Cut slots into a piece of paper to represent the IR remote control bitstream for putting your TV into standby. Insert it between your TV’s IR receiver and the flame from a lighter, and pull the slots ...

If your wall-mounted garage door opener is less than two decades old, adding a remote is fairly easy, whether you prefer ...

Sometimes, the best hifi gear is the gear you’ve already got. This is particularly the case in the cassette world, as high quality decks are long out of production. [Nick] liked his current rig, but ...

There are five other Sky TV tricks you need to know YOUR Sky TV remote can not only control the Sky box – but your actual television too. It’s a handy trick and worth setting up if you’ve got a spare ...

The Oxford Dictionary defines a remote control as a device that can take “control of a machine or apparatus from a distance ...