The Five Most Useful Features in Nova Launcher for Android

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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. How to hack the hackers: The human side of cybercrime As cyberattacks grow ever more sophisticated, those who defend against them are embracing behavioural science and economics to understand both the perpetrators and their victims. [Nature] Nest releases open-source version of its networking protocol Google pushes further into the home automation market by open sourcing their equivalent of HomeKit. [The Verge] Disney Doesn't Have Enough 'Confidence' in Video Games to Keep Making Them Yesterday, Disney announced that it's canceling its "toys-to-life" franchise (physical toys that interact with video games) Disney Infinity--but that's not all: they're getting out of the video game industry altogether. [Motherboard] Civilization VI launches October 2016 with a cartoony new art style New game brings classic Civ gameplay with brighter colors and simpler textures. [ArsTechnica] How to Disable the Delete Confirmation Dialog Box in Outlook If you delete a lot of emails when sifting through your Outlook inbox, you might have turned on the option to automatically empty the deleted items folder when exiting Outlook. That's handy, but you most likely have to confirm the deletion of the emails every time. Read This Article → How to Teach Siri Who People Are (for Faster Calling) Calling people with Siri is a great little shortcut, but it isn’t always natural to say “Call Jane Smith” instead of “Call Mom”. Luckily, you can teach Siri who people are–your parents, your doctor, or anyone else–for even more convenient voice calling. Read This Article → How to Take Screenshots and Record Videos on an Xbox One Microsoft’s Xbox One allows you to easily capture a screenshot or record the last thirty seconds of gameplay as a video. You can also use the Game DVR app for more fine-grained recording options. All video clips are saved in 720p resolution at 30 frames per second. Read This Article → The Five Most Useful Features in Nova Launcher for Android Nova Launcher is an unofficial fan favorite for Android power users, and with good reason—it's chock-full of nifty customization features to help users make Android look how they want. But it's also full of useful time-saving features that can make your life easier. Here are five of our favorites. Read This Article → How to Update Your Plex Media Library, Manually and Automatically Besides the media itself, the most important element of a media server software is how up to date it is–you can’t watch videos if the server doesn’t know they’re there. Plex Media Server offers three ways to keep your media collection up to date so you always know what’s available. Read This Article → How to Set a Timer for Your Belkin WeMo Switch The WeMo Switch is a cheap and easy-to-use smart outlet that can turn anything with an on/off switch into a smart appliance, allowing you to control it from your smartphone. Plus, it comes with a small handful of automation features, including the ability to set a timer so that it shuts off automatically after a certain amount of time has elapsed. Read This Article → How to Use Sonos as an Alarm or Sleep Timer Sonos is great because you can set up and control speakers from any room in your dwelling. If you like to wake up to or fall asleep to music, then they’re especially well suited to have in your bedroom. Read This Article → How to Schedule or Delay Sending Email Messages in Outlook When you click Send on an email, it is typically sent immediately. But what if you want to send it at a later time? Outlook allows you delay the sending of a single message or all email messages. Read This Article → Insert Emoji Faster with iOS’ Text Replacement Shortcuts Emoji are fun to use, but if you’re like most people, you tend to use a few of them a lot more often than others. Instead of switching to the Emoji keyboard every time, why not set up a text replacement shortcut so that you can just type the Emoji you want to use? Read This Article → How to Factory Reset Your Xbox One Before you sell your Xbox One or pass it on to someone else, you should perform a factory reset. This wipes all your personal data. Whoever gets the Xbox One will have to go through the first-time setup process once again, signing in with their own Microsoft account. Read This Article → The Freeware Download Sites That Don’t Force Crapware On You It’s been more than a year since we drew attention to the crapware regularly foisted upon unsuspecting users by pretty much every big freeware site, including the venerable SourceForge. 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