How to Block Calls in Android, Manually and Automatically

Did You Know? American author Samuel Clemens’ pen name, Mark Twain, is actually a river boat term that means measure (mark) two (twain) fathoms deep. Geek Trivia Ruminants Differ From Other Animals In That They Have? Two Hearts → Four-Chambered Stomachs → Vestigial Horns → Cloven Hooves → Advertisement Download Excel 2016 Quick Reference Guide This Microsoft Excel 2016 Quick Reference provides shortcuts, tips, and tricks for the spreadsheet software. Use it to brush up on the basics and to find alternate methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! 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. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Unblock a File from Windows’ “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” Warning Bookmark Chrome’s Settings Pages for Quicker Access Later 48 Kinect Voice Commands You Can Use On Your Xbox One How to Block Calls in Android, Manually and Automatically Can You Convert an Internal Wireless Adapter Into a Dongle? What’s the Difference Between 1st- and 2nd-Generation Philips Hue Bulbs? How to Set Up and Use Extensions in Photos for OS X How to Reset Notepad to Its Default Settings on Windows Google Will Make a Custom Case for Your Nexus, But It’s Not That Great How to Monitor Your FPS in UWP Games on Windows 10 Why Are There So Many “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables” Installed on My PC? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Blogalogue A Blogalogue (a.k.a Blogalog) is a blog-based discussion that can consist of: A discussion between a blogger and their readers A published conversation An interview between a blogger and a separate party 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. Google aims to kill passwords by the end of this year Android users will be able to log in to services using a combination of their face, typing patterns, and how they move [The Guardian] Too Bad We Didn't Find Aliens Before the Internet Was Invented The guidelines for announcing the discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe were drawn up before the widespread use of the Internet. That's a problem, say SETI researchers. [MIT Technology Review] The Hidden Science of Elevators How powerful algorithms decide when that elevator car is finally going to come pick you up.​​ [Popular Science] "When it's done": How Blizzard dragged Overwatch across the launch threshold Discussing betas, balance, and business amid the shooter's anticipated release. [ArsTechnica] Why Digital Assistants Are a Privacy Nightmare A.I. helpers like Alexa and Siri are useful, but they're not smart enough to keep your questions private—at least not yet. [The Atlantic] How to Unblock a File from Windows’ “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” Warning The Security Warning dialog box in Windows displays when you run or open a file that Microsoft doesn't recognize as a trusted file. The file is blocked unless you specifically tell Windows the file can be run or opened. Read This Article → Bookmark Chrome’s Settings Pages for Quicker Access Later Google Chrome’s internal chrome:// pages are full of all kinds of statistics, tools, and experimental features (much like the advanced settings of any other browser). What you may not know is that many individual settings have their own URL as well, and aren’t listed individually on the chrome://about page. If there are any you access regularly, you can bookmark them for easier access in the future. Read This Article → 48 Kinect Voice Commands You Can Use On Your Xbox One If you have a Kinect, you can use a variety of voice commands with your Xbox One that turn it on, navigate the interface, skype your friends, and even record your gameplay. Read This Article → How to Block Calls in Android, Manually and Automatically It’s dinner time. You’re just sitting down when you get a call. On the other line, a robotic voice says: "We have important information regarding your credit accounts. Please hold to speak to a representative." Read This Article → Can You Convert an Internal Wireless Adapter Into a Dongle? If you hate seeing good electronic parts go to waste, then you likely look for ways to incorporate them into other devices or have them serve as accessories of some kind. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post offers some helpful advice to a curious reader. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between 1st- and 2nd-Generation Philips Hue Bulbs? The 2nd generation of Philips Hue smart light bulbs have been out for quite a while now, but you can still buy 1st-generation Hue products at some stores. Here’s what you need to know about the 1st- and 2nd-generation Philips Hue hubs and bulbs, and the big differences between the two. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Use Extensions in Photos for OS X Photos for OS X is already a fairly full-featured application, but with extensions that you can easily add in just a few clicks, you can make it do even more. Read This Article → How to Reset Notepad to Its Default Settings on Windows Notepad is a basic but useful text editor that's been included in Windows in some form since the beginning. You've probably customized Notepad for the way you work, but now you want to reset Notepad to its default settings. No worries. It’s easy, and we'll show you how. Read This Article → Google Will Make a Custom Case for Your Nexus, But It’s Not That Great Everyone who uses a phone case wants something they actually like. So a customized phone case with the image of your choice sounds like a no brainer, right? That's exactly what Google is doing with "Live Cases," a new $35 product for the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6P that allows users to completely customize the look of their phone case with a photo or map. It’s…okay. Read This Article → How to Monitor Your FPS in UWP Games on Windows 10 Tools like FRAPS and NVIDIA’s ShadowPlay are great for monitoring your game performance on Windows, but they don’t work with Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) games. Thankfully, a few tools will let you monitor your framerate and benchmark games made for Windows 10’s new application platform. Read This Article → Why Are There So Many “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables” Installed on My PC? If you’ve ever scrolled through your list of installed programs in Windows, wondering why there are so many versions of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable on there, you’re not alone. Join us as we take a look at what these things are and why there are so many installed on your PC. Read This Article → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. 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