What's New in Windows 10's Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer

Did You Know? Although the best known flightless birds are high profile animals like penguins and ostriches, there are over 40 extant species of flightless birds on Earth. Geek Trivia Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Commonly Affects Which Of These Groups? Deep Sea Divers → Runners → Astronauts → Computer Users → Advertisement Download Apache HTTP Server Cookbook In this eBook, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. With our straightforward tutorials, you will be able to get your own projects up and running in minimum time. 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 Reduce Your iPhone’s Brightness Lower Than iOS Allows How to Wipe Your Android Device and Restore It to Factory Settings How to Control Your Nest Learning Thermostat with Alexa How to Free Up Space Used By Your iPhone or iPad’s Messages App What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer How to Set a Timer for Your Philips Hue Lights How to Use Apple’s New Notes App to Organize Your Thoughts How to Test the “Readability” of Your Writing in Microsoft Word or Outlook How to Fix Arrow Key Scrolling in Excel How to Truly Hide iOS’ Built-In Apps Using a Configuration Profile Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Persistence Persistence refers to objects or a characteristic of state that outlives the processes that created them. This is achieved by storing (saving) the object/state as data in a non-volatile storage location, like a hard drive. 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. Nintendo's First iOS Game 'Miitomo' Now Available in the United States After a soft launch in Japan earlier this month, Nintendo's first app designed for iOS devices, Miitomo, is available for download in the United States and other countries. [Mac Rumors] Microsoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10 Bash coming to Windows is huge news for developers. [The Verge] New ransomware installs in boot record, encrypts hard disk Petya performs fake CHKDSK, and instead encrypts the master file table on disk. [ArsTechnica] WiFi distance detector could shut out router invaders Researchers from MIT have figured out how to detect the distance between WiFi users and a single router, a feat that could make drones safer and public internet more secure. [Engadget] SETI's New Alien Life Hunt Targets 20,000 Small, Dim Stars The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, California is now searching 20,000 red dwarf stars for signs of intelligent life. [Space.com] How to Reduce Your iPhone’s Brightness Lower Than iOS Allows If you use your iPhone at night in a dark room, even the new Night Shift feature in iOS 9.3 can’t stop your screen from seemingly burning your eyes. Luckily, there is a way to reduce the brightness of the screen lower than iOS actually allows. Read This Article → How to Wipe Your Android Device and Restore It to Factory Settings There comes a time in every mobile user’s life when he or she needs to factory reset their device. Maybe you need to sell it, or maybe it’s just being wonky and you want to start from scratch. Thankfully, it only takes a few minutes to do. Read This Article → How to Control Your Nest Learning Thermostat with Alexa You can do a lot of things with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, and now, thanks to new smart home integration, you can control your Nest Learning Thermostat. Read This Article → How to Free Up Space Used By Your iPhone or iPad’s Messages App If you send and receive a lot of messages, the Messages app can take up a lot of space on your iPhone or iPad. Not only does it store your message history, it keeps photo attachments you’ve received. All this data then takes up iCloud space as part of your backups, too. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer Windows 10’s next big update, dubbed the “Anniversary Update”, comes out this summer, and will be available for users of the Insider Preview builds today. Here are some of the new features coming in the update. Read This Article → How to Set a Timer for Your Philips Hue Lights Whether you want to turn off your Philips Hue lights after a certain amount of time has passed, or turn them on after 30 minutes, here’s how to set a timer for your Philips Hue lights to have them automatically turn on or off after a specified amount of time. Read This Article → How to Use Apple’s New Notes App to Organize Your Thoughts Taking notes can make the difference between remembering that brilliant idea you came up with in the shower, and letting it go down the drain. Apple’s Notes app has come a long way from it’s fake-pad-of-paper days, stuffed with features to assure your best brainstorms are always within reach. Read This Article → How to Test the “Readability” of Your Writing in Microsoft Word or Outlook Microsoft Word and Outlook have long featured the ability to view “readability” statistics for what you’re writing, so you know how simple or complex you’re writing is. This can help ensure your writing is readable enough for your intended audience. Read This Article → How to Fix Arrow Key Scrolling in Excel You're working in a worksheet in Excel and you press one of the arrow keys on your keyboard to move to the next cell. But instead of moving to the next cell, the whole worksheet moved. Don't panic. There's an easy fix for this. Read This Article → How to Truly Hide iOS’ Built-In Apps Using a Configuration Profile One of the most annoying things about the iPhone and iPad is the inability to hide built-in apps like Tips, Stocks, and News. Apple’s iOS 9.3 finally adds a way to hide these apps from your home screen, though it isn’t pretty. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Apache HTTP Server Cookbook In this eBook, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. With our straightforward tutorials, you will be able to get your own projects up and running in minimum time. Click here to download