How to Use Your Smartphone as a Home Security Camera

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Indent an Entire Table in Microsoft Word What to Do When You Accidentally Navigate to the Wrong Registry Key How to Connect a Mouse and Keyboard to Your PlayStation 4 How to Use Your Smartphone as a Home Security Camera How Do You Find a Router Set Up in an Unknown Location in a House? How to Schedule Your Philips Hue Lights with IFTTT How to Enable 4K Content on the Amazon Fire TV How to Mute Group Text Messages So You Stop Getting Notifications How to Save All Your Current Tabs in Chrome for Reading Later How to Open a Recently Closed Tab in Safari for iOS Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Serializer/Deserializer A Serializer/Deserializer is a device (or integrated circuit) that is used in high speed communications to convert data into a stream form for transmission and back into a parallel form for receiving. How to Indent an Entire Table in Microsoft Word By default, when you create a table in Word, it is aligned with the left margin. You may want to make your tables stand out a bit by indenting them, but this cannot be done using the same formatting tools you would use to indent a paragraph. Read This Article → What to Do When You Accidentally Navigate to the Wrong Registry Key If you use the Windows Registry Editor with any regularity, you’ve probably found more than once that you’ve drilled down to a key in the wrong hive. Maybe you drilled down to a key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER when you really meant HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE . Instead of backing all the way out and clicking your way down to the right hive, we’ve got an easier way. Read This Article → How to Connect a Mouse and Keyboard to Your PlayStation 4 Believe it or not, Sony’s PlayStation 4 works with a mouse and keyboard. This makes it more convenient to type, use the web browser, and generally get around more quickly. Some games even support mouse and keyboard controls. Read This Article → How to Use Your Smartphone as a Home Security Camera Setting up a simple home security camera is a great way to keep tabs on your house while you’re away. A dedicated system is great, but in a pinch, you can use an old, spare smartphone that you have lying around. Read This Article → How Do You Find a Router Set Up in an Unknown Location in a House? Altering or expanding the capabilities of a Wi-Fi network that you have set up in your own home is one thing, but what do you do when someone else performed the installation and did an exceptional job of “hiding” the router in a discreet, out-of-the-way location?  Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some useful suggestions to help a frustrated reader find an elusive router. Read This Article → How to Schedule Your Philips Hue Lights with IFTTT The Philips Hue app can do a handful of cool stuff with your Hue lights, but it’s missing a crucial feature: scheduling. Luckily, there’s still a way you can set it up and have your lights turn on and off at certain times. Read This Article → How to Enable 4K Content on the Amazon Fire TV In recent years, 4K content—or Ultra High Definition (UHD)—has become more and more popular. Netflix shoots all of its original shows, like Daredevil and House of Cards, in 4K, giving owners of compatible TVs a viewing experience like never before. Getting 4K to display properly from some services, however, can be tricky. Read This Article → How to Mute Group Text Messages So You Stop Getting Notifications Group texts are great because they allow you to collaborate and communicate with several people at once while on-the-go, which is useful if you don’t have mobile Internet access and can’t use a dedicated chat client like Slack or Hangouts. Read This Article → How to Save All Your Current Tabs in Chrome for Reading Later Chrome allows you to open tabs from your last browsing session when you open the browser. However, what if you want to save your current set of tabs to re-open at any time? Chrome doesn't provide a way to do that natively, but there is an easy workaround using bookmarks. Read This Article → How to Open a Recently Closed Tab in Safari for iOS That feeling you get when you close the wrong browser tab by accident is no fun. Fortunately, Safari for iOS, like most modern browsers, provides a way to recover from your little mishap. You just have to know where to look. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download