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Did You Know? Human beings are mostly water, but how much so depends on our age–babies are about 78 percent water, it drops to around 65 percent by their first birthday, and by adulthood we’re roughly 55-60 percent water based on gender (men carry more water because their body composition favors muscle over fat). Geek Trivia NPR Radio Shows Have A Very Crisp And Bright Sound Profile That Is Optimized For? Long Range Transmission → Commuters → Tape Archiving → Elderly Listeners → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. 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. The Best Replacements for the Soon-to-Be-Retired Chrome App Launcher How to Access Your Ubuntu Bash Files in Windows (and Your Windows System Drive in Bash) When Can You Move a Windows License to a New PC? Why Does Antivirus Software Quarantine Viruses Instead of Deleting Them? Not All Appliances Work with Smart Outlets. Here’s How to Know How to Install and Use Add-ins for Microsoft Office How to Delete Text Messages and iMessages in iOS How to Migrate from Evernote to OneNote How to Disable the “New App Installed” Notification in Windows 8 and 10 How to Uninstall (or Reinstall) Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shell Android’s Confusing “Do Not Disturb” Settings, Explained Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Huge Pipes Huge Pipes (a.k.a. Fat Pipes) is an Internet slang term for a high-speed or high-bandwidth Internet connection. 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 WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for Linksys Open source firmware, reliability make an old product attractive to new buyers. [ArsTechnica] Mossberg: The tyranny of messaging and notifications Can we endure even one more communications service? [The Verge] The Satellites That Could Trace the Ripples of the Cosmos The eLISA space mission aims to detect gravitational waves with an enormous laser triangle and floating gold cubes. [The Atlantic] The Nine Space Gadgets NASA's Juno Orbiter Is Using to Study Jupiter It was quite a feat to get Juno to Jupiter, so it's no surprise NASA loaded it up with sensors to study the gas giant. [Motherboard] How Photographers Captured Electricity When It Was New Looking through a lens at the discovery that changed the world. [Atlas Obscura] The Best Replacements for the Soon-to-Be-Retired Chrome App Launcher Google announced on March 22, 2016 that the Chrome App Launcher–which provides quick access to all your offline Chrome apps–will be retired (except in Chrome OS). It's being phased out over time and will be completely gone in July 2016. There will not be any official replacement for the Chrome App Launcher from Google, but don't worry–Chrome apps are not going away. You will just need to access them in some other way. Read This Article → How to Access Your Ubuntu Bash Files in Windows (and Your Windows System Drive in Bash) Windows 10’s “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” environment contains a few different components. The first time you run the bash.exe program, it will download and install an entire Ubuntu user space environment. You can access these files in File Explorer or other Windows programs, if you know where to look. Read This Article → When Can You Move a Windows License to a New PC? Can you transfer your Windows license between PCs? It depends–the answer isn’t so cut and dried. Read This Article → Why Does Antivirus Software Quarantine Viruses Instead of Deleting Them? Finding viruses or malware on your computer is never a pleasant experience, but why does antivirus software quarantine them instead of completely removing them from your computer? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → Not All Appliances Work with Smart Outlets. Here’s How to Know Smart outlets are a cheap way to turn your ordinary appliances and fixtures into smart devices. With a smart outlet, you can turn your appliances on and off from your phone, or (in some cases) with your voice through devices like the Amazon Echo. But not every device will work with smart outlets. Read This Article → How to Install and Use Add-ins for Microsoft Office Microsoft Office allows you to add more functionality through add-ins. Many modern add-ins also work with Office for iPad, Office Online, and Office for Mac–not just traditional desktop versions of Office for Windows. Read This Article → How to Delete Text Messages and iMessages in iOS Whether you got them by iMessage or SMS, sometimes you need to remove messages from your iOS device’s message history. Maybe you’re clearing out old clutter, or maybe you need to remove messages with more sensitive information. Whatever your reason, you can remove specific messages from conversations or delete entire conversations at once (and you can also set messages to automatically expire). Here’s how to get it done. Read This Article → How to Migrate from Evernote to OneNote Evernote is going to be limiting their free plans and increasing the prices of paid plans. If you've ever thought about switching to Microsoft’s OneNote instead, now is probably a good time. Thankfully, Microsoft has released an official tool for migrating your Evernote data into OneNote. Read This Article → How to Disable the “New App Installed” Notification in Windows 8 and 10 When you install a new app–like, say, a video player–but don’t set the new app as the default for file types it supports, when you open a file that app can read–in this example, a video file–Windows will notify you that you have a “new app that can open this type of file”, and show a window to choose a new default app for that file type. This can get annoying after a while, but thankfully you can turn those notifications off. Read This Article → How to Uninstall (or Reinstall) Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shell Windows 10’s new Ubuntu-based Bash shell doesn’t function like a normal program. To uninstall it or reset its state to get a fresh Linux environment, you’ll need to use a few special commands. Read This Article → Android’s Confusing “Do Not Disturb” Settings, Explained Android’s “Do Not Disturb” seems like a simple, self-explanatory setting. But when Google dramatically overhauled Android’s phone silencing with Do Not Disturb in Lollipop, then re-designed it again in Marshmallow, things got a little confusing. But it's all good—we're here to make sense of it for you. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download