How to Back Up and Transfer Settings for Your Windows Programs to a New PC with CloneApp

Did You Know? Island gigantism (also called insular gigantism) is a biological phenomenon wherein the size of an animal on an island increases significantly compared to its relatives on the mainland. The primary theory for this phenomenon is that smaller animals can more easily travel to islands, and by escaping the larger mainland predators who cannot easily follow them, they also escape the evolutionary pressure to remain small and agile. Geek Trivia The Largest Archipelagic Nation In The World Is? Japan → Indonesia → Greece → The Philippines → Advertisement Download Windows Malware Analysis Essentials ($30 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This book will guide you on how to use essential tools such as debuggers, disassemblers, and sandboxes to dissect malware samples. It will expose your innards and then build a report of their indicators of compromise along with detection rule sets that will enable you to help contain the outbreak when faced with such a situation. 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How to Access Nova Launcher’s “Labs” Setting for Experimental Functionality How to Show, Hide, and Change the Color of Field Shading in a LibreOffice Writer Document How to Display a Message During Windows Startup Is Snapchat Really Deleting My Snaps? What Is a “Precision Touchpad” on Windows PCs? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term E-Nag E-Nag is a slang term used to describe individuals who persistently annoy/torment others with a constant stream of email, instant messages, etc. without giving the recipients adequate time to properly respond. 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. Astronauts could live inside ice domes on Mars Home is where you hang your pressurized helmet. [Popular Science] Repeated fast radio burst source localized, identity still a mystery But we still don't know anything about the object that's producing them. [ArsTechnica] How Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs For these researchers, incredibly, enjoyment is not the primary reason why we play video games. [Nautilus] NASA's Newest Robots Will Spy on Mysterious Lil Asteroids Asteroids are the focus of two new bold NASA projects. [Wired] How to Tweak ClearType in Windows for Better Screen Readability ClearType is font-smoothing technology built into Windows to help make text more readable on LCD monitors. If your text is looking a little blurry, tweaking your ClearType settings can definitely help. Read This Article → How to Take Good Travel Photos Whether you want to document a family holiday or aspire to shoot for National Geographic, there are some simple things you can do to take better travel photos. Read This Article → How to Back Up and Transfer Settings for Your Windows Programs to a New PC with CloneApp How many times have you migrated to a new computer, or reinstalled Windows, and lost all the little settings in your Windows programs that you had finally tweaked perfectly? Read This Article → How to Sync Cortana Reminders From a Windows 10 PC to Your iPhone or Android Phone Windows 10’s Cortana virtual assistant allows you to set reminders with your voice, by typing them into the Cortana box on your taskbar, or from the Sticky Notes app. But these reminders will normally only pop up when you’re at your computer, making them easy to miss. Read This Article → How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts For Extensions in Google Chrome Geeks love keyboard shortcuts—they’re often faster than clicking everything with your mouse. We've previously covered Chrome and other browsers support many keyboard shortcuts, and Chrome lets you assign your own keyboard shortcuts to extensions you’ve installed. Read This Article → How to Run Any Mac Terminal Command With a Keyboard Shortcut Are there particular Terminal commands you find yourself running several time a day? Do you wish you could trigger them quickly, with just a keystroke? Read This Article → What Is Apple’s TV App, and Should You Use it? Apple’s TV app, which recently appeared on iOS devices and Apple TV, is meant to help users discover and watch shows across an increasingly expanding lineup of television channels, as well as iTunes movies and shows, in one central app. Read This Article → How to Access Nova Launcher’s “Labs” Setting for Experimental Functionality Hidden features are cool. If you like to mod, tweak, or otherwise personalize your device, hidden menus and settings are like a playground—all sorts of neat stuff can be found behind a door that you may not even realize is there! Android’s fantastic Nova Launcher has one of those doors. Read This Article → How to Show, Hide, and Change the Color of Field Shading in a LibreOffice Writer Document Fields in LibreOffice Writer allow you to add data that changes to a document, such as the current date or total number of pages in a document, and to insert and calculate formulas. By default, fields are highlighted in gray. Read This Article → How to Display a Message During Windows Startup If you use a company-owned PC, you may have seen a legal notice displayed before you sign in to Windows. Here’s how you can do the same thing on your own PC and display a message with any text you want. Read This Article → Is Snapchat Really Deleting My Snaps? Snapchat is a chat app and social network that's super popular with millennials and teens. It's main feature is that every "Snap" (aka photo or video) is automatically deleted after a certain amount of time. Read This Article → What Is a “Precision Touchpad” on Windows PCs? Windows PCs have historically had worse touchpads than Macs. Microsoft is trying to fix this problem with “precision touchpads”, but not every PC manufacturer is on board. Some PCs ship with precision touchpads, but others include older, traditional technology instead. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows Malware Analysis Essentials ($30 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This book will guide you on how to use essential tools such as debuggers, disassemblers, and sandboxes to dissect malware samples. It will expose your innards and then build a report of their indicators of compromise along with detection rule sets that will enable you to help contain the outbreak when faced with such a situation. 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