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What Is Sling TV, and Can It Replace Your Cable Subscription?
If you’ve ever toyed around with the idea of moving to a online streaming cable replacement, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Sling TV.
How to Unlock Your Chromebook with a PIN
If you don't use Smart Lock to automatically unlock your Chromebook when your phone is nearby, it can get pretty annoying to type your password every single time you want to log in.
How to Enable Google's "Material Design" in Chrome
Over the last couple of years, Google has been moving towards a unified user experience with its Material Design interface.
How to Manage Apps and Devices Signed into Your Google Account from Android
Google allows users to sign into non-Google websites, applications, and devices with their Gmail account.
How to Run the Same App in Multiple Windows on Android Nougat
With Android Nougat, Google released an oft-requested feature: the ability to run two windows side by side.
Google's Best Hidden Games and "Easter Eggs"
Google is known for throwing Easter Eggs—hidden games, tricks, and other fun things—into its products.
How to Increase the Size of Text on a Chromebook
Chromebooks are excellent low-cost, secure laptops that are great for the user who lives in the cloud.
How to Customize Your Chromecast's Backdrop to Show Personalized Pictures, News, and More
Google's curated collection of Backdrops---the photos that show up when your Chromecast or Android TV box is idle---is very nice, but sometimes you want to see something a little more personalized.
How to Add Gestures to Your Android Phone's Fingerprint Scanner
So you have a shiny new Android phone, equipped with a security-friendly fingerprint scanner.
How to Get Notifications for Only the Emails You Care About in Gmail
Email is a powerful tool that we all use, but it can also be exceedingly annoying to get notifications for every single message that hits your inbox.
Forget the Facebook App: Use the Mobile Site for a Less Annoying Experience
Facebook's Android and iPhone apps aren't great.
How to Get Early Access to New Android Apps and Games in the Play Store
Getting hands-on time with apps, games, and other software before they're technically ready for prime time can be fun.
How to Control What Other People Can See About Your Google Profile
If you use any Google services—Gmail, Drive, Photos, Google+, etc.
How to Use Android's Wi-Fi Assistant to Safely Connect to Public Wi-Fi Networks (and Save Data)
If you aren't using Android's "Wi-Fi Assistant", you should.
How to Block Certain Android Apps from Syncing Passwords with Smart Lock
Google's Smart Lock for Passwords makes it easy to sync the passwords you have saved in Chrome over to your Android device.
How to Manually Check for System Updates on an Android Phone
When a new version of Android comes out for your phone, it doesn’t usually drop for everyone at once.
How to Add a Persistent Number Row to Android's Gboard Keyboard
Ever get annoyed that you don't have an entire row of numbers atop your Android keyboard? It makes typing things like passwords---which should always have at least one number in them---far more annoying.
How to Access Nova Launcher's "Labs" Setting for Experimental Functionality
Hidden features are cool.
How to Opt Out of Personalized Ads from Google
Ads are an unfortunate necessity on the internet---they're how sites like this one are able to operate.