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So you have a shiny new Chromebook and want to give it a little  oomph. There are definitely some neat accessories out there to superch… Click Here to Continue Reading

A file with the .MOBI file extension is used for storing eBooks. It was originally a Mobipocket Reader format but has since been adopted by several different readers as well. Amazon purchased Mobipocket in 2005, and later discontinued the MOBI format in 2011.

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Ever wish you could respond to an email with a GIF, like you can in messaging apps? With Gmail now you can.

Have you noticed the internet sometimes feels slower than ever, even as broadband speeds get faster?

The cordless tool market has improved greatly over the years, but perhaps the greatest advancement has been the sheer variety. Click Here to Continue Reading

You can quickly add visual appeal to your Microsoft Word document by adding a background color, image or texture. You can choose from a variety of colors and fill effects. Adding a colorful background image can be helpful when creating a brochure, presentation, or marketing materials.

Geeks are hard to buy for—especially if you aren’t one yourself. Click Here to Continue Reading

Ask any Android purist and they’ll tell you: stock Android is the one true Android. But objectively, it’s not perfect, and there are things that Samsung devices do better than any stock Android device out there—even Google’s own devices.

Google Chrome for Android, iPhone, and iPad shows “suggested articles” from the web on its New Tab page. You can hide those if you’d rather clean up your New Tab page and avoid the distractions.

It’s common knowledge that water does bad things to electronics, but there are still a few things you may not know about how exactly water can damage electronic components and what you can do if you ever accidentally take your devices for a swim.

Premium noise cancelling headphones are pretty expensive, but the Anker Soundcore Space NC sets out to prove they don’t have to be. Click Here to Continue Reading

The Amazon Echo is a device that can quickly become the center point of your smarthome setup, but what if you live in a larger home where one Echo just won’t cut it? Here’s what you should know about bringing in a second, or even a third, Amazon Echo into your house.

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Google is officially done trying to teach all of you to shoot your videos properly, so they’re going to make vertical videos look slightly better.

Ecobee is rolling out a new feature to some users that will automatically tweak your thermostat when energy rates get too high. The new… Click Here to Continue Reading

So you want to start chipping away at that screenplay in your local coffee shop, but lugging your laptop along isn’t ideal. Click Here to Continue Reading

Although WhatsApp lacks a password for signing in to your account, it does, however, have a two-step verification to keep anyone from gaining access to your account if they steal your SIM card. Here’s how you’re able to reset that 6-digit PIN if you’ve forgotten it.

For months now, the tech nerd community won’t stop talking about MoviePass, and I’m sick and tired of hearing about it. Can MoviePass just die already?

So you’ve installed the iOS 12 beta and, well, you’re experiencing some bugs. That’s okay, because you can quickly downgrade to the stable iOS 11.4.1.

We’re huge fans of automatic watches here at Review Geek b… Click Here to Continue Reading

While it’s commonly thought Chromebooks aren’t good for anything more than surfing the web, that’s not the case. If you need to do some video editing from your Chromebook, there are definitely some tools out there that can do the job.

Microsoft Word has several simple color adjustment options so that you can quickly and easily style the images in your Word document. Whether you want to create an artistic masterpiece or simply get your document to match your printer’s settings, you can change your images to black and white in Word.

Windows 10’s antivirus does a good job overall, but it lets crapware through. A hidden setting intended for organizations will boost Windows Defender’s security, making it block adware, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, or whatever you want to call this junk.

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Fresh ground coffee tastes better, but really high quality grinders are expensive. What’s a coffee aficionado on a budget to do? Click Here to Continue Reading

Cord cutting is picking up steam. Forecasters are predicting a 33 percent increase in people dropping their cable subscription this year over last—faster than analysts predicted.

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If you’re running regularly, it’s useful to be able to track your progress, pace, elevation, and route. Click Here to Continue Reading

Too often I find myself taking way too much time to figure out easier ways to control my smarthome devices, but I think many of us (including myself) forget that there’s a better way: not having to control them at all.

Every year, thousands of women struggling with fertility issues use egg donors so they can have babies of their own. However, getting a child who looks like them is generally left up to the doctor’s judgement and fate. Until now, that is.

Sometimes the best way to troubleshoot and operating system, application, or service is to consult the log file(s) that app or service generates as it goes about its business. But what is a LOG file and how do you see what’s in it?

MoviePass currently has a business model of burning money. Turns out they burned a bit too much. On Thursday night, the service experienced an “outage” because the company ran out of cash.

As Steam unveils an overhaul to its chat system that barely competes with the rising star of Discord, we’re left to wonder why this took so long to begin with. What the heck does Valve even do anymore?

Automated dog food dispensers won’t just make your life easier, they can also improve yo… Click Here to Continue Reading

If you don’t have a specialized keyboard, you have to do a little extra work to type letters with accent marks in Microsoft Word. Here are a few ways to get it done.

A few months ago, Google added a feature to Google Assistant called Custom Routines that allows users to create strings of commands that can be executed with just a single phrase. Starting today, you can schedule those commands.

So you just bought that dream laptop. Super-powerful. Amazingly thin. Click Here to Continue Reading

One of the biggest question we see about Chromebooks is “can they run Photoshop?” The answer to that is no—at least not the full version you’ll find on other platforms. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do photo editing.

The viewfinder is the bit you look through on your camera when you’re taking a picture. There are two main kinds: optical viewfinders and electronic viewfinders, although live view screens are also used. Let’s look at the differences between them.

Microsoft just added a dark mode to Outlook.com, but Google is way ahead of Microsoft. Gmail has had a dark theme for years. Here’s how to enable it—and get a better, more complete dark mode for Gmail, too.

Password managers help you by saving those complex passwords that can be pretty difficult to remember. If you’ve forgotten your Snapchat password, you can’t really recover that same password, but it’s easy enough to recover your account by resetting your password to something new.

If you want to feel immersed in your PC games and effectively communicate in online multiplaye… Click Here to Continue Reading

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Most smart home gadgets like Hue or Nest will make you use unique names within their service. Click Here to Continue Reading

Windows updates are a necessary evil for PC owners, which often result in the computer rebooting to successfully apply said update. With Windows 10, this is generally done automatically—and annoyingly.

Microsoft Edge has a dark theme, but you have to enable it in Edge’s application settings. Even if you enable Windows 10’s dark theme, Edge will keep using its light app mode until you go out of your way to select dark mode.

Google Cast is the gold standard for streaming content from your phone to speakers, TVs, and more, but something that Amazon has refused adding to its devices and services. So instead, it created its own.

If you use multiple calendars on the daily and you also use Google Home, then you know how frustrating it is that Google Home doesn’t list all your calendars when you ask about your day. Fortunately, that’s changing.

The way we shop for things changes once kids come into the picture—it’s no longer just about what we need or want, but what’s… Click Here to Continue Reading

There are lots of reasons you might want to change the amount of space between lines in a paragraph, or between paragraphs themselves. Word offers some handy preset values to use, but you can also take full control by specifying exact spacing. Here’s how.

If you’ve gotten sick of the ringtones that come with your Android phone or iPhone, it’s easy enough to buy new ones. But before you do that, there are a number of sites where you can get free ringtones. We’ve rounded up some of the best.

The iPhone 8 is a great looking phone and, naturally, you want to show off its stylish looks—but you also want to keep it safe from scra… Click Here to Continue Reading

While the smarthome industry is filled with startups and smaller companies, it’s a market that’s increasingly being controlled by the big guys, namely Amazon and Google.

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Your smartphone is kind of like a supervillain: it’s super-intelligent and has fantastic capabilities, but it’s also insanely hungry for… Click Here to Continue Reading

Love or hate Apple, you’ve got to admit: their background images are consistently stunning. Now you can download all of them.

Browser extensions and phone apps used by a combined 11 million people are recording users’ complete browsing history, a clear violation of privacy.

Outlook can trigger several types of alerts when you get a new message. You might see a taskbar notification, notice a message icon in your system tray, hear a sound, or even see your pointer change briefly to an email message icon. Here’s how to disable them all.

Some PCs, including Microsoft’s Surface Laptop and the Windows on ARM PCs, run “Windows 10 in S Mode.” In S Mode, Windows can only run apps from the Store—but you can leave S Mode in a few clicks.

If you’re lucky, your router came with a few Ethernet ports. Click Here to Continue Reading

Whether you use Microsoft Word for personal or professional writing, sometimes you may want to add supplemental notes to sections of your work. Maybe you want to make a side comment on one of your arguments, or you need to cite another author’s work without distracting from the main text. Luckily, Word has useful tools for adding footnotes and endnotes to your writing.

YouTube remembers every video you’ve ever watched, assuming you’re signed in with your Google account. YouTube uses this history for recommendations, and even encourages you to re-watch old videos. Here’s how to clean up your watch history—or stop collecting it.

How do you wrap your charging cables for storage or travel? There’s a chance that you might be doing it wrong and causing harm to the cable. Here’s how to properly wrap your cables so that they last as long as possible.

Grilling with charcoal is enjoyable, cheap, and usually results in better-tasting food, but it’s a little trickier than propane. Click Here to Continue Reading

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It’s the end of an era: Apple killed off the last of its dedicated music players last week.

MoviePass is losing money on basically every customer. Should you care?

The nature of Twitter allows people to amass thousands of posts after a few years of use, perhaps not all of which are well thought out. High-profile celebrities and politicians on Twitter frequently regret a poorly-phrased or simply offensive post. But going through that massive backlog of tweets can be a daunting task. Here are a few ways to do it more efficiently.

Samsung is the biggest manufacturer of Android phones in the world, but that doesn’t mean these handsets are perfect out of the box. In fact, most of these phones have several annoyances initially—here’s how to fix many of these.

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Text boxes let you emphasize or bring focus to specific text in a Microsoft Word document. You can choose from a variety of preformatted text boxes, or draw and format your own. They’re great for adding things like pull quotes, or even for laying out text and images on things like flyers.

Windows 10’s Redstone 5 update, scheduled for release in Fall, 2018, includes a new “Block Suspicious Behaviors” security feature. This protection is off by default, but you can enable it to protect your PC from a variety of threats.

Google is overhauling all its apps, and a new video gives you an idea of what that might look like. Spoiler: it’s all very white.

A Dopp kit—named for American leatherworker Charles Doppelt who popularized the design—is an essential bit of travel gear. Click Here to Continue Reading

It’s likely that you receive a ton of irrelevant false positive motion alerts from your Nest Cam—a car driving by, a bug flying through the frame, or a bush off to the right waving around in the wind. Here’s how you can limit those kinds of notifications using Activity Zones.

Lots of small businesses use their personal cellphones when making work related phone calls. Some may even be using old landlines for their calling needs. While it makes sense to use your cellphone, and it can be scary to make a change, owning a business in the 21st century may require an upgrade.

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Netgear has a line of security cameras under the Arlo brand, and now the company is expanding with a… Click Here to Continue Reading

While the up front cost can be high, buying gadgets for life can save you a lot of hassle over the long run. Click Here to Continue Reading

HomePod, Apple’s smart speaker, could get new phone features this year, allowing you to initiate phone calls.

If you find yourself in possession of a Word document where someone has typed two spaces between every sentence and you need to change those to use just one space, Word makes it easy to do a find and replace that changes all instances with a single command. Here’s how to do it.

Steam’s Big Picture Mode and Steam Link platform have their own branded Steam Controller. But it’s not the best one to use. Click Here to Continue Reading

Starting with iOS 11, Apple included a way to quickly disable Touch ID and Face ID on iOS. With Android P, Google is introducing a feature named “Lockdown Mode” that essentially does the same thing.

Starting with iOS 12, you will always have to unlock your iPhone or iPad to connect a USB accessory. This is because of “USB Restricted Mode,” which protects your iPhone or iPad from hacking tools like GrayKey.

A refresh rate is the number of times your monitor updates with new images each second. For example, a 60 Hz refresh rate means the display updates 60 times per second. A higher refresh rate results in a smoother picture.

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If you want high-speed network access throughout your home and Wi-Fi isn’t cutting it, you’ve probably considered running Ethernet… Click Here to Continue Reading

There’s a problem with the smarthome industry—multiple problems, actually. And after experiencing a huge boom over the last few years, smarthome as a whole has reached a plateau of sorts.

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Are we nearly there yet? How many times do you hear this on a road trip with the kids? Too often, right? Click Here to Continue Reading

Most homeowners deck out their houses with smarthome gear for the convenience and cool features, but what you may not know is that some devices come with features that can prevent problems and even potentially be life saving.

Sometimes, you want to include the data on an Excel spreadsheet in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on whether or not you want to maintain a connection with the source Excel sheet. Let’s take a look.

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The Kindle killer feature isn’t the sharp screen on the Oasis or the free books that come with a Prime account. Click Here to Continue Reading

In a batch of DLC for  Breath of the Wild , Link hit full mid-life crisis and got a motorcycle. Click Here to Continue Reading

Instagram continues to add deeper account management tools, and starting today you’ll be able to manually remove followers. This feature has been available for users with private accounts for a while, but now it’s available for everyone.

A 400 Bad Request Error occurs when a request sent to the website server is incorrect or corrupt, and the server receiving the request can’t understand it. Occasionally, the problem is on the website itself, and there’s not much you can do about that. But most of the time, the problem is one you might be able to solve—maybe you typed the address wrong, or maybe your browser cache is causing problems. Here are some solutions you can try.

There’s no need to break out a computer for a quick edit on a video you just shot—with the proper tools, you can do a lot right from your phone. Here are the best video editors for Android.

A good dog dish can help dogs big and small eat healthier—whether that means slowing down or aligning th… Click Here to Continue Reading

Photography and videography gear is expensive. Professional equipment starts at a few hundred dollars and goes up to hundreds of thousands. You might dream of shooting with a RED EPIC camera, but you probably don’t want to pony up the $19,000+ to own one. The thing is, there’s another option: rental.

Losing your hardware is bad enough, but what happens to your personal data? Could a thief with your phone, tablet, or laptop access your apps and files? It depends on the device you lost—unfortunately, most Windows PCs aren’t encrypted.

Searching in Outlook is pretty easy, but why bother typing out the same searches over and over if you perform them regularly? Custom Search Folders let you save those custom searches so you can get back to them with just a click or two.

Bluetooth speakers are a pretty great concept but you have to pay a lot for the best sound experience, right? Well, not exactly. Click Here to Continue Reading

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Finding the right cell plan for you and your family can be a challenge. Click Here to Continue Reading

Today Bloomberg is reporting that Google’s new Project Fuchsia operating system might actually be a successor to Android. Since this will likely fuel speculation, we thought we’d weigh in with our completely uninformed educated guesses as well.

If you ever lose your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, you should put it in “Lost Mode.” Lost Mode locks your device to protect your personal information, tracks its location, and places a customizable message on its lock screen.

If you’ve ever used both platforms—especially listening to audio through headphones—you probably noticed that iPhones generally have better sound and more volume than Android. But why is that?

Now that Apple has joined the wireless charging party, a lot more smartphone owners can take advantage of wireless charging pads. Click Here to Continue Reading