How to Make Windows Hibernate More Often (Instead of Sleep)

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How to Enable HomeKit on the Ecobee3 Thermostat How to Turn Off the Back and Forward Trackpad Gestures on a Mac How to Make a Shortcut Icon to Create a System Restore Point in Windows How to Set Automatic Quiet Times in Android with Do No Disturb How to Change Your User Account in Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shell How to Make Windows 10’s File Explorer Look Like Windows 7’s Windows Explorer Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Hybrid Cloud Storage Hybrid Cloud Storage is a cloud storage model that combines public (external) cloud storage with private (internal) cloud storage to form an integrated storage architecture. The advantages of Hybrid Cloud Storage include: Scalability, reliability, rapid deployment, and potential cost savings with the public cloud part of the model Security and full control with the private cloud part of the model 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. Self-Driving Cars Will Likely Have To Deal With The Harsh Reality Of Who Lives And Who Dies People say they want cars that protect pedestrians but they themselves wouldn't buy such a car, adding an extra twist to the old trolley dilemma. [Hot Hardware] Modular Plane Concept Treats Passenger Cabin Like A Shipping Container The future of air travel, if this company has its way, will take on a distinctly interchangeable cargo container vibe. [Popular Science] In Siberia in 1908, a huge explosion came out of nowhere Over 100 years after the most powerful explosion in documented history, researchers are still trying to figure out exactly what happened facebook [BBC] Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important Richard Feynman's famous diagrams embody a deep shift in thinking about how the universe is put together. [Quanta Magazine] 'Secret Conversations:' End-to-End Encryption Comes to Facebook Messenger On Friday, Facebook plans to roll out a beta version of a new feature it calls "secret conversations." It's encrypted messages, end-to-end, so that in theory no one can intercept them. [Wired] How to Protect Your iOS Device with a Stronger, Alphanumeric Password When you set up an iOS device running iOS 9, you are prompted for a six-digit passcode. However, you may not know that you can use a stronger alphanumeric password–one that uses letters and numbers–on your iOS devices. We'll show you how. Read This Article → How to Log Out in Windows 8 and 10 It may seem rudimentary, but if you’re new to Windows–or just upgrading from Windows 7–the simple option to sign out of your account is a bit hidden in Windows 8 and 10. And even we geeks can be baffled at times, especially when Microsoft decides to hide common features away in new places. You can still sign out of Windows from the Start menu; it’s just not part of the Power options any more. Read This Article → How to Make Windows Hibernate More Often (Instead of Sleep) By default, Windows will automatically put your PC to sleep after several minutes of inactivity, or when you close the lid. It will and hibernate your computer a certain number of minutes later, but if you’d rather it hibernate more often, the settings are a bit tricky to find. Read This Article → What Is the Best Way to Give Feedback to the Windows Product Team? Sometimes we have useful feedback or an awesome suggestion that we would love to share with the Windows product team, but what is the best way to go about it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post provides some nice options for a helpful reader. Read This Article → How to Enable HomeKit on the Ecobee3 Thermostat When you first set up your Ecobee3 smart thermostat, Apple’s HomeKit isn’t automatically enabled. However, if you have an iPhone and want to use Siri to control your thermostat–or integrate it with other HomeKit products–here’s how to enable HomeKit on the Ecobee3 thermostat. Read This Article → How to Turn Off the Back and Forward Trackpad Gestures on a Mac If you use a Mac laptop to surf, you’ve probably noticed that lightly swiping two fingers left or right on the trackpad causes your web browser to go forward and back a page. For some, this is a great. For others, it happens accidentally more often than it happens on purpose, which can be annoying. Read This Article → How to Make a Shortcut Icon to Create a System Restore Point in Windows Windows’ System Restore doesn’t get as much praise as it once did, even though it’s still an incredibly useful feature. Judging by the feedback on our own forums, it saves people from certain destruction on a nearly daily basis. The only problem is that it takes far too many steps to manually create a new restore point. Can't we just make a shortcut icon for it? Turns out, yes, there are a couple of ways to do it. Read This Article → How to Set Automatic Quiet Times in Android with Do No Disturb Do Not Disturb mode on Android can be handy if you're in a meeting, at a movie, or anywhere else where your phone needs to not be a distraction for a little while, but the real value is found in Do Not Disturb's automatic rules. Basically, you can tell Android when not to bother you—like at night while you're sleeping, for example—as well as who can bother you if they must. It's pretty brilliant and only takes a few minutes to get set up. Read This Article → How to Change Your User Account in Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shell When you first install the Ubuntu Bash shell on Windows 10, you’ll be asked to create a username and password for the Bash environment. Bash will automatically sign into that user account whenever you launch the shell, but you can change it–and its password. Read This Article → How to Make Windows 10’s File Explorer Look Like Windows 7’s Windows Explorer There are a lot of changes in Windows 10's File Explorer compared to Windows 7's Windows Explorer. If you've upgraded to Windows 10 and you don't like the changes, we'll show you how you can get the look and feel of Windows 7's Windows Explorer back. Read This Article → Advertisement Download How to Keep Your Network Safe eKit In this eKit you will receive a free trial to GFI LanGuard and GFI WebMonitor, as well as the eBook, "Hacker-Cracker-Attacker: See Your Network Like the Bad Guys Do". Click here to download