The Best Android Shortcuts You’re Probably Not Using

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Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Turing Number A Turing Number is a randomly generated security code (digits or characters) that is displayed/presented as an image on web pages or other online locations in order to verify that the user is, in fact, a human (after entering the code in the appropriate form field) and not an automated bot. 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 forgotten Internet of Cyber.kdz The 1990s era series of young adult novels pitched the idea of the Internet being cool before most of its readers were even using the Internet. [Daily Dot] Teen uses lawn-mowing money to fund Apple collection Everyone needs a hobby, and this kid's hobby is big enough to rival a museum collection [Cult of Mac] The four lives of Epic Games Inside the long history of Epic Games and their rise from early DOS games to the present. [Polygon] Amazon Prime Now arrives online with one-hour delivery service It'll cost you $7.99, but two-hour delivery is free. [ArsTechnica] 'Silicon Valley' Is Secretly Teaching You About The Real Tech Industry It might be a hilarious and sometimes absurd look at the tech industry but the popular show is also a a strange sort of history lesson at the same time. [Popular Science] How to Hide Contact Photos in Messages on the iPhone By default, on an iPhone 6/6 Plus or 6S/6S Plus, photos for your contacts are displayed in the Messages app. If you don't want to see those photos, though, you can hide them with a simple setting. Read This Article → How to Remove an Old Computer from a Windows Homegroup Windows Homegroup is great for sharing documents, pictures, and printers between computers on your home network. If you’ve had it set up for a while, you may have noticed that the ghosts of old computer hang around in your Homegroup list. Here’s how to banish them. Read This Article → How to Hide Sensitive Notifications From Your iPhone’s Lock Screen If you have notifications enabled, apps normally display your messages right on your lock screen. But you can hide the text of those messages without disabling the lock screen notifications entirely, allowing you to see you have a message while preventing people from reading those messages over your shoulder. Read This Article → The Best Android Shortcuts You're Probably Not Using The beauty of technology isn’t just doing more stuff–it’s doing stuff quickly. Whether you want to call a specific contact with one tap, keep your phone unlocked when you're at home or work, launch the camera in a flash to quickly capture the perfect moment, or search for an app while in a rush, here are some of the best shortcuts built into Android that you're probably not using. Read This Article → How to Install Plex on Your Apple TV While Apple might pitch the Apple TV as the center of your streaming video universe, we know there’s no place like home when it comes to high quality content. Let’s take a look at how to access your vast home media server selection with Plex. Read This Article → The Difference Between Belkin's WeMo Switch and WeMo Insight Switch Belkin’s WeMo lineup of smarthome products makes it really easy to turn almost anything into a smart appliance. But if you aren’t sure what the difference is between the WeMo Switch and the WeMo Insight Switch,  here’s what you need to know. Read This Article → How to Turn Off the LED on Your Sonos Player Bright white LEDs have progressively made their way onto all kinds of electronic devices. If you own a Sonos player, you’re already aware that they too come with a bright white LED on top, which can be distracting in dimly-lit rooms. Read This Article → How to Set Custom Ringtones for Specific Contacts in Android Everyone likes to know who’s calling before they actually pick up the phone, and the easiest way to achieve that is with custom ringtones for specific callers. That way, when your phone starts blasting “Cherry Pie,” you know it’s your wife. Or when it’s “Roll Out (My Business),” you know it’s your boss. Fortunately, this is a simple process in Android. Here's how to do it. Read This Article → How to Use the Google Drive Desktop App to Sync Your Files Anywhere Google Drive has become one of the premiere cloud storage options for millions of computer users over the past few years. But it isn’t just about Google Docs and Slides–you can also use it to sync your other files across computers, and access them offline, without a browser. Read This Article → How to Find a Lost iPhone’s Owner by Asking Siri You found somebody’s lost iPhone. They were cautious enough to enable a passcode, so you can’t root around in their contacts looking for the owner. If Siri is enabled, though, she can help you get the iPhone back to the right person. Read This Article → Should You Disable Windows Services to Speed Up Your PC? Windows comes with a bunch of services running in the background. The Services.msc tool allows you to view these services and disable them, but you probably shouldn’t bother. Disabling the default services won’t speed up your PC or make it any more secure. 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