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Did You Know? If we ever colonize Mars, don’t expect to be phoning home for the holidays–even if you used a communication method that traveled at the speed of light, the one-way communication delay would range from about 3 to 22 minutes depending on how far Mars is from Earth at any given time. Geek Trivia To Update Their Image, The Cracker Jack Company Replaced The Box Toy With? Pencils → A USB Drive → Book Vouchers → A Digital Code → 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 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 Create a Copy of an Excel Worksheet Without Formulas How to Check the Activation Lock Status of an iOS Device What Is Apple’s Game Center, and Should You Use It? What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer How to Automatically Skip Commercials in NextPVR with Comskip How to Prevent Accidental Ad Clicks in iOS Games With Guided Access Why Do x86 CPUs Only Use Two Out of Four “Rings”? How to Geotag Photos in Apple’s Photos App How to Find the IMEI and Serial Number for your iOS Device 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 Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Sheepdip In the context of computing, the term Sheepdip (a.k.a. Footbath) refers to the use of a particular non-networked computer that has been specifically set aside for testing files and physical media (i.e. flash drives, etc.) for the presence of viruses, malware, and other harmful content. 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. How Fitbit Became The Next Big Thing In Corporate Wellness Is the new requirement to climbing the corporate ladder that you count all the steps? [FastCO] Xbox 360 is retiring as the king of all game consoles After achieving such a degree of success that "Xbox" is synonymous with console gaming, the Xbox 360 production run has finally come to an end. [Daily Dot] Google Play Store and "over a million apps" could be headed to Chrome OS Clues about Google Play integration appear in the source code and on users' devices. [ArsTechnica] Microsoft's excellent Windows Phone keyboard is now available for iOS Microsoft is bringing its excellent Windows Phone keyboard to the iPhone today. The new iOS version will let you tap or swipe to type out words and intelligently predict words for sentences, just like the Windows Phone variant. [The Verge] The number of internet cordcutting homes in the US has doubled in three years The rate of US cord cutting appears to be accelerating beyond the scope of just ditching cable--many consumers are ditching the cable modem too. [Quartz] How to Create a Copy of an Excel Worksheet Without Formulas Say you've created an Excel workbook you need to distribute, but you can't reveal the formulas you used in that workbook. We'll show you an easy trick that allows you to copy a worksheet to another workbook and quickly remove the formulas, so only the results show. Read This Article → How to Check the Activation Lock Status of an iOS Device Starting with iOS 7, Apple introduced a feature named Activation Lock for iOS devices. When you sign in with an iCloud account and enable the “Find My” feature, the phone becomes tied to your iCloud account. If you’re buying or selling a device, you’ll want to ensure that the Activation Lock is disabled so that it can then be activated by the new user. Read This Article → What Is Apple’s Game Center, and Should You Use It? If you use an Apple product like a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, then you may have noticed the “Game Center” app…but probably never opened it. Today we want to talk about what the Game Center is, and whether you’re missing anything. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Coming This Summer Windows 10's next big update, dubbed the "Anniversary Update", comes out this summer, and we’re starting to see some features in the Insider Preview builds today. Here’s what’s been announced so far, along with a few goodies we’ve discovered in the first and second previews. Read This Article → How to Automatically Skip Commercials in NextPVR with Comskip So you’ve set up live TV on your computer with NextPVR, and maybe even set it up to stream to every computer in your house. The only downside? Those pesky commercials in your recorded shows. Here’s how to get rid of them automatically. Read This Article → How to Prevent Accidental Ad Clicks in iOS Games With Guided Access Many iPhone and iPad games include banner ads that take up part of your screen. Accidentally tap the ad, and you’ll be ripped from the game and taken to another app, like the App Store or Safari. Enable iOS’ “Guided Access” and you won’t have this problem. Read This Article → Why Do x86 CPUs Only Use Two Out of Four “Rings”? When learning more about how operating systems and the hardware they run on work and interact with each other, you may be surprised to see what appears to be oddities or under-utilization of “resources” occurring. Why is that? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Geotag Photos in Apple’s Photos App The number of people who use a digital camera for their snapshots is steadily declining, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t a market. If you have a camera that doesn’t automatically geo-tag your photos, you can do so manually with Apple’s Photos app. Read This Article → How to Find the IMEI and Serial Number for your iOS Device Your iOS device has several numerical identifiers associated with it. Two of the most important are the device’s serial number and International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. You can use both to identify your phone when you’re scheduling repairs, activating or deactivating devices, or even reporting a device lost or stolen. Read This Article → 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 → 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