At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Bigger and better display Easy to use software Nice mix of fitness features Solid battery life Cons Odd decision to remove physical button Heart rate accuracy still not great Our Verdict The Honor Band 9 is a pretty low-key instalment of Honor’s affordable fitness band series that does get a bigger, better display, but essentially offers much the same in terms of performance. Best Prices Today: Honor Band 9 The Honor Band 9 is the follow-up to the Band 7, with Honor skipping a Band 8 for the latest instalment of its budget fitness tracker....

Fingerprint sensors are one of the most popular forms of biometric security when it comes to smartphones. Here’s everything you need to know about optical, capacitive, ultrasonic and in-display fingerprint sensors and how they work. What kind of fingerprint sensor does my phone have? Regardless of whether your phone’s fingerprint sensor is built into the display or the body of the device, it’s still inevitably going to fall into one of three implementation-based categories: optical, capacitive or ultrasonic....

If you don’t know what dishwasher salt is or how to add it to your dishwasher, we’ve got the answers. What is dishwasher salt? Dishwasher salt is coarse sodium chloride. Chemically, it’s essentially the same as table salt – but you should not use table salt in its place. First off, dishwasher salt comes in larger chunks, so it will dissolve more slowly and won’t block any parts of the dishwasher....

This tutorial by one of our favourite photographers, Tigz Rice, covers how you can use Color Range selections in Photoshop to specifically select skin tones from your image – and then use this remove or reduce red hues from your model’s skin. While redness can be caused by a number of natural factors, this is also a particularly handy technique for reducing the results of fake tan, which often appears as orangey-red in photographs....

WhatsApp, with its vast user base and widespread popularity, serves as a hub for conversations that involve anything from casual chatter to important discussions that contain key holiday plans or work schedules. When it all gets a bit messy and overwhelming, you might want to tidy up your chat list without losing access to information you might need. This is precisely where the handy “Archive” feature comes in. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of archiving and unarchiving WhatsApp chats, so you can keep your chats organised while retaining all the information you need....

So you want to build your own PC . Here’s a complete guide to the components you need and how to assemble them. We show you step-by-step how to build a Windows PC, with video walkthroughs. We’ve built a PC suitable for gaming for less than £500, but even if you decide to spend more and upgrade some of the components we’ve chosen, or would rather spend less and build a basic PC for email, web and photos, our guide is still relevant: the principles are exactly the same....

Windows has always allowed you to customise the size and style of the mouse pointer and the cursor, which can make it a lot easier to see if you have any kind of vision impairment or simply a small or sub-standard screen. It’s easy to do and here we’ll show you how to make these adjustments which can have great benefits. How to change mouse pointer in Windows 10 Changing the mouse pointer is very easy....

Everybody regularly downloads files or apps from the internet, whether for studying, grabbing images or finding tools to work more efficiently. Unknown files can be risky as they may hide viruses designed to steal data, extort money or misuse your PC. Thankfully, using one of the best antivirus software can help protect against these threats. There are also many good free options out there too, as you’ll see in our roundup of the best free antivirus ....

PDFs are great if you want to share documents across multiple platforms, all without worrying how the format will display on Windows, Mac, phone or tablet. They’re also perfect if you need people to add information to a file without being able to change or edit it. One downside is that the size of the files can be substantially bigger than a comparable Word or PowerPoint document. Fortunately, if you’re stuck with a massive PDF that is making it impossible to email to people, there are ways to make reduce that file size....

Maybe you want your lights to turn on just after sunset and then turn off when you usually go to bed. Or, perhaps you want Alexa to turn every light and smart plug off in and lock the doors when you’re in bed. In the morning, you can use a routine so that Alexa will greet you, tell you the weather forecast and play a particular radio station. If you have motion or other sensors, you can use those as triggers in routines, so you could get Alexa to remind your child to do their homework when motion is detected in their room after school....

How to delete photos from an iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 To delete a photo, find it in your Photos app and then tap ‘Select’ in the top right corner. Now, tap the bin icon in the bottom right corner and tap ‘Delete photo.’ You can select multiple photos at once and then tap the bin icon to delete all of the photos selected. If you’ve created your own folder of photographs and want to delete the whole thing, go to the Albums view and then tap ‘Edit’ in the top right corner....

Windows 10 is watching you. Like a software incarnation of Sting, it’s observing every move you make, or at least every move your fingers make, albeit in a less musically impressive fashion. The reason we know this is that buried in the undergrowth of Windows 10 is a feature that records and analyses your typing (and other things) with the aim of learning more about you. It’s meant to be helpful, but for many people it’s just plain creepy....

We all take our phones on holiday, but most of us have to pay for mobile data abroad. Phones are great for navigating thanks to their GPS, but map data can soon rack up large bills. But the good news is that you can download Google maps and use them to navigate with no Wi-Fi or 3G / 4G connection. Here’s how to download Google maps. See all smartphone how tos....

Not being able to remember the password for a Wi-Fi network can be a frustrating experience. Thankfully there are a few quick ways to track down the errant collection of letters, numbers and special characters. We show you how to find your Wi-Fi password by using another Windows PC or the router itself. Using a Windows PC or laptop to discover the password If you have another Windows 10 PC attached to the network, then there’s an easy way to find the password....

Printers are great when they work, but when they don’t it can be extremely frustrating. Here’s how to solve some of the most common problems, including not printing at all through to blocked nozzles and other issues. Printers can run reliably for many years and thousands of prints, but they can also malfunction or stop working entirely. Sometimes the reason is as simple as over- or under use. Many people don’t use their inkjet printers often enough and this can lead to problems with dried-up ink blocking the nozzles....

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite , the Pokémon Go-like game from the same developers, landed in App Stores in the UK and US on 20 June, a day ahead of schedule. If you, like us, eagerly downloaded the game and began playing right away, you may now be coming across the same issue: you’ve run out of Spell Energy. For those of you who’ve played Pokémon Go , Spell Energy is the equivalent of Poké Balls....

How to boost volume on Android tablet. Make Android tablet louder. Make music louder on Android tablet . In this article we look at ways to boost audio volume on an Android tablet. All of these tips will also help to increase the volume on an Android smartphone . See all Android tips . You have a load of banging music on your Android tab, but the speakers are weedy as Hell....

Windows might be a desktop operating system, but interest in running mobile apps on your PC or laptop has existed ever since smartphones took off. Emulation software such as BlueStacks made that possible soon after, but it wasn’t natively supported by Microsoft until the introduction of Windows 11 . These can now be fully integrated into the operating system and make use of multitasking features. While that results in some notable omissions, many of the leading social platforms are supported....

With savings accounts offering increasingly poor interest rates, what else can you do to boost your finances. Aside from stocks and shares, buying property or even selling your unwanted stuff online , you could try peer-to-peer lending. This is a fairly new idea that offers potentially larger gains for almost no work at all. We show you how and where you can lend your money for profit. What is peer-to-peer lending?...

You’ll get a choice of watch faces for your Android Wear smartwatch, but if none fit your exact needs it’s really easy to create your own using a simple app. Download the WatchMaker Watch Faces app from Google Play. There is a free trial version, which we recommend you try first to see if it’s what you’re looking for, but if you decide to stick with it and unlock all the features you’ll want to purchase the premium version for £2....