Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device

Did You Know? When J.R.R. Tolkien sold the movie rights to his Lord of the Rings universe, one of the specific stipulations of the deal was that Disney (an organization he had very strong feelings about) would never be involved in the adaptation process. Geek Trivia The “COCOM Limit” Is A GPS Security Regulation That Affects Recreational? Divers → Paragliders → Pilots → Balloonists → 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 Use Rulers in Microsoft Word What To Do If Your Smartphone Is Hot Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device Is Apple Even Paying Attention To macOS Security Anymore? Mount a Windows Share in macOS and Have it Reconnect at Login How to See Which Groups Your Linux User Account Belongs To How to Use Multiple Dropbox Accounts on One PC Why Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Explode? How to Avoid Going Over Your Home Internet’s Data Cap Today's Review Geek Articles 6 Fun Educational Toys and Apps To Teach Your Kids Coding The Best Ways to Make Money With Your Car In the Gig Economy Geek Comic Today's Tech Term BogoMips In the context of Linux operating systems, BogoMips (short for Bogus Millions Of Instructions Per Second) is an approximate unit of measurement that indicates how fast a computer’s processor is running. BogoMips and the program that provides the measurement were developed by Linus Torvalds. 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. This Is Why Experts Are Calling Kodak's New Bitcoin Scheme A Scam Our very own Chris Hoffman's tweets are the basis for this and several other articles about Kodak all over the mainstream press this week. [Buzzfeed] What's Slack Doing With Your Data? There's a lot of ambiguity about what Slack is doing with chat logs. [Gizmodo] How to Use Rulers in Microsoft Word Word’s rulers let you control the margins of your page and the indentation of paragraphs. They’re great for precisely lining up images, text, and other elements. If you’re printing a document, the rulers can help ensure that what you see on your screen translates into what you’ll get on the printed page. Read This Article → What To Do If Your Smartphone Is Hot Unlike your computer, your smartphone doesn't have fans or any other active way to keep itself cool. Instead, to keep them working within acceptable temperatures, smartphone manufacturers count on passive cooling methods and the fact that most people don't do too many super intensive tasks with their phones. Read This Article → Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device Android phones and tablets can fill up quickly as you download apps, add media files like music and movies, and cache data for use offline. Many lower-end devices may only include a few gigabytes of storage, making this even more of a problem. Read This Article → Is Apple Even Paying Attention To macOS Security Anymore? A new Mac security flaw lets you type literally any username and password in order to unlock the Mac App Store panel in System Preferences. It’s probably not a big deal practically speaking—the panel is unlocked by default—but the fact that this issue exists at all is a worrying reminder that Apple isn’t prioritizing security like they used to. Read This Article → Mount a Windows Share in macOS and Have it Reconnect at Login You’re not a loyalist: your network has both Windows and macOS machines. The good news is you can access your Windows shares from macOS pretty easily, if you know how. Read This Article → How to See Which Groups Your Linux User Account Belongs To Groups help define the permissions and access your Linux user account has to files, folders, settings, and more. Finding out the groups to which a user account belongs helps give you a better understanding of that user’s access (and troubleshoot when things don’t work right). Read This Article → How to Use Multiple Dropbox Accounts on One PC Dropbox is the go-to service for cloud storage and file syncing, but it’s also one of the more expensive options out there once you’ve used up the free storage allotment. And you can only use multiple accounts on one machine if you spring for the pricier business package. But there are a few options for getting around this. Read This Article → Why Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Explode? While lithium-ion batteries are, on the whole, incredibly safe they do very very occasionally catch fire or explode. When it happens, like with Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 fiasco or HP's more recent laptop recall, it's always big news. So what's going on and why do batteries sometimes go out with a bang? Let's find out. Read This Article → How to Avoid Going Over Your Home Internet’s Data Cap It’s not uncommon for internet service providers to cap the amount of data offered to home users as a way of getting them to pay more money for more bandwidth. If you find yourself within these artificial constraints set by your ISP, you have to carefully watch what you do online. Here are some tips to keep you under your cap and free from overage charges. 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