Get Sky remote to control TV’s volume One tricky part of the new Sky+ box setup process is pairing your new Sky remote with your TV so you can use it to switch your TV on and off, and control your TV’s volume. Doing so isn’t a job only a Sky engineer can do but it’s a bit convoluted. (See also: Sky Now TV Box review – is Sky’s little and cheap media-streamer a good deal for on-demand TV fans?...

Needless to say, now might be the best time to quickly (and cheaply) make your home into a smart home. We pitted both products against each other in our comparison. The Echo Dot is by far more popular in the UK smart speaker market but we found the Google Home Mini had a fuller sound range. We also liked that the Home Mini didn’t have any visible buttons. The Echo Dot on the other hand has an aux port that can connect to a more powerful speaker if needed, which the Home Mini does not have – the the latter, though, can be paired to another speaker via Bluetooth....

If you’d like a more comprehensive look at an individual phone, then check out Pixel 3, Pixel 3XL, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL reviews. What is the price difference? The Pixel 3 is available to purchase from around £739 / $799 The Pixel 2 has recently had its price cut since the release of its bigger brother and is available from £479 / $649 Design The design evolution of these phones is pretty clear to see....

The Survivor power bank we reviewed has a 10,500mAh capacity, and should offer at least 7,000mAh to your connected devices. Griffin says it offers up to five charges for your phone, but doesn’t specify which model. We’d expect the Survivor to offer most iPhones around four full charges, and Android phones between two and three full charges. However, with a 10.5W (2.1A) USB output it’s fast enough and with enough capacity that you could conceivably connect a tablet instead....

Read next: Best Xbox One games But does it work? Can you squeeze all the complexity of an RTS down to a few face buttons and a couple of triggers, or do you need the full power of QWERTY to get your tactics on? We went hands-on with Halo Wars 2 on the Xbox One and PC for a few hours to try out its campaign, multiplayer, and new game mode Blitz to find out....

While it was once rather complex to allocate more RAM in Minecraft, the release of the third-party ATLauncher changed all that. Here’s how to allocate more RAM in Minecraft on PC, and for those running Minecraft on a server too. If you enjoy the voxel-based gameplay that Minecraft provides, be sure to check out our list of the best alternatives to Minecraft. How to allocate more RAM in Minecraft While it was once a complex task to manually allocate more RAM in Minecraft, there’s now a handy mod that removes all of the manual code-tweaking....

Let’s see how to enable the new Android’s Material You-based dynamic theme on the Gboard keyboard based on the wallpaper theme color. Enable Gboard Dynamic Theme on Android 12 Material You theme is introduced in Android 12. To get the new Gboard dynamic theme that changes based on the wallpaper on Android, your phone needs to have at least Android 12 or newer. In order to change the theme settings for Gboard, you need to get into the Gboard first....

Let’s see the best possible, legal methods to block ads on the YouTube app and the web while watching videos online. Use YouTube Premium If you are disappointed by the title, sorry to say that YouTube Premium is the most suggested and legal method to get rid of ads on YouTube. If your mind is tempting to go back to those third-party apps and tools that offer to remove ads, we will explain why you should not use such ad blockers....

In this article, we are discussing the various ways you can silence or block unknown numbers on your landline, Android or iPhone. How to Block Unknown Numbers on Landline Blocking contacts using your smartphone is a no-brainer for most f the regular users. However, it is not the same case when it comes to a landline. Even though service providers offer call blocking for certain numbers by pressing “*6”, you might need a hardware device to block a list of people and manage them later....

Let us see how to Block Websites with OpenDNS and filter web traffic on home WiFi with free OpenDNS service. Step 1: Replace Router DNS with OpenDNS You can change the DNS address of your Windows or Mac, iPhone, or Android to route traffic through OpenDNS servers. However, this needs to change each device’s DNS address and going to be a lot of work. If you want to get whole protection for an entire home network, you have to do this DNS change on the home WiFi router....

HDR was supported on Windows 10 as well, but users complained about washed-out colors and other issues. Windows 11 HDR, however, seems to have fixed those issues. Windows 11 still retains the option to calibrate display for HDR content. Here’s how to do it. Calibrate Display for HDR Content in Windows 11 To calibrate your PC monitor for HDR content in Windows 11, follow the steps below. Whether you see Play streaming HDR video or Use HDR or both depends on your display....

We show you a few different ways to cast to a TV from Android. See your phone screen on your TV with a Chromecast (or Fire TV) Just like with Apple’s AirPlay standard, Google has its own way to mirror your phone screen on the TV. You can do it with Google’s Chromecast device, but if you’ve bought a TV in the past few years then it may already have the technology built in....

Let us see how to change the default mail app on iPhone and set any of your favorite mail apps as default. Change Default Mail App on iPhone You can change the default browser and default mail app on the iPhone. It is one of the biggest changes brought to iOS 14. As of now, many email apps support as default mail app for iPhone. More iPhone email apps will get updates soon with the option to set as default mail app....

In this guide, we will walk you through the steps to change your home address on Google Maps from your phone or PC. Change Google Maps Home Address on Phone You can set and change home location on Google Maps from your phone, be it Android or iPhone. It only takes the Google Home app installed on your phone to change the home address. So, to change Google Maps home address on iPhone and Android, open the Google Maps app and tap the profile icon at the upper-right corner....

You can see how you can clear predictive text and autocorrections on the iPhone keyboard. Clear Predictive Text and Auto-correction on iPhone Keyboard The iPhone keyboard has a “dictionary” personally for you. It stores the words you type the most (when the option is enabled) and it causes predictive text to popup and weird autocorrections. To reset it to the normal state, you need to reset the iPhone keyboard dictionary....

In this article, we will describe you how to make a 3D Photo and upload on Facebook. What is 3D Photo on Facebook? Social Media giant Facebook recently introduced a new feature on the platform, 3D Photo. The 3D Photo is a new interactive way of posting images on Facebook, which will show depth effects by moving. It is like bringing normal portrait images into life with independently moving background and the object....

A user profile stores personal preferences, application settings, documents and data within the C drive on your computer. We’re going to show you how to remove one of these, should you wish to do it. You’re going to need administrator privileges on your account when you do this – we have a guide to set on how to create an account with administrator status just here too. How to delete a profile in Windows 10 Press your Windows Key (located between Ctrl and Alt at the bottom left of your keyboard and R at the same time....

In Windows XP, the notification area keeps icons for programs you may long have uninstalled, but even if you go into the Taskbar options, there’s no way to clear these ‘Past Items’ from the list. Here’s a quick and easy way to do it. How to delete past items in taskbar Step 1 Click the Start button, then Run… and type regedit in the box which appears. Step 2 The registry editor will open....

See also: Windows 10 release date and features Best budget laptops of 2015 Best ultraportable laptops of 2015 How to increase the number of tiles in Windows 8.1: Resizing On a typical Windows 8.1 desktop you’ll find a mixture of tile sizes. Some will be square, while others are double width. This can make for an interesting collage, but when space becomes an issue those huge ones begin to look a little cumbersome....

A wireless Access Point allows you to add Wi-Fi to a wired broadband network. Here’s how to add a Wi-Fi hub to the end of a wired network. QUESTION I have more than 100m of ethernet cable running from a BT hub in one building to another. This works fine, but I would like to have Wi-Fi in the second building. Is there any way to add a Wi-Fi hub to the end of this ethernet cable?...