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Did You Know? Unlike the majority of paper you encounter on a daily basis (which is made from wood pulp), the paper U.S. currency is made from is 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen fibers. Geek Trivia The Compound Nicotine Is Named After A? Greek God → American Farmer → French Ambassador → British Chemist → Advertisement Download Essential IT Management Resources for Fall 2016 Kit Top Trending IT Management Resources for Fall 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. 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How to Change the Color of the Worksheet Tabs in Excel How to Customize Folder Views with Windows’ Five Templates The Best Alternatives to Transmission on the Mac How to Remove Toolbars and Adware with AdwCleaner Seven Clever Uses for Philips Hue Lights Press Play and Go: Spotify’s Daily Mixes Are the Best Auto-Playlists Yet How to Switch from the iOS Public Beta Back to Stable How to Turn Your Philips Hue Lights On or Off on a Schedule How to Make Kodi Automatically Play the Next Episode (Like Netflix Does) How to Use Universal Clipboard in macOS Sierra and iOS 10 How to Disable the Control Panel and Settings Interface in Windows How to Stop GIFs from Automatically Playing in Slack for iOS How T-Mobile’s Free Music and Video Streaming Works The Best Home Screen Launchers for Android Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Disconnect Anxiety Disconnect Anxiety refers to the “discomfort” felt by a technology dependent (or addicted in some cases) individual when they are unable to access the Internet and/or their electronic devices. 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. Radical Life-Extension Is Not around the Corner Can science and Silicon Valley defeat death? [Scientific American] Is there any truth in video games advertising? Truth-in-advertising laws have a noble purpose, but unless a marketing claim objectively fails a promise, they're really hard to enforce. When the product in question is an artistic work more than it is a technical one, it's even harder. [Polygon] Your Phone's on Lockdown. Enjoy the Show. Venues and artists are increasingly using technology to lock up fans' phones during performances. [NYT] How Apple Scaled Back Its Titanic Plan to Take on Detroit Apple Inc. has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project. [Bloomberg] How to Change the Color of the Worksheet Tabs in Excel By default, inactive worksheet tabs in Excel are gray, and active or selected worksheet tabs are white. If you have a lot of worksheets in your workbook, it may be hard to quickly find a particular sheet. Read This Article → How to Customize Folder Views with Windows’ Five Templates If you’re particular about how Windows displays the contents of your folders, you can cut your customization time down considerably by taking advantage of File Explorer’s five built-in folder templates. Read This Article → The Best Alternatives to Transmission on the Mac Transmission was long considered one of the best BitTorrent clients for Mac, but it’s recently seen back-to-back compromises of its servers. If you’re worried about Transmission’s security, here are some other great options. Read This Article → How to Remove Toolbars and Adware with AdwCleaner Once upon a time, there was a dumb person named Justin, who installed Java even though it’s awful. Even worse, this fool clicked “Next” without disabling the bundled offers. Read This Article → Seven Clever Uses for Philips Hue Lights Philips Hue lights are cool, but are you using them to they’re fullest potential? Sure, you can control them from your smartphone and turn them on from anywhere, but there are so many other useful tricks you can take advantage of. Here are a handful of clever uses for your Philips Hue setup. Read This Article → Press Play and Go: Spotify’s Daily Mixes Are the Best Auto-Playlists Yet I need to listen to music while I work. It's either that, or listen to the sound of my own breathing, which is enough to drive me into a state of existential despair. But the hardest part of listening to music every day is deciding what to put on. I just want to press play and go so I have something to fill the silence. Read This Article → How to Switch from the iOS Public Beta Back to Stable Once a major release of iOS comes out, the benefits of being the on the beta release channel diminish significantly–here’s how to get off the beta tester train and get back to regular old public releases. Read This Article → How to Turn Your Philips Hue Lights On or Off on a Schedule The Philips Hue app can do a handful of cool stuff with your Hue lights, including the ability to schedule your lights to turn on and off at specific times throughout the day. Here’s how to set it up so that you never have to flip a switch ever again. Read This Article → How to Make Kodi Automatically Play the Next Episode (Like Netflix Does) When you’re binge watching a show, you don’t want to pick up the remote. You want the goodness to just keep coming while you lie there like a blob. Here’s how to set up Kodi to play the next episode of a show when the current one finishes–just like Netflix does. Read This Article → How to Use Universal Clipboard in macOS Sierra and iOS 10 In macOS Sierra and iOS 10, Apple added a new feature to Continuity called “Universal Clipboard”. Universal Clipboard allows you to copy something on your iPhone, and paste it on your Mac–or vice-versa–using iCloud. Read This Article → How to Disable the Control Panel and Settings Interface in Windows The Windows Control Panel and Settings interface both expose a lot of settings that you might not want some users messing around with. Here’s how to disable them in Windows 7, 8, and 10. Read This Article → How to Stop GIFs from Automatically Playing in Slack for iOS By default, if you post an animaged image in Slack, it will automatically play–and some can be quite annoying. If you would rather not see every animated image play automatically, you can easily disable this feature. Read This Article → How T-Mobile’s Free Music and Video Streaming Works Data is data…except when it’s not. T-Mobile makes things a little confusing by giving you a certain amount of data, then offering unlimited music and video streaming that doesn’t count against the allowance–but only for certain services. Read This Article → The Best Home Screen Launchers for Android Android's launcher is one of the most important parts of the user interface. It's the first thing you see once the device is unlocked, and it's the primary way you interact with the home screen. It's where your widgets live, where the app drawer is found, and where you customize the look of your phone. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Essential IT Management Resources for Fall 2016 Kit Top Trending IT Management Resources for Fall 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