How to Dim the Blinding Glare of Your Gadgets' LED Lights

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The Echo From Amazon Brims With Groundbreaking Promise Incredibly fast response times, a flexible system, and adoption by major smart home manufacturers are all contributing the Echo's rising popularity. [NYT] 16 years later, Blizzard is still patching Diablo II New update helps the game run on modern operating systems [ArsTechnica] FCC wants internet providers to ask your permission before sharing data The commission is circulating a proposal today that would require internet service providers — like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T — to get your permission before sharing information about you with many outside parties [The Verge] What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget? Maybe it doesn't faze you that your local police have a $400,000 device that listens in on cell phones. How will you feel when your neighbor has a $1,500 version? 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Read This Article → How to Customize Your Chromebook’s Keyboard and Touchpad Chromebooks are known for their simplicity and unique design, but the keyboard and trackpad can take some getting used to for new users. Chromebooks don’t have the same layouts you’d find on a regular Windows or OS X laptop, with several different buttons that are exclusive to Google’s operating system. Read This Article → The Best Xbox Features in Windows 10 (Even If You Don’t Own an Xbox) Windows 10 includes an Xbox app and other Xbox-related features. Many of these features are useful even if you’ve never owned an Xbox in your life, and one of these features is even useful for Windows 10 users who never play games. Read This Article → How to Dim the Blinding Glare of Your Gadgets’ LED Lights Just because the manufacturer decided your gadget needed a blinking LED as bright as a car headlamp doesn’t mean you have to tolerate it. Let’s take a look at how you can those brilliant LEDs so your bedroom doesn’t look like a night club. Read This Article → How to Snooze or Reply to Notifcations from the iPhone's Lock Screen When you receive a notification on the iPhone–say, for a text message–you don’t have to unlock your phone to respond to it. You can actually respond to all sorts of notifications from the lock screen, no unlocking needed. Read This Article → How to Adjust the Volume for Individual Apps in Windows Since Windows Vista, Windows has allowed you to change the volume for individual apps using its Volume Mixer. This can be useful if you have apps that always seem to play too loud or soft compared to everything else. Read This Article → How to Choose Which Mailbox Shows Up on Your Apple Watch The Mail app on your Apple Watch makes it possible to view emails and even reply to some. However, if you have several email accounts and get a lot of email, you might want to limit how much email you see at once. Read This Article → You Don’t Need a Product Key to Install and Use Windows 10 Microsoft allows anyone to download Windows 10 for free and install it without a product key. It’ll keep working for the foreseeable future, with only a few small cosmetic restrictions. And you can even pay to upgrade to a licensed copy of Windows 10 after you install it. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 Security Essentials - The Ultimate Defense Kit (a $39.99 value!) Kit includes "Windows Malware Analysis Essentials" plus 3 other resources to help you understand network security. Click here to download