| Alaska is the largest U.S. state at 663,267 square miles; the next biggest state, Texas, is less than half that size at only 268,581 square miles.  | |
|
| 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.
| |
|
Today's Tech Term
Digital Envelope | |
| Digital Envelope refers to a type or security where two layers of encryption are used to protect a message. The first layer uses symmetric (secret key) encryption and the second layer uses public key encryption (which encrypts and decrypts the secret key) to help unlock the “deeper” layer. | |
|
| 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. | |
|
| If you use a company-owned PC, you may have seen a legal notice displayed before you sign in to Windows. Here’s how you can do the same thing on your own PC and display a message with any text you want. | |
|
| Snapchat is a chat app and social network that's super popular with millennials and teens. It's main feature is that every "Snap" (aka photo or video) is automatically deleted after a certain amount of time. | |
|
| Windows PCs have historically had worse touchpads than Macs. Microsoft is trying to fix this problem with “precision touchpads”, but not every PC manufacturer is on board. Some PCs ship with precision touchpads, but others include older, traditional technology instead. | |
|
| While we do what we can to protect our laptops, there are times when the keyboards get damaged no matter what precautions we take. Is it better to only replace the keys you need or the entire keyboard? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice regarding a reader’s keyboard woes. | |
|
| Windows 10 gained a new pen settings panel with the Anniversary Update. If your device has a pen or another type of stylus, you can customize exactly how it works and what its buttons do from the Settings window. | |
|
| If Windows 8 taught us (and Microsoft) anything, it’s that users really love the Start menu. If you’re switching to the Mac, you might wonder why macOS doesn’t offer one, or really anything quite like one. | |
|
| If you’ve ever wondered how to record your computer screen and then turn it into an animated GIF, then wonder no more. Here’s everything you need to know about creating GIF screencasts on Windows and Mac. | |
|
| If you're working in a LibreOffice Writer document, and need to do some simple calculations, instead of opening the Windows Calculator, you can perform the calculations directly in Writer. | |
|
| You can always look up user accounts on a Windows system using the settings interface, but if you want to save a nice, printer-friendly file with that info, it’s easiest to turn to the Command Prompt. | |
|
| With that said, let's look at how you can suffer through and take good pictures of your pets (or at least, try to). | |
|
| CyanogenMod is dead, killed by parent company Cyanogen. The community is attempting to pick up the pieces and create a new project, LineageOS, based on the code. But it’s a reminder that open source software isn’t all sunshine, rainbows, and stability: in fact, it can often be very messy. | |
|
|
|
0 Comments