

His roundups of new features in Windows 10 updates have been called "the most detailed, useful Windows version previews of anyone on the web" and covered by prominent Windows journalists like Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT's Windows Weekly.

Instructional tutorials he's written have been linked to by organizations like The New York Times, Wirecutter, Lifehacker, the BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, and John Gruber's Daring Fireball. The news he's broken has been covered by outlets like the BBC, The Verge, Slate, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Techmeme. Beyond the column, he wrote about everything from Windows to tech travel tips. He founded PCWorld's "World Beyond Windows" column, which covered the latest developments in open-source operating systems like Linux and Chrome OS. He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. Tasker is extremely flexible.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. You can also create profiles that rely on multiple contexts being true and specify multiple actions that occur in a task. For example, you could set a context that occurs when you have a specific app open or when you arrive at a specific geographical location. These are just examples, and contexts can be much more than just times. If you set the Enter task to enable silent mode and Exit task to disable silent mode, your phone would also automatically leave silent mode at 6 a.m. For example, you could instead specify a time context between 10 p.m. You can also specify different tasks that occur when your phone enters a context and exits a context. rolls around, Tasker would set your phone to silent mode. You'd create a task that enables silent mode and link it to a context that specifies 10 p.m. A profile is a combination of a context and a task.įor example, let's say you wanted to automatically enable silent mode at 10 p.m. Tasker monitors your phone for contexts and performs tasks based on them. To use Tasker, you'll need to know its jargon.
