Download.com Has Finally Stopped Bundling Crapware

Did You Know? Both the lowest and highest recorded voter turnouts for a U.S. Presidential election were in the 19th century: only 26.9 percent of the voting population turned out for the 1824 John Adams vs. Andrew Jackson election, but 81.8 percent of the voting population turned out for the 1876 Rutherford Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden election. Geek Trivia Which Of The Following Artists Does Not Have A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Named After Them? Leonardo Da Vinci → Raphael Sanzio → Michelangelo → Luca Signorelli → Advertisement Download JavaScript: Novice to Ninja (FREE for a limited time!) The aim of this book is to introduce you to programming using the JavaScript language, eventually helping you to develop into a JavaScript ninja. 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 Enable Offline Browsing in Firefox How to Use Android's Built-In Tethering When Your Carrier Blocks It How to Recover Your Files From a BitLocker-Encrypted Drive Download.com Has Finally Stopped Bundling Crapware How Do You Safely Store a Defective (Bulging) Lithium-Ion Battery? How to Install and Set Up the Ring Video Doorbell How to Switch to Dvorak (and Other Keyboard Layouts) on Your Computer or Phone How to Change the Location of Safari’s Download Folder How to Turn Off “Raise to Wake” in iOS 10 How to Toggle the Touch Screen and Touchpad with Keyboard Shortcuts on Chrome OS  How to Enable a Pre-Boot BitLocker PIN on Windows How to Install the New Systemless Xposed Framework for Frustration-Free Android Customization Geek Comic Today's Tech Term RROD An RROD (short for Red Ring Of Death) is a type of visual signal displayed by an Xbox console when it has experienced a hardware failure of some sort. 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. The scientific arms race to age our whiskey Aging whiskey is a time honored tradition that has changed very little in hundreds of years. Can science improve the process? [ArsTechnica] Credit card companies are blowing it with chip payments Credit card companies rolled out cards with secure chips, but the experience isn't intuitive, mature, or even consistent across payment terminals. [The Verge] Welcome To Your Coworking Future With their clubby nature and grand cultural claims — and for some, health insurance and living quarters — the empires of coworking space are becoming our new corporate parents.  [Digg] What Learning to Lockpick Taught Me About Digital Security There are many parallels between poor digital security practices and poor lock construction--as one tech writer discovers. [Motherboard] How to Enable Offline Browsing in Firefox To make your browsing experience faster, your web browser downloads the resources needed to display webpages, such as images, JavaScript files, and style sheets, into the browser's cache. When you visit a webpage again, the browser uses the downloaded resources to display the page instead of downloading them again. Read This Article → How to Use Android's Built-In Tethering When Your Carrier Blocks It Tethering your phone’s internet connection is really useful if you’re out and about with no Wi-Fi–but some carriers will block the feature from your phone. If you get an error message when you try to tether (“Account not set up for tethering”), here’s a fix. Read This Article → How to Recover Your Files From a BitLocker-Encrypted Drive Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption always forces you to create a recovery key when you set it up. You may have printed that recovery key, written it down, saved it to a file, or stored it online with a Microsoft account. If your BitLocker drive isn’t unlocking normally, the recovery key is your only option. Read This Article → Download.com Has Finally Stopped Bundling Crapware SourceForge and Tucows aren’t the only download sites cleaning up their act. We can finally confirm that Download.com, also known as CNET Download, has ended the installer program that they were so often criticized for. Read This Article → How Do You Safely Store a Defective (Bulging) Lithium-Ion Battery? Dealing with a lithium-ion battery that has gone bad and is swelling up is not a fun prospect, but what do you do if you are unable to properly dispose of it quickly? What is the best way to store it until you can get rid of it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice for a concerned reader. Read This Article → How to Install and Set Up the Ring Video Doorbell The Ring Doorbell ($200) looks just like any other doorbell for the most part, but it comes with an integrated video camera so that you can see who’s at the door–from your smartphone–even when you’re not home. Here’s how to install and set up the Ring Doorbell quickly and easily. Read This Article → How to Switch to Dvorak (and Other Keyboard Layouts) on Your Computer or Phone The so-called QWERTY keyboard layout–the keyboard most of us use every day–is a typing mainstay. Most people will never need or want to use anything else. But, there are other keyboard layouts out there, some of which claim to be more efficient. Read This Article → How to Change the Location of Safari’s Download Folder By default, when you download something using Safari, it gets saved in your Mac’s main Downloads folder. If you’d rather save your files somewhere else, you can change the default save folder. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Turn Off “Raise to Wake” in iOS 10 Raise to Wake is a new Lock screen feature available in iOS 10. It allows you to wake your phone's screen simply by picking up your phone. This feature is on by default, but if you'd rather not use it, it's simple to turn off. Read This Article → How to Toggle the Touch Screen and Touchpad with Keyboard Shortcuts on Chrome OS  Chrome OS does a lot of things right: it's fast, super efficient, and great for most everyday tasks. One thing it doesn't do very well is cater to power users, but Google is slowly changing this. Recently, Google added the ability to quickly toggle both the touch screen (on touch-compatible devices, of course) and touchpad with simple keyboard shortcuts. These settings are technically still experimental, however, so they're hidden. Here's how to enable them. Read This Article → How to Enable a Pre-Boot BitLocker PIN on Windows If you encrypt your Windows system drive with BitLocker, you can add a PIN for additional security. You’ll need to enter the PIN each time you turn on your PC, before Windows will even start. This is separate from a login PIN, which you enter after Windows boots up. Read This Article → How to Install the New Systemless Xposed Framework for Frustration-Free Android Customization Xposed is one of the most powerful tools a rooted Android user has in their arsenal. It brings things to the table that were previously only available on custom ROMs—like custom reboot menus, theme modifications, and so much more. Of course, all that customization comes at a cost: since it modifies the system partition, using Xposed essentially breaks Android’s update system, and renders secure services like Android Pay useless. But not anymore. Read This Article → Advertisement Download JavaScript: Novice to Ninja (FREE for a limited time!) The aim of this book is to introduce you to programming using the JavaScript language, eventually helping you to develop into a JavaScript ninja. Click here to download