How to Make Calls and Texts From Your Smartphone Without Cell Service

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles Why I Switched From Chrome to Firefox Quantum How to Share Your Spotify Playlists with Friends (or the World) How to Make Calls and Texts From Your Smartphone Without Cell Service How to Add Custom Ringtones to Your iPhone Why Firefox Had to Kill Your Favorite Extension Don’t Buy Internet-Connected “Smart Toys” for Your Kids Why You Still Shouldn’t Buy Star Wars: Battlefront II How to Set Up and Use Multiple Profiles (User Accounts) in Firefox How to Stop Samsung’s App Permission Monitor From Displaying Notifications How to Set Up a VPN on Android TV How to Change Your Instagram Password Lots of Android Apps Will Lose Features or Disappear from the Play Store Soon Today's Review Geek Articles The PlayStation 4 Accessories You'll Actually Need Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Resident Font A Resident Font (a.k.a. Internal Font, Built-In Font, and Hard Font) is a font that has been built into the hardware (Read Only Memory – ROM) of a printer and is always available for any printing job. 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 Greatest Computer Network You've Never Heard Of It's called PLATO, it ran on computers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and it gave the world a hint of what was to come. Canadian grocery chain orders 25 Tesla electric Semi trucks Electric trucks will be delivering groceries to Loblaw locations . [TechCrunch] The World is Running Out of Sand Doesn't sound like a big deal until you remember glass is made out of sand. Why I Switched From Chrome to Firefox Quantum I’ve been using Firefox Quantum non-stop for more than a week now, starting from before its official release. For years, every Firefox release has felt slower than Chrome to me. But Firefox is now a real, speedy, modern option again. Enough so that I’m switching from Chrome back to Firefox. Read This Article → How to Share Your Spotify Playlists with Friends (or the World) Spotify and other streaming services have changed how people listen to music. While playlists were once the preserve of the radio DJ, annual compilation albums like Now That's What I Call Music, or painstakingly put together mixtapes for a crush, now anyone can make one in a few minutes. Read This Article → How to Make Calls and Texts From Your Smartphone Without Cell Service Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, and carriers know it—so they charge a lot of money for something they know you’re going to pay. But what if I told you that you could use your phone, including calls and texts, with nothing but Wi-Fi? Read This Article → How to Add Custom Ringtones to Your iPhone The iPhone has been around for a long time, and yet there’s still no easy way to add your own custom ringtones—but it is possible. If you don’t want to buy ringtones or use the ones that came with your iPhone, you can create your own with iTunes. Read This Article → Why Firefox Had to Kill Your Favorite Extension Firefox 57, or Quantum, is here, and it’s a huge improvement. Firefox has finally caught up with Chrome in terms of speed, the interface is a lot cleaner, and there are some great new features to boot. There’s not a lot to complain about here. Read This Article → Don’t Buy Internet-Connected “Smart Toys” for Your Kids Just when you thought talking toys couldn’t get more annoying, new internet-connected toys like the Furby Connect and i-Que Intelligent Robot are smarter than their predecessors, allowing your child to ask questions, get answers, send audio messages, and more. And thanks to unpatched security holes, they’re more dangerous, too. Read This Article → Why You Still Shouldn’t Buy Star Wars: Battlefront II If you’ve been following video game news at all for the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard that EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront II is having some teething troubles. EA has backpedaled to avoid more controversy, but we’re here to say: don’t fall for it. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Use Multiple Profiles (User Accounts) in Firefox Firefox has its own profiles system that works like Chrome’s user account switcher. Each profile has its own bookmarks, settings, add-ons, browser history, cookies, and other data. For example, you might want to create a profile for work and a separate profile for personal use, keeping them separate. Read This Article → How to Stop Samsung’s App Permission Monitor From Displaying Notifications If you have an Android phone, you should be aware of the permissions your apps have been granted. For instance, there’s no reason for a calculator app to connect to the web. On the Galaxy Note 8 (and probably any phones coming after), Samsung has automated this process with a tool called the App Permission Monitor, which notifies you if any apps use a permission that’s especially important or outside their normal operating range. Read This Article → How to Set Up a VPN on Android TV There are several reasons you may want to use a VPN on your Android TV box, but it’s not available as a stock option like it is in Android phones or tablets. Fortunately, there are a few ways around this. Read This Article → How to Change Your Instagram Password Instagram accounts are a popular target for hackers. I know firsthand, because someone pretended to be me to try and steal some accounts. Fortunately they didn't succeed, but if you have a weak password, you might not be so lucky. Let's look at how to change your Instagram password to something a little more secure. Read This Article → Lots of Android Apps Will Lose Features or Disappear from the Play Store Soon Android, as an operating system, is great for power users—apps have the ability to do all kinds of stuff that other, more locked-down phones can’t do. Unfortunately, one of those abilities is disappearing soon, and many power user apps could lose features or disappear from the Play Store as a result. Read This Article → Advertisement Having Old DVDs? Give the Second Chance for Them to Live You might have loads of old and unplayable DVDs because of disc aging caused by improper storing or pure man-made damages. What would you do if you have three options: throw away what you have paid good money for; keep them on the dusty shelf; or backup and rebuild your DVD content with original quality