Don’t Shut Down Your Computer, Just Put It to Sleep

Did You Know? Although there are only two egg-laying mammals, or monotremes, left in the world–the duck-billed platypus and the echidna (spiny anteater)–these curious animals and their relatives were once numerous across the Australian continent. Geek Trivia Which Of These Foods Was Created To Cut Down On Food Waste? Tater Tots → Brussel Sprouts → Baby Carrots → Waffles → Advertisement Get Free License of WinX DVD Copy Pro with Lifetime Free Upgrade Digiarty's second and final round offer is ongoing. Subscribes of this newsletter can obtain its popular DVD backup software "WinX DVD Copy Pro" full license with Lifetime Free Upgrade via two ways. 1) Get it for free. But seats are limited. 2) Purchase it at only $9.95. The offer ends on June.5. Hurry up and take advantage of this deal 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 Windows Shortcut to Open a Specific Profile in Chrome How to Recover an Unsaved Microsoft Office File PSA: Don't Shut Down Your Computer, Just Use Sleep (or Hibernation) Why Is My VPN-Based Ping Faster Than a Non-VPN One? How to Share Your Nest Thermostat with Other Users How to Automatically Route Your iPhone Calls to the Speaker How to Enable the Status Bar and Word Wrap at the Same Time in Notepad How to Enable Hidden Options in Windows’ Disk Cleanup Tool How to Change Your Default Web Browser and Email Client on a Mac How Samsung Won Over a Hater with the Galaxy S7 Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Blue Bomb The term Blue Bomb (a.k.a. WinNuke) refers to a specific kind of attack, sending an out-of-band packet that a Windows operating system is unable to process, which results in a system crash and blue screen of death. 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. This is what music written by AI sounds like Five days from now Google will publish open-source tools that will focus its machine-learning engine on music and art. But one London startup, named Jukedeck, has been working on getting machines to automatically generate original music for years. [Quartz] Our love of smartphones is creating a sort of pseudo-ADHD Researchers studying smartphone users found that, in subjects with no history of attention problems, excessive smartphone use created ADHD like symptoms. [The Conversation] An Internet Cable Will Soon Cross the Arctic Circle The underwater fiber-optic cable would trace the shortest path between Europe and Asia [Scientific American] How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to a subsea cable landing site. [ArsTechnica] How to Create a Windows Shortcut to Open a Specific Profile in Chrome Chrome allows you to create multiple profiles, each with a different set of bookmarks, search history, settings, toolbar buttons, among other things. You can switch among your profiles, each profile opening in a separate Chrome window. Read This Article → How to Recover an Unsaved Microsoft Office File You’ve just closed an Office document and accidentally clicked Don’t Save. Or maybe Word crashed or your laptop lost power before you remembered to save what you were working on. We’ve all felt that pain, but all is not necessarily lost. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary backup copies of your documents as you work and there’s a good chance you can recover them. Read This Article → PSA: Don't Shut Down Your Computer, Just Use Sleep (or Hibernation) In this day and age, there’s no reason to shut down your computer, then sit through the boot-up process when you want to use it. Save yourself time by putting your computer to sleep or hibernating it instead. Read This Article → Why Is My VPN-Based Ping Faster Than a Non-VPN One? When it comes to playing online games, the better our connection speed is, the more we can enjoy ourselves. But what type of connection is actually best for our needs in the end? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a confused reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Share Your Nest Thermostat with Other Users If you have multiple people in your house, and want them all to have access to the Nest Thermostat from their phones, here’s how to share access to the device with other users. Read This Article → How to Automatically Route Your iPhone Calls to the Speaker If you use your iPhone’s speakerphone for the majority of your calls, then you might be a little tired of having to always tap the speaker button. Luckily, you can set it so that calls go to speaker every time. Read This Article → How to Enable the Status Bar and Word Wrap at the Same Time in Notepad The status bar in Windows’ Notepad displays the current line number and column number of the cursor location. However, if you find that the  Status Bar option on the View menu is grayed out, it may be because you have Word Wrap enabled. Read This Article → How to Enable Hidden Options in Windows’ Disk Cleanup Tool The Disk Cleanup tool has been around in Windows for years. It offers a quick way to remove temporary, cache, and other non-essential files to help you free up some disk space. You can even use it to remove old versions of Windows after an upgrade to Windows 10. Disk Cleanup also has several hidden options that you can only access if you run it from the Command Prompt or a custom shortcut. Read This Article → How to Change Your Default Web Browser and Email Client on a Mac Changing the default application for most files in OS X is easy. OS X also allows you to choose your default web browser and email client, but these options are hidden in a place you might not expect. Read This Article → How Samsung Won Over a Hater with the Galaxy S7 Samsung has finally won me over. 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