds your phone makes so it only makes noise when needed. How to Disable Touch… read more »

Turn OneNote Into Your Personal Cliff Notes Collection

Making notes on a novel? Here’s why you need to do it in OneNote and create your own cliff notes collection. Book assignments are a staple of classrooms around the world, and the longer you study literature, the more in-depth you’re going to need to go. If you really want to delve deeply into an… read more »

How to Turn Off Annoying Sounds in Microsoft Office 2016

Alerts and notifications can be useful, but too many and you eventually enter annoying territory. Productivity-boosting sounds include new email tones and upcoming event chimes in Outlook. Most everything else falls into the unwanted category. Sound cues are an Ease of Access feature in Microsoft Office 2016, which means you can turn them off if you deem them… read more »

How to Turn Any Dumb Device Into a Smart Home Tool

When you think of smart devices, your first thought is likely about expensive learning thermostats or home security cameras. However, you don’t need to spend a lot of money to begin transforming your house into a smart home. Really, all it takes is a TP-Link Smart Plug or two, which sells for less than $ 30… read more »

You Now Have 7 Ways to Turn Your Smartphone Into a PC 

You left your laptop at work, and you have an urgent report that needs completing and emailing to your boss. And you’re just arriving at the hotel on the first night of your holidays. What should you do? Well, as long as your documents are stored in the cloud, you could finish off the report using your… read more »

Turn Windows 10 Into a Windows XP/7/8.1 Look-Alike

While change is typically a good thing, changes to an operating system (OS) can be difficult to handle. Operating systems like Windows tend to change radically from version to version, leaving a few customers wandering through their new OS for programs and folders. Since these shifts are largely based on the user interface (UI), anything… read more »

10 More Windows 10 Features You Can Turn Off

A couple of weeks before Microsoft released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in July 2016, we looked at some of the operating system’s features you could safely disable. With the release of the Creators Update in Spring 2017, it’s time to revisit the topic. Microsoft has introduced a raft of new features, settings, and apps,… read more »

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