How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone

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Hot Potato Routing) refers to rerouting/transferring network packets as needed until they reach their final destination in order to eliminate heavy data traffic flow and avoid packet buffering problems. 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. Catching up with the guy who stole Half-Life 2's source code, 10 years later From Death by Video Game: can you love a game so much you must take its sequel? [ArsTechnica] Camera 'Fingerprint' Database Could Help Crack Down on Photo Theft The sensors inside digital cameras are, on a pixel-by-pixel level, unique like fingerprints and systems that track photos based on those patterns may help cut down on copyright infringement. [Petapixel] GoToMyPC hit by password attack after LinkedIn data dump GoToMyPC, just like similar remote solution Team Viewer, hit with a wave of account compromises in wake of the LinkedIn password dump. [The Verge] Using Edge instead of Chrome will add hours of extra battery life According to company tests, Microsoft's browser even beats Opera's battery saver mode. [ArsTechnica] How to Get Windows 7’s Old Folder Icons in Windows 10 Microsoft changed the default folder icon in Windows 10 to a flat, closed folder. If you prefer the open folder icon from Windows 7, you can make that the default folder icon in Windows 10 with a registry tweak. Read This Article → Android Apps Will Be Awesome on Chromebooks…Once the Kinks are Worked Out Android apps are coming to Chromebooks, and the ASUS Chromebook Flip is the first device to get a taste of what that's going to be like. It makes sense, really—it's an ultra-portable convertible laptop-slash-tablet that makes a lot of works well with and without the keyboard. The real question, however, is how practical is this? Read This Article → How to Set Up the Oculus Rift and Start Playing Games The Oculus Rift offers a polished virtual reality experience, even though it doesn’t have the room-scale virtual reality or touch controllers like the HTC Vive–yet. Here’s how to set up your Oculus Rift, and what you’ll need to know ahead of time. Read This Article → How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone You're having a night out. With dinner down the hatch, you're walking down the street with your sweetheart to the next destination. You reach into your pocket to pull out your phone, when that feeling hits the pit of your stomach: your phone is missing. Did you leave it at the restaurant? Or maybe at home? Did someone steal it? Your mind races. You have no idea. Read This Article → How to Save a Video to Plex for Later Viewing Plex Media Center has a handy (but often overlooked) feature that makes it dead simple to save a video you find on the web for later viewing from the comfort of your couch. Let’s look at how to easily send videos to your Watch Later queue. Read This Article → How to Turn On Your TV Using the Amazon Echo and Logitech Harmony Hub If using a remote to turn on your TV is too old school for you, here’s how to use the Amazon Echo and turn on your television using your voice with a little help from Logitech’s Harmony Hub. Read This Article → How to Control Your iPhone with a Tilt of Your Head The iPhone and iPad have a cool accessibility feature that actually lets you control the device with a tilt of your head. This is obviously useful if you have limited use of your hand and arms, but it’s also great for people who get their hands wet or dirty and don’t want to touch their valuable electronics. Read This Article → How to Make an Emergency Call on an iPhone There’s an emergency and you have to use someone else’s locked iPhone to call for help. Or, you need to call for help using your own iPhone, but it’s out of your reach or you’re not able to dial a number. The iPhone comes equipped to help out in both these circumstances by providing a dialing keypad for emergency use, and the ability to make an emergency call with Siri (assuming she’s turned on and ready to use hands-free). Read This Article → How to Convert a Row to a Column in a Microsoft Word Table You've created a table in Word and started to enter your data. Then, you realize that the table should be transposed, meaning the rows should be columns and vice versa. Rather than recreating the table and manually entering the data again, there's an easier way to do this. Read This Article → How to Customize the Galaxy S7 Edge's Edge Display While the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge's curved side panels may seem like a pointless feature to some, it's actually a super useful and versatile tool to have. It makes more sense on the Edge phones than a standard "flat" display, since it basically stays out of the way until you need it. The ability to customize this area is just the icing on the cake, and Samsung has included some really useful tweaks here. Read This Article → How to Install Windows Media Center on Windows 10 Microsoft removed Windows Media Center from Windows 10, and there’s no official way to get it back. While there are great alternatives like Kodi, which can play and record live TV, the community has made Windows Media Center functional on Windows 10. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2016 All-Inclusive IT Security Kit (a $50.00 value) FREE for a limited time! 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