The uTorrent Alternatives You Should (and Shouldn't) Use

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How (and Why) to Port Your Old Phone Number to Google Voice How to Use Sierra’s Picture In Picture Mode With Netflix, YouTube, and Other Unsupported Sites How to See Public Transit Routes or Satellite Images in Apple Maps How to Temporarily Lock Your PC if Someone Tries to Guess Your Password How to Create Multiple Subdirectories with One Linux Command How to Get Your Android Device to Show up in File Explorer (If It Isn’t) Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Space Shifting Space Shifting refers to the practice of copying/converting digital media and/or content for use on a device other than the one it was originally intended to be used on. 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. There's a Giant Cloud on a Collision Course With the Milky Way Mark your epochal calendars, because 30 million years from now, a massive billow of gas called Smith's Cloud is due to crash into the Milky Way, according to a video released on Friday by NASA. [Motherboard] Theranos, still limping, smacked with fraud lawsuit by big, mad investor Hedge fund not prone to litigation claims the company repeatedly lied to get money. [ArsTechnica] Yahoo Mail risked user security by giving in to government surveillance demands. How Yahoo risked user security by giving in to government surveillance demands. [Slate] To deal with their miserable lives, naked mole rats have evolved to feel no pain The rodents dim sensory perception to survive in crowded, hot nests under the desert. [ArsTechnica] How to Completely Disable All the Activity Notifications on Your Apple Watch By default, your Apple Watch will remind you to stand, notify you of your goal completions and achievements, and give you a weekly summary of your activity. Tired of seeing all these notifications? No worries. They're easy to disable. Read This Article → How to Stop Your Mouse from Waking Up Your Windows PC If a slight bump to your desk is enough to wake up your sleeping PC, it’s likely your mouse doing the waking. Here’s how to prevent that from happening. Read This Article → The Best Alternatives to uTorrent on Windows Remember when uTorrent was great? The upstart BitTorrent client was super lightweight and trounced other popular BitTorrent clients. But that was long ago, before BitTorrent, Inc. bought uTorrent and crammed it full of crapware and scammy advertisements. Read This Article → Do You Need to “Eject” MTP Devices Connected to Windows? We all know that there is a right way and a wrong way to detach USB mass storage devices from our computers, but does the same principle apply to MTP devices? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How (and Why) to Port Your Old Phone Number to Google Voice If you want to keep your old phone number after you got a new one, or you just want a second phone number to play around with, you can port that number to the awesome Google Voice service. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Use Sierra’s Picture In Picture Mode With Netflix, YouTube, and Other Unsupported Sites macOS Sierra’s picture in picture mode doesn’t natively support Netflix and YouTube, but a Safari extension adds a dedicated button for the job, letting you pop out videos for these sites with just one click. Read This Article → How to See Public Transit Routes or Satellite Images in Apple Maps Apple Maps has gotten decidedly better since its infamous unveiling a few years ago. Here’s a feature you may not have noticed: you can view a map with public transit routes or with satellite images. Read This Article → How to Temporarily Lock Your PC if Someone Tries to Guess Your Password If you’re worried about someone trying to guess your Windows password, you can have Windows temporarily block sign in attempts after a specific number of failed attempts. Read This Article → How to Create Multiple Subdirectories with One Linux Command If you want to create a directory containing several subdirectories, or a directory tree, using the command line in Linux, generally you have to use the mkdir command several times. However, there is a faster way to do this. Read This Article → How to Get Your Android Device to Show up in File Explorer (If It Isn’t) You can use your Android phone to listen to tunes, watch videos, and take photos, but in order to get those files on–or off–your device, sometimes you have to plug it into your desktop PC. When things work right, it's great, but it can be frustrating if your device isn’t detected. Read This Article → Everything Else How (and Why) to Port Your Old Phone Number to Google Voice Advertisement Download 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions (a $11.99 value) FREE for a limited time 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions is a manual that will help you home in on exactly what the interviewer is trying to learn…with each and every question he or she asks. If you've never done well on interviews, never even been on a job interview, or just want to make sure a lousy interview doesn't cost you a job you really want, Ron Fry will help you get that job—as he has helped literally millions of people nationwide and throughout the world. Click here to download