Archive for August, 2011
HTG Explains: So You Lost Your Smartphone, Now What?
Phones get stolen or lost everyday. With a plethora of data ripe for identity-theft on it, a lost phone can easily make your blood run cold. Take a deep breath, How-To Geek will talk you through this. It happened to me just last week. My iPhone 4 hadn’t left my sight in the year that [...]
23Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
How Secure are Your Saved Chrome Browser Passwords?
A common question about the Google Chrome Browser is “why isn’t there a master password?” Google has (unofficially) taken the position that a master password provides a false sense of security and the most viable form of protection for this sensitive data is through overall system security. So exactly how secure is your saved password [...]
23Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Week in Geek: Number of Cyberattacks on Social Networks Increasing
This week we learned how to “set up credit card processing on Android phones, resize a Windows 7 partition, & use an Android phone as a data modem”, prioritize your network traffic with DD-WRT, use Conditions & If-Then statements in shell scripting, found out how you use virtual machines, improved the view on iPad screens [...]
22Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Desktop Fun: Tomb Raider Wallpaper Collection
Everyone’s favorite British archaeologist Lara Croft has gotten into one tough scrape after another as she travelled across the world in search of ancient relics. Now you can bring her adventures to your desktop with our Tomb Raider Wallpaper collection. How To Backup and Restore Your Android Phone with Titanium Backup My Photos Look Different [...]
20Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Playing Minecraft in Real Life [Humorous Image]
Minecraft IRL [9GAG] How To Backup and Restore Your Android Phone with Titanium Backup My Photos Look Different on the Internet! How Can I Fix Them? How To Use an External GPS Device with Your iPad or iPhone
20Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Go Social on Your Desktop with the Google+ Theme for Windows 7
Now that you have had time to get settled in with your new Google+ account, why not bring that Google+ goodness to your desktop with this great theme for Windows 7? The theme comes with 20 Hi-Res wallpapers, custom Google+ icons, system sounds, and a nice set of cursors. View Additional Screenshots of the Theme [...]
19Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Skitch Now Free and Available for Android
Skitch, the wildly popular screen capture and image sharing tool for Mac, is now free and available for Android. Skitch is one of those apps that does what it does so well it leaves users unable to access it because of OS restrictions muttering about the unfairness of it all. Thankfully that’s all changing. Recently [...]
19Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
What You Said: Do You Use Virtual Machines?
Earlier this week we asked you to sound off with your Virtual Machine adventures, tips, and tricks. Now we’re back to highlight what you said in this week’s recap. Virtual Machines are popular tool among How-To Geek readers, many of you use them at work and at home for everything from software testing to quick [...]
19Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Futuristic Movie Timeline Showcases Movie Timelines
If you’ve ever chuckled at a movie with the future set in the present past (or a looming future-present), this futuristic movie timeline is for you. Courtesy of designer Dan Meth and his pop culture infographic series, the futuristic movie timeline showcases several things. First, it highlights the dates from many popular futurist/sci-fi movies in [...]
19Aug2011 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
C++ [Wallpaper]
C Plus Plus Wallpaper [deviantART] How To Backup and Restore Your Android Phone with Titanium Backup My Photos Look Different on the Internet! How Can I Fix Them? How To Use an External GPS Device with Your iPad or iPhone
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