Despite Firefox Quantum's Success, Mozilla Has Lost Its Way

Did You Know? Movies tend to be remade, if they are remade at all, roughly 30 years after the original film. Planet of the Apes was remade after 33 years, Halloween was remade after 29. and Robocop was remade after 27. Geek Trivia Which Of These Christmas Films Became A Classic Due To A Copyright Filing Error? A Charlie Brown Christmas → It's a Wonderful Life → Miracle on 34th Street → A Christmas Story → Advertisement Still Need a Last Minute Christmas Gift? A monthly mystery crate for pop culture fans filled with incredible and exclusive items and apparel from your favorite tv shows, movies, games, and more! Treat yourself every month or give the gift of geeking out to a friend or loved one! 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 How to “Untrust” a Computer on Your iPhone or iPad Why Your Android Phone Isn’t Getting Operating System Updates and What You Can Do About It How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms Despite Firefox Quantum’s Success, Mozilla Has Lost Its Way How to Enable Vacation Mode on the Schlage Connect Smart Lock Your Amazon Wish List Is Public By Default. Here’s How to Make It Private How to Get Detailed Information About Your PC What to Do If You Can't Find the Layers Panel (or Any Other Panel) in Photoshop Seven Things You Don’t Have to Root Android to Do Anymore Today's Review Geek Articles Give the Gift of Fast Phone Charging This Holiday Season The Best Streaming Device For Everyone On Your Christmas List These 8 Subscription Boxes Are the Perfect Gift for Super Fans Geek Comic Today's Tech Term VRF VRF (short for Virtual Routing And Forwarding) is an Internet protocol technology that allows a router to create and operate multiple, independent instances of a routing table simultaneously, which allows the same and/or overlapping IP addresses to be used without conflict. 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. iPhone Performance and Battery Age Some research suggests Apple is slowing down older phones on purpose to help preserve battery life. [Geekbench] Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do Humans have a hard time changing their habits, even when doing so would pay off quickly. Why is that? [The New York Times] U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack Nothing is proven here, but it's another reminder to keep your data locked down. [Reuters] What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World There are many reasons electric cars cost so much; here's what needs to change in order for them to become affordable. [The New York Times] How to “Untrust” a Computer on Your iPhone or iPad When you first plug your iPhone or iPad into a computer, you’ll be prompted to “trust” the computer on your device. This gives iTunes and other management tools on the computer the ability to access your photos, files, settings, contacts, and other data. Your iPhone or iPad remembers this decision and will automatically trust that computer in the future. Read This Article → Why Your Android Phone Isn’t Getting Operating System Updates and What You Can Do About It Back in the early days of Android, system updates were very random: they would roll out at different times, and often several times per year. Now, Google has taken a much more streamlined approach, releasing one major Android update per year and much smaller, security-focused updates once per month. Read This Article → How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms Twitter threads (aka tweetstorms), where someone posts a series of related Tweets one after the other, sit in a weird place: everyone claims to hate them, but lots of people post them anyway. Twitter has recently embraced the feature, integrating them into the platform and making them easier to do right. Here's how to use them. Read This Article → Despite Firefox Quantum’s Success, Mozilla Has Lost Its Way Mozilla was supposed to be different. It brands itself as a non-profit organization dedicated to making the web better, one that cares about user privacy and security. But after this week, I’m starting to wonder if Mozilla really cares about its users the way they claim. Read This Article → How to Enable Vacation Mode on the Schlage Connect Smart Lock If you’re going on vacation and will be away from home for any significant amount of time, it might be a good idea to enable Vacation Mode on your Schlage Connect smart lock. Here’s how it works and how to turn it on. Read This Article → Your Amazon Wish List Is Public By Default. Here’s How to Make It Private Amazon’s lists are helpful for keeping track of all the many ways you need to give Jeff Bezos your money. However, by default, your basic wish list is public, and anyone with your email address can look it up. That seems like something worth fixing. Here’s how to change the privacy settings on your wish list. Read This Article → How to Get Detailed Information About Your PC Sometimes, you need to find information about your PC—things like what hardware you’re using, your BIOS or UEFI version, or even details about your software environment. Join us as we take a look at a few Windows tools that can provide varying levels of detail about your system information. Read This Article → What to Do If You Can't Find the Layers Panel (or Any Other Panel) in Photoshop Photoshop is an incredibly flexible program. To keep the interface flexible, Photoshop uses "Panels" for each tool or feature. Read This Article → Seven Things You Don’t Have to Root Android to Do Anymore For years, Android enthusiasts have been rooting their devices to do things that Android doesn't allow by default. But Google has added many features to Android that once required root, eliminating the need for many people. Read This Article → Advertisement Still Need a Last Minute Christmas Gift? A monthly mystery crate for pop culture fans filled with incredible and exclusive items and apparel from your favorite tv shows, movies, games, and more! Treat yourself every month or give the gift of geeking out to a friend or loved one!