How to Minimize Your Android Data Usage and Avoid Overage Charges

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Signs and/or causes of Software Rot include: slower responsiveness, erratic behavior, missing updates, bad software design, potential incompatibility with upgrades to the computer’s operating system, etc. 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 cost of a trip to Mars could be brain damage Scientists say the voyage to Mars could turn you into a basket case. And that's before arriving on a planet with dozens of ways to kill you. [CNET] The Man Who Fixed Hubble "Spaceman" documents Mike Massimino's unlikely journey from fire inspector's son to elite astronaut. [Popular Science] Would You Take an 8% Pay Cut to Work From Home? The average worker would, economists report in a new study. And they'd take a 20 percent pay cut to avoid weird hours. [Bloomberg] NSA could put undetectable "trapdoors" in millions of crypto keys Technique allows attackers to passively decrypt Diffie-Hellman protected data. [ArsTechnica] How to Create Multiple Subdirectories with One Linux Command If you want to create a directory containing several subdirectories, or a directory tree, using the command line in Linux, generally you have to use the mkdir command several times. However, there is a faster way to do this. Read This Article → How to Get Your Android Device to Show up in File Explorer (If It Isn’t) You can use your Android phone to listen to tunes, watch videos, and take photos, but in order to get those files on–or off–your device, sometimes you have to plug it into your desktop PC. When things work right, it's great, but it can be frustrating if your device isn’t detected. Read This Article → How to Add Pie Controls to Your Android Phone, No Root Required If you’ve never used pie controls on your Android device before, you’re missing out. Pie controls are a unique way of quickly accessing your navigation keys and other shortcuts that don’t take up any space on your screen — you simply swipe in from the side to bring them up. Read This Article → How to Minimize Your Android Data Usage and Avoid Overage Charges Increasingly sophisticated phones and data-hungry applications make it easier than ever to blow through your cellphone plan’s data cap…and incur nasty overage charges. Read on as we show you how to manage your data use. Read This Article → What Are Layers and Masks in Photoshop? Photoshop can be confusing. It's a massive program with countless tools and techniques. However, it's not the advanced stuff that throws most people, but the very basics. As soon as you start using Photoshop, you'll probably need to use Layers and Layer Masks. If you don't wrap your head around them, you'll never be able to get much further. Read This Article → How to Access .onion Sites (Also Known as Tor Hidden Services) Website addresses that end in “.onion” aren’t like normal domain names, and you can’t access them with a normal web browser. Addresses that end with “.onion” point to Tor hidden services on the “deep web”. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions (a $11.99 value) FREE for a limited time 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions is a manual that will help you home in on exactly what the interviewer is trying to learn…with each and every question he or she asks. If you've never done well on interviews, never even been on a job interview, or just want to make sure a lousy interview doesn't cost you a job you really want, Ron Fry will help you get that job—as he has helped literally millions of people nationwide and throughout the world. Click here to download