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Did You Know? Pumpkins come in two principle varieties in the U.S., “carving” pumpkins, bred to have thinner shells and less guts to make them easier to carve and “sweet” or “pie” pumpkins, that are smaller but filled with denser, sweeter flesh that is better suited for pies and other recipes like pumpkin soup. Geek Trivia Blood Drives Tied To Which Of These Movie Franchises Have Collected Over 120,000 Pints Of Blood? The Purge → The Texas Chainsaw Massacre → Saw → Friday the 13th → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. 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 How to Enable Color Filters to Read the Screen More Clearly on Windows 10 How to Connect to a VPN on a Chromebook How to Switch Your iPhone to “Mono” Audio (So You Can Wear One Earbud) Eight Alternatives to the Raspberry Pi How to Download Games to Your Xbox One From Your Phone The Best Spooky Philips Hue Tricks for Halloween How to Boot Into Safe Mode on Windows 8 or 10 (The Easy Way) How to Block Cookies (Except for Sites You Use) in Any Browser Worried About Breaking Your New iPhone? Get AppleCare, Not Carrier-Provided Insurance What’s the Difference Between Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora on Windows 10? The Complete Guide to Improving Android Battery Life Today's Review Geek Articles Best Micro SD Cards for All Your Devices Worried About Breaking Your New iPhone? Get AppleCare, Not Carrier-Provided Insurance Geek Comic Today's Tech Term One-Way Hash Function A One-Way Hash Function (a.k.a. Cryptographic Hash Function) is an algorithm that transforms a message or text into a fixed string of digits (called a digest, tag, or hash) that serves as a fundamental component in digital signatures, message authentication, password security, etc. 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. YouTube's Quest to Make TV Work Everywhere It's really really hard to design a TV interface that everyone likes. Google is trying. [Wired] Algorithmic Approaches to Playing Minesweeper If you only read one academic paper about AI playing Minesweeper today, make it this one. [Harvard.edu] Don't Look Now, but the Great Unbundling Has Spun Into Reverse The cable bundle is dead, but other bundles are on the rise. [The New York Times] An Apple (AAPL) engineer has reportedly been fired after his daughter's iPhone X review from inside the campus went viral She got like two million views though, that's pretty good right? [Quartz] How to Enable Color Filters to Read the Screen More Clearly on Windows 10 Windows 10 now includes color filters, an accessibility feature that changes the color of everything on your screen. They apply at the system level and work the same way as Night Light, so they work with any application. Filters can turn your screen black and white, invert colors, help with light sensitivity, and make colors easier to distinguish for those with color blindness. Read This Article → How to Connect to a VPN on a Chromebook While not necessary for everyone, VPNs can be a crucial tool for online safety—especially if you use public Wi-Fi a lot. There are tons of one-click solutions out there that make it really easy to hit a toggle and activate a VPN, but for the most robust options, manual setup is key. Here’s how to do it on Chrome OS. Read This Article → How to Switch Your iPhone to “Mono” Audio (So You Can Wear One Earbud) The overwhelming majority of audio you listen to uses stereophonic (or stereo) sound. This means there are at least two separate audio channels: one for the right speaker, and one for the left. Each channel may play something slightly different, giving the illusion of directional sound like you experience in everyday life. Read This Article → Eight Alternatives to the Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi, a tiny, low-powered, inexpensive system-on-a-chip computer, has become famous as the preferred tool of DIY gadget builders and tinkerers. But thanks to its explosive success, it’s no longer the only choice on the market for cheap all-in-one gadgetry and development. If you can’t get your hands on a Pi, or you want to try something else, give these alternatives a look. Read This Article → How to Download Games to Your Xbox One From Your Phone Xbox One games can be massive in size, and take hours to download. Rather than waiting for games to download when you’re ready to play them, you can remotely start game downloads on your Xbox One from a smartphone or web browser. They’ll automatically download to your Xbox and be ready when you get home, so you can play them instantly. Read This Article → The Best Spooky Philips Hue Tricks for Halloween Halloween is coming up, and if you have a house full of Philips Hue light bulbs, now is the time to really put them to good use. Here are some great ways to use these lights to make your house just a tad bit haunted. Read This Article → How to Boot Into Safe Mode on Windows 8 or 10 (The Easy Way) One of the most common steps when troubleshooting a PC is to boot into Safe Mode. Up through Windows 7, you did this by pressing the F8 key during boot—right before Windows started loading. This all changed with Windows 8 and its introduction of Automatic Repair mode—something that continues in Windows 10. Read This Article → How to Block Cookies (Except for Sites You Use) in Any Browser Cookies can be useful when you're in control of them. Today we're taking a look at how you can control cookies by blocking them except for when you want them to enhance your user experience. Read This Article → Worried About Breaking Your New iPhone? Get AppleCare, Not Carrier-Provided Insurance During the iPhone X pre-order rollout last Friday, Apple quietly updated their repair prices to include the new phone and one thing is perfectly clear: very expensive phones come with very expensive repairs and insurance isn’t really optional anymore. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora on Windows 10? The Windows Subsystem for Linux received a huge update in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. It now supports multiple Linux distributions, not just Ubuntu. Ubuntu, openSUSE, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are available at launch, with Fedora and other Linux distributions set to arrive in the future. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Improving Android Battery Life Once upon a time, you had to really keep an eye on your Android phone to make sure the battery wasn’t being depleted prematurely. Manually toggling connections, constantly adjusting brightness, and the like are basically all things of the past now—but there are still things you can do to maximize your handset’s battery life. Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download

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Did You Know? Although grown for ornamental purposes in the United States, all species of hostas are edible and are commonly grown as vegetables in some Asian cultures. Geek Trivia Tim Burton Was Fired From Disney Over Which Of These Animated Shorts? Vincent → The Island of Doctor Agor → Hansel and Gretel → Frankenweenie → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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The Complete Guide to Improving Android Battery Life What Unity Users Need to Know About Ubuntu 17.10’s GNOME Shell How Credit Card Skimmers Work, and How to Spot Them How to Factory Reset the Kwikset Kevo How to Make Your Pixel 2’s Colors More Vibrant with Oreo Colorizer How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them) How to Get The Xbox One S Controller Working Properly With Android How to Use Windows 10’s “Continue on PC” Feature With an iPhone or Android Phone The iPad's Keyboard Can Type Symbols Faster in iOS 11: Here’s How How to Enable Wi-Fi Calling on an Android Phone Today's Review Geek Articles Worried About Breaking Your New iPhone? Get AppleCare, Not Carrier-Provided Insurance Geek Comic Today's Tech Term On-Premises Software On-Premises Software refers to the software that is installed at, and operated from, an organization’s physical, on-premises location. The shortened term, On-Premises, can also be used to collectively refer to all the software and hardware resources set up at an organization’s physical location. 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. There's precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn't end well. Amazon keeps entering markets and losing money...on purpose. This in-depth analysis explains why. [Quartz] Myspace Got Caught Up In A Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Myspace had a surge of traffic over the summer. Turns out it wasn't real. [Buzzfeed] Hewlett-Packard historical archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires HP was started in a garage in 1938, and a huge cache of early records for the company are now gone forever. [Santa Rosa Press Democrat] Why Snapchat Spectacles failed Remember when Snapchat tried to sell sunglasses? Good times. [TechCrunch] How to Block Cookies (Except for Sites You Use) in Any Browser Cookies can be useful when you're in control of them. Today we're taking a look at how you can control cookies by blocking them except for when you want them to enhance your user experience. Read This Article → Worried About Breaking Your New iPhone? Get AppleCare, Not Carrier-Provided Insurance During the iPhone X pre-order rollout last Friday, Apple quietly updated their repair prices to include the new phone and one thing is perfectly clear: very expensive phones come with very expensive repairs and insurance isn’t really optional anymore. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora on Windows 10? The Windows Subsystem for Linux received a huge update in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update. It now supports multiple Linux distributions, not just Ubuntu. Ubuntu, openSUSE, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are available at launch, with Fedora and other Linux distributions set to arrive in the future. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Improving Android Battery Life Once upon a time, you had to really keep an eye on your Android phone to make sure the battery wasn’t being depleted prematurely. Manually toggling connections, constantly adjusting brightness, and the like are basically all things of the past now—but there are still things you can do to maximize your handset’s battery life. Read This Article → What Unity Users Need to Know About Ubuntu 17.10’s GNOME Shell Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” has dropped the Unity 7 desktop, instead switching to GNOME Shell. Ubuntu’s developers tried to make the GNOME Shell desktop work as much like Unity as possible, but there are still some big differences. Here’s what you need to know. Read This Article → How Credit Card Skimmers Work, and How to Spot Them A credit card skimmer is a malicious device criminals attach to a payment terminal—most commonly on ATMs and gas pumps. When you use an terminal that’s been compromised in such a way, the skimmer will create a copy of your card and capture your PIN (if it’s an ATM card). Read This Article → How to Factory Reset the Kwikset Kevo If you’re planning on selling your Kwikset Kevo, or just moving to another house and don’t plan to take it along with you, here’s how to factory reset it so your digital keys are completely erased from it. Read This Article → How to Make Your Pixel 2’s Colors More Vibrant with Oreo Colorizer To say that the Google Pixel 2’s displays have come under scrutiny would be an understatement. While most of the criticism has been overblown, there’s no arguing that the color calibration of the Pixel 2’s displays aren’t what we’re used to seeing. Read This Article → How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them) Windows 10 includes a variety of universal apps, and there’s no easy way to hide them from the “All Apps” view in the new Start menu. You can uninstall them, but Microsoft doesn’t allow you to easily uninstall them in the usual way. Read This Article → How to Get The Xbox One S Controller Working Properly With Android Years after the smartphone boom, there are hundreds of different Bluetooth controllers for Android. Most of them work just fine out of the box, but there are exceptions, like Microsoft’s new Bluetooth-equipped Xbox One S controller. Read This Article → How to Use Windows 10’s “Continue on PC” Feature With an iPhone or Android Phone Microsoft wants your PC and phone to work well together, even if you have an iPhone or Android phone. In the Fall Creators Update, new “Continue on PC” features allow you to quickly send links from your phone to your computer. Read This Article → The iPad's Keyboard Can Type Symbols Faster in iOS 11: Here’s How The iPad got a lot of updates in iOS 11 to make it a better productivity tool. Along with headline stuff like multitasking, you'll probably notice that the keyboard got an overhaul. While it may seem a little cluttered at first, it's actually a big improvement. Here's what's changed and how to use it. Read This Article → How to Enable Wi-Fi Calling on an Android Phone If you’re on a carrier that supports it, Wi-Fi calling is a great feature to have. It will allow your smartphone to use the best connection in your house to make and receive calls and text messages. It also allows for higher quality audio, and it’s perfect if you don’t get good signal in your house. Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download