Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Did you know you can adjust the brightness of your iPhone’s ...

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of artistic, dramatic lighting. But when it feels like I’m watching a movie blindfolded it’s ...

Owning a Chromebook with a backlit keyboard can be exceptionally useful but it’s equally useful to know how to adjust that lighting. One backlight setting simply doesn’t work for every environment or ...

Way too many people had to adjust their television sets to watch this past Sunday’s Game of Thrones episode. In fact, there were so many Monday morning articles about all the settings you should try ...

Learn how to adjust Windows 10 screen brightness with this tutorial. You will save yourself a lot of time and frustration later if you do. Learning how to adjust screen brightness in Windows 10 is ...

You can now adjust your iPhone's brightness by tapping the home button three times. Photo: Buster Hein/Cult of Mac iOS 7 made it easier than ever for iPhone users to toggle the brightness on devices ...

Despite the growing number of apps and services readily available for Android, there is a shortage on apps that lets you tinker with your phone’s lighting and brightness settings. Though there are a ...

We’ve been asked “can you adjust the Vita’s brightness?” Thankfully, the answer is yes, and there’s even a shortcut. There are two ways to adjust the brightness. There’s the slow way – Settings, Sound ...

This is a story about a successful system that nevertheless failed to make the cut. An experimental LED brightness adjustment is something [Mitxela] explored in a project for a high-precision clock; ...

I notice that WMP and PowerDVD do not allow a user to adjust the brightness when playing DVD movies off of a DVD disc.<BR><BR>The most obvious example of this is using the adjustment sliders in WMP.