How to Tether Your Android Phone and Share Its Internet Connection with Other Devices

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles Why Are MOBA Games like League of Legends So Popular? How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone How to Make iPhone Notifications Disappear as Soon as You've Read Them How to Tether Your Android Phone and Share Its Internet Connection with Other Devices Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Enable Windows 10’s Hidden Retail Demo Mode Four macOS Server Features That Are Now Built In to High Sierra How to Create a Custom Apple Watch Face from a Photo or Album How to Speed Up Downloads on Your Mac, iPhone, and iPad with Content Caching Blizzard Is Doing eSports Right with Its New Overwatch League How to Disable the “Is Running in the Background” and “Is Using Battery” Notification in Android Oreo How to Stop Apple Music from Taking Over Your iPhone’s Play Button How to Calibrate Your Laptop’s Battery for Accurate Battery Life Estimates Today's Review Geek Articles The Best iPad Cases for Kids: Keep Your Tablet (and Kid!) Safe and Sound Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Palette In the context of computer graphics software, a Palette is: The set of available colors that may be chosen from by a user to use for their current project A collection of drawing tools, such as a pencil, paintbrush, eraser, etc. that are represented by symbols grouped together into a convenient toolbar-like panel area for ease of access/use 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. Behind the toys that every child will want this Christmas Unboxing videos are the new toy commercial, and the annoyingly named "L.O.L. Surprise" is ready to capitalize on that. [Quartz] Elderly doctor: I lost my license because I don't know how to use a computer A rural doctor in New Hampshire lost her license because she wasn't using the state's electronic drug monitoring program. 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Read This Article → How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone You're having a night out. With dinner down the hatch, you're walking down the street with your sweetheart to the next destination. You reach into your pocket to pull out your phone, when that feeling hits the pit of your stomach: your phone is missing. Did you leave it at the restaurant? Or maybe at home? Did someone steal it? Your mind races. You have no idea. Read This Article → How to Make iPhone Notifications Disappear as Soon as You've Read Them The Notification Center in iOS is split into two sections: your new notifications, and your History. Notifications for things that have happened since you last looked at your phone appear at the top. After that you've got all the older notifications that you've seen but haven't done anything about; they appear under Earlier Today, Yesterday, and so on. Read This Article → How to Tether Your Android Phone and Share Its Internet Connection with Other Devices Tethering is the act of sharing your phone’s mobile data connection with another device—such as your laptop or tablet—connecting it to the Internet through your phone’s data connection. There are several ways to tether on Android. Read This Article → Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Enable Windows 10’s Hidden Retail Demo Mode If you click a word in Windows 10’s Settings app five times, it enables a hidden Retail Demo mode. You almost certainly don’t want to do this yourself, but knowing how to escape the Retail Demo Experience is essential if you ever see the name “Darrin DeYoung” on your login screen. Read This Article → Four macOS Server Features That Are Now Built In to High Sierra Apple’s server software isn’t what it used to be. Once a considerable investment, these days macOS Server only sets you back $20, a bargain considering all the features you get. Read This Article → How to Create a Custom Apple Watch Face from a Photo or Album While you still can’t create completely custom watch faces on your Apple Watch, you can use any photo you want as your wallpaper, either by using a single photo or rotating through a photo album. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Speed Up Downloads on Your Mac, iPhone, and iPad with Content Caching Are there multiple iPhones and iPads in your house? What about Macs, or Apple TVs? Have you ever thought about how much bandwidth all those individual Apple devices use downloading the same updates, media, and iCloud content as each other? Read This Article → Blizzard Is Doing eSports Right with Its New Overwatch League eSports, the colloquial and irritating name for organized tournaments featuring multiplayer PC and console games, are all the rage these days…among geeks. But because of their decidedly geeky roots, there seems to be a limited appeal for general audiences: you’re unlikely to tune into the DOTA  International if you’ve never played a round of the game itself. Read This Article → How to Disable the “Is Running in the Background” and “Is Using Battery” Notification in Android Oreo If you have a Nexus or Pixel device running Oreo, you’ve likely seen the “[app name] is running in the background” notification. If you have a Pixel 2, you may have seen this notification, though the verbiage is slightly different—it reads “[app name] is using battery.” While useful, this can also be quite annoying. Fortunately, you can pretty easily turn it off. Read This Article → How to Stop Apple Music from Taking Over Your iPhone’s Play Button Apple's Music app is…okay. It's a decent music player and Apple Music is a competent streaming service. Here’s the thing, though: I don't use it. And it’s constantly nagging me to use it. Read This Article → How to Calibrate Your Laptop’s Battery for Accurate Battery Life Estimates So you’re using your laptop and, all of the sudden, it dies. There was no battery warning from Windows—in fact, you recently checked and Windows said you had 30% battery power left. What’s going on? Read This Article → Advertisement Dashlane - Never Forget Another Password Dashlane has a slick Web 2.0-type interface with a host of similar features--like syncing, password auditing, assisted automatic password changes, and alerts in case of security breaches. Dashlane has definitely led the pack in the good interface department Click here to download