Should You Buy a 4K Computer Monitor?

Did You Know? Delaware has the fewest number of counties of any U.S. state; the entire state is divided into only three counties: New Castle, Kent, and Sussex. Geek Trivia The Point On The Earth’s Surface Farthest From Its Center Is Located At? Toubkal, Morocco → Mt. Elbrus, Russia → Mt. Mckinley, Alaska → Chimborazo, Ecuador → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. 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. Can Unplugging a Portable USB Hard Drive Damage a Computer? How to Use Geektool to Customize Your Mac’s Desktop Should You Buy a 4K Computer Monitor? What is 802.11ac, and Do I Need It? How to Use MCEdit to Speed Up Building in Minecraft Getting Started with Garageband on OS X How to Add Website Links to the Windows 10 Start Menu Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Blind Drop A Blind Drop is a hidden location such as a forum, message board, BBS, or other “discrete” place online where a malware program can send (drop) the data it has acquired until it can be retrieved by the individuals responsible for the attack. 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. George Lucas criticizes "retro" feel of new Star Wars, describes "breakup" Filmmaker spoke about selling his company in an interview with Charlie Rose. [ArsTechnica] The Internet of Things is already here—just not the way you expected Everyone is waiting for the Internet of Things to take consumers by storm. That likely isn't going to happen, but it's not because IoT isn't a big deal. It's because it's already here. [Daily Dot] Stress on Simulated Mars Was Not What I Expected "I've kept an eye out for interpersonal stress, and weakness from it. Instead, I've found a heightened awareness of interdependence." [Nautilus] IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment According to Google's statistics, on December 26, the world reached 9.98 percent IPv6 deployment, up from just under 6 percent a year earlier. [ArsTechnica] Artificial Intelligence Finally Entered Our Everyday World Artificial intelligence is changing not only the way we use our computers and smartphones but the way we interact with the real world. [Wired] Telecommuting Can Make the Office a Lonely Place, a Study Says Telecommuting might be great for the workers who get out of the office but new research shows that the workers that stay behind at the home office end up feeling isolated [NYT] Can Unplugging a Portable USB Hard Drive Damage a Computer? While many of us are familiar with the concept of improperly unplugging a portable hard drive causing potential data loss, is it also possible that your computer could be damaged as well? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Use Geektool to Customize Your Mac’s Desktop Geektool is a program for adding customizable widgets to your Mac’s desktop. Geektool runs almost entirely on shell scripts, which update every few seconds to display useful information on the desktop. Customizing Geektool is made easy by packaged scripts called Geeklets, which can be installed quickly and do not require knowledge of shell scripts to use. Read This Article → Should You Buy a 4K Computer Monitor? New 4K monitors are dropping in price, and they are available almost everywhere. They can be found now for a few hundred bucks, and we’ve seen some great sale prices. But are they worth the money, and should you upgrade? Read This Article → What is 802.11ac, and Do I Need It? If you’ve been down to your local Best Buy lately, you might have noticed that a whole new class of wireless routers are on the market on the premium end of the product scale, emblazoned with an “802.11ac” label in bright letters on the front of the box. Read This Article → How to Use MCEdit to Speed Up Building in Minecraft MCEdit is a powerful third party program for editing Minecraft maps. MCEdit has many tools and filters for editing and building, and can speed up the building of large or complex Minecraft creations. Read This Article → Getting Started with Garageband on OS X Apple’s prepackaged tool for audio editing and song writing isn’t hard to operate, even with minimal experience with music composition. Garageband is surprisingly powerful for being so lightweight, and can be used for everything from simple audio editing to a full songwriter’s studio. Read This Article → How to Add Website Links to the Windows 10 Start Menu Even though Microsoft may have ruffled some feathers with its latest redesign of the Windows 10 start menu, luckily the engineers behind it were smart enough to make it highly malleable and customizable at the same time, just in case users wanted to add some flair of their own. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. Click here to download