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Did You Know? The stethoscope was invented in 1816 by French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec and motivated by a desire to accurately (and modestly) diagnose heart problems in women. The stethoscope transmitted sound to the doctor’s ear more effectively than by putting an ear against the chest and allowed the doctor to listen without touching his ear to the woman’s body. Geek Trivia Residential Communities Where People Live With Their Planes And Direct Runway Access Are Called? Wing Districts → Hangar Hoods → Pilot Parishes → Airparks → Advertisement Download Jump Start Adobe XD ($14 Value FREE For a Limited Time) Adobe's new app, Experience Design CC (better known as XD) is the only design tool on the market today that allows you to design user interfaces, prototype interactions, and then export assets for development right out of the box. Jump Start Adobe XD will get you up and running with Adobe XD in no time. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Set Up the Kwikset Kevo Fob to Unlock Your Door Without Your Phone How to Stop Netflix From Sending You Emails and Notifications How to Train Your Pandora Radio Stations Better The Best Weather Apps for Android How to Buy an Emoji Domain The Best Way to Save Money on Tech: Buy Used Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Greeking In word processing, desktop publishing, graphic design, and visual I.T., Greeking is the term used to refer to a preview of a document or text template where a representative approximation of the text characters are shown so that a user will have a general idea of how the document (and layout) will appear in final form. 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. Cassini hints at young age for Saturn's rings The spectacular rings of Saturn may be relatively young, perhaps just 100 million years or so old. [BBC] The Video Game That Shows Us What the E-Book Could Have Been How 'Device 6' illuminates the past, present, and alternate future of the book [Electric Lit] What the Rumored Neutron Star Merger Might Teach Us In a sense, neutron star mergers are the largest hadron colliders ever conceived. [Nautilus] The Cheapest Ways To Stream College Football (Without Cable) We’ve shown you the cheapest ways to stream (almost) every NFL game this season. Now we’re back to do the same service for college ball…with one really big caveat. Read This Article → How to Enable or Disable Notification Dots in Android 8.0 Oreo Google brought a handful of changes in Android Oreo, both big and small. Among the smaller, yet welcome additions to the operating system is something the company calls Notification Dots. Essentially, these are small markers on home screen icons that let you know when an app has a notification. Read This Article → What's the Difference Between a Facebook Profile, Page, and Group? Facebook is used by a lot of different people for a lot of different things, so it's only natural that Facebook would have different sets of features for each of them. There are three main ways you can use Facebook: with a regular Profile, as a Page, or as a Group admin. Let's look at what each is for. Read This Article → App Subscriptions Are a Good Thing I get attached to the apps I use. I do all my photo editing in Photoshop and Lightroom, I use Airmail for email, I listen to music with Spotify, I read feeds with Inoreader and Reeder, I Tweet using Tweetbot, and most importantly, for writing I use Ulysses. Read This Article → How Do You Define a PowerShell Function That Requires Elevation? PowerShell can be extremely useful for a lot of everyday tasks as is, but if you need to tweak some functions with a bit of safety in mind, then how do you define a function so that it requires elevation? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Set Up the Kwikset Kevo Fob to Unlock Your Door Without Your Phone Under normal circumstances, the Kwikset Kevo relies on your phone in order to know whether it should unlock your door. However, if you’d rather use a dedicated key fob for that (or as a backup when you forget your phone), here’s how to set up the Kwikset Kevo Fob to give your phone a break. Read This Article → How to Stop Netflix From Sending You Emails and Notifications Netflix is constantly adding new content, and the company doesn’t want you to forget it. You get emails or notifications when Netflix adds new shows, sends you recommendations, or even adds new features to its apps. Here’s how to turn off all those pestergrams. Read This Article → How to Train Your Pandora Radio Stations Better Pandora is one of the oldest and most popular streaming radio services, but if you’re a long-time user, you might notice a certain sameness in some of your custom stations. The Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down rating system tends to repeat the same 100 or so songs after a while, something I’ve certainly observed on some of the “evolving” stations I’ve been curating for years. Read This Article → The Best Weather Apps for Android Everyone has at least one weather app installed on their phone, but there are so many different ones out there. Finding the "best" one can be a bit difficult, so we've rounded up a couple of the best to help you decide. Read This Article → How to Buy an Emoji Domain Emoji are awesome, and even old people (like my 30-year old friends) are starting to realize it now. They add nuance to text messages that you can't express with boring words. But emoji can do even more than that: now you can register emoji domains. I've bought www.🇨🇮.to. Click the link and you get taken to my Twitter page! Let's look at how. Read This Article → The Best Way to Save Money on Tech: Buy Used Technology is expensive. We geeks love to shower ourselves with new gadgets, but it’s awfully costly. There are a lot of ways to save money on your tech addiction, but none of them beat buying used. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Jump Start Adobe XD ($14 Value FREE For a Limited Time) Adobe's new app, Experience Design CC (better known as XD) is the only design tool on the market today that allows you to design user interfaces, prototype interactions, and then export assets for development right out of the box. Jump Start Adobe XD will get you up and running with Adobe XD in no time. Click here to download