We’re fans of AppCleaner as an app uninstaller , but over on How-To Geek, they point out that the free software is also useful for resetting apps back to their default state.

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Android: Google’s updated Google Maps to respond to voice commands. This means you can use “OK Google” to do all sorts of things, like alter your navigation path, find gas stations, and plenty more.

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Chrome: We’ve all been there—you open a site in a new tab, and it starts playing audio in the background. Or worse, you open it in the foreground and it starts a video in some random corner of the page while you read an article. Silent Site Sound Blocker puts an end to that nonsense for good.

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I’m barreling down Interstate 35 just south of Austin, Texas in a sand-colored 1969 BMW 1600, headed for a long weekend of questionable choices and hazy recollections on South Padre Island. I had only owned the car, my first old BMW, for six months or so, and I was still getting to know the eccentricities, but the tinge of burning oil seemed a bit distinct among the other odors that come with a car that had been on the road a full decade before I was born.

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