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How To: Prevent Binge-Watching by Disabling Netflix's Sneaky Auto-Play Feature

Netflix is an enabler. It creates a joy around binge-watching and couch potato-ness, and the major contributor to this epidemic is its built-in "Post-Play" feature.

How To: Disable the Redundant Google Now Swipe Gesture on Nexus Devices

When on-screen buttons were introduced alongside Android 4.0, it didn't take long before Google added a gesture to these virtual navigation keys. Since then, an upward swipe originating from the home button has always been a shortcut to Google Now on Nexus devices.

Hack Like a Pro: Using TFTP to Install Malicious Software on the Target

Welcome back, my fledgling hackers! Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, we can only get a command shell on our target system. For instance, with Metasploit, it's not always possible to get the all powerful Meterpreter on our target system. In other cases, we may be able to connect to a command shell via Netcat or Cryptcat.

How To: Use MS Excel Effectively

Welcome to the first chapter of Excel is Simple, a place where we will burst all myths around excel and try to make it simpler and fun to use.

How To: Get a Taste of Android L's Material Design with QKSMS Messaging

Google's Android L developer preview has given Android a more refined look, with developers excited to update their apps with the new Material Design UI. While some apps are slowly getting updated, QKSMS (QK for quick) is a 3rd-party text messaging app that was built with Material Design in mind.

How To: The Ultimate Guide to Freeing Up Space on Your iCloud Account

We've already shown you how to free up internal space on your iPhone, and now it's time to tackle another problematic storage issue—your iCloud account.

How To: Cast Videos from Your Favorite Subreddit to Your TV with Chromecast

I spend an ungodly amount of time on Reddit, and while I do enjoy scrolling through memes and scandalous confessions, I must admit that I spend the majority of my time watching an endless stream of YouTube videos.

How To: Answer, Mute, & Reject Calls Without Ever Leaving the Current App You're In

These days, phones are more like portable entertainment systems. It's a hybrid mobile device for gaming, texting, watching movies, and listening to music more than it is an actual "phone" that you talk on.

AppWererabbit: The Swiss Army Knife of App Managers for Your Galaxy Note 3

There are over 60-something Android apps cluttering my app drawer. While I'm constantly on the look out for new mods and apps to install, the default way of managing them is cumbersome and just feels unintuitive. I mean, who on Earth would wants to individually manage each app on their device?

How To: Change Sound Alerts for Individual Apps on Your HTC One

Normally, your sound settings only let you change up a few of the sounds on your device—generally your ringtone and default notification sound. While some developers include the option to choose custom notification sounds within their app's settings, most of the time you are left with an ambiguous ringer for everything—not very helpful for identifying what app that alert just came from.

How To: Unlock the Hidden Developer Options on Your HTC One M8

Your shiny new HTC One M8 is a pretty stellar device. From controlling your entertainment center to lock screen gestures and camera shortcuts to being pretty damn indestructible, this device has a lot going for it.

How To: Get Fine-Tuned Audio Control by Adding More Volume Steps to Your Samsung Galaxy S3

Getting the volume on our phones to be just right can be a pretty annoying task. Some people like to listen to music and videos with max volume while some like it a little lower. With the default volume control on your Samsung Galaxy S3, there are only 15 steps before you reach max volume, making it tough to find that sweet spot.

How To: Change the Boring Battery Icon in Your iPhone's Status Bar to Something More Flavorful

Good battery life is one of the most important things any phone or tablet should have, but iOS 7 isn't always that great at handling power consumption. That leads to tunnel vision on the status bar's battery meter. After all, you don't want to be stranded in the middle of nowhere with no juice left to make a call.

How To: Set Different Wallpapers for Home & Lock Screens on Your Nexus 7 Tablet

There are countless things you can do to your lock screen to customize it, including adding app shortcuts that adapt to your time and location or custom widgets with DashClock. However, one thing you can't easily do in KitKat is change your lock screen background to be different from your home screen wallpaper.

Forget Boring Ringtones: How to Make Your Phone Announce Your Caller's Name Instead

Wouldn't it be cool to know exactly who is calling or messaging you without ever looking at your phone? It'd be a great way to keep you from reaching into your pocket or purse every time you get a message, and an efficient method to ignore people you'd rather not deal with.

How To: Access Running Apps Without Exiting the Current Screen on Your Samsung Galaxy S3

I like to hop between apps pretty often, and luckily my Samsung Galaxy S3 let's me do that fairly quickly. By simply holding the Home button for a few seconds, it will bring up my most recent apps, and I can switch between them with a simple tap. So if I am playing Injustice: Gods Among Us and want to switch the song currently playing on Pandora, I can bring up the recent apps menu to navigate there. While this default app switcher is more than adequate, it takes up the entire screen and coul...

How To: Search for Apps Faster on Your Android Device Using the T9 AppDialer

When we think of search it's usually in regards to the internet. But when you are using a smartphone, searching your device itself can be just as important and useful.

How To: Open Map Links in Google Maps Instead of Apple Maps on Your iPhone (Jailbreak Required)

When I heard that Google finally released a maps app for Apple's iOS 6, I almost cried. After upgrading to iOS 6 from iOS 5.1 on my iPhone 4, I was sad to realize that Apple Maps was the new default map app. I don't even have to explain why having Apple Maps as the native mapping program was a terrible terrible thing.

How To: Make Your Jailbroken iPhone or iPad Infinitely Customizable with DreamBoard

One of the biggest downsides to the iPhone is that it isn't as easy to customize as other smartphones. It's true that this makes Apple products more secure in some ways, but it also means that you have to jailbreak your phone and void your warranty if you want to change certain things.

How To: Understand AT&T Online Account Management

AT&T Online Account Management is full of usefull tools to manage your AT&T account. Whether you're dealing with your smartphone account, landline or any other AT&T product or service, this is a quick and easy way to dial it in so it works for you.

How To: Build an effective water elevator in Minecraft

So you've managed to build an awesome tower in Minecraft, but you're tired of walking up and down the stairs to get in and out. The solution is to build a water elevator! All you need now is a boat!

How To: Get more kills in team deathmatch on Launch in Call of Duty Black Ops

Call of Duty Black Ops manages to be frantically fast-paced and highly tactical at the same time, and strategizing for each map properly will get you many kills. Watch this video for some strategy tips for the Launch multiplayer map on team deathmatch.

How To: Decide if your child should be given a cell phone or not

Is your kid begging for a cell phone? Are you worried about giving them that much responsibility? Here's how to decide if your child should have a cell phone, and how to manage talk time and other aspects of kids with cell phones.

How To: Use the half guard sweep Nogueira used to defeat Sylvia in a MMA fight

In this video, female MMA fighter Hillary Williams teaches us how to use a half guard sweep much like the one Antonio Nogueira used to defeat Tim Sylvia in UFC 81. This might be the single most effective move anyone has managed to try on Sylvia yet...

How To: Create a rocker Tina Glee makeup look from "Glee"

Out of all the funky characters on "Glee," Tina still manages to be the funkiest. Whether it's her midnight black hair, sometimes highlighted with blue and other bright colors, or her eye makeup, which is unfailingly some electric neon hue, Tina loves taking risks when it comes to dressing up.

How To: Use the Quick Steps feature in Microsoft Outlook 2010

This clip will teach you how to use Outlook 2010's built-in Quick Steps tool to manage your inbox. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular email and scheduling application or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Outlook 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started organizing your own inbox, watch this free video guide.

How To: Teach your teenager money management and financial responsibility

Money skills are critical for any adult, which means the best time to teach someone financial responsibility is during the teenage years. These parenting tips are meant to teach your child about income and costs. Use allowance as a tool to show your teenager how to manage their own money.

How To: Use the Backstage view in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Learn how to use the new Backstage view feature in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 to better manage your slideshows. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular presentation application or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the PowerPoint 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started creating and using the Backstage view in your own PowerPoint projects, watch this free video guide.

How To: Create relationships & enforce integrity in MS Access

Learn how to use create relationships and enforce referential integrity when working in Microsoft Access 2010. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular database management application or a seasoned MS Office professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the Access 2010 workflow, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, and to get started creating and managing relationships within Access, watch this free video guide.

How To: Soften skin, control color & tones in Photoshop CS4

Learn about skin softening techniques and the controlling of color and tones when working in Adobe Photoshop! Whether you're new to computer graphics, new to Adobe Photoshop CS4 or a seasoned design professional just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're certain to like this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started managing skin tones in Photoshop yourself, watch this designer's guide!

How To: Manage library patterns with Rhino's Paneling Tools

Learn how to use 2D and 3D library patterns in the Paneling Tools plugin for Rhino. Whether you're new to Rober McNeel & Associates' popular NURBS-based modeling application or a seasoned 3D arts professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with Rhino 4's new features, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.

How To: Selectively delete cookies in the Mozilla Firefox browser

Wish there were an easy way to protect one more browser cookies when sweeping out the rest? With the Selective Cookie Delete Firefox add-on it, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this guide can present a complete overview of the extension and its various features in just over two minutes' time. Manage your cookies more effectively with this how-to.

How To: Organize your iTunes music on a Mac

Music a mess? iTunes comes with a number of built-in organizational features to help you sort that problem, and your tracks, out. This free video software tutorial from MacMost will ensure that you know everything required to manage your digital music library. For specifics, and to get started organizing your own iTunes library, watch this Mac user's guide.

How To: Animate a bouncing ball in Flash CS4 fast

Making digital objects move the way you want them to is one of the greatest challenges in all of computer programming. This video will help you to manage one aspect of this problem, making a ball bounce in Flash CS4. Not only does this video show you how to do it, it does so in less than 2 minutes! What more could the aspiring computer animator in a hurry ask for?

How To: Budget w/ ledger sheets in Microsoft Excel: Mac 2008

Don't want to shell out the big bucks for some fancy, expensive budgeting software? Well, if you have Excel 2008 for Mac installed, you can manage your budget right there. Personal financing doesn't get easier than this— even business finances are easy to keep track of. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to manage your finances with pre-formatted Ledger Sheets in this how-to video.

How To: Print images in Aperture

Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.

How To: Modify a solar yard light into electronic crickets

Create a nighttime chorus of insect sounds by modifying a solar yard light! You'll need some components, and the circuit board is not for the timid. It's pretty complicated with resistors, capacitors, thermistors, amplifiers, and some transformers. If you can manage all of this soldering work, then you will have one hell of a cricket show!