Google's Best Hidden Games and "Easter Eggs"

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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. Google’s Best Hidden Games and “Easter Eggs” PSA: Encrypt Your PC, Phone, and Tablet Now. 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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. That Eye-Fi card you could have bought a year ago is going to stop working on September 16th Early adoption always carries risks (and discontinuation of service is one of them). [The Verge] Frontier teams with AT&T to block Google Fiber access to utility poles Frontier court filing supports AT&T lawsuit against Louisville, Kentucky. [ArsTechnica] Google’s Best Hidden Games and “Easter Eggs” Google is known for throwing Easter Eggs—hidden games, tricks, and other fun things—into its products. At one point or another, I'm sure you've seen some of these little things, whether it’s the Android version icons or one of the many hidden games in Chrome. Today, we're going to talk about some of our favorites from Chrome, Android, and Google Search on the web. Read This Article → PSA: Encrypt Your PC, Phone, and Tablet Now. You’ll Regret It Later If You Don’t Imagine you go on your dream European vacation and all your things are stolen after your hotel room is burgled or your car is broken into. Clothes and toothbrushes are easy to replace, but your devices are a potential treasure trove for thieves to exploit. Read This Article → How to Make VLC Use Less Battery by Enabling Hardware Acceleration Various tests–like this one at PCWorld–show Windows 10’s Movies & TV app offering more than double the battery life of VLC and other video players. This is because Movies & TV uses hardware acceleration, though, and VLC can too–you just have to enable it first. Then, you’ll be able to enjoy the advanced features of your favorite video player without the battery hit. Read This Article → How to Get Notifications Whenever Your Friends Post Anything On Facebook If you want to stay on top of your friend’s Facebook activity with the same kind of alerts you get when someone mentions you in a post or tags you, it’s easy to do so if you know where to look. Read This Article → How to Set Spotify as Your Default Music Provider on the Amazon Echo Up until now, if you wanted to play Spotify music on the Amazon Echo, you had to say the artist or song you wanted to play and then tack on “on Spotify” at the end. It’s a little cumbersome, but now you no longer have to do that, as you can set Spotify as your Echo’s default music provider. Read This Article → How to Set Up SIM Card Lock for a More Secure iPhone Locking your iPhone’s SIM card adds yet another layer of security, meaning that even if someone can get into your phone, they still can’t use it to call, text, or access your data plan. Read This Article → How to Update a Shared File in Google Drive Without Changing the Shareable Link When you upload a new version of a shared file to Google Drive, the old file is not replaced, since Google Drive lets you have multiple files with the same name. That means that the newly uploaded file will have a different shareable link, which is a hassle if you want the same people to be able to access it. Read This Article → How to Stop Your iPhone from Tracking Your Frequent Locations You probably know that your iPhone (and iPad) can track your location, which can be super helpful for things like marking where a photo was taken or letting friends and family know where you are. But you may not know that, by default, iOS keeps track of locations you visit frequently so that it can make better local suggestions and give you a more personalized Today view in your Notification Center. Read This Article → How to Free Up Space on Your Xbox One Microsoft’s Xbox One includes a 500GB hard drive, but games are getting larger and larger. Halo: The Master Chief Collection takes up more than 62GB alone, even if you have the game on a physical disc. Here’s how to free up space so you have room for more games. Read This Article → How to Make Any Phone Feel More Like Stock Android (Without Rooting) Now is arguably the best time in the history of the platform for Android users—the OS is getting better, updates are getting (slightly) quicker, and there are several excellent handsetS to choose from. If you're not into the whole "manufacturer skin" that most are offering these days, however, it can be slightly less exciting to buy a non-Nexus phone. But giving your phone a “stock Android” look and feel isn't as hard as you think. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Microsoft Office 2016 -- Free Reference Card Kit This Microsoft Office 2016 reference kits includes 5 individual reference cards providing shortcuts, tips, and tricks for the most popular office productivity suite in the world. Click here to download