What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It?

Did You Know? If you feel like you’re always seeing new and different varieties of hostas, there’s a good chance that you are right. There are over 3,000 varieties registered with the American Hosta Society and another estimated 3,000 unregistered ones. Geek Trivia Actor James Doohan Was Awarded An Honorary Degree In? Astrophysics → Engineering → Biology → Linguistics → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.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 By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Set Up Your Own Discord Chat Server Why You Shouldn’t Turn Off Virtual Memory on Your Mac How to Add Attachments in Gmail for Android How to Stop Twitter Highlights from Pestering You with Unrelated Notifications What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It? How to Get More Detailed Weather Info From Alexa How to Install Chrome OS from a USB Drive and Run It on Any PC How to Override Chrome’s “Quit Everything” Ctrl+Shift+Q Shortcut How to Completely Remove a Book From Your Kindle Library How to Avoid Toll Roads in Google Maps What Is “Bulb Mode” on My Camera? How to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s Windows PC Without Any Extra Software [PRO] How to Backup a Live MySQL DB Without Locking Tables Using mysqldump [PRO] How to Exclude Tables from MySQL Exports Using mysqldump Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Bliki A Bliki (a combination of the words Blog and Wiki) is a type of blog that can be edited by its readers or an approved group of collaborators, contributors, and/or editors. 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. Want to Be Happy? Buy More Takeout and Hire a Maid, Study Suggests A recent study encompassing thousands of participants in the U.S., Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands highlights that trading money for time (by outsourcing labor) creates a positive gain in happiness. [NYT] 'Pyre' Is a Game About a Game—But It's Really About Why We Play The new title from developer Supergiant Games (the development house behind other beautiful games like Bastion and Transistor) is both a mythical quest and a reflection gaming itself. [Wired] How to Set Up Your Own Discord Chat Server Discord is an excellent, free chat application that was built for gamers, but is useful for anyone. It comes with Slack-style text chat, group voice chat channels, and plenty of tools to manage your users. It’s a great tool for getting a community together or talking with friends while you play games. Here’s how to set up your own server. Read This Article → Why You Shouldn’t Turn Off Virtual Memory on Your Mac Your Mac comes with a set amount of physical memory applications can use. Your running programs, open files, and other data your Mac is actively working with are stored in this physical memory. But that’s a simplification—applications can also use “virtual memory”, which your Mac can compress and temporarily store on disk. Read This Article → How to Add Attachments in Gmail for Android If you don’t use email as part of your day to day life, it can easily be one of those things that seems more complicated than it is. But there’s no need to break out the computer if you simply need to email something—a picture, document, something—because you can easily do it directly from your phone. Read This Article → How to Stop Twitter Highlights from Pestering You with Unrelated Notifications Social networks are always trying to get you to "engage" more with their service and recently, Twitter has introduced a new trick: Highlights notifications. Read This Article → What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It? Technology often yields ridiculous conveniences, like being able to turn on your computer from miles away without pushing the power button. Wake-on-LAN has been around for a while, so let's see how it works and how we can enable it. Read This Article → How to Get More Detailed Weather Info From Alexa Alexa’s built-in weather forecast is handy for those who just want the basic forecast for the day, but it doesn’t do much more than that. However, with a third party skill called Big Sky, you can make Alexa spit out a ton of information about the weather and ask it nearly anything about what’s coming. Read This Article → How to Install Chrome OS from a USB Drive and Run It on Any PC Google only officially supports running Chrome OS on Chromebooks, but don’t let that stop you. You can put the open source version of Chrome OS on a USB drive and boot it on any computer without installing it, just like you’d run a Linux distribution from a USB drive. Read This Article → How to Override Chrome’s “Quit Everything” Ctrl+Shift+Q Shortcut Google seems to think there’s a good reason to have a shortcut that will kill every single one of your tabs at once. We disagree. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Q will close every Chrome tab or window you have open and ruin your work. If you’d rather keep your work where it is, here’s a workaround to make sure that doesn’t happen. Read This Article → How to Completely Remove a Book From Your Kindle Library You’ve probably been happily reading ebooks on your Kindle (or the Kindle app) for years, accruing a nice digital library full of interesting titles. But what if, for some reason, someone else needs to see that library of yours…and there are some items within that you’d rather they didn’t? Say, perhaps, one of those steamy romance novels that makes up a massive 34% of fiction sales in US? Read This Article → How to Avoid Toll Roads in Google Maps No one likes to pay to be able to drive on a specific road, especially if you’re just passing through. Thankfully, Google Maps has an easy way to bypass toll roads when using navigation. Read This Article → What Is “Bulb Mode” on My Camera? If you've turned the shutter speed dial on your camera past 30 seconds, you might have noticed the strangely named "Bulb" mode. This is a throwback from the first film cameras, but it's still useful today. Read This Article → How to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s Windows PC Without Any Extra Software Windows offers a few built-in tools for performing remote assistance over the Internet. These tools allow you to take remote control of another person’s computer so you can help them troubleshoot it while you’re on the phone with them. They work similarly to Remote Desktop, but are available on all editions of Windows and are easy to set up. 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How to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend's Windows PC Without Any Extra Software

Did You Know? The slang term “the clink”, used to refer to prison or jail, can be directly traced back to an actual prison, located in Southwark, England, named The Clink which served the Liberty of the Clink, a large local manor area, between the 12th and 18th centuries. Geek Trivia Bears In Yellowstone National Park Get A Significant Number Of Calories From Eating? Abandoned Picnic Food → Moths → Blueberries → Songbirds → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.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 By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Completely Remove a Book From Your Kindle Library How to Avoid Toll Roads in Google Maps What Is “Bulb Mode” on My Camera? How to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s Windows PC Without Any Extra Software How to Activate Third Party Game Codes in Steam How to Listen to (and Delete) Every Command You’ve Ever Given to Alexa What Is launchd, and Why Is It Running on My Mac? How to Catch Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go How to Get Android’s System UI Tuner on Non-Stock Devices What Is a “Fast” Camera Lens? What's the Best Antivirus for Windows 10? (Is Windows Defender Good Enough?) [PRO] How to Exclude Tables from MySQL Exports Using mysqldump [PRO] How to Backup / Export a Single Table from a MySQL Database Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Bleed Bleed refers to printed text and graphics that extend all the way to the edges of the paper they are printed on. Since most printers are not capable of printing to the edges of paper, the printing is done on paper that is larger than the final desired size, which is then trimmed down to “fit”. 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. USB 3.2 will make your cables twice as fast… once you've bought new devices The cheapest, least important part of your USB infrastructure is future-proofed. [ArsTechnica] The SEC is throwing a damper on ethereum madness This week the Commission concluding that a token sale violated the Securities Act [The Verge] How Twitter Fuels Anxiety The anxious can often find a supportive community through tweeting, but the nature of the social media site can exacerbate symptoms. [The Atlantic] How to Completely Remove a Book From Your Kindle Library You’ve probably been happily reading ebooks on your Kindle (or the Kindle app) for years, accruing a nice digital library full of interesting titles. But what if, for some reason, someone else needs to see that library of yours…and there are some items within that you’d rather they didn’t? Say, perhaps, one of those steamy romance novels that makes up a massive 34% of fiction sales in US? Read This Article → How to Avoid Toll Roads in Google Maps No one likes to pay to be able to drive on a specific road, especially if you’re just passing through. Thankfully, Google Maps has an easy way to bypass toll roads when using navigation. Read This Article → What Is “Bulb Mode” on My Camera? If you've turned the shutter speed dial on your camera past 30 seconds, you might have noticed the strangely named "Bulb" mode. This is a throwback from the first film cameras, but it's still useful today. Read This Article → How to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s Windows PC Without Any Extra Software Windows offers a few built-in tools for performing remote assistance over the Internet. These tools allow you to take remote control of another person’s computer so you can help them troubleshoot it while you’re on the phone with them. They work similarly to Remote Desktop, but are available on all editions of Windows and are easy to set up. Read This Article → How to Activate Third Party Game Codes in Steam Unbeknownst to many people, it’s not a requirement that you purchase a game directly from Valve in order to use it with their Steam gaming platform—and, in fact, it’s often advantageous to purchase your game from a third party retailer. Let’s take a look at how to get your third party games into your Steam account. Read This Article → How to Listen to (and Delete) Every Command You’ve Ever Given to Alexa Believe it or not, the Amazon Echo has something similar to what your web browser history is on your computer: Alexa records and logs every single command you’ve ever given. Here’s how to access it and see (and hear) everything you’ve ever said to her. Read This Article → What Is launchd, and Why Is It Running on My Mac? You’re scrolling through Activity Monitor when you notice a process you’re not familiar with: launchd. Should you be worried? No: this is actually a cord part of macOS. Read This Article → How to Catch Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go Since the game went online over a year ago, players of Niantic’s massively popular (and often frustrating) AR monster-catcher have wondered where all the legendary creatures are hiding in Pokémon Go. The original Game Boy title had massively powerful, interesting, and unique legendary Pokémon way back in the 90s, but the smartphone game launched without access to Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo, despite a heavy feature in the original trailer. Read This Article → How to Get Android’s System UI Tuner on Non-Stock Devices One benefit users of stock Android devices have had for the past few iterations of the OS is the System UI Tuner—a hidden menu that allows for extra customization of simple things like which icons are shown in the status bar, powerful notification controls, and more. Now, thanks to a new app (and a short workaround), you can have this menu on any Android device—not just ones running stock Android. Read This Article → What Is a “Fast” Camera Lens? Photography has a lot of confusing terminology, and often there are several ways to describe the same idea. One of the more annoying ones is when lenses are called "fast". How can a lens have a speed? If you drop two lenses, they'll both hit the ground (and break) at the same time. It's an old term, so let's find out. Read This Article → What's the Best Antivirus for Windows 10? (Is Windows Defender Good Enough?) Windows 10 won’t hassle you to install an antivirus like Windows 7 did. Since Windows 8, Windows now includes a built-in antivirus called Windows Defender (which used to be available separately as Microsoft Security Essentials). But is it really the best for protecting your PC–or even just good enough? Read This Article → Advertisement Download Networking For Dummies, 11th Edition ($15.99 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Whether you're a networking administrator or an everyday computer user looking to set up a network in your home or office, Networking For Dummies seamlessly gets you connected with the basics. Inside you'll find step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining a network, ensuring you're following best practices with storage and back-up procedures.Click here to download