How to Switch From Windows 10's Insider Preview Back to Stable (Without Reinstalling)

Did You Know? The tiny holes found in numerous brands of crackers are there to help steam escape from the cracker dough during the baking process. If the holes are too close together, the cracker will end up being extra dry and hard, and if they are too far apart, parts of the cracker will rise and form undesirable little bubbles on the surface of the cracker. Geek Trivia The Last Performance Of An Entertainer’s Career Is Known As A? Swan Song → Finito → Closing Act → Death Trumpet → Advertisement Download The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (a $29.99 value) FREE for a limited time The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook guides you through the process of reverse engineering antivirus software. You explore how to detect and exploit vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to improve future software design, protect your network, and anticipate attacks that may sneak through your antivirus' line of defense. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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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. Humanity's war on latency: Semaphore to silicon photonics and beyond As tech integrates with society and our bodies, the battle against lag heats up. [ArsTechnica ] What is dark energy, anyway? The path to understanding it begins with one question: Has it remained the same through the universe's history?  [Scientific American] Popup Ads Are Terrible, and They're Even Worse for the Blind You think you hate pop up ads? Imagine dealing with them with an assistive browser and no visual cues they are even there. [Motherboard] Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test Blue Origin just took another big step toward flying people to space. [Space.com] How to Delete Handwritten Messages from the Recent List in iOS 10 Messages When you send a handwritten message in the Messages app on your iPhone, it's added to the recent list of messages so you can use it again. However, if you don't want certain messages stored in the list, or don’t want to see them at all, there is a way to delete them. Read This Article → How to Speed Up, Disable, or Rebuild the Windows Search Index Windows Search makes searching for files on your PC a lot faster, but if you find that things slow down when Windows indexes files or that Search isn’t working as expected, there are a few steps you can take. Read This Article → How to Change Someone's Eye Color in Photoshop Have you ever wondered what you'd look like if your eyes were a different color? Mine are gray, but I've always thought brown would suit me. Sure, you could go and buy colored contacts, but it’s far simpler to just use Photoshop—or your favorite free image editor like GIMP—to change your eye color. Read This Article → How to Switch From Windows 10’s Insider Preview Back to Stable (Without Reinstalling) When you sign up for Insider Preview builds, Windows warns that you “may” need to reinstall Windows to get back to the stable version of Windows. But this is a worst case scenario, and there are other ways to get off the Insider Preview track. Read This Article → How to Share HomeKit Access with Family, Roommates, and Guests What’s the point of having a house of the future if your family members, roommates, or guests can’t take advantage of all its features? Share the future-is-now vibe by allowing their iCloud account to control your smart lights, thermostat, and more. Read This Article → How to Restore Your Desktop and Documents After Disabling iCloud Sync in macOS Sierra A new feature in macOS Sierra allows you to sync files from your desktop and Documents folder to iCloud, so you can access them on all your device. However, if you went to disable this feature, it will delete them from your computer. Fear not, though: those files still exist. They were simply removed from the desktop and Documents folder and left in iCloud Drive. Read This Article → Add a Hidden Gesture to Your Mac That Shows All Windows for Any Application Wouldn’t it be cool if you could scroll up on any dock icon to quickly see all its windows, along with recent documents? A single command adds this otherwise hidden feature to your dock. Read This Article → How to Control System Settings with Siri in macOS Sierra The inclusion of Siri on macOS Sierra means you can now do all sorts of things with your voice that once required typing and clicking. You can even control system settings. Read This Article → How to Block (or Allow) Certain Applications for Users in Windows If you’d like to limit what apps a user can run on a PC, Windows gives you two options. You can block the apps you don’t want a user to run, or you can restrict them to running only specific apps. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Get a Notification When Caps Lock or Num Lock Is Enabled in Ubuntu If you've accidentally turned on Caps Lock too many times–we’ve all been there–here is a solution. You can add an indicator to the top panel that shows the status of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock keys, that notifys you when one of them is pressed. Read This Article → How to Change Your Audio Playback and Recording Devices on Windows Connect speakers, headphones, a webcam with a built-in microphone, a Bluetooth headset, or another audio devices to your Windows PC and you’ll need to choose which devices Windows actually uses. This is easy to configure–and now even easier on Windows 10. Read This Article → How to Fix an iPhone or iPad That Doesn’t Show Up in iTunes You plug your iPhone into your computer, ready to sync and…nothing. The little icon doesn’t show up in iTunes’ toolbar, and you’re flummoxed. Here are a few possible solutions. Read This Article → Five Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device Android phones and tablets can fill up quickly as you download apps, add media files like music and movies, and cache data for use offline. Many lower-end devices may only include a few gigabytes of storage, making this even more of a problem. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (a $29.99 value) FREE for a limited time The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook guides you through the process of reverse engineering antivirus software. You explore how to detect and exploit vulnerabilities that can be leveraged to improve future software design, protect your network, and anticipate attacks that may sneak through your antivirus' line of defense. Click here to download