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Did You Know? Julia Child, most famous for her cooking shows, helped develop shark repellent during World War II to keep sharks away from underwater mines. Geek Trivia Mixing Up The Starting Sounds Of Words In A Sentence Is Known As A? Spoonerism → Lingversion → Phoneme Inversion → Morphoswap → Advertisement Download Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual I'm sure you know someone who's been hit with ransomware or you have been though it yourself. Wouldn't it be great to have a manual of what to do when you get hit and how to prevent it in the future? Now you do! Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. 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 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) Amazon’s Fire OS vs. Google’s Android: What’s the Difference? How to Use Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and Other Google Apps on Amazon’s Fire Tablet What Lossless File Formats Are & Why You Shouldn’t Convert Lossy to Lossless How to Center Text Across Multiple Cells in Excel How to Silence Messages on iPhone, iPad, and Mac How to Install the Google Play Store on Your Amazon Fire Tablet Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Thin Server A Thin Server is a computer that has just enough hardware and software capabilities to support particular functions or provide low level processes for users and/or other computers in a network. 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. Drone Company Misled Military into Buying UAVs that Were Basically Toys: Lawsuit So the US government paid $240,000 each for drones that were no better than hobby drones for $5000. That sounds like business as usual to me. [Motherboard] Apple's iPad Pro is available to order online on Wednesday If you want a giant 12 inch iPad and an optional keyboard and stylus, Wednesday is the day to get it. We're going to get one here at HTG to check out. [The Verge] Xbox One will support 104 Xbox 360 games this week This is really huge: backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games gives the Xbox One its first advantage over the PlayStation 4. They've developed an emulator that downloads the ported game from their servers when you insert the disc. [The Verge] Sorry, There's No Such Thing As "Unlimited" Data Now "unlimited" means "literally unlimited" which means nothing thanks to stupid people on the internet. Words have no meaning anymore. [Wired] TensorFlow - Google's latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone Google has open sourced their machine learning system which can be used by anybody to create extremely advanced applications that get smarter and smarter. [Google] TLC NAND SSDs: The crippling problem storage makers don't advertise Basically you shouldn't buy an SSD that uses triple level cell NAND because it's significantly slower. [PC World] 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 → Amazon’s Fire OS vs. Google’s Android: What’s the Difference? Amazon’s Fire tablets run Amazon’s own “Fire OS” operating system. Fire OS is based on Google’s Android, but it doesn’t have any of Google’s apps or services. Here’s what that means, and how exactly they’re different. Read This Article → How to Use Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and Other Google Apps on Amazon’s Fire Tablet Amazon’s Appstore has quite a few big-name apps, including Microsoft’s. But Google hasn’t put its own apps in the Amazon Appstore. It’s still possible to access Google’s services in other ways — or even use Google’s actual Android apps on your Fire Tablet. Read This Article → What Lossless File Formats Are & Why You Shouldn’t Convert Lossy to Lossless Whether you're dealing with images, music, or video files, it's important to understand the difference between different types of formats and when to use them. Using the wrong format could ruin a file's quality or make its file size unnecessarily large. Read This Article → How to Center Text Across Multiple Cells in Excel If you have a label or heading on a spreadsheet in Excel that you want to center across a certain number of cells, there are couple of ways you can do this, with or without merging cells. We'll show you both ways. Read This Article → How to Silence Messages on iPhone, iPad, and Mac If you use Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, then you probably know how quickly you can become overrun with message notifications, especially if you’re part of a group message. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to mute specific messages so you’re not disturbed. Read This Article → How to Install the Google Play Store on Your Amazon Fire Tablet Amazon’s Fire Tablet normally restricts you to the Amazon Appstore. But the Fire Tablet runs Fire OS, which is based on Android. You can install Google’s Play Store and gain access to every Android app, including Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, Hangouts, and the over one million apps in Google Play. 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