howtogeek.comadded August 2026
How-To Geekby Tony Phillips3d ago
If you're looking to speed up your Excel workflow, keyboard shortcuts are crucial. And I'm not just talking about the ones you learned the first time you sat in front of a Windows machine, like...
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson3d ago
Thrift stores and garage sales can be great places to find old tech devices that still have plenty of life left.
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar3d ago
Free phone numbers sound like a better deal than they usually are. Google Voice has been handing out U.S.
How-To Geekby Arol Wright3d ago
Amazon built Fire TV into the streaming stick that tinkerers happily recommended. Its shift from Android-based Fire OS to the in-house Vega OS ends that deal, swapping app choice and freedom for...
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis3d ago
It used to be that picking a Linux distro mostly came down to which desktop you liked and which package manager you preferred. That is less true today.
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson3d ago
There are plenty of free, self-hosted services that can replace popular paid subscriptions. All you need is the hardware to run them on.
How-To Geekby Arol Wright3d ago
It's increasingly hard to use 4GB of RAM these days. But RAM is expensive now, in case you haven't heard.
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar4d ago
Your Fire TV has some great diagnostic tools that you probably didn't know about. They answer pretty much every question you have about why your Fire TV isn't working well.
How-To Geekby Dave McKay4d ago
The Linux diff3 command detects differences between three text files. This helps you identify versions, understand their differences, and merge the changes.
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo4d ago
Today marks the start of the first full week of October. In case you missed it, many new movies have been added to Netflix, including Tyler Perry's tear-jerker Doing Life.
How-To Geekby Monica J. White4d ago
The best and worst thing about tech is just how fast it moves on. You buy a CPU today, then a year later, the socket's changed and your upgrade path is over.
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar4d ago
Building a home media setup used to be a no-brainer because you owned the hardware and files, and you didn't have to pay just to listen to music you already bought.
How-To Geekby Arol Wright4d ago
Old Wi-Fi routers get thrown out long before they stop being useful. Before you toss yours, three projects can give it a second life, and they cost little more than time and a spare Ethernet cable.
How-To Geekby Arol Wright4d ago
For years, downloading an ISO was the first step to running Linux. Today, most installations begin elsewhere: in virtual machines, cloud platforms and automated pipelines.
How-To Geekby Goran Damnjanovic4d ago
Nowadays, we're using just a handful of data storage media. Flash memory is arguably king, found in SSDs, memory cards, and the storage chips of countless devices all across the world.
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa4d ago
It's no secret that Android phones are great for DIY smart home projects. They're essentially an all-in-one Raspberry Pi.
How-To Geekby Monica J. White4d ago
I'm not ashamed to admit that for me, every day starts with booting my PC first, everything else second.
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo4d ago
The calendar has flipped to October, and Hulu has an eclectic list of new shows and movies hitting the service. Anyone up for some "Wonderwall?"
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis4d ago
We've all experienced that moment when something about your internet connection feels off. Maybe you're on a video call, and it is intermittently choppy, or maybe you're gaming and something is...
How-To Geekby Monica J. White4d ago
I built my first PC over 20 years ago, and since that first one, I've basically never stopped. But of course, in that time, I've probably made just about every PC building mistake imaginable, too.
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