The Best Online Tools to Help You Build Your Next PC

Did You Know? In 1972, a young Serbian flight attendant, Vesna Vulović, fell 33,330 feet (10,160 meters) when JAT Flight 367 was ripped apart by a terrorist bomb. Although she suffered multiple broken bones, spent ten days in a coma, and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down as she recovered from her injuries, she went on to live into her sixties. She holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. Geek Trivia Which Of These Aquatic Animals Doesn’t Actually Swim? Manatees → Narwhals → Hippos → Crocodiles → Advertisement Unblock Content the Easy Way with StrongVPN You're just trying to check out a website and they've locked you out because it's blocked in your country. It's ridiculous, but luckily you can get around the restrictions with StrongVPN.— and unlock any website you want. Of course, they also have a money-back guarantee if it doesn't work for you. Download StrongVPN to Unlock Content Today 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 Hide Sensitive Notifications From Your iPhone’s Lock Screen How to Make Your NVIDIA SHIELD Listen for “OK Google”, Even When the TV is Off How to Enable an Equalizer for Spotify on iOS and Android The Best Online Tools to Help You Build Your Next PC How to Download Steam Games to Your PC From Your Phone How to Use Your Apple Watch as a Flashlight How to Open the System Information Panel on Windows 10 or 8 How to Mount Removable Drives and Network Locations in the Windows Subsystem for Linux How to Customize the Recommendations Row on Android TV How to Get Spotify to Crossfade Between Songs Like an Actual DJ What Is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work? Today's Review Geek Articles Philips Hue Lights Are the Perfect Smarthome Starter Pack I Miss Smartphone Bezels Already Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Pay Per Lead Pay Per Lead is a type of affiliate marketing program where an advertiser or marketer pays an affiliate based on conversions of leads (potential customers). Some examples of lead conversion are: downloading a file or software, signing up for a newsletter, signing up for a trial offer, signing up for a service, 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. Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel Cars without drivers are on the roads right now in Chandler, Arizona. [TechCrunch] To Fight Revenge Porn, Facebook Is Asking to See Your Nudes The idea is that Facebook can ban the image from spreading on Messenger after identifying it, but it still feels weird. [Motherboard] Logitech will brick its Harmony Link hub for all owners in March Hardware being remotely disabled by the company that sold it...we're living in the future! [The Verge] Apple Is Ramping Up Work on AR Headset to Succeed iPhone Take Apple rumors coming from Bloomberg with a grain of salt, but they're saying Apple plans to put an AR device on the market by 2020. [Bloomberg] How to Hide Sensitive Notifications From Your iPhone’s Lock Screen In iOS 11, your iPhone gives you much more control over notifications. You can designate certain apps as “sensitive”, so that it hides the content of notifications while your phone is locked, only letting you see the full preview when you use Touch ID or Face ID to unlock your iPhone. This works in every single app on your phone, unlike in iOS 10 and before. Read This Article → How to Make Your NVIDIA SHIELD Listen for “OK Google”, Even When the TV is Off Recently, NVIDIA's SHIELD became the first Android TV device to get access to OK Google and the Google Assistant. The thing is, you really need the TV to be on in order to really make the most of it—but a new setting will still let you use it even when the screen is off. Read This Article → How to Enable an Equalizer for Spotify on iOS and Android An equalizer (or EQ) is a filter that adjusts the loudness of specific audio frequencies when you're listening to music. Some equalizers will boost bass, while others will reduce bass and boost the high end. Different equalizer settings will work better or worse on different kinds of music. Read This Article → The Best Online Tools to Help You Build Your Next PC Building your own desktop isn’t as difficult as it looks—it’s often called “LEGO for adults.” And while that phrase might be a bit condescending (adults can enjoy LEGOs too, ya jerks), it’s not wrong. Even so, the sheer breadth of choices, options, and compatibility issues can be intimidating, especially for a first-time builder. Here’s a collection of online tools to help you make sure that process goes as smoothly as possible. Read This Article → How to Download Steam Games to Your PC From Your Phone Steam allows you to remotely install games from your smartphone, just like you can with a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. You can download games to your gaming PC from anywhere, ensuring those big downloads are complete and the game is ready to play when you get home. You can also do this from any web browser. Read This Article → How to Use Your Apple Watch as a Flashlight Your iPhone have a flashlight function, but why pull it out of your pocket if you don’t have to? Your Apple Watch can do something very similar. Here’s how to use it when you need to stumble your way through a dark room. Read This Article → How to Open the System Information Panel on Windows 10 or 8 The System Information provides a quick way get information about your system, but how you open it depends on what version of Windows you’re using. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Mount Removable Drives and Network Locations in the Windows Subsystem for Linux Starting with Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, the Windows Subsystem for Linux now allows you to manually mount drives. It still automatically mounts all internal NTFS drives. However, you can now manually mount external drives and network folders using the Linux mountcommand. Read This Article → How to Customize the Recommendations Row on Android TV When you fire up Android TV, the first thing you see is a list of movies and shows the system thinks you’ll like. It’s often full of the latest flicks or hottest news, but sometimes it could just be things relevant to your interests and the apps you have installed. The thing is, you can actually optimize this row to show suggestions only from the apps you want. Read This Article → How to Get Spotify to Crossfade Between Songs Like an Actual DJ When you listen to a live DJ, one song doesn't stop playing and then another start after a brief pause. Instead, the tracks transition into each one another. One popular technique for doing so is called “crossfading”. The two tracks overlap for a few seconds, the volume going down for the first track as it comes up for the second. Read This Article → What Is Bitcoin, and How Does it Work? Bitcoin. the digital currency, has been all over the news for years. But because it’s entirely digital and doesn’t necessarily correspond to any existing fiat currency, it’s not easy to understand for the newcomer. Let’s break down the basis of exactly what Bitcoin is, how it works, and its possible future in the global economy. Read This Article → Advertisement Unblock Content the Easy Way with StrongVPN You're just trying to check out a website and they've locked you out because it's blocked in your country. It's ridiculous, but luckily you can get around the restrictions with StrongVPN.— and unlock any website you want. Of course, they also have a money-back guarantee if it doesn't work for you. Download StrongVPN to Unlock Content Today