Not Getting Android OS Updates? Here's How Google Is Updating Your Device Anyway

Did You Know? The cone placed on animals to prevent them from licking, scratching, or biting surgical sites or wounds is called an “Elizabethan collar” because it resembles the large and elaborate fabric collars worn by the upper class in England during the Elizabethan era. Geek Trivia Which Of These Bowling Variants Is Extremely Popular In Eastern Canada And The New England Area? Maplepin → Candlepin → Twentypin → Leadpin → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. 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 Record Macros and Automate Tiresome Tasks In Microsoft Word How to Change the DNS Server on a Chromebook How to Use the HomePod with Your Apple TV Not Getting Android OS Updates? Here’s How Google Is Updating Your Device Anyway How to Prevent Accidental Touches on the HomePod Get Rid of the Annoying Microsoft OneDrive Sign In Popup How To Adjust Column Size in Microsoft Word What is the Latest Version of Windows 10? 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[TechCrunch] Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, and imoo smartphones are made by BBK Electronics It's not LG, Xiaomi, or Huawei. [Quartz] Equifax finds additional 2.4 million people were affected by its big data breach The additional people had only their names and driver's license numbers stolen, if that makes you feel better. [LA Times] How to Record Macros and Automate Tiresome Tasks In Microsoft Word Macros are basic bits of programming that let you hit a quick button or keyboard shortcut to trigger a pre-recorded action. Here’s how to make easy ones in Word. Read This Article → How to Change the DNS Server on a Chromebook You might get a quicker browsing experience by changing the DNS servers your devices use to look up internet names. Chromebooks let you set a custom DNS server for a wireless network. Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Use the HomePod with Your Apple TV Apple’s HomePod is a great little speaker, and while you can AirPlay music to it from your iPhone, you can also wirelessly hook it up to your Apple TV through AirPlay. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → Not Getting Android OS Updates? Here’s How Google Is Updating Your Device Anyway Android updates are a still a point of contention among die-hard fans, because most manufacturers don't keep updated with the latest offerings from Google. But just because your phone isn't getting full OS updates doesn't mean it's totally out of date. Read This Article → How to Prevent Accidental Touches on the HomePod The touchpad on top of the HomePod can be pretty sensitive, making it likely you’ll trigger something accidentally if you haven’t already. There is a way to prevent accidental touches, though. Read This Article → Get Rid of the Annoying Microsoft OneDrive Sign In Popup Every time you reboot your Windows 10 PC, Microsoft OneDrive bugs you to login or create an account. But what if you don’t want to? What if you want it to go away, forever? Microsoft doesn’t give you that option, but we have a way to disable it for good. Read This Article → How To Adjust Column Size in Microsoft Word When you create multiple columns in Word, they default to a set width. It’s easy to change that default width for each column. Let’s look at two ways you can do that. Read This Article → What is the Latest Version of Windows 10? The latest version of Windows 10 is the Fall Creators Update—version “1709”—and was released in September 2017. Microsoft releases new major updates every six months. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Smart Punctuation on Your iPhone and iPad Smart punctuation is an iOS feature that automatically turns certain generic punctuation marks like straight quotes into better ones like curly quotes. The problem is that smart punctuation doesn't always play nice with the internet. Read This Article → Easier Bluetooth Pairing is Finally Coming to Android and Windows Google and Microsoft want pairing a Bluetooth device with an Android or Windows PC to be as easy as pairing AirPods with an iPhone. This feature is already available, but only on a few devices so far. Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download