BT’s Home Hub 5 is a surprisingly good bundled router. It’s more attractive than most, supports BT Infinity (VSDL) fibre broadband without needing a separate modem and also has 802.11ac Wi-Fi – the latest standard. We gave it a recommended award in our Home Hub 5 review. However, you should make a couple of changes to its settings to get the best from it. Out of the box it performs reasonably well, but for some reason, BT decided it would be a great idea to give both the 2....

Create a Room or Group in Alexa Tap the “+” button at the top right corner of the screen. From the popup menu, tap the “Add Group” option. Choose “Create a Room or Device Group” from the next screen. Now, select a name for your room, and then you can select devices to add to this group. You can also add your Alexa speaker to this room so it gets easier to control the devices in one room using a dedicated Alexa speaker....

How to change your Gamertag First up, the easiest thing to change in your Xbox account is the Gamertag, though you may have to pay a fee. If your Gamertag was generated for you when you made your account, you can change it once for free. If you came up with it yourself, you’ll be charged for any changes. At the moment, the fee is £7.99 per Gamertag change, so you might want to make sure you’re happy with the new one before you commit to a change....

Well, here are some most efficient methods to charge your smartphone without even electric power. Editor’s Note: Don’t perform this DIY solution by yourself if you are not a technical guy or familiar with the battery polarity. The wrong polarity connection may lead to fire malfunction of the smartphone. Your TV Remote Battery can Charge your Phone. In the case that your smartphone ran out of battery and you do not have any alternative power source to charge up the battery, the three battery wiring (DIY) is a great approach to survive until power restores....

Lets us see how to get Fortnite on Android phones and please go through the steps here to prepare for it. Content Fortnite Android Compatible Devices Fortnite for Android is not fully compatible with all phones after all these years. First of all, the Fortnite developers have been released a compatibility list of Android phones. Make sure your phone is on the list before you jump in to install and play Fortnite on Android....

We’re using Documents, which makes it quick and easy to download directly onto your iPhone or iPad. We also explain explain whether it is legal to download YouTube videos. Documents app On your device, go to the App Store and search for “Documents by Readdle”. This is a free file management app that’ll let you download YouTube videos. Once installed, launch Documents and tap the bottom-right icon that looks like the Safari icon (a compass)....

Let us see how to share portrait photos from iPhone with blur and lighting data so that you can edit the same portrait photos using another iPhone. Share and Edit Portrait Photos on iPhone When you share or AirDrop a portrait photo from an iPhone to your iPhone, it mostly shares the photo as a normal image and may not let you edit portrait blur and all. With this quick workaround, you can share portrait photos with blur and lighting information....

Without further ado, let us see how to enable history navigation feature on Chrome and use on Android phone to navigate between webpage history. Enable History Navigation with Gesture in Chrome At this moment, this feature is available on Android phone with chrome browser. As the first step, you have to open the Chrome flags and enable this feature. That’s all. You enabled the flag on Chrome that will allow using the gesture to navigate back and forth on webpages for visited pages....

Here we will show you how to enable predictive text and autocorrect in Windows 10. Content Enable Predictive Text in Windows 10 You must have noticed the word suggestions as you type on your phone. The same you can get on your Windows PC with the predictive text option. To enable predictive text in Windows 10, open Settings by pressing Windows Key + I, or Start > Settings. Go to the Devices settings....

Without further ado, let us see how to enable split screen on Andriod Pie and switch the apps on the split screen. How to Enable Gesture on Android? If you are not enabled the gesture on Android, you have to enable Android Gesture to get the Split Screen feature. Please follow the steps below; That’s it, Now you have turned on the Gesture feature on Android. You can take advantage of the gesture feature to perform many actions on Android Phone....

‘Unfortunately X has stopped’: What does it mean? The error message itself is self-explanatory. It means an app has crashed. Also see: How to permanently delete unwanted apps: free up space on your device by getting rid of unnecessary apps So you could just relaunch the app, but what should you do if you keep seeing the same error message? How to fix ‘Unfortunately Samsung Galaxy has stopped’ error message We’re using ‘Samsung Galaxy’ as an example here because we’re aware of it being a particular issue of late....

Many third-party developers compile various custom ROMs and kernels to experience a change in the appearance and performance of a device. A brand-new Android device comes with preinstalled stock firmware. This stock ROM has limited functionality; however, you can improve it by flashing a custom ROM. This way you can not only gain some extra features but also improve your device performance. But flashing any custom firmware is a risky process....

Here is how to Force and Lock the Google SafeSearch on your child’s Google Account to filter out adult contents. You can switch the SafeSearch on Google Search Engine in two methods: from the search results page, as well as from the Search Settings where you can customize the behavior of search results and lock the SafeSearch permanently. Turn on SafeSearch from Search Results on PC If you are on your PC logged in to the Google Account that your child uses, you can easily filter out the search results instantly right from the Google web page itself....

Without further ado, let have a look at how to free up space on Android with the built-in features and Files Go App. Use Android Free up Space Android Free up space is pretty simple to use and quick and easy to free up the memory with this built-in Oreo feature. The easy formula for more space is clean up the unwanted apps and files, and this Oreo feature makes that process easy....

A new operating system is always going to have teething troubles, and it will be no different with Windows 10. There’s a vast range of hardware out there, spanning almost a decade (in some cases even older). So, there’s always going to be a chance a driver will be missing when you update to Windows 10. But you shouldn’t worry. Here’s why. How to get drivers for Windows 10: automatic driver installation As with playing games in Windows 10, it’s important to understand that the new OS is backwards compatible with Windows 7 and 8....

It can be pretty frustrating trying to have a phone call with someone and you can only just catch what they’re saying if you try really hard and put your finger in your other ear. A lot of the time you’re probably better off just having a conversation over text message. Increasing the call volume on your phone is really simple, though and should solve this problem. How to increase in-call volume in iOS, Android and Windows Phone You’ve probably been searching through your settings menu to find some kind of in-call control or volume slider but you won’t have found one because there simply isn’t one....

Chromebooks are excellent devices that offer great value and a surprising amount of capability. This can be increased by the addition of Android apps, many of which can run on Chromebooks, albeit with a little help. Google recently announced the App Runtime for Chrome, which allows developers to adapt their Android apps to Chrome OS. So far four official apps have been released using this runtime – Evernote, Duolingo, Vine, and Sight Words – but with some effort it’s possible to get a lot more of them using this feature....

In this guide, we will walk you through what a DEB file is and how to install a DEB file on Ubuntu. What Is a DEB File on Linux? Getting started with Linux has always been easier than getting started with Windows in the past. It is only now that you can simply open up the app store on Windows and install apps with one click. On Linux, this has been a feature for over a decade....

There are loads of videos on YouTube showing you how to make a hologram projector for your phone. Most of them involve the use of graph paper, a craft knife, a CD case, a ruler, actual maths and other bits and bobs that you may or may not be allowed to play with unsupervised. (I’m 32 and I still can’t be trusted with a craft knife.) Our idiot’s guide to creating a hologram projector for your phone requires simply a pair of scissors, a piece of sellotape, a marker pen and a bit of seethrough plastic that’s flimsy enough to bend (and easy to cut), and sturdy enough not to fall apart....

For this you’re going to need help from outside sources. We show you how to use third-party software to move Whatsapp from iPhone to Android. Transferring WhatsApp using WazzapMigrator Yes, we know that the name of this app harks back to those annoying Budweiser ads from the early 2000s, but don’t let that put you off. WazzapMigrator is a great way to transfer your content from one platform to another....