PSA: If a Company Is Calling You Unsolicited, It's Probably a Scam

Did You Know? Hockey is the only major sport divided into three periods (as opposed to other larger or smaller intervals like innings, halves, or quarters) due largely to how tough play is on the ice and the necessity of refinishing the surface with a Zamboni machine between periods. Geek Trivia The “Wishbone” Found In Holiday Turkeys Is The Birds’? Collarbones → Thorax → Sternum → Hipbones → Advertisement Download The Network Security Test Lab: A Step-by-Step Guide ($40 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Covering the full complement of malware, viruses, and other attack technologies, this essential eBook walks you through the security assessment and penetration testing process, and provides the set-up guidance you need to build your own securitying lab. 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. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Stop Your WhatsApp Friends from Knowing You’ve Read Their Messages PSA: If a Company Is Calling You Unsolicited, It’s Probably a Scam How to Create Family Profiles with Eero to Limit Internet Access M-cli Simplifies macOS’ Best Terminal Commands for Beginners How to Make Your Taskbar Buttons Always Switch to the Last Active Window How to Install and Manage Extensions in LibreOffice The Best Photo Management Apps for Android How to Log In to Your PC With Your Fingerprint Using Windows Hello Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Synthetic Backup A Synthetic Backup combines a full backup of data/information and any modifications/changes made with one or more subsequent incremental backups. The incremental backups themselves only consist of changed data/information since the last full backup. Synthetic Backups are referred to as such because they are not created from original data/information, but from two or more files that have been “merged” by the backup application being used. 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. The Running Conversation in Your Head What a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselves [The Atlantic] We Have Reached Peak Office Chair Work sitting, standing or lying down. Just never stop working. [Fast Company] Here are 8 board games to distract your family with this Thanksgiving The holidays are a good time to unplug and partake in activities that don't involve a room full of people blankly staring at a screen for hours on end. [The Verge] "It smelled like death": An oral history of the Double Dare obstacle course Who knew so much went into creating the show Double Dare? Color us fascinated. [The AV Club] How to Stop Your WhatsApp Friends from Knowing You’ve Read Their Messages WhatsApp is a really popular, Facebook-owned messaging service, although most of its users are outside the US. While it's encrypted end-to-end to protect you from spying, WhatsApp shares read receipts by default—so people can see if you’ve read their message—as well as sharing the last time you were online. Read This Article → PSA: If a Company Is Calling You Unsolicited, It’s Probably a Scam Phone call scams are too common. But they’re easier to spot than you might think. If someone calls you and claims to be from the IRS, your bank, Microsoft, or any other company or government agency, it’s probably a scam. Companies and government agencies will almost never call you out of nowhere. Read This Article → How to Create Family Profiles with Eero to Limit Internet Access If you have kids, then you might know a thing or two about how difficult it can be to yank them away from their computers and other devices so they get their chores done on time or just spend quality time with the family. Eero, the robust whole-house Wi-Fi system, has a feature that makes this easy. Read This Article → M-cli Simplifies macOS’ Best Terminal Commands for Beginners You can do a lot with the macOS Terminal, but the commands tend to be obtuse. A free program called m-cli bills itself a Swiss Army Knife for macOS, and it makes a lot of these hidden commands a lot easier to learn and discover. Read This Article → How to Make Your Taskbar Buttons Always Switch to the Last Active Window Since Windows 7, apps with multiple open windows are combined into a single taskbar button. Hovering over the button gives you a live thumbnail of every window and you can then click the window you want to work with. Read This Article → How to Install and Manage Extensions in LibreOffice LibreOffice has many useful features, but you can add even more. Much like Firefox add-ons or Chrome extensions, you can add extensions to LibreOffice to expand its capabilities. Read This Article → The Best Photo Management Apps for Android If you have an Android phone, you undoubtedly have some sort of photo management app installed—most likely, it’s just called “Gallery.” But you know what? That’s not the be-all-end-all of photo apps. In fact, there are a slew of others on the Play Store that do a much better job of handling your photos. Read This Article → How to Log In to Your PC With Your Fingerprint Using Windows Hello Windows Hello, a new feature in Windows 10, allows you to sign into your computer with your fingerprint or facial recognition. It now allows you to sign into apps and websites via Microsoft Edge, too. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Business Networking For Dummies ($12 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Grow your business, build your career, find more customers, and build a valuable support network of likeminded business people. Click here to download