The Best Apps and Tools for Chromebooks

Did You Know? If you’ve noticed an increase in spam phone calls from numbers that share your area code (and even resemble your own phone number beyond the area code), you’re experiencing a new telemarketing technique known as “neighbor spoofing” wherein the telemarketing agencies spoof phone numbers from your area code to trick people wary of out-of-state calls into answering their phones. Geek Trivia The Largest Sea Plane Ever Built Was The? Hughes H-4 Hercules → Martin B9 Albatross → Boeing N707 Boat Plane → Curtis NC-3 Flying Boat → Advertisement Manage Your Credit Score for $9.95/month Get Credit Monitoring for ONLY $9.95/month Sign Up Now and Get a Free 3-Bureau Report and Scores! 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 The Best Apps and Tools for Chromebooks How to Connect the Nest Secure to a New Wi-Fi Network 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 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? Listen to a Video Game Soundtrack Roav VIVA Review: Kick Siri to the Curb and Make Alexa Your New Copilot Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Clustering Clustering refers to connecting two or more computer systems together as a greater “entity” for parallel processing, handling variable workloads, handling load balancing, and keeping things running smoothly if one system should experience a failure (fault tolerance). 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. Amateur search for dead spy satellite turns up undead NASA mission IMAGE launched in 2000, and NASA though it died a decade ago, until an amateur noticed a signal. [ArsTechnica] Bloomberg's Twitter network TicToc is getting 750,000 daily viewers It's not exactly network TV, but we weren't even aware this existed so color us impressed. [Digiday] The Best Apps and Tools for Chromebooks You have a shiny new Chromebook and you want to make the most of it. Good! Despite popular belief, Chromebooks are in fact excellent productivity machines—especially once you find the proper tools for the job at hand. Read This Article → How to Connect the Nest Secure to a New Wi-Fi Network If you ever change your Wi-Fi password or the name of the network, you’ll also need to connect your Nest Secure security system to that new network. Luckily, it’s really easy. Read This Article → 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 → Advertisement Manage Your Credit Score for $9.95/month Get Credit Monitoring for ONLY $9.95/month Sign Up Now and Get a Free 3-Bureau Report and Scores!