Home Improvement Tips

My kitchen is filled with workhorse that I carry: wooden cutting boards, balloon whisk, measuring cups, microplane Razor-knife. But as I’m spending even more time cooking at home Lockdown, I’m coming to appreciate all the little extras I don’t desperately need, but make my cooking life easier. After singing her praises for family and friends, I thought I would share …

I’ve long held that smart lights are the most sensible entry point into the connected home. They’re simple, they’re relatively inexpensive, and you’ll use them each and every day, complete with the convenience of automation and voice control. If you’re looking to make the upgrade, there are plenty of smart bulb options to consider, including a growing number of LED smart bulbs from …

If you haven’t tried cooking with one Instant pot Still, you really miss it. Called “Instapot” by many, it’s one of our most popular cooking utensils because it can handle such a wide variety of foods with almost no effort. And Instant pots The spectrum ranges from those who study the basics of pressure cooking to those who can sterilize …

Alexa is becoming a fixture in more households than ever before. But, along with all of the clever new features, some are definitely worth disabling. Sarah Tew / Tips Clear Voice assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant are just getting smarter. Lots of hidden advantages will improve your experience, and Alexa Third Party Capabilities add even more. But for everyone …

We’re all depending on our home Wi-Fi networks more than ever these days — and few things are more frustrating than dead zones where the signal drops or you just can’t connect. If your goal is to eliminate issues like those, your best bet is to upgrade your home’s router to a mesh system that uses range-extending satellite devices to …

If you have old phones collecting dust in a drawer somewhere, don’t sell them for a fraction of what you bought them for. If they still turn on, then you can make good use of them in your device At home. You could turn one into one Baby monitor or a makeshift Google Home speaker, for example. Those are good …

This story is part of Road Trip 2020, Tips Clear’s series on how we’re preparing now for what could come next. Portable power stations are the smaller, lesser-known cousin of generators. These versatile, lunch-box-sized gadgets can travel with you on camping trips, to construction sites — and anywhere else you need electricity — to keep your phone, power tools and …

The Instant Pod coffee maker. Brian Bennett / Tips Clear While coffee pods are handy, you’ll typically have to choose between two brewing systems: you will go for either Keurig or Nespresso as the brewers are not compatible. The $ 119 Instant Pod was designed to change that. This flexible coffee maker was created by the inventors of the Instant …

The The days are getting shorter and shorter and we move into that colder months. For me it conjures up images of warm drinks and Comfort food. That’s why I’ve put together this list of awesome smart home products for fall Oxo Brew 8-cup coffee maker to the Philips Hue Lily outdoor spotlights – and some other favorites. Of course, …

Following the initial announcement last year, Amazon released an update to its Sidewalk program. James Martin / Tips Clear Amazon Sidewalk, op Low bandwidth network first announced last year, gets some new smart devices getting ready to launch later this year. On Monday, the tech giant announced in a blog post that later this year “many Echo devices will support …