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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Make LibreOffice Writer Templates How to Fix Android MMS Issues on Cricket Wireless What’s the Difference Between the iPad, iPad Pro, and iPad Mini? Cheap Windows Laptops Will Only Waste Your Time and Money How to Fix Annoying Nest Secure Notifications What Is nsurlstoraged, and Why Is It Running on my Mac? How to Read Comic Books and Manga on Your Kindle How to Check Your Apple Pencil’s Battery Level How to Make Google Home Use Your Netflix Profile Based on Your Voice What Are Samsung’s Micro LED TVs, and How Are They Different from OLED? Today's Review Geek Articles MoviePass Is Dropping Support for Some AMC Theaters, But It’s Still a Good Deal (For Now) Want Better Workplace Focus? 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[ArsTechnica] Intel says new, Spectre- and Meltdown-proof chips coming this year It sounds obvious, but it's an impressive feat for Intel's complex hardware workflow. [Business Insider] Deleting Every Social Media App from My Phone Has Been Great This is becoming an entire genre of articles at this point, but it's worth thinking about all the same. [New York Magazine] Apple prepares macOS users for discontinuation of 32-bit app support You might want to check whether any applications you use regularly are 32-bit or not. [ArsTechnica] How to Make LibreOffice Writer Templates Templates let you configure all the relevant settings you want pre-applied to documents—font settings, margins and tabs, boilerplate text, and so on. You just open the template and save it under a new name to get a jump start on a new document. Read This Article → How to Fix Android MMS Issues on Cricket Wireless If you’re on Cricket Wireless and use an Android phone, there’s a reasonably decent chance you could be having issues receiving MMS messages (aka picture and video messages). Fortunately, there’s a quick and easy fix…now that we’ve actually figured out what’s going on here. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between the iPad, iPad Pro, and iPad Mini? Apple's iPad line has gotten pretty hefty, between the 12.9-inch and 10.5-inch iPad Pro, the (blandly named) iPad, and the iPad Mini 4. They range from $329 all the way up to $1279. So what's the difference between all these models? Let's take a look. Read This Article → Cheap Windows Laptops Will Only Waste Your Time and Money You get what you pay for. And, while you will save money in the short term by buying a cheap Windows laptop, you’ll pay for it in time, frustration, and ultimately money when you have to pay to replace or fix the laptop after it breaks. Read This Article → How to Fix Annoying Nest Secure Notifications Depending on how you have Nest’s Home/Away Assist feature set up, you might be receiving notifications to set you alarm even if you’re still home. Here’s how to fix it. Read This Article → What Is nsurlstoraged, and Why Is It Running on my Mac? You’re browsing the applications running using Activity Monitor when you notice something you don’t recognize: nsurlstoraged. What is this, you might be wondering, and why is it using network and CPU resources? First, don’t panic: this is part of macOS. Read This Article → How to Read Comic Books and Manga on Your Kindle The iPad has been toted as the ultimate comic book reader, but that doesn't mean your can't give it a run for its money with your Kindle. Here’s how to optimize and transfer your comic books and manga to your Kindle. Read This Article → How to Check Your Apple Pencil’s Battery Level Your Apple Pencil doesn’t have any sort of light that indicates its battery level. If you want to check how much battery power it has left, you’ll need to use a widget on your iPad Pro. Read This Article → How to Make Google Home Use Your Netflix Profile Based on Your Voice Asking Google Home to play a certain show or movie on Netflix was one of the earliest features available on the platform, but there was always one glaring issue: it always played from the primary profile, regardless of who executed the command. Now, that changes. Read This Article → What Are Samsung’s Micro LED TVs, and How Are They Different from OLED? At the top of the television market, you have two big players: Samsung and LG. Sure, there are other brands making high-end sets, and competition among budget TVs is fierce and varied. 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