Nobody Knows What Windows 10's "App Connector" Is, and Microsoft Won't Explain It

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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 Replace 7-Zip’s Ugly Icons with Better-Looking Ones The Difference Between All of Philips’ Hue Light Bulbs How to Move Notes from “On My iPhone” to iCloud Nobody Knows What Windows 10’s “App Connector” Is, and Microsoft Won’t Explain It What’s the Difference Between the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot? How to Control Your Smarthome Devices with a Logitech Harmony Remote How to Clear Your Browsing History in Google Chrome How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat How to Combine Images into One PDF File in Windows How to Enable Right-Clicking on Web Sites That Block It Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Phablet A Phablet is a device that combines physical characteristics and other features/abilities of mobile phones and tablets together into a singular “package”. Phablets are still small enough to fit into most pockets, provide cellular call service (3G and 4G), and may even have stylus/pen input available as well. 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. Astronaut Prime: Here's how Jeff Bezos plans to remake spaceflight Some are not impressed with Blue Origin's small beginning, but it's just a first step. [ArsTechnica] How expandable astronaut habitats could pave the way for private space hotels Bigelow's BEAM goes to space on Friday to show if this technology actually works [The Verge] Would You Trade Your Smart-Home Data to Companies for Money? Getting cash or discounts for your personal data could give you more control over it—but may help turn privacy into a premium feature. [The Atlantic] How CERN Fights Hackers CERN is a serious target and they go to great lengths to protect it. [Motherboard] How to Replace 7-Zip’s Ugly Icons with Better-Looking Ones Normally, I wouldn’t mind too much that an app is ugly–especially one as mundane as a file archiver. But it’s not just 7-Zip’s in-app icons. It also changes your Windows icons for ZIP, 7Z, TGZ, and other archive file types to these horrific, blurry, pre-Vista-looking icons that permeate my hard drive. (See the screenshot above.) Read This Article → The Difference Between All of Philips’ Hue Light Bulbs It wasn’t so long ago that Philips introduced its Hue smart lighting system, and since then, the company has expanded its lineup to include quite an arrangement of light bulbs and light fixtures to choose from. Read This Article → How to Move Notes from “On My iPhone” to iCloud Apple’s Notes app lets you save your notes locally on your device, or synced with iCloud. When you enable iCloud, though, all your previous notes remain on your device. Here’s how to move them to your iCloud account. Read This Article → Nobody Knows What Windows 10’s “App Connector” Is, and Microsoft Won’t Explain It Windows 10 includes a mysterious app named “App Connector” that has access to your location, camera, contacts, and calendars. This app was created by Microsoft, but Microsoft hasn’t officially explained what it does. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot? Amazon recently expanded their stable of Echo products to include the Echo Dot, the tiny sibling of the bigger Echo speaker. Let’s take a look at the similarities, differences, and when and where you would want to use each product. Read This Article → How to Control Your Smarthome Devices with a Logitech Harmony Remote On some remotes, you may also have home control buttons that you can use with devices like Philips Hue lights, a Nest thermostat, or a Belkin WeMo smart outlet. (You can see Logitech’s full list of supported smarthome devices here.) Read This Article → How to Clear Your Browsing History in Google Chrome If you use Google’s Chrome browser, and chances are you probably do, then may want to clear your browsing history from time to time. It’s always a good idea to do this for the sake of privacy. Read This Article → How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat A smart thermostat is a great accessory to have, not only to be able to adjust your home’s temperature from your phone, but to also save money on your utility costs. Here’s how to install and set up the Nest Learning Thermostat in your own home. Read This Article → How to Combine Images into One PDF File in Windows PDFs were designed to be a universal, easy-to-read document format, and they serve that purpose well. If you have a collection of images–say, documents you scanned into your computer as JPEGs–you can combine them into a PDF document for easy sharing. Read This Article → How to Enable Right-Clicking on Web Sites That Block It Though it’s less common these days, many sites still use JavaScript or an HTML attribute to disable right-clicking on their pages. It’s a practice we hope goes away, but in the meantime, it’s not too hard to get around those restrictions. Read This Article → 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