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Did You Know? Al Green has stated that he’s made more money in royalties off the Big Mouth Billy Bass that sings his hit song “Take Me to the River” than any other recording of the song—the singing fish sold thousands of units in the early 2000s and even made an appearance as a plot device in an episode of The Sopranos. Geek Trivia The Largest Known Freshwater Flood In All Of History Is Known As The? Missoula Floods → Kuray Flood → Aniakchak Flood → Amazonia Deluge → Advertisement Download Penetration Testing - A Survival Guide The need for penetration testers has grown well over what the IT industry ever anticipated. Running just a vulnerability scanner is no longer an effective method to determine whether a business is truly secure. 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. 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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. Northern Lights in Ohio? Sun Storm May Ramp Up Auroras Wednesday Night People as far south as Ohio and Indiana may be able to see the northern lights tonight (Sept. 6), thanks to a powerful sun storm. [Space.com] Why Can I Only Burn 80 Minutes of Music to a CD if My MP3s Take Up Less Than 700MB of Space? When burning a CD, you can either burn it as a data disc or an audio CD. A data CD can hold up to 700 MB, while an audio CD can hold 80 minutes of sound. If you have 200 MB of MP3 files that add up to three hours of music, you can still only burn 80 minutes to the disc. Why is that? Read This Article → How to Limit Background Activity for Apps in Android Oreo to Save Battery Life Google has done a lot to better manage Android’s background resource usage over the last few updates, and Oreo brings another enhancement to the table with Background Execution Limits. Simply, this limits what an app can do when running in the background—both in resources used and broadcasts requested. Read This Article → What Is the Best Lens for Landscape Photography? Landscapes are one of the most popular subjects to shoot. Look out any window, and there's something to photograph. It might not be the most majestic landscape, but there's probably a photo to be made. Read This Article → How Long Do Solid State Drives Really Last? When large-scale flash storage first came to the consumer market as an alternative to conventional hard drives, the biggest concern (aside from price) was longevity. Tech fans had a pretty good idea of the general reliability of hard drives, but SSDs were still something of a wild card. Read This Article → How to Create Custom Trackpad Gestures on Your Mac With BetterTouchTool One of the best things about MacBooks are the many trackpad gestures you can use. You can quickly look something up, zoom in and out, change desktops, and so much more. Read This Article → How to Put a Hold On Your Hulu Subscription Without Canceling Hulu’s library is becoming more worthwhile as it keeps taking beloved shows from Netflix. Unlike most other subscription services, Hulu lets you take a temporary break for up to twelve weeks without canceling your subscription entirely. Here’s how to put a temporary hold on your account. Read This Article → How to Use (or Disable) Picture-in-Picture Mode in Android Oreo Back many moons ago—like maybe two years—Google introduced a sort of picture-in-picture mode in the YouTube app. It’s such a cool feature, they company figured why not make this something you can use anywhere in Android? So with Oreo, they did that. It’s neat. Read This Article → How to Change Your Group's Privacy on Facebook Groups are one of Facebook's best features. They're really handy for anyone who wants to run a club or interact with people who share the same hobbies. Read This Article → How to Create a Full-Disk Backup of Your PC with Macrium Reflect Microsoft announced that System Image Backups will be deprecated in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. The feature is still available, but it is no longer actively being developed and may be removed in a future release of Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft recommends you use a third-party tool to create full system images of your PC. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Penetration Testing - A Survival Guide The need for penetration testers has grown well over what the IT industry ever anticipated. Running just a vulnerability scanner is no longer an effective method to determine whether a business is truly secure. Click here to download