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Did You Know? Adobe Photoshop can detect when you’re editing images of U.S. currency in true 1:1 size and will forbid you from working on the file (in compliance with U.S. and international anti-counterfeiting laws) Geek Trivia A Canadian Environmental Group Encouraged People To Bury What In Their Gardens To Test Soil Quality? Cutting Boards → #2 Pencils → Phone Books → Underwear → Advertisement Download Forensic Magazine® - FREE Subscription Forensic Magazine® covers everything from crime scene procedures to crime lab operations, from facility operation to design to real-world tips and tricks for forensic professionals. From new product announcements to timely articles, Forensic Magazine® features the latest technology, its applications, and relevant information for forensic scientists, crime scene investigators, and forensic specialists.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 Change the Colors of Directories and Files in the ls Command How to Mirror your Mac, iPhone, or iPad Screen on Your Apple TV How to Stop Seeing Twitter's “Best Tweets” at the Top of Your Timeline How to Always Start Any Browser in Private Browsing Mode The Best “Console-Like” Games for iPhone, iPad, and Android How to Manage Notifications for the Abode Home Security System What Are mds and mdworker, and Why Are They Running on My Mac? How to Calibrate the Joy-Con Controllers On Your Nintendo Switch How (and Why) to Change Your MAC Address on Windows, Linux, and Mac How to Burn Photo and Video DVDs in Windows 7 (Without Extra Software) How to Print from a Chromebook Do Megapixels Matter When Buying a Camera? How to Root Your Android Phone with Magisk (So Android Pay and Netflix Work Again) Geek Comic Today's Tech Term xDSL xDSL is the term that collectively refers to the various DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) services such as ADSL (Asymmetric DSL), HDSL (High Bit-Rate DSL), SDSL (Symmetric DSL), VDSL (Very High-Bit Rate DSL), etc. 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. How In-Game Report Cards Ruin Games In games with a million fun things to do, why encourage players to fixate on the stuff they hate? [Waypoint] How the CIA infects air-gapped networks Sprawling "Brutal Kangaroo" spreads malware using booby-trapped USB drives. [ArsTechnica] These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs At the autonomous driving startup Starsky Robotics, the present and future of U.S. employment ride in the same cab. [Bloomberg] How to Build the Perfect Sandcastle--According to Science A sedimentologist weighs in on beach selection, tools and the perfect sand-to-water ratio [Scientific American] How to Change the Colors of Directories and Files in the ls Command If you’ve run the ls command in Bash, you’ll notice that the directories and files you see are colorized according to their type. You can customize your own color scheme to choose different text colors, background colors, and formatting like bold and underline. Read This Article → How to Mirror your Mac, iPhone, or iPad Screen on Your Apple TV You can beam all kinds of music and video to your TV with an Apple TV, but did you know you can also mirror the screen of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac on the big screen? Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Stop Seeing Twitter's “Best Tweets” at the Top of Your Timeline Not many people are big fan's of Facebook's algorithm, but they claim it drives user engagement. It's no surprise then that Twitter has implemented a similar feature called Best Tweets. Read This Article → How to Always Start Any Browser in Private Browsing Mode Private browsing mode doesn't offer complete privacy, but it does prevent your browser from saving your history, searches, cookies, and other private data between browsing sessions. You can have your browser always start in private browsing mode if you prefer it. Read This Article → The Best “Console-Like” Games for iPhone, iPad, and Android Games have been a staple of app stores since the inception of smartphones. But back then, the most popular games were short and quick, not the in-depth adventures you’d find on gaming consoles. But times have changed. Read This Article → How to Manage Notifications for the Abode Home Security System A security system isn’t really complete without notifications, especially when you’re away from home. Here’s how to manage them on the Abode home security system. Read This Article → What Are mds and mdworker, and Why Are They Running on My Mac? While checking out Activity Monitor, you noticed a couple of processes you don’t recognize: mds and mdworker. Neither have an icon, and they seem to be running constantly. Don’t worry, they’re harmless. Read This Article → How to Calibrate the Joy-Con Controllers On Your Nintendo Switch For such a tiny package, the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers sure pack a lot of complex sensors and input mechanisms. There’s an accelorometer, gyroscope, infrared camera, 20+ buttons, and two control sticks, not to mention the touch screen on the Switch itself. Eventually, you might need to make sure all those inputs are working correctly. Here’s how to calibrate your control sticks, motion controls, and even test your buttons and touch screen. Read This Article → How (and Why) to Change Your MAC Address on Windows, Linux, and Mac A device’s MAC address is assigned by the manufacturer, but it’s not to hard to change—or “spoof”—those addresses when you need to. Here’s how do do it, and why you might want to. Read This Article → How to Burn Photo and Video DVDs in Windows 7 (Without Extra Software) Software like DVD Flick is great for burning video to DVDs, but Windows 7 actually includes built-in DVD burning software. Strangely, it’s the last time the company did so—while Windows 8 and Windows 10 can play back DVD movies, they can’t create them with a DVD burner without tools from third parties. Read This Article → How to Print from a Chromebook While many of us have strived to move into an all digital world, printing is still a necessary evil for most people. If you’re a Chromebook user, printing can be a bit of a pain, but thanks to some recent changes by Google, it just got a little bit more convenient. Read This Article → Do Megapixels Matter When Buying a Camera? Tech companies love to wave big numbers and fancy sounding words around in their ads, and camera manufacturers are no exception. Although it isn't as bad as it was a few years ago, "megapixels" is normally their go-to buzzword. But what is a megapixel and does more really mean better? Let's find out. Read This Article → How to Root Your Android Phone with Magisk (So Android Pay and Netflix Work Again) Android users have been rooting their phones since the beginning of the operating system, but in recent years it has gotten much more complicated. More recently, a new method for handling root management has emerged, and it’s called Magisk. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Forensic Magazine® - FREE Subscription Forensic Magazine® covers everything from crime scene procedures to crime lab operations, from facility operation to design to real-world tips and tricks for forensic professionals. From new product announcements to timely articles, Forensic Magazine® features the latest technology, its applications, and relevant information for forensic scientists, crime scene investigators, and forensic specialists.Click here to download