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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles How to Enable Parental Controls on Your PlayStation 4 How to Customize the Google Feed (and Make It Actually Useful) How to Change Your Facebook Password What’s New in Firefox Quantum, the Firefox You’ve Been Waiting For How to Switch Between Farenheit and Celsius on Your iPhone How to Make Your Computer Read Documents to You How to Back Up Messages From Windows 10’s Mail App How to Mute Conversations in Gmail (So You Don’t Get Notifications) How to Delete WhatsApp Messages Why Some Games Suck After Being Ported From Console to PC Today's Review Geek Articles Two Smartphones: The Solution to Your Battery Problems The Xbox One Accessories You’ll Actually Need Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Reciprocal Link A Reciprocal Link (a.k.a. Link Exchange) is an agreement between websites to provide hyperlinks to each other to increase traffic, engage in partnership, 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. Why Amazon Just Spent a Fortune for a 'Lord of the Rings' TV Show Amazon Prime has a string of critically loved shows no one watches...now they need a hit. [The Atlantic] A brief history of timekeeping Fascinating look at all the ways humans have kept track of time. [Popular Science] Inside the fake Facebook profile industry You know those obviously fake Facebook profiles that keep trying to add you? They're more interesting than you ever imagined. [Radio Canada] How to Enable Parental Controls on Your PlayStation 4 Your PlayStation 4 offers parental controls that can limit access to games, Blu-ray movies, DVDs, and web browsing. Restrictions you set are protected with a four-digit numerical PIN so they can’t be easily bypassed. Read This Article → How to Customize the Google Feed (and Make It Actually Useful) When Google first released Google Now, it was celebrated by Android users across the board. When Now evolved into the Google Feed, however, this change was much less accepted. But the Feed is great if you just take the time to customize it. Read This Article → How to Change Your Facebook Password Most people use terrible passwords. If you're one of them, you should change all your important passwords to something a lot more secure—and believe it or not, that incldues Facebook. Read This Article → What’s New in Firefox Quantum, the Firefox You’ve Been Waiting For Firefox transforms today. It’s now a multi-process browser with a new design, gaining speed but leaving traditional Firefox extensions behind.  If you’ve switched to Google Chrome, you might want to give Firefox another chance. But, if you’re already using Firefox, you’re in for some big changes. Read This Article → How to Switch Between Farenheit and Celsius on Your iPhone There are two units of temperature that are commonly used around the world: degrees Celsius (ºC) and Kelvin (K). For some strange reason, Americans also use degrees Fahrenheit (ºF). Read This Article → How to Make Your Computer Read Documents to You Since the beginning of the computer age, people have always enjoyed making computers talk to them. These days, that functionality is built right into Windows and you can easily use it to have your PC read documents to you. Read This Article → How to Back Up Messages From Windows 10’s Mail App These days, it’s rare to see Microsoft’s Outlook email client on anything except a dedicated office machine. Who needs an expensive application when web email is all the rage? But if you’d still prefer to have a local program managing your mail, Microsoft includes a free one with every copy of Windows 10. It’s called…Mail. Read This Article → How to Mute Conversations in Gmail (So You Don’t Get Notifications) We’ve all been a part of an email chain that just won’t quit, and on a long enough timeline it really starts to get annoying. Even if you delete it, boom—it returns again with another reply. Fortunately, you can use the Mute feature in Gmail to permanently silence the chatter. Read This Article → How to Delete WhatsApp Messages Sometimes you just want to delete a message from WhatsApp. Maybe you've sent a message meant for your partner to your mother, or perhaps you just want to hide personal details like a password you've shared. Whatever the reason, let's look at how to do it. Read This Article → Why Some Games Suck After Being Ported From Console to PC If you’re a PC gamer, you’ve probably experienced this situation before: you wait months or years for an exciting new game to jump from major consoles to the PC, only to find out that the ported game is a buggy, broken mess. 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