Windows 10 Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB, Explained

Did You Know? A male koala is called a buck, a female koala is called a doe, and a baby koala is called a joey, but there is no formal noun for a group of koalas because the largely solitary marsupials never move around together (like, say, a flock or birds or a herd of deer). Geek Trivia Which Of These Automotive Innovations Was Invented By Accident? Washer Fluid → Seat Belt Tensioners → Laminated Glass → High Beam Headlights → Advertisement Download Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career (Free eBook!) Originally $7.99 This book provides a road map to advance your career and prosper without being blindsided by overnight industry collapses, potential layoffs, economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. 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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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. Welcome to the Web The internet's infancy — with baby photos of websites that became online empires. [Traffic Magazine] Under Hawaii's Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground The quest to build more telescopes on Hawaii's mountain peaks is fraught with conflict. [NYT] Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products Only books and reviews from the Amazon Vine program are exempt from new rules. [ArsTechnica] Why I Won't Buy a New Camera This is one of the more inspirational, down to Earth, GAS busting gear monologs we've seen. Originally published in 2015, this video by DSLRguide's Simon Cade explains exactly why he has no interest in upgrading his trusty Canon T3i to something more popular and powerful. [Petapixel] How to Send Handwritten and Digital Touch Messages in iOS 10 We live in a very high-tech world. We walk around with our heads bowed down to our phones tapping away on the screens. But have we lost the art of handwriting? Not completely. iOS 10 has taken one more step towards incorporating handwriting into our daily communications. Read This Article → How to Manage Files and Use the File System on Android Android's user-visible file system is one of its advantages over iOS. It allows you to more easily work with files, opening them in any app of your choice…as long as you know how. Read This Article → How to Format a Drive With the APFS File System on macOS Sierra Apple is working on a new file system known as the Apple File System. APFS will probably become the default file system on macOS and iOS in 2017, but it’s available as prerelease software on macOS Sierra. Read This Article → Windows 10 Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch), Explained Did you know there’s a version of Windows 10 that doesn’t get big feature updates, and doesn’t even have the Windows Store or Microsoft Edge browser? It’s called Windows 10 LTSB, short for Long Term Servicing Branch. Read This Article → How to Control Your HomeKit Smart Home When You’re Away from Home If you want access to all the features of your HomeKit powered smart home when you’re away from home sweet home, you can–as long as you have an Apple TV or iPad sitting in your house. Read on as we show you how. Read This Article → How to Disable Windows 10’s Game DVR (and Game Bar) Windows 10’s Game DVR feature can slow your gaming performance by recording video in the background. If you don’t care about recording your gameplay, disable Game DVR for performance reasons. Read This Article → How to Hear a Chime Every Time You Plug In Your MacBook Pro or Air The new MacBook, first released in 2015, makes a chime sound every time you plug the MacBook in, just like the iPhone and iPad. But the MacBook Pro and Air don’t–unless you enable this hidden feature. Read This Article → How-To Geek Is Looking for a Security Writer Think you have the perfect combination of geek knowledge and writing skills? We're looking for an experienced, security-focused writer to join our team. Read This Article → How to Take and Attach Photos to Messages in iOS 10 In iOS 10, Apple made a change to how you take and attach photos in iMessage. It’s a small change but it might take you a moment, or five, to figure it out. Read This Article → How to Remove the “Uninstall” Option from the Windows 10 Start Menu Windows 10 added an option to uninstall apps with a right-click in the Start menu. If you ever find yourself selecting that option accidentally–or if you share your computer and want to prevent others from uninstalling apps by mistake–here’s how to turn that feature off. Read This Article → How to Change the Size and Color of the Mouse Pointer in Windows You can use either PC Settings or the Control Panel to change the mouse pointer size and color, and we'll show you both ways. The PC Settings method can be used in Windows 10 and 8, and the Control Panel method can be used in Windows 10, 8, and 7. Read This Article → How to Back Up Your Text Messages to Dropbox or Google Drive on Android You never know when you're going to need to reference an old text message with an important bit of info, and the easiest way to make sure you never lose anything is by backing up. Fortunately, pushing all of your Android phone's text messages to the cloud is super easy. Read This Article → How to Fix Red Eye in Photoshop If you've ever used the flash on your camera to take a picture of someone in a dark room, you've probably seen the red eye effect. It's where the person's pupils appear a bright red rather than their natural black. Read This Article → How to Choose Which Files Windows Search Indexes on Your PC The Windows Search feature provides fast file searches by building an index. This index is used by the Start menu, the search box in File Explorer and Windows Explorer, and even the Cortana assistant on Windows 10. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career (Free eBook!) Originally $7.99 This book provides a road map to advance your career and prosper without being blindsided by overnight industry collapses, potential layoffs, economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Click here to download