Lots of Android Apps Will Lose Features or Disappear from the Play Store Soon

Did You Know? Ancient Romans divided daylight and darkness into 12 increments each. In Rome, this meant an hour of daylight was 45 minutes long in the winter and 75 minutes long in the summer—but minutes clearly weren’t something the Romans even worried about, because their sense of urgency and time keeping was far removed from ours. Geek Trivia The Advent Of Smartphones Put A Dent Into The Sales Of? Chewing Gum → Televisions → Comic Books → Dictionaries → 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 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. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles 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 How to Delete a Saved Wi-Fi Network on Windows 10 How to Build Your Own VPN with the $20 macOS Server How to Redeem and Play Digital UltraViolet Movies How to Customize Firefox Quantum’s New Interface How to Switch Your Android Phone to “Mono” (So You Can Wear One Earbud) How to Take Screenshots and Videos on Your Nintendo Switch Should I Leave My Laptop Plugged In All The Time? Today's Review Geek Articles Five Tips For Your TV Holiday Shopping Spree Eight Advent Calendars for Every Taste Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Redlining In the context of word processing, Redlining refers to marking or identifying text that has been edited by displaying it in a special color, making it appear as bold print, etc. 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. Softbank's Boston Dynamics has an Atlas robot that can now do unbelievably good backflips I do backflips for a living a robot will never steal my job WAIT WHAT? [Quartz] Tesla is Reviving the Roadster and It Looks Spectacular 600 miles on a single charge, $200,000 price tag. [Wired] New Study Finds Poorly Secured Smart Toys Lets Attackers Listen In On Your Kids Internet of Things security continues to be terrible. [TechDirt] Google Maps gets a new look An update coming soon will make it easier to spot things like gas stations during road trips, and color codes a variety of other places. [Google] 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 → How to Delete a Saved Wi-Fi Network on Windows 10 Windows 10 saves a list of Wi-Fi networks you connect to along with their passphrases and other settings. If you want to stop your PC from connecting to a network automatically, you’ll need to make Windows “forget” the Wi-Fi network. Read This Article → How to Build Your Own VPN with the $20 macOS Server VPNs can be useful tools for keeping you secure online. A VPN encrypts your traffic, useful when you’re using a public Wi-Fi hotspot or any network you don’t trust. There are many different third party VPN services to choose from, but ultimately using a VPN means trusting the service will keep your browsing data private. Read This Article → How to Redeem and Play Digital UltraViolet Movies Physical media is having a rough time of it in the digital age. While Blu-rays are still a perfectly legitimate means of getting HD video, and ideal if you don’t have a high quality Internet connection, the convenience of web-based services like iTunes, the Google Play Store, and Amazon Instant Video is beginning to supersede them. Read This Article → How to Customize Firefox Quantum’s New Interface Firefox Quantum is here, and it’s chock full of improvements, including the new Photon UI. Photon replaces the “Australis” interface that’s been used since 2014, and features a ton of customization options. Which is good, because there are a few annoyances—like all that empty space on either side of the URL bar. Read This Article → How to Switch Your Android Phone to “Mono” (So You Can Wear One Earbud) When you listen to music as it’s intended, you generally hear two different things from each speaker—this is called “stereo” sound. However, there are legitimate reasons to want to hear everything combined in both speakers, which is called “mono.” On Android, this is easy. Read This Article → How to Take Screenshots and Videos on Your Nintendo Switch The Nintendo Switch has a dedicated button to take screenshots. It can now even record videos in some games, too. These screenshots and videos are saved to your Switch’s internal storage or a microSD card, and you can view them, move them around, and post them to Facebook or Twitter right from your Switch. Read This Article → Should I Leave My Laptop Plugged In All The Time? Should you leave your laptop plugged in and charging when you’re not on-the-go? What’s best for the battery? It’s a tough question, and there are quite a few contradictory recommendations out there. 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