Don’t Waste Time Optimizing Your SSD. Windows Knows What It’s Doing

Did You Know? Espresso has more caffeine than drip coffee when measured by volume, but the smaller serving size of espresso has much less caffeine than a cup of coffee. Geek Trivia Magneto’s Distinctive Helmet Is Modeled After A Real World Helmet Known As A? Barbute → Kabuto → Armet → Hounskull → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! 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 Stop a Paragraph from Splitting Between Pages in Microsoft Word How to Disable Samsung’s “Smart Network Switch” to Avoid Too Much Data Usage How to Adjust the Click Speed of Your iPhone or iPad’s Home Button Don't Waste Time Optimizing Your SSD, Windows Knows What Its Doing Why Has Windows 10 “Erased” All My Settings Every Time I Sign In? How to Make Your Amazon Echo Read Your Kindle Books Out Loud How to Use Marks in OS X’s Terminal for Easier Navigation What to Do When Windows Shows Two Different Drive Letters for the Same Disk How to Disable Android’s Ambient Display 30 Voice Commands You Can Use on Your PlayStation 4 What’s New in the Latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Geek Comic Today's Tech Term BOFH BOFH (short for Bastard Operator From Hell) refers to a fictional “rogue” system administrator in I.T. literature who is rude, takes his anger out on people who “bother” him with computer help questions, uses his knolwledge against enemies, and manipulates his employer(s). The term is also sometimes used to refer to real-life system administrators who display the same characteristics as the fictional character. 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. PC Hardware Is Physically Leaking Your Encryption Keys Researchers have demonstrated an exploit wherein they were able to extract encryption keys from a computer by listening to the electromagnetic noise it generated. [Motherboard] Amazon to focus on Studios, original Prime series Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos most interested in developing artificial intelligence and good TV. [Polygon] How LinkedIn's password sloppiness hurts us all Second data dump lets hackers be 6 times better cracking future dumps. [ArsTechnica] This 'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip Researchers at the University of Michigan showcased a computer chip exploit so clever it may be virtually undetectable. [Wired] Intel invents the concept of mega-tasking to sell new 10-core CPUs Broadwell-E raises the bar for both performance and price [The Verge] How to Stop a Paragraph from Splitting Between Pages in Microsoft Word When you type in Word, paragraphs flow smoothly from one page to the next, and page breaks are automatically inserted when needed. However, what if you want to keep a certain paragraph together and not split the paragraphs between two pages? There's a simple fix for this. Read This Article → How to Disable Samsung’s “Smart Network Switch” to Avoid Too Much Data Usage Picture this: You're sitting in a restaurant or coffee shop, just casually surfing the web on your phone. Being the savvy user you are, you're connected to the public Wi-Fi to save data. Suddenly, the public Wi-Fi stops working. But you don’t have to fret, because the “Smart Network Switch” feature on Samsung phones automatically switches to a mobile connection when Wi-Fi is too weak. Read This Article → How to Adjust the Click Speed of Your iPhone or iPad’s Home Button iOS makes smart use of the Home button. You can double-click to switch apps, and even triple-click to do all sorts of things. The speed at which you need to click the Home button to register a double- or triple-click is fine for many people, but if you find yourself struggling to click the button fast enough, you can slow things down a bit. Read This Article → Don't Waste Time Optimizing Your SSD, Windows Knows What Its Doing Solid-state drives aren’t anywhere near as small and fragile as they used to be. You don’t need to worry about wear, and you don’t need to go out of your way to “optimize” them. Windows 7, 8, and 10 automatically do the work for you. Read This Article → Why Has Windows 10 “Erased” All My Settings Every Time I Sign In? There are few things as frustrating as getting your Windows system all set up just like you want only to see all your hard work and custom settings gone the next time you log in. Just what is going on? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the solution to a very frustrated reader’s problem. Read This Article → How to Make Your Amazon Echo Read Your Kindle Books Out Loud Ever wish you could read your books while doing other stuff at the same time? Sure, you could listen to Audiobooks with Audible, but your Amazon Echo can also read your Kindle ebooks to you out loud. Here’s how. Read This Article → How to Use Marks in OS X’s Terminal for Easier Navigation Using the Terminal in OS X is probably the most powerful and immediate way to affect deep changes on your Mac. If you’re a fan of using the command line, then it’s always nice to learn a new trick. Read This Article → What to Do When Windows Shows Two Different Drive Letters for the Same Disk It’s a somewhat rare problem, but on occasion, Windows might display the same hard disk or partition twice using different drive letters. Thankfully, there’s usually a simple solution. Read This Article → How to Disable Android’s Ambient Display Back in Android 5.x Lollipop, Google released a new feature called "Ambient Display"—a tweak that shows notification information on the phone or tablet's display when you pick it up or get a notification, without actually having to turn the display on. Read This Article → 30 Voice Commands You Can Use on Your PlayStation 4 Sony’s PlayStation 4 has voice commands, just like the Xbox One. They’re just not as heavily advertised. PS4 voice commands work with a standard headset, so you don’t need any special hardware–unlike the Xbox One, which requires a Kinect for voice control. Read This Article → What’s New in the Latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Windows 10's next big update, dubbed the "Anniversary Update", comes out this summer. Here’s what’s been announced so far, along with a few goodies we’ve discovered in the first, second, third, and fourth Insider Preview builds. Read This Article → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! Click here to download