In 2023, he assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief. In 2022, he returned to How-To Geek to focus on one of his biggest tech passions: smart home and home automation.

In 2019, he stepped back from his role at Review Geek to focus all his energy on LifeSavvy. With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets. Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. This method disables media scanning on the chosen directory, causing the Gallery to skip the directory altogether at launch. Rename it to “.nomedia” (hold down on the file again and select Rename from its context menu).Delete its contents (hold down on the text, Select all and Delete), save changes and exit,.Open it in a text editor (hold down on the file and select the appropriate option from the context menu that appears),.Copy an existing text (.txt) or even an image (.jpg/.png) file to said directory,.Using any file explorer/manager application (such as Astro File Manager or File Expert), navigate to the directory that you want hidden and create an empty file titled “.nomedia”. At the computer trips and tricks blog Addictive Tips they share three ways you can prevent Gallery from going crazy and indexing everything on your phone. This isn't always the case and, thankfully, it's easy to fix. It assumes that if it is on your SD card then you want it in your gallery for easy access. By default Android's Gallery application is aggressive about adding media. If you want to use the Gallery app to show people pictures of your kid/dog/home remodeling project and not your girlfriend's chest/drinking exploits/night at the club then this tip is for you.

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