How to Take Photos of Fireworks

Did You Know? The only U.S. President who shares a birth date with America’s Independence Day, July 4th, is former President Calvin Coolidge (born July 4, 1872). Geek Trivia The Best Selling Single-Cylinder Car Of All Time Was The? Kabine → Bond Minicar → Fortwo → BMW Isetta → 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 Mute Tweets with Specific Words on Twitter How to Get iOS' Autocorrect to Work in Multiple Languages Everything Amazon’s Echo Show Can Do That Other Echos Can’t How to Take Photos of Fireworks How to Ensure Your Amazon Echo’s “Drop In” Feature Is Completely Disabled How to Share Access to Your Netgear Arlo Cameras How to Try the macOS High Sierra Beta Right Now How to Turn Off YouTube Restricted Mode On Your Echo Show (So Videos Aren’t Missing From Search Results) How to Install the iOS 11 Beta on Your iPhone or iPad The Best Wireless VR Setups, Current and Upcoming How to Connect the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con or Pro Controllers to Your PC How Good Are Smartphone Cameras? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term ZAK First implemented in Windows 95 and NT, ZAK (short for Zero Administration Kit) is a software kit that helps network administrators more easily manage system policies and user profiles in Windows. 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 to Get an Asteroid Named After You The rules behind the naming rights for cosmic rocks [The Atlantic] Winamp's woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself 15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping. [ArsTechnica] What's Inside Fireworks: Glitter, Starch, and Gunpowder Fireworks shows are more complex but the heart of them has changed very little over time [Wired] How to Mute Tweets with Specific Words on Twitter Twitter can be a bit of a shouting match. Some accounts that you follow for their insightful view on tech insist on holding utterly disgusting, ignorant, regressive 16th century views on… Canadian hockey. Read This Article → How to Get iOS' Autocorrect to Work in Multiple Languages Not everyone speaks only one language. Maybe you learned Spanish in school, or your parents are from Germany. Whatever the reason, it's really annoying when you're trying to send a text in a language other than English and autocorrect keeps trying to change "boire" to "Boise". Nobody goes to a bar and orders a small American city. Read This Article → Everything Amazon’s Echo Show Can Do That Other Echos Can’t The Echo Show‘s handy 7″ screen makes it stand apart from all the other Amazon Echo products. While Alexa was designed to do things without any touch input at all, sometimes it’s handy to just tap a screen, rather than listen to a long, drawn-out verbal prompt. The Show gives you a touch screen fall back when you need it, plus it lets you play video in the background. Here are the biggest ways the Echo Show distinguishes itself from other Echo products. Read This Article → How to Take Photos of Fireworks There's nothing like a loud bang and a bright flash of light to really make an occasion feel special. New Year's Eve, Halloween, and of course, the Fourth of July are all celebrated with fireworks. They're a pretty tricky subject to photograph, though, so let's break down what you need to know. Read This Article → How to Ensure Your Amazon Echo’s “Drop In” Feature Is Completely Disabled Not everyone is excited about Amazon’s “Drop In” intercom-like feature. But Amazon enables it by default—even if you choose “Later” at the splash screen. So here’s how to turn it off entirely. Read This Article → How to Share Access to Your Netgear Arlo Cameras More than likely, you have multiple people living in your household. If you have Arlo cameras set up around your house, it would be beneficial to share that access with other family members. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Try the macOS High Sierra Beta Right Now Excited about High Sierra, but don’t want to wait until autumn? The public beta is now available to try; here’s how to install it. Read This Article → How to Turn Off YouTube Restricted Mode On Your Echo Show (So Videos Aren’t Missing From Search Results) The Echo Show lets anyone start playing YouTube videos on its small display. If you have little ones in the house, you might not want them watching everything you can find on YouTube. To fix this, the Echo Show comes with YouTube Restricted Mode enabled out of the box that filters adult content. Here’s how to turn it off. Read This Article → How to Install the iOS 11 Beta on Your iPhone or iPad The public beta of iOS 11 is now available for iPhones and iPads. Anyone who wants to play with iOS 11’s new features can install it today. However, we recommend backing up your device first so you can easily restore the stable version of iOS 10 afterwards. Read This Article → The Best Wireless VR Setups, Current and Upcoming Virtual reality is the next big thing in digital gaming…and this time it might even stick around. But one of the biggest hurdles to adoption for VR systems like the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive is that, at the end of the day, you’re strapping a screen to your face and tethering yourself to a computer. Having a thick bundle of cables rip off your headset just as you’re getting into the game is a long way from the immersive future we’ve been promised. Read This Article → How to Connect the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con or Pro Controllers to Your PC The Joy-Con and Pro Controllers for the Nintendo Switch work just like modern Xbox One and PlayStation 4 controllers. They support Bluetooth, so you can pair them with your PC without any special hardware. Read This Article → How Good Are Smartphone Cameras? Smartphone cameras have never been better. The technology has come a long way. They've been used by professional photographers to shoot magazine covers. Apple has built a billboard advertising campaign around photos taken with the iPhone. Obviously smartphone cameras can be used to take good photos in the right circumstances, but how good is the actual camera? Let's find out. 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