It's Time to Banish Your Screens From the Bedroom

Did You Know? In the Iliad, Helen of Troy is described as being so beautiful she had a “face that launched a thousand ships”. In a nod to that, there is a humorous unit of measurement named after her. One helen is the beauty it takes to trigger the launch of a thousand ships and, if you’re looking to measure the beauty of someone more modest in appearance, you can even measure using millihelens—increments of beauty equivalent to one ship launch. Geek Trivia The Original Loopholes Weren’t Grey Areas In Laws Or Regulations But? Arrow Slits in Castle Walls → Early Portholes → French Nooses → Saddle Stirrups → Advertisement Try The New and Improved CleanMyPC 1.8.9 with Smart Uninstaller If you want to clean up your PC the easy way, CleanMyPC is a great tool to get the job done easily, and it will even keep your computer clean automatically. The Uninstaller module can find and erase any app completely with no leftovers. The improved module includes the Safety Database to make uninstallation more accurate and safe. Free 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 It’s Time to Banish Your Screens From the Bedroom How to Set Your PC Games’ Graphics Settings with No Effort How to Customize or Disable Siri on the HomePod How to Bring Back the “View Image” Button In Google Image Search How to Use and Customize the Windows 10 Action Center Is Now a Good Time to Buy an AMD CPU or Motherboard? How to Move to a Dedicated Camera After Using a Smartphone Camera What’s the Difference Between the “System32” and “SysWOW64” Folders in Windows? 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A recent ruling in New York says yes. [Electronic Frontier Foundation] It’s Time to Banish Your Screens From the Bedroom Can’t get to sleep? You might as well pick up your phone and scroll through Instagram for a bit, then maybe Facebook, and what was that blog with the funny pictures you used to look at back in the day, does it still exist? Oh yeah there’s like five years of updates here, let’s scroll through that for a bit, just one more page of posts, and…it’s morning. Read This Article → How to Set Your PC Games’ Graphics Settings with No Effort PC gamers have to set a myriad of graphics options to balance performance with graphics quality. If you don’t want to tweak them by hand, NVIDIA, AMD, and even Intel provide tools that will do it for you. Read This Article → How to Customize or Disable Siri on the HomePod While it’s not the main selling point of the HomePod, Siri capabilities allow you to control the speaker using your voice without having to pull out your phone every time. Here’s how to customize Siri on the HomePod (or just disable it entirely). Read This Article → How to Bring Back the “View Image” Button In Google Image Search Google’s image-based search engine has been a staple of the internet for more than a decade. But this morning it got a little less useful: in addition to making the reverse image search tool harder to find, the “Show Image” button has disappeared. Read This Article → How to Use and Customize the Windows 10 Action Center With the Action Center, Windows 10 finally provides a central place for notifications and quick actions to live. Here’s how to use and customize it. Read This Article → Is Now a Good Time to Buy an AMD CPU or Motherboard? Despite the wise acquisition of ATI’s Radeon graphics card division and some interesting diversification on the APU market, AMD has been playing second fiddle to market leader Intel for over a decade. But things have been looking up for the underdog as of late: the company’s Ryzen series of CPUs is a bona fide hit with both critics and consumers. Is now the time to invest in an upgrade for your CPU, and possibly a compatible motherboard to go with it? Read This Article → How to Move to a Dedicated Camera After Using a Smartphone Camera Last year, for the first time in five years, the number of cameras sold actually increased. While I've got nothing other than personal anecdote to back it up, I suspect that people are loving taking photos on their smartphones so much that some of them are actually deciding to buy a dedicated camera. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between the “System32” and “SysWOW64” Folders in Windows? On 64-bit versions of Windows, you have two separate Program Files folders. But it doesn’t end there. You also have two separate system directories where DLL libraries and executables are stored: System32 and SysWOW64. Despite the names, System32 is full of 64-bit files and SysWOW64 is full of 32-bit files. So what gives? Read This Article → Advertisement Try The New and Improved CleanMyPC 1.8.9 with Smart Uninstaller If you want to clean up your PC the easy way, CleanMyPC is a great tool to get the job done easily, and it will even keep your computer clean automatically. The Uninstaller module can find and erase any app completely with no leftovers. The improved module includes the Safety Database to make uninstallation more accurate and safe. Free Download