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Did You Know? The rectangular area of a flag found in the upper left corner (top hoist corner) of the flag, such as the blue field and white stars on the United States flag or the Union Flag found in the upper corner of the Australian flag, is called a canton. Geek Trivia The Phone Books On Which Of These Islands Include Nicknames For Citizens? Norfolk Island → Nantucket Island → Tangier Island → Christmas Island → Advertisement Download Second Edition DDoS Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Everything You Need to Know About DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks are the most persistent and damaging cyber-attacks. They reflect hackers' frustratingly high levels of tenacity and creativity - and create complex and dynamic challenges for anyone responsible for cyber security. 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. 8 Reasons to Install LineageOS on Your Android Device How to Use Android Oreo’s New Notification Channels for Ultra-Granular Notification Customization How to Activate Twitter's Night Mode The Cheapest Way to Stream TV: Rotate Your Subscriptions How to Get Premium Hard Drives for Cheap by “Shucking” External Drives What Is “Spooler SubSystem App” (spoolsv.exe), and Why Is It Running on My PC? How to Get the Old Volume Control Back on Windows 10 How to Remove a Device From Your Netflix Downloads Allotment How to Connect an Xbox One Controller to Windows with Bluetooth How to Block Text Messages from a Certain Number on an iPhone How to Find Compatible Lenses for Your Canon or Nikon Camera How Much Free Space Should You Leave on Your Windows PC? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Hot Link In the context of applications, a Hot Link is a link (connection) between two applications/programs such that, when a change is made in one, it is also changed/reflected in the other. An example would be an update to data in one database triggering a like update to the data in the secondary database. 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. The top iPhone 8 rumors, ranked from most to least plausible Apple's newest iPhone is coming soon, and whether it ends up being called the iPhone 8, iPhone Pro, iPhone Edition, or something else, one thing is clear: this is shaping up to be one of the biggest updates Apple has ever made to its smartphone line. [The Verge] Apple's needless cult of secrecy Apple subjects its employees to a culture of fear, but everything leaks anyway. [The Outline] The World's First Permanent Nuclear-Waste Repository Buried deep under an island in the Baltic, the world's first permanent nuclear-waste repository is nearing completion. If all goes according to plan, future generations may not know it's there. [The Atlantic] Nintendo will revive the NES Classic and continue selling the SNES Classic in 2018 Good news for old school Nintendo enthusiasts — the company has said it will revive the NES Classic Edition next year, and it plans to continue selling the SNES Classic in 2018, too. [TechCrunch] 8 Reasons to Install LineageOS on Your Android Device CyanogenMod was formerly the most popular custom ROM for Android devices. Unfortunately, a short-lived effort at making the ROM the basis of a business-to-business software company sank the entire CyanogenMod team and its former assets, including the name and community servers. But all isn’t lost: many of the original developers have jumped into the new LineageOS project—a direct follow-up to CyanogenMod. While the extensive device support isn’t quite what it used to be, Lineage is still the first stop for up-to-date community ROMs for many users. Read This Article → How to Use Android Oreo’s New Notification Channels for Ultra-Granular Notification Customization Google has done a lot in the more recent versions of Android to give users a way to customize notifications, but nothing even comes close to Oreo’s new Notification Channels. These new settings let you take notifications to a whole new level. Read This Article → How to Activate Twitter's Night Mode Twitter has a dark mode on the web and in its apps, where the bright whites are replaced with deep blues. Ostensibly, this makes Twitter easier to use in low-light environments since it's less harsh on your eyes. Personally, I just think it makes Twitter look really cool. Here's how to activate it. Read This Article → The Cheapest Way to Stream TV: Rotate Your Subscriptions Ever since the dawn of cable bundles, all we viewers have ever wanted is to pay for just the shows that we want to watch. Now that everyone and their parent company has a streaming subscription, you can sort of do that…but if you subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO Now, and all of the other ones you want, it could end up costing as much as cable. Fortunately, there’s a solution: rotate your subscriptions. Read This Article → How to Get Premium Hard Drives for Cheap by “Shucking” External Drives Every now and then, you come across something that sounds way too good to be true, but against the odds, it actually works. Buying cheap external hard drives, cracking them open, and getting more expensive hard drives for your effort is one of those things. Read This Article → What Is “Spooler SubSystem App” (spoolsv.exe), and Why Is It Running on My PC? If you poke around in your Task Manager, you’ll likely see an process named “Spooler SubSystem App”, “Print Spooler”, or spoolsv.exe. This process is a normal part of Windows and handles printing. If this process consistently using a high amount of CPU resources on your system, there’s a problem. Read This Article → How to Get the Old Volume Control Back on Windows 10 Windows 10 provides no way to restore Windows 7’s Aero, Windows Media Center, or other much-loved features. But, for some reason, there is a hidden registry setting that will re-enable Windows 7’s old volume control interface on Windows 10. Read This Article → How to Remove a Device From Your Netflix Downloads Allotment Netflix lets you download some of its shows to your device so you can keep watching when you’re on a plane, stuck in the subway, or just don’t want to use up your mobile data. However, you can only download shows on up to four devices. If you ever need to add another, you’ll need to deauthorize one first. Here’s how to do that. Read This Article → How to Connect an Xbox One Controller to Windows with Bluetooth The latest version of the Xbox controller—the one included with the Xbox One S and the upcoming One X—includes Bluetooth! Microsoft finally included Bluetooth along with the older proprietary Xbox wireless connection, so Windows users can hook it up without an extra dongle. Here’s how to connect it to your Bluetooth-equipped laptop or desktop. Read This Article → How to Block Text Messages from a Certain Number on an iPhone Sometimes you get spam messages on your phone. Sometimes people are annoying. Sometimes you just need to block people. The good news is doing that on your iPhone is easy. Read This Article → How to Find Compatible Lenses for Your Canon or Nikon Camera Buying lenses for your camera isn't always simple. The two major manufacturers, Canon and Nikon, both have different options depending on whether you're getting a lens for a full-frame or crop sensor camera. Even if you've got a Canon camera, you can't be sure that any Canon lens will work. Read This Article → How Much Free Space Should You Leave on Your Windows PC? It’s a bad idea to fill a Windows system drive completely full, and this could cause a variety of problems. But just how much empty space do you really need? Read This Article → Advertisement Download Second Edition DDoS Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Everything You Need to Know About DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks are the most persistent and damaging cyber-attacks. They reflect hackers' frustratingly high levels of tenacity and creativity - and create complex and dynamic challenges for anyone responsible for cyber security. Click here to download