Seven Things You Don't Have to Root Android to Do Anymore

Did You Know? The dramatic falls taken by the burglars in the film Home Alone are now somewhat legendary among the stunt person community and, to “do a Home Alone” in stunt lingo, is to perform a stunt that involves falling with a lot of hang time in the air. Geek Trivia The First All Digital Film Featuring Performance Captured Actors Was? The Bee Movie → Avatar → Rise of the Planet of the Apes → The Polar Express → 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 Get Detailed Information About Your PC What to Do If You Can't Find the Layers Panel (or Any Other Panel) in Photoshop Seven Things You Don’t Have to Root Android to Do Anymore How Do “Surround” Sound Bars Work? 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Here's the math broken down on paper. It's fascinating. [Ken Shirriff's Blog] Google Thinks I'm Dead Search Google for "Rachel Abrams" and you'll see the day she "died" in the sidebar. Rachel Abrams isn't dead, however, and in this article she tries to convince Google of this. [The New York Times] Amazon's house brand AmazonBasics now sells over 1,500 products Once used mostly for things like cables and batteries, Amazon Basics is expanding into all sorts of new markets, like coffee makers bocce ball sets. [Quartz] How to Get Detailed Information About Your PC Sometimes, you need to find information about your PC—things like what hardware you’re using, your BIOS or UEFI version, or even details about your software environment. Join us as we take a look at a few Windows tools that can provide varying levels of detail about your system information. Read This Article → What to Do If You Can't Find the Layers Panel (or Any Other Panel) in Photoshop Photoshop is an incredibly flexible program. To keep the interface flexible, Photoshop uses "Panels" for each tool or feature. Read This Article → Seven Things You Don’t Have to Root Android to Do Anymore For years, Android enthusiasts have been rooting their devices to do things that Android doesn't allow by default. But Google has added many features to Android that once required root, eliminating the need for many people. Read This Article → How Do “Surround” Sound Bars Work? The idea behind a conventional surround sound setup is simple: the speakers surround you, and thus, so does the sound. But a new generation of sound bars, the all-in-one devices that sit below your TV and house multiple drivers in a horizontal layout, also claim to have surround sound capabilities. How can that be possible if the only speaker is directly in front of you? Read This Article → Why Your Kodi Box Isn’t Working, and What to Use Instead If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And Kodi boxes sound way too good to be true, offering unlimited free TV and movies for life after purchasing a single piece of hardware. Read This Article → How to See Your Uber or Lyft Passenger Rating After every Uber and Lyft ride, you can rate your driver out of five stars based on how good or bad the ride was. However, you may not know that drivers also rate you as a passenger. Here’s how to view your passenger rating for both Uber and Lyft. Read This Article → A Versatile Video Tool on 4K Video Upscaling and Downscaling [Sponsored Giveaway] Upscale to 4K Resolution Read This Article → How to Build Your Own Computer, Part Five: Tweaking Your New Computer Congratulations, you’ve successfully selected parts, assembled your own PC, and installed Windows! Now you can get to…whatever it is that you want to get to, I guess. Do gamers still “pown noobs?” Is that still a thing? Read This Article → How to Speed Up Animations to Make Android Feel Faster Android devices display animations when they transition between apps, windows, and various menus. Animations oftentimes looks slick, but they do take up time—and sometimes can even cause the phone to lag if it’s low on resources. Read This Article → The Best Things Google Assistant Can Do on Your Android Phone So you got Google Assistant on your phone. Cool! …but, now what? Well, to make the most of your new Assistant, you need to actually use it. And the more you use it, the more you’ll learn about it. Here are some ideas to get you started. 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