How to Block Robocalls and Telemarketers

Did You Know? Although the word “ketchup” is now completely associated with the tomato-based condiment paste, historically, ketchups (or catsups) were made from a wide variety of food stuffs like pickled fish, mushrooms, oysters, and things that would definitely leave a modern consumer puzzled if they ended up on a hot dog at a picnic. Geek Trivia Which Class Of Invertebrates Is Considered The Most Intelligent? Arthropoda → Cephalopoda → Hydrozoa → Clitellata → Advertisement Download Business Networking For Dummies ($12 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Grow your business, build your career, find more customers, and build a valuable support network of likeminded business people. 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. 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How to Enable Sharper, High Resolution Uploads for Facebook Videos and Photos How to Add, Remove, and Rearrange Apps on the Apple Watch's Dock How to Sideload Apps on Android TV How to Search for Just About Any Tweet on Twitter How to Delete Your Firefox Account How to Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10 Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Straw Man A Straw Man is a temporary rough draft/proposal, crude plan, or prototype solution put together with incomplete information that helps a team discover disadvantages, problems, etc. and build it into something better during the development process. 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. When Thanksgiving day was rescheduled to maximize shopping time FDR's well-intentioned move did not go over well. [Timeline] Self-Driving Cars Could Benefit—or Hurt—the Environment, Report Says As we move towards an autonomous future, the impact of self-driving cars is yet to be seen: they could decrease pollution by using the transportation grid more effectively or they could increase pollution by opening up the roads to people who previously weren't driving much. [Wired] Mice Take Selfies of Their Own Brains Rodents learn to put their heads under a microscope as a daily routine, letting researchers peer into their brains while the animals are relaxed and happy. [Scientific American] Scientists Discovered a Mind-Boggling Chasm on Mercury Placed on Earth, it would stretch from Washington DC to New York to Detroit. [Gizmodo] How to Add a Google Photos Shortcut to Android’s Camera App Google Photos is arguably the best photo management app on the Play Store. It’s intuitive and easy to use, has lots of useful features, and best of all, it backs up all of your images. The thing is, if you’re using a non-stock Android phone—like an LG G series or Samsung Galaxy, for example—the stock gallery app can get in the way of an otherwise consistent and clean Photos experience. Read This Article → How to Block Robocalls and Telemarketers Modern robocalls aren’t just telemarketers trying to sell you something. They’re often scammers trying to trick you into parting with your money or identity information. So how do you stop them from coming in? Read This Article → How to Recover Software Product Keys From Any Computer, Even a Broken One Product keys are becoming less and less common these days, but if you have a piece of software on your computer—and can’t find its product key—this simple program can help you extract it. Read This Article → Do LED Light Bulbs Really Last 10 Years? LED bulbs are bit a more expensive than other types of light bulbs, but they claim to last a lot longer. But do LED bulbs actually last the 10 years that many manufacturers claim? Read This Article → How to Enable Sharper, High Resolution Uploads for Facebook Videos and Photos If you’ve noticed a big difference between the quality of the photos and videos on your phone and the versions you upload to Facebook, you’re not imagining things: by default, the Facebook mobile clients upload photos and videos using lower quality settings. Let’s fix that. Read This Article → How to Add, Remove, and Rearrange Apps on the Apple Watch's Dock The Apple Watch’s watchOS 3 includes a Dock feature, which allows you to access frequently used apps by pressing the long side button. You can easily add, remove, and rearrange apps on the Dock to better suit your needs. Read This Article → How to Sideload Apps on Android TV Android TV is an excellent product for anyone who wants to expand their current living room setup—it makes easy work of streaming most content, has a slew of games (that are actually worth playing), and is relatively inexpensive. But what happens when an app you want on your TV isn’t available for your device? Read This Article → How to Search for Just About Any Tweet on Twitter Twitter launched in March 2006, which is crazy: that’s over a decade ago! Even weirder: all the old tweets from that pre-historic era are still out there. Read This Article → How to Delete Your Firefox Account Mozilla Firefox uses a Firefox account to sync your passwords, bookmarks, and other browsing data between devices. If you’re leaving Firefox behind, you may want to delete your account to remove all your personal data from Firefox’s servers. Read This Article → How to Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10 The Windows 10 taskbar works much like previous Windows versions, offering shortcuts and icons for every running app. Windows 10 offers all kinds of ways to customize the taskbar to your liking, and we’re here to guide you through what you can do. 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