Android's Confusing "Do Not Disturb" Settings, Explained

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This can get annoying after a while, but thankfully you can turn those notifications off. Read This Article → How to Uninstall (or Reinstall) Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shell Windows 10’s new Ubuntu-based Bash shell doesn’t function like a normal program. To uninstall it or reset its state to get a fresh Linux environment, you’ll need to use a few special commands. Read This Article → Android’s Confusing “Do Not Disturb” Settings, Explained Travel back in time with me, if you will, to a time before Lollipop. Let's go back to KitKat (and older!), because that's sort of where this story starts. Back in those days, silencing your phone was pretty easy: you could just turn the volume all the way down to access vibrate-only and silent modes. It was a simple time, when moms would make homemade ice cream and kids would play in down by the creek until well past dark. We didn't have to think about things like "how long will I need my phone to be silent?," because everything was confined to that one simple volume slider. Read This Article → Google’s Best Hidden Games and “Easter Eggs” Google is known for throwing Easter Eggs—hidden games, tricks, and other fun things—into its products. At one point or another, I'm sure you've seen some of these little things, whether it’s the Android version icons or one of the many hidden games in Chrome. Today, we're going to talk about some of our favorites from Chrome, Android, and Google Search on the web. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Apache HTTP Server Cookbook In this eBook, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. 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