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Lowell Heddings is the founder and CEO of How-To Geek. He’s been running the show since creating the site back in 2006. Over the last decade, Lowell has personally written more than 1000 articles which have been viewed by over 250 million people.
These days, he is focused on his role running the business side of the house, and building the Moka platform that powers the HTG family of sites, including Review Geek and LifeSavvy.
Prior to starting How-To Geek, Lowell spent 15 years working in the IT field doing consulting, cybersecurity, database management, and programming. The last decade of his previous career, however, was largely spent doing business automation for large corporations. The e-commerce integrations he created are still being used to automate billions of dollars worth of transactions today.
If you'd like to get in touch, you can drop him an email or connect with him on LinkedIn. You can read an interview with Lowell on Lifehacker, too.
How-To Geek is an online technology magazine and one of the top 500 websites in the US. Since it was created more than a decade ago, the site’s 10,000+ in-depth articles have been read over 1 billion times. More than 15 million people read our articles every month.
We're the people you turn to when you want someone to explain technology, whether that means detailed troubleshooting guides or in-depth explainers on the latest tech. Our team of expert writers and editors have decades of experience in journalism and technology. Beyond the web, they've written books for publishers like Microsoft Press and have been published in print magazines like PCWorld and Consumers Digest.
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Despite what cartoons have taught us, the coyote can run up to 43 miles per hour while the roadrunner can only run up to 20 miles per hour.
Dextrose is another name for glucose, so if you see it listed prominently on the ingredients list of a particular food, then you’ll know where the sugary sweet taste is coming from.
We think of espresso as having more caffeine than drip coffee, but we don’t drink espresso in drip-coffee quantities. A single 1 oz shot of espresso only has approximately 40 mg of caffeine whereas a 12 oz cup of coffee has approximately 120 mg (or more) of caffeine. Ounce for ounce, the espresso is stronger, but we don’t drink a giant mug of it at a time.
