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Netgear’s Arlo Pro camera system saves all recorded video to the cloud, but if you want local copies of those same recordings, here’s how to connect an external USB drive to your Arlo Pro system. RELATED: How to Set Up the Netgear Arlo Pro Camera System Keep in mind, that this new method for recording videos won’t stop the videos from saving to the cloud. Instead, connecting an external drive for local storage is merely a backup method, as the videos will save to both formats....

Running a home media server is pretty awesome: beautiful cover art, playlists, and all your media right at your finger tips. One thing media centers fall short on, however, is recreating that feeling of aimlessly channel surfing just to scratch that TV watching itch. Read on as we show you how to recreate the channel surfing experience on XBMC with the use of a very clever add-on. Why Do I Want To Do This?...

Lost your Android phone or your iPad? Want to sign out of Gmail on a device you’ve lent to a family member? Don’t worry, Google lets you remotely sign out of your Gmail account on any lost or missing device. As long as you have access to your Gmail account, you can use Google Account’s privacy features to remotely log out of any connected devices. To get started, open the Gmail website in your favorite browser....

Word includes a setting that allows you to automatically convert straight quotes to smart quotes, or specially curved quotes, as you type. However, there may be times you need straight quotes and you may have to convert some of the quotes in your document. There may be various reasons why you need to convert smart quotes to straight quotes, but we’re going to show you an easy way to convert the quotes using the “Find and Replace” feature....

Computer hardware and electronic devices aren’t perfect. They may stop working on you at some point, which is why manufacturers offer warranties. Taking advantage of this warranty generally requires you perform an “RMA,” in geek shorthand. RMAs generally take two to three weeks and involve shipping your product back to its manufacturer’s service center. They’ll try to do the minimum amount of work possible to get you a working product....

Have you ever had your PC turn on in the middle of the night for some unknown reason? It’s probably either network connectivity or someone connecting a USB device. How to Stop Network Activity From Waking Your PC on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 To edit this particular setting, we need to open the Windows Device Manager. To open it, press the Win + R keyboard combination, type “devmgmt.msc” and press enter....

Chromebooks offer built-in support for SSH tunnelling with their included crosh shell and SSH command. An SSH tunnel allows you to use an SSH connection like a VPN or encrypted proxy, sending your browsing traffic through the secure tunnel. This allows you to encrypt traffic when browsing on a public network, access geo-blocked content, or even tunnel your way around Internet censorship like the Great Firewall of China. Step 1: Open the SSH Tunnel RELATED: 10+ Commands Included In Chrome OS’s Hidden Crosh Shell...

Microsoft officially announced Windows 10’s features today, and it includes things like the Cortana digital assistant, Xbox integration, a completely new browser that isn’t Internet Explorer, and yes, holograms. But should you care? We’d argue that even without the gimmicks, Windows 10 is an amazing upgrade for all. And it’s a free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8. During the announcement, which you can watch here, Microsoft spent a ton of time talking about how Cortana is integrated into the operating system, how Modern apps use the same code across desktops, tablets, phones, and even Xbox, how the new Spartan web browser lets you write on the screen to annotate the web, and the entirely new holographic interface (requires the HoloLens goggles)....

Let’s be real. As soon as you send a text message, your recipient has probably read it. So why does everyone care so much about whether an app tells them that you’ve read their messsage? You’ve seen it before. You send a message, and you get a notification saying it’s been read, but it’s hours before they actually reply: How could they be so rude as to read your message and not reply right away?...

We regularly talk about full-frame and crop sensor cameras here at How-To Geek, but there are other sensor formats, too. Let’s have a quick look at an increasingly popular option: Micro Four Thirds. A Smaller Sensor with a Different Aspect Ratio The Micro Four Thirds format sensor is normally used in small, mirrorless, consumer-focused cameras with interchangeable lenses, made by Panasonic and Olympus—although you can also find it in some high-end point-and-shoots....

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Disa is curious about loopback IPs: What kind of information can we tease out from this table? What’s the difference between them? Can they be used interchangeably? The Answer Two SuperUser contributors jumped in to help solve the mystery. First, Mmmc offers this succinct overview:...

There are few things as frustrating as having a program update and suddenly break things that were working perfectly before. Case in point, website text size with the latest stable release of Google Chrome. Is there a simple solution to the text size problem? Today’s SuperUser post comes to the rescue to help an unhappy reader get things back to normal. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....

Your iPhone’s keyboard offers some hidden tricks that can help you type faster. iPads offer some hidden tricks, too — did you know you can split your iPad’s keyboard and move it around the screen? Some of these tricks are well hidden. You may never discover them until someone tells you — or you read about them in an article like this one. Double Tap the Space Bar to Type a Period RELATED: 5 Ways to Type Faster on Your Smartphone’s Touch Keyboard...

Whether you’re switching to a new PC, reinstalling Windows, or just ensuring you don’t lose hours of gameplay if your hard drive dies, you’ll want to make sure your save games are properly backed up. Quite a few games support save-game syncing via the cloud, but many games — especially older ones — do not. You’ll need to back up and restore their save files on your own. Check if Cloud Syncing is Available Cloud syncing is the ideal....

There are plenty of things you can do with your online storage accounts. They can be used for fairly everyday things such as backing up your data, syncing files between computers or sharing files with other people. But by turning to Wappwolf you can make your cloud storage work for you, interacting with other online accounts you may have. Just what does this mean? There are numerous scenarios. You may upload photos from your phone to Dropbox so they are backed up and ready for use elsewhere, but you could help to automate this process by opting to have any images you do upload posted to your Facebook account or shared via Twitter....

Chromebooks run Chrome OS, an operating system built around Google Chrome. But what if you want to use another browser like Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge? The answer to that question is not as simple as you might think. Naturally, you’d assume a Chromebook—which runs Chrome OS—can only use the Chrome browser. After all, many people consider Chrome OS to be just a glorified browser anyway. For a long time, this was true....

The “paperless office” we were promised never seems to arrive for many people. The reality, however, is that a paperless office is here today if you want to take advantage of it. If you’re still someone who prints emails, web pages, and other documents, you can stop now. There are better ways to keep track of your information and access it more quickly — you can’t search for words on physical pieces of paper, after all....

Once upon a time, streaming services were few and far between. Many people had a cable bill and then Netflix on top of that. As time went on, quite a few people dropped cable altogether and replaced it with… more streaming services. The individual streaming services don’t seem like much of an expense: $20 here, $8 there, and so on. But if you subscribe to a bunch of services, it adds up quickly....

So you want to buy a tablet — you have a choice between the iPad, Android tablets, and now Windows 8 or Windows RT tablets. Windows tablets are often the most expensive. Software availability is crucial when using a tablet. Now that the Windows Store has reached 70,000 apps and it’s been over six months since Windows 8 launched, let’s take a look at the Windows Store and determine just how competitive it is with the other tablet platforms....

This week saw the arrival of Windows XP’s EOL date, yet many are holding onto it, and on occasion, even older systems still. How do you convince a stubborn family member that updating their unsupported system to a newer, more secure one is in their best interest? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....