How to Watch Your Movies and TV Shows on Any Device with Plex

Did You Know? Under the ancient Code of Hammurabi, if conspirators met in a tavern and were not captured and delivered to the court, then the tavern-keeper would be put to death. Geek Trivia The “A113” Easter Egg That Appears In Every Pixar Movie Is A Reference To? A Classroom → A Movie Studio Lot → A Censorship Law → An Apartment Address → Advertisement Free Analyst Report: 2016 Cyberthreat Defense Report Take a deep dive into survey data and findings, learn about the evolution of cyberthreats, and find out how you can prepare for cyberattacks in 2016. 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 Manually Calculate Only the Active Worksheet in Excel How To Install .deb Packages Without “Ubuntu Software” in Ubuntu 16.04 How to Access Your iPhone’s Field Test Mode (and See Your Real Signal Strength) How to Password Protect Documents and PDFs with Microsoft Office How to Set Up Your Philips Hue Lights with the New Hue App How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device) How Do You Find a Computer’s Geographic Location Using the Command Line? How to Factory Reset Your PlayStation 4 How to Create Custom Vibration Patterns for iPhone Contacts How to Change Your Chromecast's Device Name How to Automatically Empty the Deleted Items Folder When Exiting Outlook How to Remotely Fetch Any File On Your PC with OneDrive How to Read a Mac-Formatted Drive on a Windows PC Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Tight Coupling Tight Coupling (a.k.a. High Coupling, Heavy Coupling, and Strong Coupling) is a system coupling technique where the hardware and software components are not only linked together, but highly dependent on each other. 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. A Labour Revolt Inside 'Magic: The Gathering' is Tearing the Community Apart Maneuvers intended to cut costs have triggered serious discussion about professional player and tournament judge compensation. [Motherboard] From TV trailblazer to IP afterthought: TiVo bought for $1.1 billion The combined companies create a $3 billion, patent-obsessed entertainment giant. [ArsTechnica] Microsoft has created its own IFTTT tool called Flow Microsoft's Flow is designed to connect services like Twitter, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Office 365. [The Verge] Bringing esports to a Las Vegas casino The Downtown Grand wants to become a year-round destination for esports players. [Polygon] How to Manually Calculate Only the Active Worksheet in Excel If you have large workbooks with a lot of formulas on the worksheets, recalculating the workbooks can take a long time. By default, Excel automatically recalculates all open workbooks as you change values in the worksheets. However, you can choose to recalculate only the current worksheet manually. Read This Article → How To Install .deb Packages Without “Ubuntu Software” in Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04 is the first version to include the new replacement software app, GNOME Software–and it already has a show-stopping bug. Currently, in Ubuntu 16.04, it is not possible to install third-party applications using the Software app. Read This Article → How to Access Your iPhone’s Field Test Mode (and See Your Real Signal Strength) The iPhone has a hidden “field test” mode that shows all kinds of technical details about signal strength, cell towers, and more. Most of it is not very useful to the average person, but you can make it show you your phone’s actual signal strength instead of just how many bars you’re getting. And that can be useful. Read This Article → How to Password Protect Documents and PDFs with Microsoft Office Microsoft Office lets you encrypt your Office documents and PDF files, allowing no one to even view the file unless they have the password. Modern versions of Office use secure encryption that you can rely on–assuming you set a strong password. Read This Article → How to Set Up Your Philips Hue Lights with the New Hue App Philips Hue is a really cool Wi-Fi-enabled lighting system that allows you to turn on and off your lights right from your smartphone (or from other smarthome-controlling devices, like the Amazon Echo). It’s one of the first steps in turning your house into a smarthome of the future. Here’s how to set up your Philips Hue lights using the new Philips Hue app. Read This Article → How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device) Plex Media Server is a user-friendly way to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place–and make it accessible from any device, whether you’re at home or on-the-go. If you’re looking for a no-headache way to watch your movies anywhere, this is it. Read This Article → How Do You Find a Computer’s Geographic Location Using the Command Line? There are many ways to learn the location of a computer from its IP address, but how do you go about it if you decide to use the command line to find the information? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful suggestions to help a reader find the information he wants. Read This Article → How to Factory Reset Your PlayStation 4 If you plan on selling your PlayStation 4, here’s how to reset it by deactivating your PSN account and deleting all of the files on the console to put it back into factory condition. Read This Article → How to Create Custom Vibration Patterns for iPhone Contacts Vibrations are a great way to alert you when someone is calling or texting without notifying everyone else around you. The only problem: you may not know who is contacting you unless you pull your iPhone out of your pocket. Read This Article → How to Change Your Chromecast's Device Name When you first set up a new Chromecast, you have the option to give it a name. This is how the Chromecast identifies itself on the network and to casting devices, which is how you know which unit you're casting to. But if your Chromecast started life as "Living Room Chromecast" and you moved it to another room, it only makes sense to change its name. It's a quick and easy process—here's how to do it. Read This Article → How to Automatically Empty the Deleted Items Folder When Exiting Outlook When you delete emails, tasks, calendar items, or notes in Outlook, they are moved to the Deleted Items folder. This folder is not emptied until you do it manually–at least by default. If you want, you can have Outlook empty this folder automatically when you exit the program. Read This Article → How to Remotely Fetch Any File On Your PC with OneDrive OneDrive may primarily be a cloud syncing service, but even if you don’t use OneDrive as your primary cloud storage, it has one killer feature: with it, you can remotely access any file on your PC, even if that file is not in your OneDrive folders. Read This Article → How to Read a Mac-Formatted Drive on a Windows PC Windows can’t normally read Mac-formatted drives, and will offer to erase them instead. But third-party tools fill the gap and provide access to drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+ file system on Windows. This also allows you to restore Time Machine backups on Windows. Read This Article → Advertisement Download System Administration & Security - Salary & Skills Report Diverse and rapidly changing, network administration and security is the backbone of the 21st century workplace. What are the essential skills of the modern system admin? Does it pay to specialize, or go polyglot? 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