How to Unify Your PC and Android Phone for Seamless Notifications, Sharing, and More

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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 Sync OneNote 2016 Notebooks to Your OneDrive Account and Access them Anywhere How to Set an Ethernet Connection as Metered in Windows 8 and 10 How to Run Linux Commands From Outside the Bash Shell on Windows 10 How to Unify Your PC and Android Phone for Seamless Notifications, Sharing, and More How to Lock Your Ecobee3 Thermostat with a PIN Code How to Save Articles for Reading Later with Pocket How to Gain Full Permissions to Edit Protected Registry Keys How to Make All Your Past Facebook Posts More Private How to See What’s Taking Up Space on Your Chromebook HDR Format Wars: What’s the Difference Between HDR10 and Dolby Vision? 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Read This Article → How to Set an Ethernet Connection as Metered in Windows 8 and 10 Windows 8 and 10 both allow you to set certain types of connections as metered so that you can limit the amount of data Windows (and certain apps) can use without asking. You can use the regular Settings interface to set mobile and Wi-Fi connections as metered, but for some reason Windows assumes you won’t need to do this with wired Ethernet connections. If you use an ISP that has monthly data caps, you know better. The good news is that a quick Registry edit will fix you right up. Read This Article → How to Run Linux Commands From Outside the Bash Shell on Windows 10 Windows 10 includes an underlying “Windows Subsystem for Linux” to run Linux applications, but it’s only accessible via the Bash shell. However, there is a way to run Linux applications without first launching a Bash window. Read This Article → How to Unify Your PC and Android Phone for Seamless Notifications, Sharing, and More Sometimes you need to get stuff from your computer to your phone—pictures, files, links, text, etc. And most of the time, that's way more of a pain than it should be. If you're tired of uploading files to Dropbox or Drive, emailing links to yourself, or—worst of all—plugging your phone into your computer just to get your stuff from point A to B, stop. There's an easier way. In fact, we've got three easier ways. Let's get to it. Read This Article → How to Lock Your Ecobee3 Thermostat with a PIN Code If you have kids in the house and are strict about the thermostat, you can lock down your Ecobee3 with a PIN code so that no one can adjust the temperature except those authorized to do so. Read This Article → How to Save Articles for Reading Later with Pocket Bookmarks are so last decade. If you find an article online that you want to save for later, stick it in Pocket–a free web service that saves articles and syncs them to all your devices, without ads or unnecessary formatting. You can even read them offline. Read This Article → How to Gain Full Permissions to Edit Protected Registry Keys We talk about a lot of cool things here at How-To Geek that you can do by editing the Windows Registry. Occasionally, though, you will run into a Registry key or value that you don’t have permission to edit. When you try, you’ll see an error message saying “Cannot edit _____: Error writing the value’s new contents.” Fortunately, just like in the Windows file system, the Registry provides tools that let you take ownership of and edit permissions for keys. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Make All Your Past Facebook Posts More Private When you post on Facebook, you can choose who will see that post, as well as all future posts. However, what if you want to limit who can see all the posts you’ve made in the past? Facebook has a setting to do just that. Read This Article → How to See What’s Taking Up Space on Your Chromebook I love Chromebooks (and Chrome OS in general), but it has always bothered me that there isn't an easy way to see how much of my device's internal storage is actually being used. I get the whole "live in the cloud" thing, but c'mon—sometimes that just isn't practical. And with the limited amount of storage found on most Chromebooks, you really need to be able to keep a close eye on what's happening. Read This Article → HDR Format Wars: What’s the Difference Between HDR10 and Dolby Vision? Get ready for another format war! The next big thing in TV is HDR. But “HDR” isn’t just one simple feature–there are two different, incompatible HDR standards. That means not all HDR videos and games will work with every TV. 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