The Complete Guide to Giving Better Family Tech Support

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SSH File Transfer Protocol) is a file transfer method for accessing and exchanging files between computers using a Secure Shell (SSH) data stream. 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. Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 Americans: the bird you eat today literally couldn't survive in nature. Enjoy! [The Atlantic] The Complete Guide to Giving Better Family Tech Support It’s that holiday time of year again, and that means it’s over the river and through the woods to…well, fix your family’s Wi-Fi and other tech problems. Read This Article → How to Forward Ports on Your Eero Wi-Fi System Pretty much every router on the market comes with the ability to forward ports, and the Eero Wi-Fi system is no exception, despite its easy-to-use interface. Read This Article → How to Change or Customize Firefox’s New Tab Page Firefox Quantum‘s new tab page has a lot of stuff on it, from recommended articles to highlights from your history. But if you don’t like that design, you aren’t stuck with it. You can restore Firefox’s old new tab page, or set any address you like as your new tab. Read This Article → How to Watch Local Video Files on Your Roku The Roku is a streaming box…and not much else. There’s no hard drive space onboard for your personal videos, and most models don’t even have a USB port for external drives. But that doesn’t mean you can’t play your own videos, listen to your own music, or browse your photo collection. Read This Article → Amazon Fire Tablet vs. Fire Tablet Kids: What’s the Difference? Amazon’s Fire Tablets offer arguably some of the best value in tablets today. The company also offers various sizes and builds of these tablets—including “Kids Edition” tablets designed for, well, kids. But what makes these different than the standard edition tablets? Read This Article → How to Save Money on Apple Products (Like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac) Apple’s computers and phones have a reputation for being expensive. While it's true that their products are all high end (and priced accordingly), they're rarely objectively overpriced (dongles and other accessories aside). But if you want to pinch a few pennies, there are still ways to save money on Apple products. Read This Article → Intel Management Engine, Explained: The Tiny Computer Inside Your CPU The Intel Management Engine has been included on Intel chipsets since 2008. It’s basically a tiny computer-within-a-computer, with full access to your PC’s memory, display, network, and input devices. It runs code written by Intel, and Intel hasn’t shared a lot of information about its inner workings. 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