Apple has just scored a patent with the the US Patent and Trademark Office that’s one of the most simple yet ingenious ideas we’ve seen in a while: a proximity-sensitive volume adjuster on a phone.

Skype enables business owners and employees to communicate through audio, visual and written messaging protocols. Due to these varied communication methods, Skype provides built-in controls to adjust ...

If you use a Mac, chances are you regularly adjust the volume using your keyboard's volume keys. They're handy enough, but the volume increment is pretty large. Reader cruud writes in with a new-to-us ...

This is the easiest way to change output volume on your Windows 11 computer. The steps are as follows: Click on the volume icon available on the system tray of the Windows 11 taskbar. This will open ...

Google Hangouts is one of Google's many communication apps. Unlike others, however, Hangouts prioritizes video chatting over all else. This is useful if you want to talk face-to-face with someone ...

Tell us which one you use and explain your reasoning. I personally set the OS (software) volume to a moderate level and then use the speaker volume control knob (hardware) exclusively to control the ...

If you listen to your music randomly—using the shuffle songs function in iTunes or on an iPod, or with the iTunes DJ (formerly Party Shuffle) feature in iTunes, for example—you’ve probably noticed ...