Use Android 6.0’s Hidden System UI Tuner to Customize Your Quick Settings and Status Bar

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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 Make the Header and Footer Different on the First Page on an Excel Spreadsheet Use Android 6.0's Hidden System UI Tuner to Customize Your Quick Settings and Status Bar Why You Shouldn't Jailbreak Your iPhone How to Re-enable the Old Upper-Case Touch Keyboard in iOS 9 How to Insert Page X of Y into a Header or Footer in Excel How to Use Google Now on Tap, Android 6.0’s Best New Feature Thoughts from the Geek This is a daily column written by Lowell Heddings, the founder and owner of How-To Geek. If you prefer, you can read this column in a web browser instead. Android is Hilariously Insecure – 87% of Phones are Vulnerable Android is hilariously insecure. That’s why we recommend iPhone over Android if you’re at all worried about security. Sure, you might be able to do a few more things with Android, but you’re also leaving yourself open to a lot more potential security threats. The lead image is from androidvulnerabilities.org, which has an app that is used to detect which devices are patched. Note that we’re not recommending that you install that app, as we’ve never used it, and it monitors your device in the background and sends back data to their servers. ​Android security a ‘market for lemons’ that leaves 87 percent vulnerable Nearly 90 percent of Android devices are exposed to at least one critical vulnerability, because of Android handset makers’ failure to deliver patches, according to research from the UK’s University of Cambridge. Consumers, regulators, and corporate buyers face a common problem when assessing Android smartphones, in that no one knows which vendor will supply patches after Google develops fixes for Android security bugs. “The difficulty is that the market for Android security today is like the market for lemons,” If you absolutely must get an Android phone, at least get a Nexus device straight from Google, as those usually receive patches on a more timely basis.   Every type of tech product has gotten cheaper over the last two decades — except for one The US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks prices for broad categories of goods over time. As this chart of prices for the last 18 years shows, prices have dropped dramatically in almost every tech sector. The drop in computer hardware is particularly steep. The one exception? Cable, satellite TV, and radio service. I was just complaining about the price of internet access the other day. Previous Thoughts You Might Have Missed: Wednesday: How to Protect Yourself from Security Holes in Adobe Flash (and Other Plugins) Monday: Do You Buy Physical Media or Have You Gone Digital? Sunday: (Fast) Internet Access is Way Too Expensive in the US Saturday: The More You Know: Browser Plugins and Extensions Aren't the Same Thing Friday: Firefox is Killing Support for Browser Plugins, and That’s a Very Good Thing Geek Comic Today's Tech Term rcp rcp (Remote Copy) is a command used in Unix operating systems that allows an individual to remotely copy one or more files from another machine in the network. What We're Reading from Around the Web Chrome Drops Notification Center from Windows, Mac and Linux How Much You'll Need to Retire in the Most Expensive U.S. Cities [Lifehacker] Skype for Business iOS app now available Google Now On Tap Is Cool, But It's Not That Useful Yet [Lifehacker] Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell and Lenovo Team on Big PC Advertising Push How is NSA breaking so much crypto? Hackers Can Silently Control Siri From 16 Feet Away [Wired] How to Make the Header and Footer Different on the First Page on an Excel Spreadsheet You can add text, such as page numbers, filename, worksheet name, and date, to the header and footer on your spreadsheet. But, what if you want the first page of your worksheet to have a different header than the rest? That's an easy task to accomplish. Read This Article → Use Android 6.0's Hidden System UI Tuner to Customize Your Quick Settings and Status Bar Android now allows you to customize the shortcuts that appear in your Quick Settings panel and the icons that appear on your status bar. This is part of the hidden “System UI Tuner” screen, added in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Read This Article → Why You Shouldn't Jailbreak Your iPhone There are plenty of downsides to jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad. You’ll be behind on iOS updates and forced to jailbreak each new version of iOS you want to use. More importantly, leaked security documents show jailbroken iPhones are more vulnerable to attack. Read This Article → How to Re-enable the Old Upper-Case Touch Keyboard in iOS 9 One of the improvements implemented in iOS 9 was a new style touch keyboard that easily allows users to tell the difference between upper and lower-case mode. If you prefer the old style touch keyboard however, here is how to re-enable it. Read This Article → How to Insert Page X of Y into a Header or Footer in Excel If you have a large spreadsheet in Excel, you may want to add page numbers. Doing so is easy, and you can even add them in the format of "Page X of Y". Read on to find out how. Read This Article → How to Use Google Now on Tap, Android 6.0’s Best New Feature Android 6.0’s big hallmark feature is Google Now on Tap. Part of Google Now, Now on Tap allows Google to scan the screen whenever you open it, automatically guessing what you want to search for and providing you with more information. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (Free eBook Valued at $29.99) Plus 3 Bonus Resources! This is the book you need to be fully up-to-speed with this powerful open-source toolkit -- and you're getting 3 additional security resources to increase your knowledge as well. Click here to download