How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Cheap Plex Player with RasPlex

Did You Know? When a recording artist gets an award for going gold or platinum, the record in the award frame is rarely the record they actually recorded. While early awards would put “masters”, “mothers”, or “stampers” (metal parts used for pressing records out of vinyl) in the frame, today it is far more common for there just to be a random record in there with the official label pasted on (modern awards often use CDs). Geek Trivia Corn Farmers Purchase Micronutrients For Their Crops Made From What Unusual Source? Deer Hooves → Peanut Shells → Scrap Cars → Batteries → Advertisement Download 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $16 value!) FREE for a limited time The 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit compiles the latest information to help you decrease threat exposure and data loss. These resources cover the basics, the important developments, and unique approaches to reduce exploitation. Download this exclusive kit to gain all the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your business! 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Geek Comic Today's Tech Term B-Blog B-Blog (short for Business Blog, a.k.a. Corporate Blog) is a shorthand term for a blog that is used by a business to promote itself (using a less formal tone than a corporate website) or as part of a company’s internal communications system. 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. Will a cryogenically-frozen corpse ever come back to life? is preserving your body on ice just a feel good move or is there really a chance you can be brought back in the future? [Popular Science] Millions in US still living life in Internet slow lane DSL and satellite drag down US broadband speeds, new FCC data shows. [ArsTechnica] Growing Up in a Library Is Exactly As Magical As You'd Imagine Ronald Clark and his daughter spent years living in one of New York City's branch libraries. [Atlas Obscura] Your Pun-Divided Attention: How the Brain Processes Wordplay To understand puns, the left and right brain hemispheres have to work together [Scientific American] How to Secure Your Dropbox Account Back in May of 2016, Dropbox announced on its official blog that it now has half a billion users. That’s a lot of people, which also means there’s likely a lot of information being stored in this cloud service that you wouldn’t want other people seeing. If you’re one of those 500 million, it’s time to secure your account. Read This Article → How to Mute a Group Chat in WhatsApp Group Chats are awesome if you're in a club, want to keep in touch with all your friends, or are trying organize something. Unfortunately, if you're busy and the other members decide to have a long, detailed conversation about the latest episode of Game of Thrones, your phone is going to beep and flash constantly. Read This Article → How to Spot Fake Reviews on Amazon, Yelp, and Other Sites If you want to avoid getting scammed on Amazon and other sites, you might think the reviews section is your best friend. After all, if there’s a problem with the product other customers would point it out. Read This Article → How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Cheap Plex Player with RasPlex If you’re looking for a robust little Plex client for your HDTV, RasPlex offers a polished experience with snappy playback that’s always on, stable, and easy to control. Read This Article → How to Delete Your LinkedIn Account LinkedIn allows you to delete your account, completely erasing your profile from the website. If you’d rather leave your account open and just make those annoying emails stop, you can put a stop to LinkedIn’s emails—but this is the truly nuclear option. Read This Article → What Is Taking Up That “Other” Storage in macOS? Your Mac can tell you what’s taking up space on your hard drive…but it isn’t very detailed. Click the Apple at the top-right of your screen, then click “About This Mac,” and the “Storage” tab gives you a visual overview like the one above. But for many users, particularly those with multiple hard drives, the “Other” category is comically large. Read This Article → 11 Things You Can Do with Siri on Your Mac As time goes on, Apple continues to work Siri into more of its products. Its sole domain used to be the iPhone and iPad, then it found its way onto the Apple Watch and Apple TV. Now, Siri is on the Mac, and there are quite a few cool things it can do. Read This Article → How to Add the Control Panel to Windows’ File Explorer If you use the Control Panel a lot, you may find it helpful to add it right to the “This PC” section of Windows’ File Explorer window. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Lock Your Google Chrome Profile with a Password Chrome makes it very easy to switch profiles while in the browser. If other people use your computer and you want to prevent them from accessing your Chrome profile—which contains your bookmarks, history, and possibly even saved passwords—you can lock it with your Google account password. Read This Article → How to Clear Your Google Search History on Android If you’re an Android user, Google is ubiquitous throughout the operating system. You can access Google Now on Tap from pretty much anywhere by long-pressing the home button, jump into Google Now directly from the launcher, or say “OK Google” to use your voice from pretty much anywhere in the OS. But each time you do one of those things, it creates a new search entry in your Google History. Read This Article → What Are the FOUND.000 Folder and FILE0000.CHK File in Windows? On some volumes, you may see a new folder called FOUND.000 with a file in it using the .CHK extension. Here’s where those come from, and what they’re for. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $16 value!) FREE for a limited time The 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit compiles the latest information to help you decrease threat exposure and data loss. These resources cover the basics, the important developments, and unique approaches to reduce exploitation. Download this exclusive kit to gain all the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your business! Click here to download