How to Watch Live TV on Your Kodi Media Center with NextPVR

Did You Know? The idle (nominal) voltage on a telephone line is ~48 volts DC, but ~90 volts of 20 Hz AC current is superimposed over the DC voltage already present on the idle line in order to trigger the phone ringer and alert the user to an incoming call. Geek Trivia Which Of These Mammals Sleeps The Least Each Day? Giraffes → Horses → Blue Whales → Elephants → Advertisement Download 2016 IT Management Kit (a $17.99 value) FREE for a limited time! Kit includes "Windows 10 at Work for Dummies" plus 3 other resources to help you with IT management. 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 Free Up Space Used By the Podcasts App on Your iPhone or iPad How to Prevent Specific Users from Shutting Down Windows How to Watch Live TV on Your Kodi Media Center with NextPVR How to Unroot Your Android Phone Does a Hard Drive Remember Bad Sectors After Formatting? How to Use Your Nest Thermostat as a Motion Detector How to Allow Apps to Communicate Through Your Mac’s Firewall How to Enter Android's Bootloader and Recovery Environments How to Sync iOS 9’s Notes with Your Gmail Account How to Clear Recent Items from a Jump List in Windows Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Reprographics Reprographics (a.k.a. Reprography) refers to the process of duplicating printed materials and graphic images via electrical or mechanical means (in print or digital formats). 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. OK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone Crypto-ransomware has turned every network intrusion into a potential payday. [ArsTechnica] If you've had Netflix for more than two years, you're likely about to pay more for it If you've had a Netflix subscription for more than two years, the rate you pay is likely about to go up by $2 a month. [Quartz] Mars Odyssey: Record-Breaking Mission to Mars For more than a decade, Mars Odyssey has been circling the Red Planet. The NASA spacecraft broke a record in 2010 for being the longest-serving piece of machinery to work at Mars. [Space.com] This Photographer Lit Landscapes at Night Using LEDs on Drones For his new project Lux Noctis, photographer Reuben Wu lit and photographed landscapes at night by mounting powerful LED lights to GPS-enabled drones. [Peta Pixel] The most beautiful typing game ever made Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing meets Bastion is probably the most unlikely elevator pitch you'll hear for a game this year, but it's a pretty dead-on descriptor of Epistory. [Polygon] How to Free Up Space Used By the Podcasts App on Your iPhone or iPad Apple’s Podcasts app automatically downloads new episodes of podcasts you subscribe to, storing them on your device. That’s convenient, but it can strain all those 16GB iPhones and iPads. Read This Article → How to Prevent Specific Users from Shutting Down Windows Windows features a ridiculous number of ways to shut down. You’ll find options on the Start menu, Administrative Tools menu, and the Login and Lock screens. You can also shut Windows down using keyboard shortcuts (Alt+F4 at the desktop) and even the command line. Here’s how to disable them all for specific users. Read This Article → How to Watch Live TV on Your Kodi Media Center with NextPVR A Kodi-based home theater PC is great for watching your ripped or downloaded videos, but even if you’ve cut cable from your life, there’s still a time and place for live TV–like sports. Here’s how to watch and record live TV from Kodi on Windows. Read This Article → How to Unroot Your Android Phone So, you’ve opened the doors of advanced functionality on your Android phone by rooting it. That’s great! You can do stuff with your phone that other people can’t do with theirs. But what happens when things change and you want to unroot it? Fear not, we’ve got you covered. Read This Article → Does a Hard Drive Remember Bad Sectors After Formatting? If you start encountering bad sectors on your hard drive and decide to format it, will it “remember” those bad sectors afterward or not? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps answer a curious reader’s question about bad sectors and formatting. Read This Article → How to Use Your Nest Thermostat as a Motion Detector While your Nest Thermostat is obviously meant for adjusting the temperature in your home, it can pull double duty and also act as a motion detector of sorts. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Allow Apps to Communicate Through Your Mac’s Firewall If you use a Mac, chances are you might not even realize that OS X comes with a firewall. This firewall helps ensure unauthorized app and services can’t contact your computer, and prevents intruders from sniffing out your Mac on a network. Read This Article → How to Enter Android's Bootloader and Recovery Environments There are occasions when getting into Android's bootloader or recovery systems is necessary—perhaps the OS is having issues and you need to factory reset, or maybe you want to root your phone. Fortunately, booting into the bootloader and recovery are both very simple. Here's how to do it. Read This Article → How to Sync iOS 9’s Notes with Your Gmail Account You can sync notes on your iPhone or iPad to your iCloud account, but did you know you can also sync notes with Gmail? You can add your Gmail account to the Notes app and access any notes added to that account on any computer–Mac or Windows. Read This Article → How to Clear Recent Items from a Jump List in Windows Jump lists contain commands and recent files you see when you right-click an icon on the Windows Start menu or task bar. If you’d like to clear your recent items from a jump list, you can. The trick is finding the right file to delete. 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