How to Install an Android Update Without Losing Root

Did You Know? Erwin Schrodinger, for whom the famous “Schrodinger’s Cat” experiment is named, thought the experiment was ridiculous and inherently flawed. Geek Trivia The Wreck Of The Titanic Was Discovered While Searching For? Aircraft Wreckage → Underwater Volcanoes → A Pirate Ship → Nuclear Submarines → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. 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How to Add Custom Ringtones to Your iPhone How to Access Developer Options and Enable USB Debugging on Android How to Indent an Entire Table in Microsoft Word What to Do When You Accidentally Navigate to the Wrong Registry Key How to Connect a Mouse and Keyboard to Your PlayStation 4 Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Server Cage A Server Cage is a specific kind of enclosure for server equipment that allows ample light and air flow through to the server equipment stored inside while preventing access by unauthorized individuals. 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. The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo The talking speaker started as part of a secret augmented-reality project and ended up as a surprise hit. [Bloomberg] Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system Clever scammers are creating extremely long books that trick the reader into jumping to the end (and therefore netting them significant amounts of money for nothing). [Boing Boing] Video buffering is still the scourge of streaming, but broadcast TV may hold the solution To deal with the increasing demands and complexity of delivering streaming video, content delivery giant Akamai has built a war room that looks surprisingly similar to those in the broadcast media world. [Quartz] Opera bundles free, unlimited VPN client into its browser Opera Software has become the first major browser maker to introduce a built-in VPN client for its Web users. [ArsTechnica] How to See All of the Named Cell Ranges in an Excel Workbook Naming a range of cells in Excel provide an easy way to reference those cells in a formula. If you have a workbook with a lot of data on the worksheets, naming ranges of cells can make your formulas easier to read and less confusing. Read This Article → The iPhone Shortcut That Helps You Reach Anything with One Hand When Apple first debuted the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus with their larger screens, they also introduced a feature named Reachability that makes it easier to reach the top of the screen when you’re using the device with one hand. It’s surprising, though, how many people don’t know the feature exists, or think it’s some kind of bug when they encounter it. Here’s how to use it and how to turn it off if you don’t like it. Read This Article → How to Transfer Contacts From an iPhone to Another Phone Your iPhone contacts will automatically come with you to a new phone–assuming that new phone is an iPhone, you’re backing up the contacts to iCloud, and you’re using the same iCloud account on both phones. But things get a bit more complicated if you want to do anything else. Read This Article → How to Install an Android OTA Update Without Losing Root Over-the-air updates have long been the bane of many rooted Android users' existences. It's an endless battle: installing the update breaks root or won't flash at all, but everyone wants the latest version of their mobile OS. Thanks to a new tool called FlashFire, the struggle may be over. Read This Article → What Are “ZigBee” and “Z-Wave” Smarthome Products? As you research new smarthome products to put in your home of the future, you’ll come across a lot of terms and categories that seem completely foreign. At the top of the list: “ZigBee” and “Z-Wave” products. What does this mean, and what’s the difference between the two? Read This Article → How to Add Custom Ringtones to Your iPhone The iPhone has been around for a long time, yet there’s still no easy way to add your custom ringtones to it. The process is convoluted and required (gulp) using iTunes. But if you’re determined, it is possible. Read This Article → How to Access Developer Options and Enable USB Debugging on Android Back in Android 4.2, Google hid Developer Options. Since most "normal" users don't need to access the feature, it leads to less confusion to keep it out of sight. If you need to enable a developer setting, like USB Debugging, you can access the Developer Options menu with a quick trip into the About Phone section of the Settings menu. Read This Article → How to Indent an Entire Table in Microsoft Word By default, when you create a table in Word, it is aligned with the left margin. You may want to make your tables stand out a bit by indenting them, but this cannot be done using the same formatting tools you would use to indent a paragraph. Read This Article → What to Do When You Accidentally Navigate to the Wrong Registry Key If you use the Windows Registry Editor with any regularity, you’ve probably found more than once that you’ve drilled down to a key in the wrong hive. Maybe you drilled down to a key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER when you really meant HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE . Instead of backing all the way out and clicking your way down to the right hive, we’ve got an easier way. Read This Article → How to Connect a Mouse and Keyboard to Your PlayStation 4 Believe it or not, Sony’s PlayStation 4 works with a mouse and keyboard. This makes it more convenient to type, use the web browser, and generally get around more quickly. Some games even support mouse and keyboard controls. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download