How to Create Custom Ringtones for Your Android Phone

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How to Customize the Title Bar Theme in Microsoft Office 2016 How to Keep Netflix from Using All Your Phone’s Data How to Create an iOS Configuration Profile and Alter Hidden Settings How to Create Custom Ringtones for Your Android Phone How Smart or Efficient Could a Workplace Office Network Be? How to View Your Nest Thermostat's Usage History How to Rename Files from the Save Dialog in OS X How to Add a Calculator to Microsoft Word How to Enable One-Handed Mode in Android’s Google Keyboard How to Allow a Standard Windows 10 User to Change the Time and Date How to See If Your VPN Is Leaking Your Personal Information Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Widget Widget is a term used to refer to a GUI (Graphical User Interface) element or a small application that is capable of displaying information and/or allows a user to interact with an application or the operating system. Some examples of Widgets are: buttons, check boxes, clocks, dialog boxes, forms, icons, labels, menu bars, pop-up windows, progress indicators, pull-down menus, resizable window edges, scroll bars, search boxes, tear-off menus, tiny maps, toggle switches, unit converters, visitor counters, and windows. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Star Wars Buttons and Lights You May Have Missed 'My first conversation with him was that spaceships should be things you see in garages with oil dripping and they keep repairing them to keep them going, because that's how the world is. So... I got hired.' [Motherboard] Gogo's new 2Ku technology: Get ready for in-flight wifi that doesn't suck In-flight wi-fi is awful but slowly, with painful baby steps, air travelers are getting DSL-level speeds while in the air. [Quartz] Life is Strange wins Facebook and Peabody's inaugural digital media prize The popular title is the recipient of first-ever Futures of Media Award [Polygon] Because failure is an option SpaceX can do stuff like land rockets on a boat In the middle of the night, amid fire and smoke, a second rocket appeared on a boat. [ArsTechnica] 3D Printing The Void Why MakerBot—and the maker revolution—failed to deliver. [The Awl] 29 years of data shows no mobile phone brain cancer link Steep increase in phone use produces 'no increase in brain cancer incidence' [The Register] How to Customize the Title Bar Theme in Microsoft Office 2016 Among the new features in Microsoft Office 2016 are some improvements to the user interface. For example, they added a background image to the title bar in each Office program, and an improved dark theme. Customizing the background and theme is easy, and we'll show you how to do it. Read This Article → How to Keep Netflix from Using All Your Phone’s Data Netflix recently updated its mobile app with a long-awaited feature: now, you can specify how much data (approximately) it uses, so you don’t go over your cellular data cap. Read This Article → How to Create an iOS Configuration Profile and Alter Hidden Settings Configuration profiles on an iPhone or iPad are sort of like Group Policy or the registry editor on Windows. They allow you to quickly distribute groups of settings and access powerful management features that aren’t normally available. Configuration profiles are really designed for organizations, but can be used by anyone. Read This Article → How to Create Custom Ringtones for Your Android Phone So you got a shiny new Android phone. You changed the wallpaper, bought a case that you like, arranged your home screens…you know, made it yours. Then someone calls. Why on earth are you still using a stock ringtone? Get that out of here—it's time to not only make it look like yours, but sound like it too. Read This Article → How Smart or Efficient Could a Workplace Office Network Be? When you set up a network in your office, and depending on the equipment and setup used, just how smart and/or efficient could that network actually be? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to View Your Nest Thermostat's Usage History If you’re curious about how often your heat or air conditioning is on throughout the day, you can actually look at your Nest’s usage history to see when things were running, as well as see what the temperature was set it at a particular time during the day. Read This Article → How to Rename Files from the Save Dialog in OS X OS X is a great, finely polished operating system, but it’s not without its flaws. For years, there has been no way to rename files from the Save dialog–until now. Read This Article → How to Add a Calculator to Microsoft Word To do basic arithmetic in Word, you normally have to open the Windows calculator to get your answers, then manually insert them into Word. However, there is a third-party add-in for Word that provides a popup calculator that will calculate numbers in your document, and automatically insert the answer. Read This Article → How to Enable One-Handed Mode in Android’s Google Keyboard We've all been in a situation where one hand or the other simply isn't available for responding to a text message, and with the ever-increasing size of Android phones, that's starting to become more of an issue. The good news is that Google Keyboard now has a much-needed feature: One-Handed Mode. Read This Article → How to Allow a Standard Windows 10 User to Change the Time and Date By default, only users with administrator rights in Windows 10 can change time and date settings. If you’re using Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise edition, however, you can use Group Policy to allow standard users to change the time and date. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to See If Your VPN Is Leaking Your Personal Information Many people use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to mask their identity, encrypt their communications, or browse the web from a different location. All those goals can fall apart if your real information is leaking through a security hole, which is more common than you’d think. Let’s look at how to identify and patch those leaks. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $25 value!) FREE for a limited time Kit includes "Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices" plus 3 other resources to help you understand IT security. Click here to download