How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast

Did You Know? Your hike through the grocery store to get to basic staples like sugar and flour isn’t accidental. Modern grocery store layouts are designed so that shoppers have to walk past more profitable products before reaching staple items at the back and outer aisles of the store. Geek Trivia The Greenish Tint Seen On The Edges Of Tempered Glass Is Caused By? Iron → Silicate → Manganese → Copper → 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. How to Run Two or More Terminal Commands at Once in Linux 10 Ways to Customize the Windows 10 Start Menu How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast Android Nougat's "Seamless Updates", Explained Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Cyberveillance Cyberveillance refers to the monitoring of an individual in the workplace via hardware and/or software. 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 EMV chip credit card transition in the US has been a disaster The transition from magnetic strip cards to security chip enhanced cards in the U.S. has been poorly executed and totally mismanaged experience. [Quartz] The Physics of How Your Earphone Jack Works (Just in Time to Say Goodbye) It doesn't matter if you call it an earphone or headphone jack—it's still on just about every smartphone. With rumors that Apple will kill the the earphone jack on the iPhone 7 to make it thinner, I think this is a good time to look at this surprisingly simple piece of technology. [Wired] 'Galactic Tick Day' Celebrates Sun's Trip Around the Galaxy Every time the Earth makes one complete loop around the sun, humans celebrate the journey with some kind of New Year's holiday. So why won't we celebrate every time our solar system completes one loop around the center of the galaxy?  [Space.com] Atlas Obscura's Guide to the Longest Running Scientific Experiments More than a few of these experiments have likely been running longer than you've been alive. [Atlas Obscura] How to Run Two or More Terminal Commands at Once in Linux If you use Linux, you know how useful the command line can be for working with files, installing software, and launching programs. But it can be even more efficient if you run multiple commands at once. Read This Article → 10 Ways to Customize the Windows 10 Start Menu Windows 10 finally brought back the Start menu, and it's more customizable than ever. Here’s a quick rundown of all the different ways that you can make the Start menu your own. Read This Article → How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast VLC’s developers have been working on Chromecast support for some time, and it’s finally here. In the latest bleeding edge Windows versions of VLC, you can stream video and audio files from VLC media player on your PC to your Chromecast. Read This Article → Android Nougat's "Seamless Updates", Explained In all generations of Android devices—up to an including Marshmallow—operating system updates have essentially worked the same way: the update is downloaded, the phone reboots, and the update is applied. During this time, the phone is rendered useless, at least until the update has been fully installed. With Nougat's new "Seamless Updates," this model is a thing of the past. 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