How to Install Chrome OS on Any PC and Turn It Into a Chromebook

Did You Know? Throughout England, you’ll find numerous hills named “beacon hill”, the name is a holdover from an earlier time in English history when those hills were part of a fire beacon warning communication system. Geek Trivia Kintsugi Is The Japanese Art Of Repairing Pottery With? Gold → Volcanic Glass → Bone Meal → Shark Cartilage → Advertisement Download Mindfulness At Work Essentials For Dummies ($9.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Manage stress and boost your productivity at work using mindfulness. This eBook explores the many benefits of utilizing mindfulness techniques in the workplace, offering managers, HR professionals and business people of all levels guidance on how mindfulness can help with the development of core business skills.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 Set Screen Time Limits for Kids on an Xbox One How to Sideload Apps on Android How to Delete a Photo from Your Instagram Story How to Install Chrome OS on Any PC and Turn It Into a Chromebook How to Add Emergency Contacts to Your Abode Home Security System How to Enable macOS’ Dark Menu Bar and Dock How to Customize Your Echo Show’s Home Screen How to Manage Partitions on Windows Without Downloading Any Other Software How to Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine and Free Up Disk Space How to Remap the Galaxy S8’s Bixby Button (Without Rooting) How to Block People in Facebook Messenger How to Control Multiple PCs With One Keyboard Using Synergy Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Anisotropic Filtering Anisotropic Filtering (or AF for short) is a filtering technique used improve image quality in computer video games. Anisotropic Filtering makes angled surfaces, textures, and patterns that are farther away from the camera view look better and sharper. 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. Known Alias: How Stephen King Was Outed as Richard Bachman A fascinating look at how a store clerk outed Stephen King [Mental Floss] Not for the first time, Microsoft's fonts have caught out forgers If you're going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman. [ArsTechnica] A Sideways Elevator Could Lead to Taller Buildings ThyssenKrupp's design travels horizontally and diagonally, in addition to up and down, freeing up square footage that would otherwise be commandeered for a shaft. [The Atlantic] What Not to Do in a Disaster Survival is less about heroic actions than avoiding mindless mistakes. [BBC] How to Set Screen Time Limits for Kids on an Xbox One The Xbox One now has a “Screen Time” feature that allows you to control how much your children can use the console. For example, you could restrict game time to only between 3 PM and 9 PM, but with a maximum of two hours. Different settings can be applied to different child accounts and for different days of the week. Read This Article → How to Sideload Apps on Android Just because an app isn't available from the Google Play Store doesn't mean it's not available at all—you can effectively install non-Play Store apps on any Android phone, tablet, or other device by enabling one simple toggle. This practice is called "sideloading." Read This Article → How to Delete a Photo from Your Instagram Story Instagram's Story feature is great, but like with all Story features, it's easy to let muscle memory take over and accidentally share a photo with everyone who follows you rather than the person you meant to send it to. I've made this mistake more than once. Most of the time, all that anyone will see is a weirdly out of context photo, but sometimes, things can be a bit more sensitive. Whatever happens, here's how to delete a photo from your Instagram Story. Read This Article → How to Install Chrome OS on Any PC and Turn It Into a Chromebook Want to turn any old computer into a Chromebook? Google doesn’t provide official builds of Chrome OS for anything but official Chromebooks, but there are ways you can install the open-source Chromium OS software or a similar operating system. Read This Article → How to Add Emergency Contacts to Your Abode Home Security System If you pay for professional monitoring with your Abode home security system, you can set up emergency contacts that are notified whenever an intrusion is detected, adding in a bit more peace of mind. Read This Article → How to Enable macOS’ Dark Menu Bar and Dock You’ve seen it in screenshots: a black menu bar, and a black dock. How did they do that? Read This Article → How to Customize Your Echo Show’s Home Screen The Echo Show is the only Amazon Echo product with a home screen. When you’re not using it, the Show will suggest voice commands, display your events, and even bring you current events. If you don’t like what you see, you can customize the background photo and what cards the Echo Show displays when it’s not doing something else. Read This Article → How to Manage Partitions on Windows Without Downloading Any Other Software There are tons of third-party partition managers for Windows, but did you know that Windows includes its own? Microsoft did a good job of hiding the Disk Management tool, but it's there. Read This Article → How to Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine and Free Up Disk Space By default, VMware creates “growable” disks that grow larger in size as you add data. Unfortunately, they don’t automatically shrink when you remove data. You’ll need to clean up or compact your disks to actually free up space on your hard drive. Read This Article → How to Remap the Galaxy S8’s Bixby Button (Without Rooting) With the launch of the Galaxy S8, Samsung decided to get in on the “personal assistant” action with its own version, called Bixby—there’s even a dedicated button to launch the service on the S8. The thing is, Bixby just isn’t very good. Read This Article → How to Block People in Facebook Messenger While you can block someone completely on Facebook, it's a pretty dramatic measure. Essentially, your Facebook account will cease to exist for them. If you're just trying to get a bit of a break, you can unfriend them or block them from sending you Facebook Messages so they can't contact you privately. Here's how. Read This Article → How to Control Multiple PCs With One Keyboard Using Synergy If you use multiple Windows machines on your desk, you’re probably tired of swapping between keyboards and mice. There are hardware solutions—KVM switches, which use multiple inputs and outputs to share physical mice and keyboards. Synergy, a program that does the same thing over a network, is a more elegant solution, and it works with Windows, macOS, and Linux. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Mindfulness At Work Essentials For Dummies ($9.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Manage stress and boost your productivity at work using mindfulness. This eBook explores the many benefits of utilizing mindfulness techniques in the workplace, offering managers, HR professionals and business people of all levels guidance on how mindfulness can help with the development of core business skills.Click here to download