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The Best Ways to Send Money with Your Phone

If you need to pay someone back for dinner, send rent money to a roommate, or send someone cash when they need it, you can do it all easily from your smartphone. We’ve rounded up the best mobile payment apps that help y...

How to Quickly Create a Text File Using the Command Line in Linux

Walter Glenn Feb 21st

Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device

Android phones and tablets can fill up quickly as you download apps, add media files like music and movies, and cache data for use offline. Many lower-end devices may only include a few gigabytes of storage, making this even...

How to See Which Groups Your Linux User Account Belongs To

Lowell Heddings Jan 10th

How to Check if Your Linux System Is 32-bit or 64-bit

Lori Kaufman Jan 8th

How to Change Your IP Address From the Command Line in Linux

Taylor Gibb Jan 5th

Why Your Android Phone Isn’t Getting Operating System Updates and What You Can Do About It

Chris Hoffman Dec 19th, 2017

Seven Things You Don’t Have to Root Android to Do Anymore

For years, Android enthusiasts have been rooting their devices to do things that Android doesn’t allow by default. But Google has added many features to Android that once required root, eliminating the need for many people....

How to See What’s Taking Up Space on Your Android Device

Cameron Summerson Dec 14th, 2017

How to Take Screenshots on an Android Phone or Tablet

Cameron Summerson Sep 27th, 2017

Five Ways to Customize Android that iOS Still Can’t Match

Android is very customizable–many of its features are just defaults, and can be swapped out for third-party alternatives without any rooting required. When it comes to iOS, well…not so much....

How to Optimize Your Android Phone’s Battery Life with Greenify

At this point, smartphones are prolific. We use them for calls, text messages, social networking, photos, quick searches, streaming music, watching videos…the list goes on. But each thing you do drains your battery life...

How to Run Android Apps and Games on Your Windows Desktop with BlueStacks

If there’s an Android application you really love and wish you could run on your computer, now you can: there’s a dead simple way to run Android apps on your PC or Mac without the fuss of moonlighting as an Androi...

3 Ways to Access Your Linux Partitions From Windows

Chris Hoffman Jun 7th, 2017

How to Find Files and Folders in Linux Using the Command Line

Lori Kaufman Jun 7th, 2017

How to Repair GRUB2 When Ubuntu Won’t Boot

Chris Hoffman May 15th, 2017

The Complete Guide to Speeding Up Your Virtual Machines

Virtual machines are demanding beasts, providing virtual hardware and running multiple operating systems on your computer at once. As a result, they can sometimes be a little slow. Here are some tips to help you squeeze ever...

How to Clear Your Browser History on Android

Lori Kaufman Apr 24th, 2017

How to Edit Your Hosts File on Windows, Mac, or Linux

<img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/geekers/up/sshot-2010-08-31-[23-19-00].jpg" />On occasion you will need to edit the hosts file on your machine. Sometimes because of an attack or prank, and others so that you can simply and freely control access to websites and network traffic.

Christopher Welker Apr 17th, 2017

How to Use Your Bash History in the Linux or macOS Terminal

Chris Hoffman Apr 10th, 2017

How to Get Rid of Bloatware on Your Android Phone

Whitson Gordon Mar 22nd, 2017

The Best Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash (aka the Linux and macOS Terminal)

Bash is the default command-line shell on most Linux distributions, from Ubuntu and Debian to Red Hat and Fedora. Bash is also the default shell included with macOS, and you can install a Linux-based bash environment on Windo...

How to Clear Your Dropbox Cache in Windows, macOS, and Linux

Lori Kaufman Mar 8th, 2017

Beginner: How to Install Google Chrome in Ubuntu 14.04

Lori Kaufman Mar 3rd, 2017

What’s the Difference Between Bash, Zsh, and Other Linux Shells?

Chris Hoffman Mar 3rd, 2017