Even More Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Features Microsoft Didn't Announce

Did You Know? All of the chainmail seen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy was hand crafted by two people, Christopher Smith and Carl Payne. The duo spent two years crafting the suits and, in the process, linked around five million rings composed of a collective ten kilometers of wire. Geek Trivia The Composition Of The Iconic “Bliss” Windows XP Wallpaper Was Only Possible Because Of? An Insect Infestation → Summer Storms → Seasonal Flooding → Recent Forest Fires → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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The Million Dollar Homepage is a Million Dollar Graveyard A 2005 web experiment speaks to the difficulty of archiving the web. [Motherboard] Next Level: Prescription video games Akili is a Boston-based tech company that has used Neuroscape's core technology to develop a mobile game called Project: EVO. The goal is make Project: EVO so powerful, that it could potentially help treat children with ADHD — as a prescription-based video game. [The Verge] Concerned about connected car privacy? Bluetooth sensors used to track traffic Bluetooth signals from cars provide an accurate record of real-time traffic patterns. [ArsTechnica] How to Make a Tabletop Studio for Perfect eBay or Craigslist Sale Photos So you’ve decided to flex your mercurial muscles and start selling products online. High-quality photos are a simple way to attract more buyers, and contrary to what you might think, they don’t require thousands of dollars in equipment. With a simple photo tent and some lights, even a decent smartphone camera can take great photos of small-to-medium objects. Read This Article → How to Properly Test 911 Services on Your Cell Phone Recently, OnePlus owners got a scare when users discovered the new OnePlus 5 would reboot upon trying to call to 911 emergency services. Other Android users then showed up to say the same thing happened to them—many on non-OnePlus phones. The last thing you need is for your phone to not work when you need it most, so here’s the right way to test 911 services on your phone to make sure it actually works. Read This Article → How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms Twitter threads (aka tweetstorms) might be widely hated, but they are a big part of the Twitter experience. Since you're most likely going to do them, you might as well do them right. Here's how. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Arriving September 2017 Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, codenamed Redstone 3, will be released in September 2017. Here are all the new features you’ll see in the latest version of Windows—and some big, splashy features Microsoft announced that never arrived. Read This Article → How to Add IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes Ratings to Your Plex Media Server Why settle for mediocre ratings on your otherwise perfect Plex Media Server? With a simple trick, you can add IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings to Plex and enjoy more accurate movie scores. Read This Article → How to Receive an Alexa Alert When Your Amazon Package Is Out for Delivery There are many ways to receive notifications about the status of your Amazon packages. The Amazon app on your phone can send you a push notification, for example. But wouldn’t it be cooler if Alexa told you right from your Echo device? Read This Article → Why Don’t Macs Have “Intel Inside” Stickers? There’s an Intel sticker on basically every PC, generally impossible to remove without leaving some nasty residue. Macs also use Intel processors, so why don’t they have stickers? Read This Article → How to Disable Facebook’s Chat-Style Post Tab Notifications When you chat with people on Facebook, each conversation appears at the bottom-right corner of the site as a chat tab. Now, Facebook is using the same tool for posts you’re following. Any time someone comments on your posts, or posts you’ve also commented on, a tab will pop up in the bottom-right corner. This can get overwhelming. Here’s how to turn that off. Read This Article → How to Install (or Move) Apps to Another Drive on Windows 10 Windows 10 allows you to install apps from the Store on any drive you like. You can also move apps you’ve previously installed to a new location without uninstalling and reinstalling them. Read This Article → How (and Why) to Disable 2.4GHz Wi-Fi on Your Network Technology is an odd duck: in less than twenty years, Wi-Fi has gone from an amazing (and expensive) luxury to an assumed inclusion in every device you own. And yet, there’s plenty of room for improvement…which is why you should consider disabling the old 2.4GHz band on your home’s Wi-Fi network and using the newer, faster, less crowded 5GHz band exclusively. Read This Article → How to Download Google Maps Data for Offline Navigation on Android or iPhone As much as cellular providers want to brag about their coverage maps, we have to be real with each other: 100% coverage simply doesn’t exist. And if you’re travelling inan area where coverage could drop, having your maps saved for offline use is a godsend. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → What Does Twitter's “Quality Filter” Do? Twitter is an oddball. The very things that make it great—everyone's in one big public water cooler, you can reach out to anyone just by @mentioning them, accounts can be anonymous—are what lead to its abuse and spam problems. Read This Article → 10+ Useful System Tools Hidden in Windows Windows contains a variety of system utilities that are useful, but well-hidden. Some are buried deep in the Start menu, while others you can access only if you know the right command to run. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.Click here to download