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Did You Know? The sea level on the opposite sides of the Panama Canal can vary up to around 20 centimeters, due largely in part to the differing densities of the two oceans along with the prevailing weather and ocean conditions. Geek Trivia What Creature On Earth Has The Highest Blood Pressure? Blue Whales → Hummingbirds → Humans → Giraffes → Advertisement Download The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (a $29.99 value) FREE for a limited time The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook guides you through the process of reverse engineering antivirus software. You explore how to detect and exploit vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to improve future software design, protect your network, and anticipate attacks that may sneak through your antivirus' line of defense. 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. 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Honeycrisp was just the beginning: inside the quest to create the perfect apple The Honeycrisp apple, explained  [Vox] PSA: If you like updates, don't buy the Google Pixel phone from Verizon Hate OS updates? Love crapware and restrictions? We've got the phone for you! [ArsTechnica] Documents Reveal Stranger Things Really Freaked Out the Department of Energy Netflix's runaway hit Stranger Things did a lot of things right, and chief among them: antagonizing the US Department of Energy. [Gizmodo] We're So Addicted to Our Gadgets That 'Unplugged' Tourism Is Booming If a tree falls in the Amazon, but you don't capture it on Snapchat, did it actually fall? [Motherboard] How to Define the Base Directory for the "cd" Command in Linux By default, the Terminal window in Linux opens to your home directory. To change to any directory that is not directly in the home directory, you must provide the full path or use the "cd" command multiple times. Read This Article → How to Make the $50 Amazon Fire Tablet More Like Stock Android Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet may be one of the best deals in tech–especially when it occasionally goes on sale for $35. It may feel limited, but with a few tweaks–no rooting necessary–you can turn it into an almost-stock Android tablet perfect for reading, watching, and even light gaming. Read This Article → What Is 4G LTE? You’ve heard it in commercials, seen it plastered across billboards, and maybe even read about it in your cellphone plan. But what is 4G LTE, and how do its speeds and coverage compare to other 3G and 4G networks? Read This Article → Can a Hard Drive Be Designated as Non-Removable? Most of the time, when you upgrade or change the hardware on your computer, Windows tends to accept it without a problem. But what do you do if Windows keeps “seeing” and listing a new permanent hard drive as removable? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Set Up the Philips Hue Motion Sensor The latest accessory to join the Philips Hue line is a motion sensor that can not only turn on your lights when you walk into a room, but can also activate certain scenes depending on the time of day. Here’s how to set it up and have motion-activated lights ready to go in just a few minutes. Read This Article → How to Use Cakebrew, the Beautiful Homebrew GUI For Your Mac Homebrew makes it easy for Mac users to install command line tools, so it’s only logical that it runs entirely from the command line. But that doesn’t mean having access to a graphical user interface isn’t handy from time to time. Cakebrew is a free Homebirew GUI that makes overseeing your setup just a bit easier. Read This Article → How to Add a Tapback to an iMessage in macOS Sierra Messages got a lot of love in iOS 10, but not so much in macOS Sierra. They did get some attention, though, including a few of iOS 10’s features, like tapback comments. Read This Article → How to Connect to FTP Servers in Windows (Without Extra Software) If you need to access an FTP server, you can install dedicated FTP clients with lots of features –but you don’t necessarily have to. Windows itself offers several ways for connecting to an FTP server, allowing you to download and upload files in a pinch. Read This Article → How to Delete Handwritten Messages from the Recent List in iOS 10 Messages When you send a handwritten message in the Messages app on your iPhone, it's added to the recent list of messages so you can use it again. However, if you don't want certain messages stored in the list, or don’t want to see them at all, there is a way to delete them. Read This Article → How to Speed Up, Disable, or Rebuild the Windows Search Index Windows Search makes searching for files on your PC a lot faster, but if you find that things slow down when Windows indexes files or that Search isn’t working as expected, there are a few steps you can take. Read This Article → How to Change Someone's Eye Color in Photoshop Have you ever wondered what you'd look like if your eyes were a different color? Mine are gray, but I've always thought brown would suit me. Sure, you could go and buy colored contacts, but it’s far simpler to just use Photoshop—or your favorite free image editor like GIMP—to change your eye color. Read This Article → How to Switch From Windows 10’s Insider Preview Back to Stable (Without Reinstalling) When you sign up for Insider Preview builds, Windows warns that you “may” need to reinstall Windows to get back to the stable version of Windows. But this is a worst case scenario, and there are other ways to get off the Insider Preview track. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (a $29.99 value) FREE for a limited time The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook guides you through the process of reverse engineering antivirus software. You explore how to detect and exploit vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to improve future software design, protect your network, and anticipate attacks that may sneak through your antivirus' line of defense. Click here to download