Tag: How

  • How to Set Up Instant Pot Smart WiFi Pressure Cooker

    How to Set Up Instant Pot Smart WiFi Pressure Cooker

    When you get a new Instant Pot, it’s so tempting to just dive right in and make the best tasting recipes around, in the shortest time.  But note that this electric pressure cooker need some preps before you can use it to fullest advantage.  If you take the time to learn how to connect it…

  • How to Choose High Quality Ethernet Cable

    How to Choose High Quality Ethernet Cable

    This piece covers what to look for and how to choose high quality Ethernet cable for a local area network (LAN). Cables comes in lots of lengths, plug styles, colors, and prices. The most costly patch cables can run as much as four to five times what the cheapest grade patch cords.  But the performance…

  • How to Reset Echo Dot 1st Generation Speaker

    How to Reset Echo Dot 1st Generation Speaker

    Now that the 1st Generation Amazon Echo Dot is no longer the most recent version of this smart speaker, you may be thinking about upgrading to the newer speakers.  So, you may wish to reset Echo Dot 1st Generation smart speaker to sell or gift your old one to a stranger buyer. Or perhaps you just…

  • How to Change WiFi Network on iOS Devices

    How to Change WiFi Network on iOS Devices

    Knowing how to change WiFi networks on your iOS devices allows you to quickly connect to local wireless networks anywhere you go. So in this piece, we detail how to change WiFi network on iOS devices like the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, et al. You may need to connect your iOS mobile device to different WiFi…

  • How to Clean Stainless Steel Tea Kettle

    How to Clean Stainless Steel Tea Kettle

    We’ve heated gallons upon gallons of hard and soft water for tea and hot cocoa making, with our Hamilton Beach Stainless Steel Tea Kettle. In this post, we show how to clean stainless steel tea kettle with baking soda or vinegar. We’ve cleaned our stainless kettles many times. We also discuss how to keep the…

  • How to Repair Electric Kettle Lid

    How to Repair Electric Kettle Lid

    We love our Hamilton Beach 40891 cordless kettle.  But by necessity, we learned a bit about kettle repair, when the lid for that kettle came apart after several years of use.  We fixed it, and so here, we share how to repair electric kettle lid on our 40891 Hamilton Beach teapot. So, we determined how…

  • How to Install Glass Block Windows, with Pictures

    How to Install Glass Block Windows, with Pictures

    We replaced ten basement windows with these Redi2set pre assembled glass block window panels, pictured below.  You save the hardship of laying individual blocks when installing these eight block pre-formed units.  Major time saver.  In this post, we share our experience and hints we found on how to install glass block windows in our home…

  • How to Set Sleep Timer on Alexa Echo 2 Speaker

    How to Set Sleep Timer on Alexa Echo 2 Speaker

    The generation 2 Amazon Alexa Echo smart speakers now provides a sleep timer that you set and stop with your voice!  You use it by asking Alexa to play an internet radio station, podcast, flash briefing, or some other streaming service. Then, once the media is playing, you ask her play for just the time…

  • How to Connect JBL Clip 3 to iPhone

    How to Connect JBL Clip 3 to iPhone

    This post shows how to connect a JBL Clip 3 Bluetooth speaker with the iPhone. How to Connect JBL Clip 3 to iPhone, Step by Step With your Clip 3 powered OFF (power button is dark), run through this routine to connect it with your iPhone. 1. Visit the Home Screen on the iPhone Firstly,…

  • How to Recover Clicking Hard Drive

    How to Recover Clicking Hard Drive

    Keeping a large audio library built over fifteen years, we’re quite anal about keeping current backups. That’s your first, best strategy for how to recover a hard drive that is clicking!  Hopefully, you’ve made recent backups of the HDD before it began clicking. Indeed, backup drives enable us to quickly replace clicking hard disk drives…