Ubuntu 16.04 Makes Ubuntu Exciting Again

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How to Change Your Android TV’s Device Name How to Load a Website in Firefox’s Sidebar How to Move the Unity Desktop's Launcher to the Bottom of Your Screen on Ubuntu 16.04 How to Install Fallout 4 Mods with Nexus Mod Manager How to Play Spotify Music on the Amazon Echo Ubuntu 16.04 Makes Ubuntu Exciting Again How to Prevent Your Cursor from Drifting to Another Monitor During Games How to See All of the Named Cell Ranges in an Excel Workbook The iPhone Shortcut That Helps You Reach Anything with One Hand How to Transfer Contacts From an iPhone to Another Phone Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Shadow IT The term Shadow IT refers to “local applications/software”, infrastructure/hardware, web-based services, cloud applications, and/or other solutions that are created and applied within a company or organization, or are managed/utilized by employees in order to accomplish their tasks and projects, all without the proper authorization from, or knowledge about said activity by the people in charge. Shadow IT can be a problem because it may not conform to an organization’s requirements for reliability, security, documentation, control, etc. but can also serve as a source of potential prototypes for “future” IT solutions. 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. Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers The boom in pro video gaming is fueled by $2.3 billion in online bets. [Bloomberg] How a Senator used Facebook ads to influence employees in a single D.C. building How precisely can you target Facebook adds? How about down to the single building. [Fusion] The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality "Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don't need to know. And that's pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be." [Quanta Magazine] How the orchestra is arranged by the biology of the brain The arrangement of the orchestra is not accidental but drive by the human brain and how we perceive sound. [Aeon] A year with the Apple Watch: What works, what doesn't, and what lies ahead? Some features are more useful than others, and there's lots of room to improve. [ArsTechnica] How to Change Your Android TV’s Device Name Android TV is Google's attempt at taking over the living room, and with some units being available for under $99, it's not unheard of for users to have more than one box. The problem is, when multiple devices identify themselves identically on the network, how are you supposed to know which is which? Changing the device name is super simple, and something that you'll definitely want to do if you have more than one identical Android TV box in your house. Read This Article → How to Load a Website in Firefox’s Sidebar If you use Firefox, we have a tip that can help you be more productive while surfing the web. Say you want to keep track of your to-do list, or another web page while reading another website. We'll show you an easy way to do this. Read This Article → How to Move the Unity Desktop's Launcher to the Bottom of Your Screen on Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS includes a long-awaited feature: You can now move the Unity desktop’s launcher to the bottom of your screen. It isn’t locked to the left side of your screen anymore. However, this option requires a terminal command or tweaking tool, as it isn’t offered in Ubuntu’s normal System Settings window. Read This Article → How to Install Fallout 4 Mods with Nexus Mod Manager Like Skyrim and other Bethesda games before it, modding is one of Fallout 4’s huge draws on the PC. But Fallout 4 and Steam don’t offer an easy, built-in way to install these mods. Thankfully, there’s a tool called Nexus Mod Manager that makes this easier, so you don’t have to do everything by hand. Read This Article → How to Play Spotify Music on the Amazon Echo The Amazon Echo uses Amazon’s Prime Music as the default service for any music you want to play. But you can also connect your Spotify account to the Amazon Echo and tell Alexa to play anything through the third-party service. Read This Article → Ubuntu 16.04 Makes Ubuntu Exciting Again Ubuntu hasn’t had the best reputation among Linux users over the past few years–with some even going so far as to call it “boring”. If you’ve been hesitant to try it out, then hold on to your seats–Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” is not only an exciting release, but one that has the potential to be a game changer for the Linux ecosystem. Read This Article → How to Prevent Your Cursor from Drifting to Another Monitor During Games Most games confine your cursor to the game’s window unless you Alt+Tab out of it. But occasionally, if you have multiple monitors, you’ll get a game that lets your cursor “drift” onto another screen while you play. You can prevent that with a free tool called Cursor Lock. Read This Article → How to See All of the Named Cell Ranges in an Excel Workbook Naming a range of cells in Excel provide an easy way to reference those cells in a formula. If you have a workbook with a lot of data on the worksheets, naming ranges of cells can make your formulas easier to read and less confusing. Read This Article → The iPhone Shortcut That Helps You Reach Anything with One Hand When Apple first debuted the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus with their larger screens, they also introduced a feature named Reachability that makes it easier to reach the top of the screen when you’re using the device with one hand. It’s surprising, though, how many people don’t know the feature exists, or think it’s some kind of bug when they encounter it. Here’s how to use it and how to turn it off if you don’t like it. Read This Article → How to Transfer Contacts From an iPhone to Another Phone Your iPhone contacts will automatically come with you to a new phone–assuming that new phone is an iPhone, you’re backing up the contacts to iCloud, and you’re using the same iCloud account on both phones. But things get a bit more complicated if you want to do anything else. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download