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Did You Know? A “ship’s tender” is a small boat (or a larger ship) used to service or support other boats or ships, typically transporting people and supplies to the vessel in question from shore or another ship. Geek Trivia The Inventor Of The Swivel Office Chair Is None Other Than? Susan B. Anthony → Thomas Jefferson → Albert Einstein → Mark Twain → Advertisement Download Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Leader — for the ninth year in a row — in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, positioning it farthest to the right on the axis for completeness of vision. Click 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 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? You Can Still Get Windows 10 for Free from Microsoft’s Accessibility Site How to Browse and Play Terabytes of Retro Games From Your Couch With Kodi How to Mute Group Conversations on Facebook (Temporarily or Permanently) How to Order Almost Anything from Amazon Using the Amazon Echo How to Create and Modify Signatures in Apple Mail on macOS How to Add More Storage to Your Android TV for Apps and Games How to Open Google Chrome Settings in a Separate Window How to Transfer Contacts Between Google Accounts How to Easily Boost Your Cell Phone Signal at Home Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Shotgun Approach In the context of marketing, the Shotgun Approach is a strategy where promotional campaigns for products or services are set up to reach as much of the population as possible. Said marketing can be done via television, radio, cable, and/or the Internet. 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. Philae the Comet Lander Sleeps Forever Earlier this week, the European Space Agency switched off radio communications with the plucky spacecraft, whose landing on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko captivated the world. [Mental Floss] The First Global Urban Planning Conference Was Mostly About Manure In 1898 delegates from around the world met to discuss urban problems, and biggest problem wasn't crime, disease, or infrastructure, but what to do with the hundreds of thousands of pounds of manure that littered city streets. [Atlas Obscura] The story of Pathfinder, Dungeons & Dragons' most popular offspring The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is one of the most popular franchises in modern tabletop gaming. It's also one of the youngest. Polygon spent time with lead designer Jason Bulmahn to learn about its birth, and to find out what makes it so different from its older sibling, Dungeons & Dragons. [Polygon] Reboots be damned, Stranger Things shows a better way to do nostalgia And as a bonus, the show adds some needed credence to the Netflix model. [ArsTechnica] 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 → You Can Still Get Windows 10 for Free from Microsoft’s Accessibility Site The free Windows 10 upgrade offer may technically be over, but it isn’t 100% gone. Microsoft still provides a free Windows 10 upgrade to anyone who checks a box saying they use assistive technologies on their computer. This offer will end at some point, but Microsoft hasn’t announced when. Read This Article → How to Browse and Play Terabytes of Retro Games From Your Couch With Kodi Ever wish you could browse a massive collection of retro video games, from your couch, and start playing anything without getting up? If you’ve got a home theater PC with both Kodi and RetroArch installed, this dream setup could be yours. Read This Article → How to Mute Group Conversations on Facebook (Temporarily or Permanently) It happens to the best of us. You’re minding your own business and then bam–somebody adds you to a group Facebook chat for planning the office potluck, spamming your inbox with constant nofications. Here’s how to put a lid on them. Read This Article → How to Order Almost Anything from Amazon Using the Amazon Echo Recently Amazon added the functionality to order almost any product it offers through the Amazon Echo. Here’s how to set it up and begin doing some online shopping with nothing but your voice. Read This Article → How to Create and Modify Signatures in Apple Mail on macOS Among Apple Mail’s many and varied features is the ability to define and set signatures so that your email is appended with your favorite quote, out-of-office announcements, or contact information. Read This Article → How to Add More Storage to Your Android TV for Apps and Games Android TV is an excellent set-top box platform, but many of the units available on the market today have extremely limited storage. As the ATV catalog grows, users are going to want to install more apps than ever before, even if you don’t consider the newer, space-eating games. The good news is that you can actually expand the storage on your Android TV box. Read This Article → How to Open Google Chrome Settings in a Separate Window When you access Chrome's settings, they are opened in a new tab. If you tend to have a lot of tabs open and don't want the settings to open on yet another tab, you can have the settings open in a new window instead. We’ll show you how. Read This Article → How to Transfer Contacts Between Google Accounts Google provides no way to automatically sync contacts between two different Google accounts. Instead, you’ll have to perform a manual two-step process where you export your contacts from one account to a comma-separated values (CSV) file, then import contacts from that file into your second account. Here’s how to get it done. Read This Article → How to Easily Boost Your Cell Phone Signal at Home Poor signal strength could be your carrier’s fault, or it could be because of signal-blocking materials in your home’s walls. Whatever the cause, you can boost that signal and get the maximum number of bars at home. Or, better yet, just use Wi-Fi calling on a modern phone. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Leader — for the ninth year in a row — in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, positioning it farthest to the right on the axis for completeness of vision. Click to download