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Did You Know? Harrods Department Store in London, England, certainly deserves its categorization–the store occupies five acres, has one million square feet of retail space, and a whopping 330 different departments. Geek Trivia Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Carried Which Of These Mementos From Her Deceased Husband? His Hair → His Ring Finger → His Heart → His Teeth → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Tutorials - 120 of the most popular functions (a $19.95 value) FREE for a limited time You'll learn 120 of the most common features and functions of this hugely popular (and powerful) operating system. The vivid, color, step-by-step screenshots make it easy for you to follow along in this 350 page illustrated guide.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 Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7 Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Spamdress A Spamdress (short for Spam Address or Spam Email Address) is a particular type of secondary email address that is created and used for the purposes of receiving newsletters or online subscriptions, joining discussion forums, website sign-ups, etc. where frequent or a high volume of email is expected. A Spamdress helps keep an individual’s primary email account clear of unimportant mail. 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. How Many Planets Can Fit Inside a Star's Habitable Zone? How many planets can fit into the habitable zone around a star? A group of scientists saw this question posed by a non-scientist on Reddit and decided to answer it. [Space.com] What Happens When You're Terrified Space? Space might be the final frontier but that doesn't mean everyone will be OK with colonizing it--spacephobia is the psychological problem of the future.. [Inverse] Sleeping While Awake: The Dangers of Microsleep During microsleep, the entire brain nods off so briefly that we often don't notice it. Now research shows that individual neurons in the brain can slumber, too, especially when we are sleep-deprived  [Scientific American] Gaming's rarest systems, carts, and collectibles can be found at this huge museum We geeked the heck out at the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas. [ArsTechnica] How to Combine Text Files Using the "cat" Command in Linux The cat command is very useful in Linux. It has three main functions related to manipulating text files: creating them, displaying them, and combining them. Read This Article → How to Create an NFC Tag That Connects Any Android Phone to a Wi-Fi Network NFC is one of those tools that is great to have, but so ridiculously underused by the majority of Android users. While it can be used for advanced automation of things on your Android phone, it can also be used for equally as simplistic stuff: like easily sharing your home Wi-Fi data with friends. Read This Article → Your Camera’s Most Important Settings: Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO Explained Getting a nice camera is just the first step in taking great photos—you also have to learn how to use it. Shooting on auto will only take you so far. Shutter speed, aperture, and ISO may sound like intimidating photographer terms, but they’re quite simple—and crucial to getting great photos. Read This Article → How to Batch Rename Multiple Files in Windows Got a bunch of files you want to rename, but don’t want to go through them each one by one? Windows provides more ways to do this than you may realize. Read This Article → How (and Why) to Replace Your Outlets with GFCI Outlets In pretty much every house where an outlet is close to a water source, you'll usually find what’s called a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI). This is a type of outlet that’s meant to quickly shut off power at that outlet when it detects a short circuit or a ground fault. Read This Article → How to Use a Raspberry Pi as a Networked Time Machine Drive For Your Mac Why spend $300 on an AirPort Time Capsule when you can make one yourself with a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive? It takes a little tweaking, but once it’s all set up, your Mac will back up automatically, without any effort on your part. No more having to plug a drive into your computer. Read This Article → How to Prevent Safari from Checking to See if You Use Apple Pay Apple Pay’s incorporation into macOS Sierra makes it really easy to pay using the service on your Mac with your iPhone or iPad. But that doesn’t mean just because you can, you will, or will want to use Apple Pay in the future. Read This Article → How to Make Windows Automatically Create a System Restore Point at Startup By default, System Restore automatically creates a restore point once per week and also before major events like an app or driver installation. If you want even more protection, you can force Windows to create a restore point automatically every time you start your PC. Read This Article → How to Find Your Missing USB Drive in Windows 7, 8, and 10 USB drives should automatically appear in Windows Explorer when you connect them to your computer. Follow these troubleshooting steps if Windows doesn’t show a connected drive. Read This Article → What Is Apple CarPlay, and Is It Better Than Just Using a Phone in Your Car? You get in your car, connect your phone to the Bluetooth head unit, and toss it in the dock. For the next umpteen amount of minutes/hours, this is your source of music, navigation, and everything else. Apple's CarPlay looks to re-invent the way you use your phone in the car with a sort of "second screen" setup. Read This Article → How to Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7 If you've upgraded to Windows 10 but don’t love what you see, there are ways to make Windows 10 look and act like Windows 7. That way, you can get the familiar interface you love while still taking advantage of Windows 10’s other useful features. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Tutorials - 120 of the most popular functions (a $19.95 value) FREE for a limited time You'll learn 120 of the most common features and functions of this hugely popular (and powerful) operating system. The vivid, color, step-by-step screenshots make it easy for you to follow along in this 350 page illustrated guide.Click here to download