Once a week we round up some great tips from the HTG tip box and share them with you; this week we’re looking at location based to-do reminders for Android phones, how to make your own floppy drive symphony, and an easy way to enjoy anywhere access to your manuals and product documentation.

Location Alert Issues Location-based To-Do Reminders

Usi writes in with the following reminder tip:

Sounds like a workable solution, Usi, thanks for sharing. We’d love to hear from readers on other platforms (like Android and BlackBerry phones) who have experience with location-based reminders.

DIY Floppy Drive Music

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Paul writes in with a fun DIY project:

Neat indeed… if we could rig up some dot-matrix printers and old hard drives we’d be well on our way to creating a symphony.

Easy Access to Product Manuals

Bill writes in with the following organization trick:

We’re with you 100%, Bill. We like putting our board game manuals in the whole Dropbox-to-iPad workflow so whenever we need to reference an obscure rule we’re one Find query away from the answers we need.

Have a tip or trick to share? Shoot us an email at tips@howtogeek.com and look for you tip on the front page.