How to Find Your Wi-Fi Password

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Skip Numbering in a Numbered List in Word What is Google Maps “Lite” Mode, and Should I Use It? How to Find Your Wi-Fi Password How to Check (and Update) Your Apple TV Operating System Version How to Manage Your Subscriptions on Apple TV How to Customize the Bullets in a Bulleted List in Word The Only Safe Way to Update Your Hardware Drivers on Windows How to Record a Screencast on Your Android Device (Without Plugging It Into a Computer) Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Uberveillance Uberveillance is a term used to describe intensive or exaggerated 24/7 electronic surveillance processes that not only ‘observe’ individuals from an ‘outside’ perspective, but also new technologies that could be embedded within a person’s body to achieve a whole new level of ‘complete’ surveillance. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs This is a fascinating look at what "mobile" really means. As devices get easier to use, our workload adapts to those new devices, and nothing is easier to operate than an Android or iOS device. Do people really need a PC in their home? [Benedict Evans] How Space Cadet pinball won the Windows desktop Space Cadet was a genius casual game before casual gaming was even considered a genre. The Kernel digs into the history of the game, the stress of developing it in time for the Windows 95 launch, and where the iconic game is now. [The Kernel] NASA has figured out how Mars was stripped clean of water The sun beats down on both Earth and Mars but only one of the planets is thoroughly battered by the experience; NASA scientists explain why the solar winds are so devastating to the Martian water supplies and atmosphere. [Quartz] How Facebook puts petabytes of old cat pix on ice in the name of sustainability Storing billions of photos forever is no easy task. Facebook is slashing power and disk demands in a variety of ways, including putting your images into "deep storage" server racks that are powered off most of the time. [ArsTechnica] Google vs. Shady Advertisers Last year, Google removed 524 million advertisements and banned more than 214,000 advertisers from its search results. But predatory companies are still finding loopholes. [The Atlantic] Own a Vizio Smart TV? It's watching you Smart TVs are terrible. If you have plugged it into the Internet, you should probably unplug it because it is spying on you. [ArsTechnica] How to Skip Numbering in a Numbered List in Word A numbered list in Word is simply a series of numbered paragraphs. There may be times when you want to have a paragraph or two without numbering in the middle of a numbered list and then start the numbering again after the unnumbered paragraphs. Read This Article → What is Google Maps “Lite” Mode, and Should I Use It? If you’ve noticed that Google Maps is running sluggish or crashing often on your computer, it might be time to test out Google’s own “Lite” version of the service to see if it’s a better match for your machine’s specs. Read This Article → How to Find Your Wi-Fi Password What’s the password to your Wi-Fi network, anyway? Whether you’ve changed the default password or not, it’s simple to find it. You can look up any Wi-Fi network password if you’ve previously connected to that network from a Windows PC or Mac. Read This Article → How to Check (and Update) Your Apple TV Operating System Version Although automatic updates are enabled by default on the new Apple TV, it’s useful to know how to check your tvOS version number and manually update it. Read on as we show you how. Read This Article → How to Manage Your Subscriptions on Apple TV The new Apple TV comes with a ton of features including the ability to manage subscriptions right from your device, which you may find more useful than doing so from iTunes. Read This Article → How to Customize the Bullets in a Bulleted List in Word By default, the plain black circular bullets are used when creating bulleted lists. However, you can customize your bulleted lists. We will show you how to change the symbol used as the bullets on the list and how to change the color of the bullets. Read This Article → The Only Safe Way to Update Your Hardware Drivers on Windows Want to update your computer’s hardware drivers? Don’t use driver-update utilities. Avoid bad freeware-download sites, too. Get your driver updates from Windows Update or your device manufacturer’s website. Read This Article → How to Record a Screencast on Your Android Device (Without Plugging It Into a Computer) Google’s new YouTube Gaming and Google Play Games apps allow you to record your Android device’s screen and create screencasts. They’re designed for recording mobile games while you play them, but you can use them to record any app. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Application Performance Management for Dummies Riverbed Performance Management gives IT visibility and actionable insight to deliver the application performance users and the business demands. Click here to download