How to Replace Your Mechanical Keyboard's Keycaps (So It Can Live Forever)

Did You Know? The punctuation marks known as the em dash (–) and the en dash (—) derive their name from typesetting because the em dash was the same width as an uppercase M and the en dash was the same width as an uppercase N. Geek Trivia The Generation Between Generation X And The Millennials Is Known As The? Atari Generation → Oregon Trail Generation → Pac-Man Generation → IBM Generation → Advertisement Download Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition ($20 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Is hacking something left up to the bad guys? Certainly not! Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your system to better protect your network against malicious attacks. This revised text helps you recognize any vulnerabilities that are lurking in your system, allowing you to fix them before someone else finds them.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 Dim the Lights on the PlayStation DualShock 4 Controller What Is “Differential Privacy,” and How Does It Keep My Data Anonymous? How to Replace Your Mechanical Keyboard’s Keycaps (So It Can Live Forever) How Do You Stop Adobe Reader DC’s Sidebar From Opening by Default? How to Prevent Your Nest Cam from Capturing Sound How to Verify That Your Mac’s Time Machine Backups Are Working Properly How to Group Apple TV Apps into Folders How to Create ZIP Files on Your iPhone or iPad with Bundler How Big of a Photo Can I Print from My Phone or Camera? How to Run Android on Your Computer Geek Comic Today's Tech Term IHV An IHV (short for Independent Hardware Vendor) is a hardware manufacturing company that specializes in producing specific hardware devices (like graphics cards, etc.) instead of complete computer systems. 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. The Real Threat Is Machine Incompetence, Not Intelligence Forget super-AI. Crappy AI is more likely to be our downfall, argues researcher. [Motherboard] Time Warner Cable Lawsuit Says TWC Lied About Internet Speed The State of New York is suing Time Warner for, allegedly, taking customer's money for high speed internet and giving them significantly less bandwidth than they paid for. [NYMag] Early Mars didn't have enough CO2 to keep water liquid, Curiosity finds Liquid water on Mars' surface, but not enough CO2 above to keep it there. [ArsTechnica] What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen Consumers have bought more than 11 million internet-connected Vizio televisions since 2010. But according to a complaint filed by the FTC and the New Jersey Attorney General, consumers didn't know that while they were watching their TVs, Vizio was watching them. [FTC.gov] How to Dim the Lights on the PlayStation DualShock 4 Controller The DualShock 4’s light bar is a neat thing. It works with many games to mimic what’s happening on the screen—in The Last of Us, for example, it will change colors as your health degrades, and turn red as you die. It’s a little thing, but it’s cool. The downside is that it’s also a battery hog, causing the controller to die much quicker than most of us would like. Thankfully, you can dim it. Read This Article → What Is “Differential Privacy,” and How Does It Keep My Data Anonymous? Apple staking their reputation on ensuring the data it collects from you remains private. How? By using something called “Differential Privacy.” Read This Article → How to Replace Your Mechanical Keyboard’s Keycaps (So It Can Live Forever) Mechanical keyboards have legendary longevity, but like any long-lived tool, that doesn’t mean they don’t require occasional replacement parts. Let’s take a well-loved mechanical keyboard and give it a brand new set of keys. Read This Article → How Do You Stop Adobe Reader DC’s Sidebar From Opening by Default? A new year has brought new changes to how Adobe Acrobat Reader DC’s settings and preferences work, which means relearning how to tweak things to get the UI setup you prefer. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post shows a reader how to get rid of that pesky sidebar. Read This Article → How to Prevent Your Nest Cam from Capturing Sound The Nest Cam can capture audio whenever it’s recording video so you can hear what’s going on. However, if you don’t need audio, you can disable it to save just a little bit of bandwidth and data. Read This Article → How to Verify That Your Mac’s Time Machine Backups Are Working Properly You regularly back up your Mac with Time Machine, but how do you know that it’s working? Read This Article → How to Group Apple TV Apps into Folders By now, you have probably added a lot of apps and games to your Apple TV—so many that your Home screen has become crowded and unwieldy. Grouping things together in folders, however, can quickly restore order. Read This Article → How to Create ZIP Files on Your iPhone or iPad with Bundler Since iOS 7, Apple devices have had limited support for opening ZIP files in Messages and Mail, while a few other third-party apps provide methods for opening ZIP files. But what if you're on the other end and want to share multiple files with someone in a zipped file? Read This Article → How Big of a Photo Can I Print from My Phone or Camera? There's something special about a printed photo. Sure, you can share thousands of photos on Facebook, but none of them will ever be as special as the one photo you hang on the wall in your living room. Read This Article → How to Run Android on Your Computer Android isn’t largely thought of as a desktop operating system, but if you’re curious about how Google’s mobile OS works, running it on a device you already have isn’t a bad idea. This will give you an idea of what to expect on a phone or tablet, all without making a single change to your laptop or desktop since you can easily do this from a flash drive or memory card. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition ($20 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Is hacking something left up to the bad guys? Certainly not! Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your system to better protect your network against malicious attacks. This revised text helps you recognize any vulnerabilities that are lurking in your system, allowing you to fix them before someone else finds them.Click here to download