10 Handy Uses for Your Old iPad or Android Tablet

Did You Know? The letters J and K do not appear in the English spelling of any cardinal numbers. Geek Trivia In Early America, What Kind Of Entertainment Was A “Mud Show”? Mud Wrestling → Wagon Pulling → Hog Tying → Circus → Advertisement Download Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual for IT Pros Being in IT I'm sure you know someone who's been hit with ransomware or you have been though it yourself. Wouldn't it be great to have a manual of what to do when you get hit and how to prevent it in the future? Now you do! You will also receive a Ransomware Attack Response Checklist and Ransomware Prevention Checklist.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. What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Arriving Fall 2017 How to Stop Your iPhone’s Portrait Mode From Making Multiple Files 10 Handy Uses for Your Old iPad or Android Tablet Don’t Be Fooled: Cheap Third-Party Apple Watch Bands Are Terrible How to Set Up Network File Sharing on macOS, Without Sharing Your Username and Password How to Make Your Echo Show Play a Sound When You Say “Alexa” How to Roll Back to iOS 10 (If You're Using the iOS 11 Beta) Surge Protectors vs. UPS: Do You Really Need a Battery Backup for Your PC? What Is Web Bluetooth? How to Make Your iPhone 7’s Home Button Click “Feel” Different How to Find Out Why Your Windows PC Crashed or Froze Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Zmodem Zmodem is an asynchronous file transfer protocol that supports larger block sizes, has better error detection, and transfers data at a faster rate than previous modem protocols. Zmodem is also able to resume an interrupted transmission if a communications failure occurs. 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. In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left Despite its persistence in popular culture, extraterrestrial life owes more to the imagination than reality [The Smithsonian Magazine] Let's Encrypt to start offering free wildcard certificates for HTTPS Upgrade will allow even more Web pages to be protected by HTTPS [ArsTechnica] Why People From Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians Demonyms are vital to our conceptions of ourselves, but the rules behind them can be pretty messy. [Atlas Obscura] What’s New in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad, Arriving Fall 2017 iOS 11 is on its way, and Apple announced a number of new features and changes at WWDC 2017 this year. From improvements to Messages and Apple Pay to powerful multitasking and file management on the iPad, here are the best new features of iOS coming this fall. You can play with them yourself today if you install the iOS 11 public beta. Read This Article → How to Stop Your iPhone’s Portrait Mode From Making Multiple Files The iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait Mode is really awesome. In the right circumstances, it makes it possible to take portraits that look like they were shot using a DSLR and a wide aperture lens just using your iPhone. Read This Article → 10 Handy Uses for Your Old iPad or Android Tablet Tablet sales are slumping at the moment, probably as a result of big smartphones and convertible laptops chip away at a tablet’s usefulness. But if you have one or more tablets at home gathering dust while you happily poke away at your giant smartphone, there are probably some good ways to put them to use rather than selling them or recycling them. Here are a few ideas. Read This Article → Don’t Be Fooled: Cheap Third-Party Apple Watch Bands Are Terrible So you spent a few hundred dollars on an Apple Watch, but spending another $50 on a new band just seems excessive. There are third-party versions designed to look and feel nearly the same as the real thing, but are a quarter of the cost. Unfortunately, “nearly the same” isn’t really all that accurate. Read This Article → How to Set Up Network File Sharing on macOS, Without Sharing Your Username and Password Sharing files over the network is convenient, but not without risks. If you leave permissions open, anyone on the network can see all of your files, which isn’t ideal on large networks. But if you lock things down you’ll have to share your Mac’s user account with anyone who needs access to the files. That’s not ideal for all sorts of reasons. Read This Article → How to Make Your Echo Show Play a Sound When You Say “Alexa” By default, when you say “Alexa” near the Echo Show, it displays a blue line on a screen. If you’d prefer something a bit more obvious, you can make your Echo Show play a sound every time you invoke it. Read This Article → How to Roll Back to iOS 10 (If You're Using the iOS 11 Beta) So you've installed the iOS 11 beta and, well, you don't love it. No problem, because you can roll right back to iOS 10. Read This Article → Surge Protectors vs. UPS: Do You Really Need a Battery Backup for Your PC? Most PC users understand that a power surge, blackout, or other sudden loss of electricity has the capacity to seriously hurt your computer. But exactly what one should do to protect against it gets a little fuzzier. The two most common means of protection are a standard surge protector, sometimes (wrongly) called a power strip, or an uninterruptible power supply, usually shortened to UPS. (No connection with the delivery guys in the brown shorts.) Read This Article → What Is Web Bluetooth? Generally speaking, most of us think of Bluetooth as a simple, device-to-device to connection used to do things like play music or other audio (speakers/headsets), offer quick notification access (smartwatches), or perform other tasks. But there’s a new Bluetooth standard on the rise, and it allows your web browser to control nearby Bluetooth devices. It’s going to be cool. Read This Article → How to Make Your iPhone 7’s Home Button Click “Feel” Different The Home Button on the iPhone 7 isn't really a button. It's a circular touch and force sensitive area which, thanks to the Taptic Engine, feels like a button that clicks. Read This Article → How to Find Out Why Your Windows PC Crashed or Froze Computers crash and freeze. Your Windows PC may have automatically rebooted itself, too. If so, it probably experienced a blue screen of death when you weren’t looking. The first step in troubleshooting is finding more specific error details. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual Being in IT I'm sure you know someone who's been hit with ransomware or you have been though it yourself. Wouldn't it be great to have a manual of what to do when you get hit and how to prevent it in the future? Now you do! You will also receive a Ransomware Attack Response Checklist and Ransomware Prevention Checklist.Click here to download