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Did You Know? At 1,624 meters long, the Lethbridge Viaduct, located in Alberta, Canada, is the largest railway structure in Canada and the largest of its type (steel trestle) in the world. Geek Trivia The Phrase “Always A Bridesmaid But Never A Bride” Was Coined By A Company Selling? Corsets → Shampoo → Diet Pills → Mouthwash → Advertisement Download Essential IT Management Resources for Summer 2016 Top Trending IT Management Resources for Summer 2016, brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Management 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. How to Prevent Firefox from Exiting When You Close the Last Tab How to Limit OneDrive’s Allowed Transfer Speed How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update What You Need to Know About Driving for Uber Quiet Loud Noises in Your Apple TV Movies with this Settings Tweak How to Forward Calls on your iPhone How to Disable the Vibration When You Lock Your iPhone in iOS 10 How to Snap and Dock Windows to the Sides of Your Chrome OS Display How to Customize and Tweak Your Mac’s Dock Windows 10’s Free Upgrade Offer Is Over: What Now? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Shotgun Debugging Shotgun Debugging refers to the process of introducing one or more changes into a software program (code) or a hardware setup (hardware components) in the hope that at least one or more of the introduced “changes” will fix the bugs/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. The Ideal Office Floor Plan, According to Science In the new world of open office floor plans, where you sit matters. [Bloomberg] Passwords Are on the Way Out, and It's about Time They're on the way out, and it's about time. [Scientific American] The World's first digital camera, introduced by the man who invented it In this video, Steven shows us around the camera, talks us through its operation, and laments on the difficulties faced during its development. [DIY Photography] A Fish Parasite May Have Compromised Decades of Behavioral Experiments New research indicating a common parasite changes zebrafish behavior draws the results of thousands of fish-based studies into question. [Mental Floss] How to Prevent Firefox from Exiting When You Close the Last Tab By default, when you close the last open tab in Firefox, the entire browser closes. If you'd rather be able to close the web page on the last open tab without closing Firefox, there's a simple setting you can disable. Read This Article → How to Limit OneDrive’s Allowed Transfer Speed Microsoft OneDrive is a pretty solid cloud storage offering, and it’s deeply integrated into Windows. Not only does it do a good job syncing folders, it also allows you to remotely fetch files on your PC. OneDrive can be a bit of a network bandwidth hog, but with the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, you can now set transfer speed limits. Read This Article → How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update Microsoft doesn’t want you to disable Cortana. You used to be able to turn Cortana off in Windows 10, but Microsoft removed that easy toggle switch in the Anniversary Update. But you can still disable Cortana via a registry hack or group policy setting. This transforms the Cortana box into a “Search Windows” tool for local application and file searches. Read This Article → What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update Windows 10’s second big update, dubbed the “Anniversary Update”, arrives on August 2, 2016. This is a huge update that touches every corner of the operating system. It includes many, many more changes than the November update did. Read This Article → What You Need to Know About Driving for Uber Driving for Uber seems like a pretty easy way to make some extra money, but there are a handful of factors that make it more complicated than you might expect. Read This Article → Quiet Loud Noises in Your Apple TV Movies with this Settings Tweak Face it: your late-night Jason Bourne binges may make your heart race, but it’s probably bothering your sleeping neighbors. Luckily, if you use an Apple TV, you can quiet loud sounds like blaring music, gunshots, and explosions with a very simple setting. Read This Article → How to Forward Calls on your iPhone You’d think call forwarding would be an easy thing to set up on your iPhone. While it isn’t really complicated, how you enable it depends on whether your phone provider uses the GSM or CDMA standard. Read This Article → How to Disable the Vibration When You Lock Your iPhone in iOS 10 iOS 10 contains a new feature that gives a faint vibration along with the click sound that plays when you lock the screen. But if you don't like this haptic feedback, you can disable this feature. Read This Article → How to Snap and Dock Windows to the Sides of Your Chrome OS Display Good window management is important for getting things done quickly and efficiently on any computer. While most users know how to "snap" windows to the sides of the display on Windows and macOS, it's always surprising how many don't realize this is also available on Chromebooks. In fact, it’s even more powerful. Read This Article → How to Customize and Tweak Your Mac’s Dock The macOS dock normally appears at the bottom of your screen, but it doesn’t have to. The dock is customizable in quite a few ways you might not be aware of, especially if you’re a new Mac user. Read This Article → Windows 10’s Free Upgrade Offer Is Over: What Now? The free Windows 10 upgrade offer is finally over, and Microsoft will stop harassing Windows 7 and 8.1 users with misleading upgrade popups. But Windows 7 and 8.1 aren’t done for. They’re both solid operating systems that Microsoft will be officially supporting for years to come. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Essential IT Management Resources for Summer 2016 Top Trending IT Management Resources for Summer 2016, brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your IT Management related decisions. Click here to download