How to Upgrade From Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Professional

Did You Know? The platypus is a milk-producing mammal but has no nipples: platypus milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin where it is lapped up by their young. Geek Trivia The Oldest Actress To Portray A Bond Girl Is? Honor Blackman → Jane Seymour → Monica Bellucci → Teri Hatcher → Advertisement Download Drones for Dummies (FREE eBook Valued at $16.99) Plus a Chance to Win a Parrot Bebop Drone! Ready to soar into the world of unmanned aircraft? Drones For Dummies introduces you to the fascinating world of UAVs. Written in plain English and brimming with friendly instruction, Drones For Dummies provides you with the information you need to find and purchase the right drone for your needs, examples of ways to use a drone, and even drone etiquette and the laws and regulations governing consumer drone usage. Plus, you'll discover the basics of flight, including how to use a drone to capture photos and video. 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How to Enable Full-Disk Encryption on Windows 10 How to Add More Remote File Systems to Your Chromebook’s Files App Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Webware Webware (a.k.a. Web Applications and Online Software) refers to software that is accessed online via a web browser rather than downloading and installing it on a user’s computer. 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. Should people be able to create no-fly zones for drones on their property? Horrible accident involving a British toddler and a drone prompts discussion about no-fly zones. [The Next Web] We don't need a thinner iPhone Rumor is Apple wants to kill the headphone port to make the iPhone thinner. We're horrified and you should be too. [The Verge] Life Inside a Dead Whale (Video) Whales very rarely wash up on shore or float around on the surface of the ocean; instead they sink down deep and serve as a an entire ecosystem for hundreds of organisms. [YouTube] Internet of Things Encryption Vulnerabilities Show How Often Devs Rip-Off Code It's bad enough the security on Internet-of-Things devices is often lackluster; it's way worse that it's that way because developers are just copying each other's crappy code. [Motherboard] What Makes A Videogame House A Videogame Home? Here's an article we can strongly relate to: the attraction of having a (customizable) home base in video games and how easy it is to make building your base the main game. [Rock Paper Shotgun] Track Satellites in Space With This Dizzying Map Have a burning need to know which satellites are whizzing over your head at any given moment? This is the map you crave. [CityLab] How to Customize the "Respond with Text" Messages to Calls on iPhone You can easily ignore or reject calls on your iPhone. However, what if you want to at least send a quick message to acknowledge the call? There are three default text messages you can send as responses to calls on your iPhone. Read This Article → What is a Smart Faucet, and Do I Need One? With multi-year drought an all-too familiar weather pattern in places like Texas, the Southwest, and California, the need to conserve water has never been more important than it is today. But how do you police something that people use in your house almost as much as the electricity that keeps the lights on? Read This Article → How to Upgrade From Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Professional Most new PCs come with Windows 10 Home, but you can pay for an upgrade from within Windows 10 to upgrade from Home to Pro. If you upgraded from the Professional editions of Windows 7 or 8.1, you already have Windows 10 Professional. Read This Article → How to Adjust the Volume On Your Apple Watch While we love how the Apple Watch parks useful notifications right on our wrist, it can be a noisy little cricket. Thankfully it’s easy, if you know where to look, to quiet the Apple Watch. Read This Article → Is It Finally a Good Time to Buy an Apple TV? When Apple dropped the price on its third generation Apple TV to $69, we still recommended holding off until Apple released a new version. The new Apple TV has arrived, so today we’re going to discuss whether we now think it’s time to make the jump. Read This Article → How to Make the Apple Watch Screen Stay On Longer The watch face on your Apple Watch displays when you raise your wrist and hides again when you lower your wrist. You can also wake the screen by tapping on it, which displays the watch face for 15 seconds by default, but this can be extended to 70 seconds. Read This Article → Check Out These Great Cyber Monday Deals from Our Partners [Updated] We’re not big fans of Black Friday around here — most of us don’t leave our house because we don’t want to deal with the crowds. Luckily there’s a lot of good online deals on Cyber Monday, and we’ve picked out a few deals from our partners that might be worth a look. Read This Article → What is Encryption, and Why Are People Afraid of It? With recent acts of terrorism in Paris and Lebanon, news media and government have been using the word “encryption” as if it’s somehow to blame. Nonsense. Encryption is easy to understand, and if you’re not using it, you should be. Read This Article → How to Enable Full-Disk Encryption on Windows 10 Windows 10 sometimes uses encryption by default, and sometimes it doesn’t — it’s complicated. Here’s how to check if your Windows 10 PC’s storage is encrypted and how to encrypt it if it isn’t. Encryption isn’t just about stopping the NSA — it’s about protecting your sensitive data in case you ever lose your PC. Read This Article → How to Add More Remote File Systems to Your Chromebook’s Files App By default, the Files app on Chrome OS provides access to your Google Drive storage online and the Downloads folder, which is your Chromebook’s local storage. But Google’s made it possible to extend the Files app with more cloud storage services and remote file servers, including Windows file shares. Read This Article →