HDTV Overscan: What It Is and Why You Should (Probably) Turn It Off

Did You Know? Tasers eject a burst of tiny “confetti” when deployed–each of the little confetti bits (anti-felon identification (AFID) tags) has tiny serial numbers on it that links the taser to the scene of deployment and the owner. Geek Trivia The Mammal With The Best Sense Of Smell Is The? Pigmy Shrew → Bloodhound → Wild Boar → African Elephant → Advertisement Exploiting Web-Based Applications - FREE Video Training Course In this course, we will teach you the top exploits including Cross-site Scripting, Cross-site Request Forgery, and more! You'll get real world examples including a Netflix case study along with the mitigation techniques to prevent these attacks. Build skills you can use today and are in demand by top employers. 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 Make Windows Play a Sound When You Press Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock How to Bookmark Locations in the Windows Registry How to Enable Pasting Text on Sites That Block It HDTV Overscan: What It Is and Why You Should (Probably) Turn It Off What Are "Magic Packets" for Waking Computers? How to Set a Schedule for Your Nest Thermostat How to Reinstall OS X’s Default Apps in El Capitan How to Enable 4K Playback on the NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV How to Quickly Navigate Multi-Page Articles with PageZipper How to Set a Goal in Google Calendar for iOS and Android How to Share Your iPhone Without People Snooping Around How to Install and Manage Snap Packages on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Thumbing Thumbing (a.k.a. Thumb Typing) refers to a method of typing on small built-in or attached keyboards using only one’s thumbs (due to the small size of the handheld devices). 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. Hacking group "PLATINUM" used Windows' own patching system against it Unknown group attacked South East Asian targets, sometimes for years at a time. [ArsTechnica] Mossberg: When gadgets were king "This isn't the Golden Age of gadgets, at least not yet. No, that glorious era of rough-edged experimentation blossomed mainly in the 1990s, right up to the iPhone and Android launches of the late 2000s." [The Verge] The Robot Revolution in Caregiving As a growing population ages, could computerized assistants provide medical support and companionship? [The Atlantic] Toronto Gets Its Own Free, Encrypted Mesh Network People in Toronto were so few up with crappy internet service they rolled their own encrypted mesh network to fill a much needed niche. [Motherboard] Distant Dwarf Planet Has its Own Moon Orbiting object could hold lessons about the remote world Makemake  [Scientific American] How to Make Windows Play a Sound When You Press Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock Have you ever turned on the Caps Lock key ACCIDENTALLY WHILE YOU'RE TYPING? Or turned off the Num Lock key unintentionally and then tried to use the number keypad? No worries. There's a setting in Windows that can notify you with a sound whenever you press one of these keys. Read This Article → How to Bookmark Locations in the Windows Registry The Windows Registry offers a treasure trove of possible tweaks for your PC, but it’s a complicated structure to work in. You can make things a little easier by bookmarking your favorite locations. Read This Article → How to Enable Pasting Text on Sites That Block It Some companies think they’re increasing security by disabling your ability to paste into form fields, such as the password field. But in reality, all they’re doing is frustrating users–and probably decreasing security by blocking password managers. Here’s how to solve this annoyance in Chrome and Firefox. Read This Article → HDTV Overscan: What It Is and Why You Should (Probably) Turn It Off Here's something you may not know: that HDTV that you love so much probably doesn't show the whole picture on its screen. In fact, up to five percent of the picture can get cut off around the edges—this is called overscan. It's old technology that's left over from the CRT (cathode ray tube) televisions of yesteryear. Here's why it existed in the first place, why it's still used today, and how to (hopefully) turn it off on your TV. Read This Article → What Are "Magic Packets" for Waking Computers? When you are tweaking or adjusting various settings on your computer, sooner or later you will likely run across some options that leave you puzzled or confused. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a confused reader’s questions. Read This Article → How to Set a Schedule for Your Nest Thermostat Your Nest Thermostat can learn your preferences over time and automatically adjust the temperature accordingly. But if you’d rather program specific temperatures for specific times, here’s how to set a schedule on your Nest. Read This Article → How to Reinstall OS X’s Default Apps in El Capitan OS X El Capitan comes with quite a few apps preinstalled, many of which are very useful…and some of which aren’t. Deleting these apps is simple: just drag them to the trash. Reinstalling them however, isn’t quite so cut and dried. Read This Article → How to Enable 4K Playback on the NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV NVIDIA's SHIELD Android TV is by far the most powerful Android TV box on the market, and the only one that supports 4K playback (the others are limited to 1080p). The good news is that once you've got it all hooked up to an HDCP 2.2-compatible port, getting UHD content to play is little more than a few clicks of the remote away. Read This Article → How to Quickly Navigate Multi-Page Articles with PageZipper If you read a lot of websites in Chrome or Firefox that split their articles up into many separate pages, or put each image in a gallery on a new page, we have a tip for you that will make reading sites like that much easier and faster. Read This Article → How to Set a Goal in Google Calendar for iOS and Android Earlier this month, Google added a Goals feature to the Google Calendar apps for iOS and Android. Goals automatically finds free time in your calendar and schedules recurring events to help you achieve your goals. Here’s how to get it all set up. Read This Article → How to Share Your iPhone Without People Snooping Around Phones are private, full of personal data and messages. Guided Access allows you to share your iPhone with someone without being able to access that data–allowing them to look at photos, place a phone call, or play a game while your stuff stays hidden. Read This Article → How to Install and Manage Snap Packages on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS introduced “Snap” packages, which are a great new way of installing apps. Snaps require different terminal commands–apt-get and dpkg will only allow you to install .deb packages the old way, not Snaps. Read This Article → Advertisement Exploiting Web-Based Applications - FREE Video Training Course In this course, we will teach you the top exploits including Cross-site Scripting, Cross-site Request Forgery, and more! You'll get real world examples including a Netflix case study along with the mitigation techniques to prevent these attacks. Build skills you can use today and are in demand by top employers. Click here to download