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Jason Fitzpatrick-Editor-in-Chief

Jason Fitzpatrick

Editor-in-Chief

Contributing since December, 2010

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About Jason Fitzpatrick

Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets.


Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker.

He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010.

With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. In 2019, he stepped back from his role at Review Geek to focus all his energy on LifeSavvy. In 2022, he returned to How-To Geek to focus on one of his biggest tech passions: smart home and home automation. In 2023, he assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief.

In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent over a decade as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five-paragraph essays. While his days of steering students toward greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on in his work at How-To Geek.

If you're looking for him after hours, he's probably four search queries and twenty obscenities deep in a DIY project or entranced by the limitless exploration possibilities of some open-world game or another. He loves long walks on virtual beaches, playing worker placement board games with inconsequential themes, and spending time with his family and menagerie of pets and plants.

Latest Articles
Features
HTG Reviews the Netgear Nighthawk: A Nextgen Router with Blistering Speed

If you're in the market for a router upgrade, the next generation of home routers offers features unheard of even a few years ago: dual-core processors, blazing fast Wi-Fi, USB 3.
Features
How-To Geek's Holiday Gift Guide 2013: The Best Gadgets and Gear

Which gadgets should you snatch up for friends and family?
Hardware
How Can I Speed Up a Secure Disk Wipe?

The process of securely overwriting a large disk is a lengthy one; can the process be expedited?Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
Hardware
What Is the Maximum Amount of RAM You Could Theoretically Put in a 64-bit Computer?

Most people upgrade from 32-bit computing to 64-bit computing to blow through the 4GB RAM limit, but how far can you blow through that limit once you've entered into the realm of 64-bit computers?Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
Hardware
How Can I Check My Computer's RAM Configuration Without Opening the Case?

If you need a more detailed look at your RAM configuration than the basic information a Windows report provides, you can find out all you need to know without cracking open the case.
Computer Hardware
How to Enjoy Dead Simple Raspberry Pi Setup with NOOBS

If you're looking for the simplest way to get started with your new Raspberry Pi, look no further.
Hardware
Does the Color of a Heatsink Affect Its Performance?

When it comes to the pursuit of true geekdom, there's no question too arcane.
Kindle
HTG Reviews the New Kindle Paperwhite: The King of the Hill Climbs Higher

In September, Amazon released a new version of their best-selling Kindle Paperwhite.
Hardware
What Does the RAM Slot Color Coding on Motherboards Mean?

Yellow and orange, blue and black, green and red: you'll find the RAM slots on motherboards in all sorts of  color pairs.
Web Browsers
Can Google Employees See My Saved Google Chrome Passwords?

Storing your passwords in your web browser seems like a great time saver, but are the passwords secure and inaccessible to others (even employees of the browser company) when squirreled away?Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
Hardware
HTG Reviews the CODE Keyboard: Old School Construction Meets Modern Amenities

There's nothing quite as satisfying as the smooth and crisp action of a well built keyboard.
Hardware
Why Are Minimized Programs Often Slow to Open Again?

It seems particularly counterintuitive: you minimize an application because you plan on returning to it later and wish to skip shutting the application down and restarting it later, but sometimes maximizing it takes even longer than launching it fresh.
Hardware
Can a Printer Print White?

The vast majority of the time we all print on white media: white paper, white cardstock, and other neutral white surfaces.
Features
How to Reuse Your Old Wi-Fi Router as a Network Switch

Just because your old Wi-Fi router has been replaced by a newer model doesn't mean it needs to gather dust in the closet.
Hardware
Why Is Vertical Resolution Monitor Resolution so Often a Multiple of 360?

Stare at a list of monitor resolutions long enough and you might notice a pattern: many of the vertical resolutions, especially those of gaming or multimedia displays, are multiples of 360 (720, 1080, 1440, etc.
Linux
How Exactly Is One Linux OS "Based On" Another Linux OS?

When reviewing different flavors of Linux, you'll frequently come across phrases like "Ubuntu is based on Debian" but what exactly does that mean?Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
Hardware
How Can I Safely Destroy Sensitive Data CDs/DVDs?

You have a pile of DVDs with sensitive information on them and you need to safely and effectively dispose of them so no data recovery is possible.
Hardware
What Keeps You from Changing Your Public IP Address and Wreaking Havoc on the Internet?

What exactly is preventing you (or anyone else) from changing their IP address and causing all sorts of headaches for ISPs and other Internet users?Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
Computer Hardware
How to Run Low-Cost Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi for Block Building on the Cheap

We've shown you how to run your own blocktastic personal Minecraft server on a Windows/OSX box, but what if you crave something lighter weight, more energy efficient, and always ready for your friends? Read on as we turn a tiny Raspberry Pi machine into a low-cost Minecraft server you can leave on 24/7 for around a penny a day.
Hardware
Why Is Hibernation Still Used?

With the increased prevalence of fast solid-state hard drives, why do we still have system hibernation?Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.

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