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If This, Then That (or IFTTT) is a powerful automation system that allows you to link disparate tasks together. For example, you can link your smart lights and your email together so that your lights flash when an important email comes in–but what do you do if it suddenly stops working? If your IFTTT tasks…

If you love role-playing games (RPG), especially digital ones, then there has never been a better time to be a fan. Mobile gamers in particular have a huge variety of RPGs to choose from. Who would have thought you could one day boot up Baldur’s Gate or Knights of the Old Republic on a smartphone?…

With so much to do and the many distractions around us these days, it is tough to keep track of every task that needs to get done. Fortunately, technology has made it easier for us to remember the important things we need to do thanks to reminder apps. Most Android phones come with their own…

It seems like people just can’t get enough of the how-to guides on creating hidden folders or locked folders in Windows. I’ve already written two guides on how to hide a folder, one by using a very simple built-in feature of Windows and another by using some Windows scripts. In the latter article, I also mentioned a…

This post was born from the fact that I really enjoy customizing the layout of the icons on my desktop, such as placing system icons at the top left, moving all application icons to the right side of the screen, etc, but I hate it when all of the icon positions get messed up whenever I…

The PlayStation 5 is one of the hottest items this year. Millions of PlayStation fans have now received their big and chunky next-gen consoles. This also means having to learn the quirks that come with the next generation. When it comes to the PS5, there are a few hard rules about external PS5 storage you…

In Windows 10, there is a new icon in the notification area of the taskbar called Action Center, which basically fixes the problems with notifications in Windows 8. Action Center stores all the notifications from the operating system and from your installed apps. It also has action buttons that allow you to perform certain tasks quickly…

While Google Docs isn’t really built for drawing, there are options for users who are looking to add shapes to their documents. Most users will use Google Drawings within a Google Docs document to do this, but you can also insert images, use basic tables, and use special characters to add shapes within the text.…

One of the limitations of subtracting dates in Excel is that the application can only give you either the number of days, the number of months, or the number of years separately, rather than a combined number. Luckily, Microsoft included a built in Excel function to give you precise differences between two dates in a…

These days, when most people think of office suites (integrated word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and personal information managers), Microsoft Office or Google Drive Office Suite come to mind – and for good reason. Both are well-developed and highly effective solutions for creating, managing, and archiving business documents, as well as generating, responding to, and collecting…

Trying to open, view or edit certain file extensions in Windows isn’t always the smoothest process. Windows, by default, supports numerous extensions including all of the MS Office formats. However, there may be some additional steps required to open other file types, such as POT .PO and .MO. POT, .PO and .MO files are common…

Android is one of the most customizable operating systems out there as you can tweak pretty much everything on your Android device. Unlike iOS, Android even allows you to download and install apps onto your device from unofficial sources. What that means is you no longer need to rely on the official Google Play Store…

There are few industries that haven’t felt the seismic impact of digital transformation by now, but some seem incapable of being changed with code and tech at first glance. Alcohol is certainly one of those areas. Given its primary purpose–consumption–one might ask how a beverage that is wholly dependent on a bodily process (drinking) could…

Smart lights are one of the most useful smart home devices on the market today. They provide a wide variety of options to use to automate lights inside and outside of your home. In this article, we’ll cover how to do this by using either actual smart bulb solutions, or by using other smart home…

Computer graphics are amazingly sophisticated these days. Especially in video games, some of which are almost photorealistic! This is all thanks to a dedicated hardware component known as the GPU or graphics processing unit. A sophisticated microprocessor that has a very different design to the CPU (central processing unit) which handles all general purpose processing…

Your computer contains all kinds of hardware, such as disk drives, DVD/CD-ROM drives, network adapters, and sound and video cards, as well as external devices, such as printers, keyboards, monitors, and USB drives. When you install an operating system (OS), such as Windows or Linux, that OS needs to be able to talk to the…

If you’re in the market for some new smart lights, the first choice many people would suggest is Philips Hue. But is the Philips Hue range really the best option available? Whilst Philips Hue lights are great quality and are paired up with a powerful bridge, we think there are some great competing products that…

DJI upended the drone market with it’s powerful, tiny, and affordable Mavic Mini. It was a drone with a few serious sacrifices, but for the right user it’s in a class of its own. Now DJI has released a brand new iteration of their tiny drone. This time the Mavic branding is nowhere to be…

YouTube is the biggest public streaming platform in the world. Anyone can start a channel (Online Tech Tips has a YouTube channel too!), make content and then share it with the world. YouTube has grown into a viable business model for many people, letting them earn substantial amounts of money while doing something they love. …