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Did You Know? The names of the Japanese cities Kyoto and Tokyo, the former and current capitals of the country, simply translate as “capital city” and “eastern capital”. Geek Trivia The Only Cats That Roar Belong To Which Genus? Catopuma → Felis → Leopardus → Panthera → Advertisement Download FREE Tip Card: Microsoft Office Keyboard Shortcuts These Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word shortcuts will reduce the errors you make when typing and boost your productivity. Did you know if you press F11 in any Excel cell, you can create a simple bar chart? Only know part of a name or email address? In Outlook, press Ctrl+K and it will take what you enter and offer you a list of likely choice. Want more shortcuts? Download this FREE tip card now!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 Sync Your Browser Bookmarks, Extensions, and Other Data Between Computers How to Change Audio Outputs on a Chromebook How to Add a Different Reaction to a Facebook Post (Like a Heart or Emoji) The Best Cheap Mechanical Keyboards Under $40 How to Measure Distances in Google Maps for Running, Biking, and Hiking How to Monitor and Control Your Mac’s Fans How to Set Up and Get Started Using the Amazon Echo Show Should You Buy an iMac Pro, or Wait for the Modular Mac Pro Redesign? How to Stream Videos from Your iPhone or iPad to an Apple TV Using AirPlay How to Post to Facebook in Multiple Languages How to Install Android in VirtualBox Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Yellow Book The term “Yellow Book” refers to the specification/standard for the physical format of CD-ROMs. 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. The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking How a ragtag group of young hackers made the iPhone what it is today. [Motherboard] How Ping Pong Balls Are Made [Video] Even if you had the vaguest inkling of how ping pong balls were made, we bet you didn't realize how rigorous the testing of professional grade ball is. [Boing Boing] Greetings, E.T. (Please Don't Murder Us.) A new initiative to beam messages into space may be our best shot yet at learning whether we're alone in the universe. There's just one problem: What if we're not? [NYT] Windows 10 will try to combat ransomware by locking up your data But how to protect files from users who have access to those files remains tricky. [ArsTechnica] How to Sync Your Browser Bookmarks, Extensions, and Other Data Between Computers More and more, your interactions with computers are dependent on your browser and the web at large. So it’s incredibly handy to have your browser history and settings follow you around to other computers. The various makers of your favorite browsers know this, and all of them (with one predictable exception) have built-in tools to help your web experience stay consistent. Read This Article → How to Change Audio Outputs on a Chromebook Pretty much every Chromebook out there has speakers built in, and almost all of them have at least one other audio output as well—be it a 3.5mm headphone jack, or Bluetooth. Sometimes, however, you may need to let your Chromebook know where you want the audio to come from. Read This Article → How to Add a Different Reaction to a Facebook Post (Like a Heart or Emoji) Social media has a tendency to twist words and their meanings. Online, words such as "Friend", "Follow", and "Like" all mean subtly different things to what they mean offline. If someone posts about their granny dying do you ignore the post? Like it out of sympathy? Comment? Well now Facebook has gone somewhat towards fixing this by adding a series of different reactions. Read This Article → The Best Cheap Mechanical Keyboards Under $40 Mechanical keyboards are all the rage computer enthusiasts and gamers. If you’ve been using a rubber dome or scissor switch keyboard for your whole life, buying a new clicky keyboard might be intimidating, to say nothing of the considerable expense. Even the cheapest models from mainstream suppliers start at around $80, and go well into the hundreds for RGB lights and programmable extras—a lot of dough to drop on something you aren’t sure you’ll like. Read This Article → How to Measure Distances in Google Maps for Running, Biking, and Hiking Getting directions in Google Maps lets you easily see how far away the destination is. However, if you want to know the distance between point A and point B on a hiking or running trail, here’s how to do that in Google Maps. Read This Article → How to Monitor and Control Your Mac’s Fans Your Mac’s fans probably aren’t something you think about very often—until something goes wrong. Maybe you hear the fan too often, and it’s driving you nuts. Maybe you’ve stopped hearing your fan altogether, even when you Mac feels hot. Either way, you should probably look into that. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Get Started Using the Amazon Echo Show The Echo Show is Amazon’s newest voice assistant gadget. This time around, Alexa comes with a screen so she can play videos, show you your events, and let you see search results rather than having them read aloud to you. It seems a little contradictory for a voice assistant at first, but the Echo Show has a few advantages over its tubular counterpart. Here’s how to set yours up. Read This Article → Should You Buy an iMac Pro, or Wait for the Modular Mac Pro Redesign? When Apple refreshed the venerable Mac Pro desktop in 2013, reception was mixed to say the least. While the second-gen machine’s tiny footprint and polished case (aka the “trash can”) are certainly eye-catching, and there’s an undeniable amount of engineering in its design, the official line that only the memory can be upgraded after purchase put off a lot of power users. Read This Article → How to Stream Videos from Your iPhone or iPad to an Apple TV Using AirPlay When it comes to getting content from your phone to your TV, there’s really no shortage of ways to make it happen. Our favorite is Google’s Chromecast—it’s affordable and does the job well. But if you’re invested in the Apple ecosystem, you can easily stream Netflix, YouTube, and others to your Apple TV from your iOS device. Read This Article → How to Post to Facebook in Multiple Languages Facebook's a truly international site. Hundreds of millions of their users don't speak English as a first language. You might even be Facebook friends with some of them. Read This Article → How to Install Android in VirtualBox If you’re itching give Android a try but don’t necessarily want use your whole computer for the task, the best option is to run it in a virtual machine using VirtualBox. It’s actually pretty easy to set up, and will offer you the full Android experience in a matter of a few minutes. Let’s do this thing. Read This Article → Advertisement Download FREE Tip Card: Microsoft Office Keyboard Shortcuts These Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word shortcuts will reduce the errors you make when typing and boost your productivity. Did you know if you press F11 in any Excel cell, you can create a simple bar chart? Only know part of a name or email address? In Outlook, press Ctrl+K and it will take what you enter and offer you a list of likely choice. Want more shortcuts? Download this FREE tip card now!Click here to download