How-To Geek

When was the last time you heard about someone "jailbreaking" their iPhone? When was the last time you thought about doing it? While jailbreaking still happens,and some hackers still work on removing the guardrails from iOS devices, it's not nearly as common as it once was.

If you weren't around (or paying attention) during the early days of flat panel display, you might not be aware of the scourge that dead or stuck pixels represented. These pixels either didn't light up, were fully lit the whole time, or got stuck on some intermediate color. For those of us coming from CRT monitors, this was a whole new problem that never existed before.

Most people plug the usual stuff into their motherboards—CPUs, GPUs, RAM, SSD, etc. That doesn't mean these are the only devices your motherboard could handle. Far from it!

With every Google search now, first comes the AI summaries. Then, the wall of SEO paste: Rehashed Reddit threads, blogs that read like content farms, affiliate links stacks. Then more YouTube embeds. Then somewhere below that or maybe on the second page, you find what you need. I remember a time when clicking the second page on Google was an oddity.

Internet Explorer might be one of the most controversial applications in history. Included with every copy of Windows after Windows 95 and several versions of 95 itself, this browser gave Microsoft plenty of legal headaches, but it also developed a poor reputation from a technical point of view.

I admit it: I'm a certified distro-hopper. In the past few months I've moved between several Linux distributions in search of my perfect operating system. Well, it doesn't have to be perfect. It really just needs to make using my computer enjoyable. Which is part of how I picked my next target.

Buying a cheap car doesn’t mean you have to suffer through a bare-bones ride. In 2025, even budget-friendly models feel surprisingly polished—manual windows are basically extinct.

I will fully admit that my title up there is a little hyperbolic. USB-C is largely better than the USB types it supposedly replaced, but when it comes to what USB-C promised to give us compared to the reality we got, it almost feels that for every problem it solved, it created two more.

People skipping security updates despite being marked as important is nothing new. In the case of Plex, though, the latest urgent security fix not being in most Plex servers by now might quickly become a problem.

It’s not every day that a new Google TV box is announced, and Acer is almost certainly not the brand you would expect to see one from. However, the company, mostly known for PCs and peripherals, is launching a 4K Google TV streamer with ports galore.

You can now get an Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger for a surprisingly low price on Woot. The price for a single charger has dropped to just $15, with multi-packs also available at an impressive discount of up to $35 for three. If you are always forgetting your watch's cable, or you just need replacements, now is the time to stock up.

Most photos—whether clicked by you or downloaded online—typically have metadata embedded in them, which can reveal various details, including sensitive information, such as your location. Knowing what metadata your photos contain and how to remove it thus becomes essential before sharing photos online.

The EOMONTH function in Microsoft Excel returns the last day of a month in the past, the current month, or a month in the future. Whether you need to calculate end-of-month due dates, deadlines, expiration dates, monthly revenues, or forecasts, the EOMONTH function helps speed up this process.

So you just installed and set up Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) on your Windows machine, and now you’re wondering what this blinking terminal can do. Here’s a quick guide to get you started.

Windows is officially retiring the built-in Mobile Plans app. This change means that instead of using a dedicated app, you'll be using your web browser and the Windows Settings app to buy and manage cellular plans. Windows claims the main reasoning is to create a "more integrated" experience.

Saving money is always nice, but sometimes a discount just makes a product what it should've been all along. That’s the case with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, which just got a major price drop that makes it a much more compelling purchase.

I always think of Disney+ as the escapism streaming service, and it's not hard to see why. With more Marvel, Star Wars, and National Georgraphic shows and movies than you know what to do with, it's my go-to for weekend (and even weekday) binges when I want to transport my brain to another place for a minute.

Often, when I recommend an Amazon Prime Video show to someone, they tell me that they've never heard of it. Then they watch it, fall in love, and wonder how it passed them by. That's because streaming services typically only push what they recently released.

It can feel like there's nothing good to watch on Netflix, but it's not true. Quality entertainment awaits you, provided you get your recommendations from the right place. Luckily for you, that place is here.

CRT display technology still has a lot of benefits over even the best current flat-panel displays, which means that CRT TVs are often the best way to experience retro games. However, big and bulky CRT TVs are not the only way to access CRT technology for retro gaming.