How to Install the Google Play Store on Your Amazon Fire Tablet

Did You Know? Within five weeks of the 1997 release of hit film Titanic, seven percent of teenage girls in the United States had already watched the film twice with a significant portion of ticket sales over the release period driven by additional repeat viewings. Geek Trivia Pandora’s Box Wasn’t A Box At All But A? Bottle → Book → Jar → Sarcophagus → Advertisement Download Application Performance Management for Dummies Riverbed Performance Management gives IT visibility and actionable insight to deliver the application performance users and the business demands. 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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Facebook's Explosive Growth In Seven Crazy Stats Facebook seriously owns the mobile internet at this point. I read not that long ago that many people in other countries literally think that Facebook is the internet. [BuzzFeed News] Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade deal that has been negotiated in secret for years, and until now, nobody knew what was in it. Now we do, and it's not very good. And there's probably nothing that will stop it. [EFF] Google reportedly wants to design its own Android chips Apple is so far ahead with their system-on-a-chip designs that the latest iPhone is as fast as PC laptops from just a few years ago. Android phone makers throws a lot of CPU cores into their chips, but they can't keep up. So this is a very smart move by Google, and long overdue. [The Verge] How Not to Sound Like an Idiot in a Steakhouse Steakhouses have a lot of buzzwords that don't really mean a thing. Angus beef just means... beef. Interesting read. [Washingtonian] YouTube Goes All-In On Virtual Reality Video As we noted in an article the other day, Google Cardboard isn't that great. But now that YouTube is adding support for VR videos, and even lets you watch regular videos as if they are on a big screen, the first big step into consumer VR has begun. [BuzzFeed] Opinion: Five hardware lessons Apple could learn from Android manufacturers for the iPhone 7 I definitely agree with most of these, especially the battery life complaint. The iPhone has surprisingly decent battery life... but I'd be happier with a slightly thicker phone and a battery that actually lasted all day. [9to5Mac] How to Center Text Across Multiple Cells in Excel If you have a label or heading on a spreadsheet in Excel that you want to center across a certain number of cells, there are couple of ways you can do this, with or without merging cells. We'll show you both ways. Read This Article → How to Silence Messages on iPhone, iPad, and Mac If you use Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then you probably know how quickly you can become overrun with message notifications, especially if you’re part of a group message. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to mute specific messages so you’re not disturbed. Read This Article → How to Install the Google Play Store on Your Amazon Fire Tablet Amazon’s Fire Tablet normally restricts you to the Amazon Appstore. But the Fire Tablet runs Fire OS, which is based on Android. You can install Google’s Play Store and gain access to every Android app, including Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, Hangouts, and the over one million apps in Google Play. Read This Article → Can a Domain Name have Both IPv6 and IPv4 Addresses? As you learn more about domain names and how the system works, you may find yourself wondering if domain names have both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious readers questions. Read This Article → How to Prevent Your Apple TV from Going to Sleep Your Apple TV, by default, goes to sleep fairly quickly when not in use. That’s great for power saving but not so great if you like to keep it on. Let’s take a look at how to extend how long it stays awake or disable sleep mode altogether. Read This Article → How to Add a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar in Office Macros in Word and Excel provide the ability to save time on predictable, repetitive tasks. You can record a series of actions into a macro and then simply click a button to run the macro and perform the task. Read This Article → How to Record Gameplay on Your Android Phone, iPhone, or iPad Windows 10, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One all have integrated ways to record your gameplay and post clips online. Now, Android devices, iPhones, and iPads are gaining integrated ways to capture videos of mobile gameplay and post it to YouTube or elsewhere. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Office 365: An Introductory Guide Explore Microsoft Office 365 works, and then discover what steps your organization should choose to implement an infrastructure that is completely driven by it. Click here to download