Uninstalling Fonts Probably Won't Speed Up Your PC or Mac

Did You Know? Robert De Niro, Sr.–father of the award winning and iconic actor–was famous in his own right; he was an accomplished abstract expressionist painter with works featured in esteemed locations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Geek Trivia The Only Moon Phase That Can Produce A Solar Eclipse Is? New Moon → Waning Crescent → Waxing Gibbous → Full Moon → Advertisement Download Advanced Java Tutorial Learning the basics of Java is easy. But really delving into the language and studying its more advanced concepts and nuances is what will make you a great Java developer. The web is abundant with "soft", "cheap", "low end" Java tutorials, but what it is missing is material to really take you to the next level. 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. 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P2T) is a two-way telecommunications method that uses a half duplex system (pressing and releasing of a button) where transmissions occur in both directions, but not at the same time. 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. Why Shoes Are the Key to a Comfortable Office Temperature At Berkeley, researchers are studying how wearing flip-flops changes buildings' air-conditioning needs. [The Atlantic] Going to Mars is (relatively) easy; coming back is where it gets tricky The challenges of setting up a fuel production plant on the Red Planet. [ArsTechnica] Some Like It Bot Algorithms are getting better at entertaining us. [FiveThirtyEight] Who should go to Mars? Elon Musk laid out his plan to colonize Mars at a conference on Tuesday, but it was during the Q&A session that a woman asked one of the key questions: who will be chosen to embark on a risky trip to colonize a harsh planet? [The Verge] How to Use Scribble to Write Messages on Your Apple Watch In the earlier days of the Apple Watch, when you needed to enter text, you had to either use a canned response, an emoji, a doodle, or speak your message aloud and hope the watch would transcribe it correctly. However, that has changed with watchOS 3. Read This Article → How to Stop Apple Pay from Opening on Your iPhone All the Time If you don’t use Apple Pay, there’s no reason you should have to see it on your iPhone’s lock screen every time you accidentally double-click the Home button. Here’s how to turn that shortcut off, while still allowing access to Apple Pay when you need to. Read This Article → Uninstalling Fonts Probably Won’t Speed Up Your PC or Mac You’ve seen it on plenty of PC help sites. “Uninstall fonts to speed up your computer!” Don’t follow this advice–it’s a myth. Uninstalling fonts is a troubleshooting tip for fixing a specific problem, not a general performance tip for speeding up your computer. Read This Article → How Do You Change Windows’ Default Download Path? The default download location on our Windows systems works well enough most of the time without a problem, but what if you want or need to change the location at the system level? With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice for a frustrated reader. Read This Article → How to Change the Video Quality of the SkyBell HD Doorbell The SkyBell HD is a video doorbell that lets you see a live video view of who’s at your door, and even chat with them through the speaker. But if your internet connection isn’t that great here’s how to optimize the video quality so the stream is more bearable. Read This Article → How to Reset Any Mac App to Its Default Settings You were messing around with the settings for a Mac app, and now that app won’t load. Is there some way to reset the application, start fresh, and get things working properly again? Read This Article → How to Change the Windows 10 Logoff, Logon, and Shutdown Sounds in Windows 10 Before Windows 10 came along, we were free to change the sounds that played when we shut down, logged off, or logged on to Windows. For some reason, Microsoft hid those sound actions from being modified in Windows 10. Here’s how to get them back. Read This Article → How to Change the Alignment of the Numbers in a Numbered List in Microsoft Word By default, the numbers on numbered lists are left-aligned in the space allotted for the numbering. However, aligning them to the center or the right (pictured on the right above) is easy, and we'll show you how. Read This Article → How to Manage, Customize, and Block Notifications in Android Lollipop and Marshmallow Android has always done notifications consistently well over its various iterations. In Android Lollipop and Marshmallow, notifications have gotten even better, giving users specific, granular control over notifications for every application installed on your device. Read This Article → Why You Shouldn’t Use “Anti-Spying" Tools for Windows 10 Since Windows 10’s release and the privacy controversy that followed, many “anti-spying” apps have sprung up. They promise to keep Windows 10 from tracking you–but often, they can cause more problems than they solve. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Advanced Java Tutorial Learning the basics of Java is easy. But really delving into the language and studying its more advanced concepts and nuances is what will make you a great Java developer. The web is abundant with "soft", "cheap", "low end" Java tutorials, but what it is missing is material to really take you to the next level. Click here to download