What Is OAuth? How Those Facebook, Twitter, and Google Sign-in Buttons Work

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How Those Facebook, Twitter, and Google Sign-in Buttons Work How to Automatically Turn Your Lights On and Off Randomly Using Wink Seven Sites With Free Photos You Can Use However You Want How to Play Music On Your Amazon Echo Based On Your Activities Ubuntu’s Window Buttons Are Moving Back to the Right After All That “Innovation” How to Hide Icons in Android’s Status Bar How to Make Instagram Use Less Data What Is Memory Compression in Windows 10? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Click-And-Mortar Click-And-Mortar (a.k.a. Clicks And Mortar, Bricks And Clicks) refers to a business that has a traditional, offline retail presence as well as an online one. 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 a board game company defined video game ads for 20 years How do you sell a game you don't want to show? [Polygon] The Ghostly Radio Station that Nobody Claims to Run "MDZhB" has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why. [BBC] Some Pretty Cool Science Is Gonna Happen During The Eclipse And it'll be "overwhelmingly majestic" for scientists and nonscientists alike. [Five Thirty Eight] How to Log In to Windows 10 With a Non-Microsoft Email Address By default, Windows 10 asks you to create a Microsoft account when you log in to Windows for the first time. But if you’d prefer to use an email that you actually use for, you know, email, that’s an option too. Windows 10 accepts new non-Microsoft email accounts on setup, and you can create a new Windows user with any email account. Read This Article → How to Use Android Wear with an iPhone When it comes to smartwatches on iOS, many people think the Apple Watch is the only option. However, Android Wear also works with iOS, and Android 2.0 works almost as a standalone watch, making it much more useful than it used to be with Apple’s mobile operating system. Read This Article → How-To Geek is Hiring an Editorial Assistant / Writer One of the problems with being a founder CEO is that you always think you can get everything done yourself, because that’s how you started. As you grow, it’s not just important to learn how to delegate, but it’s even more important to have great people to delegate to. That person could be you. Read This Article → How to Take Photos of a Solar Eclipse Safely On the August 21st, 2017, North America is going to experience a solar eclipse. It's the best eclipse in 99 years, with the path of totality—the area where the sun is totally blocked by the moon—extending from Oregon to South Carolina. Even outside of that narrow swathe, the eclipse is going to look pretty special. Read This Article → What Is OAuth? How Those Facebook, Twitter, and Google Sign-in Buttons Work If you’ve ever used a “Sign In With Facebook” button, or given a third-party app access to your Twitter account, you’ve used OAuth. It’s also used by Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, as well as many other account providers. Essentially, OAuth allows you to grant a website access to some information about your account without giving it your actual account password. Read This Article → How to Automatically Turn Your Lights On and Off Randomly Using Wink While you can put your smart lights on a schedule when you go on vacation, it’s actually better to have them turn on and off randomly, to accurately simulate someone being home. Here’s how to do that in the Wink app with your smart lights. Read This Article → Seven Sites With Free Photos You Can Use However You Want Great photos can really make a website pop. They catch the eye, yes, but can also help you get your point across. Read This Article → How to Play Music On Your Amazon Echo Based On Your Activities You can ask Alexa to play music from a particular artist or genre, but finding the right music for your work out or for falling asleep to is a little more complex than justpicking a genre. Fortunately, you can ask Alexa for music based on what you’re doing. Here’s how it works and what you can use it for. Read This Article → Ubuntu’s Window Buttons Are Moving Back to the Right After All That “Innovation” Do you ever feel like software is just changing back and forth for no good reason? Windows 8 dropped the Start button, then Windows 8.1 brought it back—both decisions being touted as big improvements. Windows 7 brought Aero transparency before Windows 8 dumped the transparency, and both decisions were proclaimed design improvements at the time. Now, Microsoft is bringing transparency back again with Fluent Design. Read This Article → How to Hide Icons in Android’s Status Bar Android’s status bar can get junky pretty fast—especially if you’re using a non-stock build of Android (like on Samsung or LG phones). Fortunately, with the right tools, you can clean this area up without losing any functionality. Read This Article → How to Make Instagram Use Less Data It's easy to use a lot of mobile data with Instagram. Whether you're posting your own photos and videos, or just flicking through your feed, it's all pretty data intensive, especially if you have friends who post a lot of videos. Read This Article → What Is Memory Compression in Windows 10? Windows 10 uses memory compression to store more data in your system’s memory than it otherwise could. If you visit the Task Manager and look at your memory usage details, you’ll likely see that some of your memory is “compressed”. Here’s what that means. 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