How to Control Which Websites Can Use Flash in Any Browser

Did You Know? Thanks to the close proximity of the Diomede Islands, located in the center of the Bering Strait, Russia and the United States are only 2.4 miles apart at their closest point; Big Diomede is owned by Russia and its companion island Little Diomede is owned by the United States. Geek Trivia The Heaviest Military Tank Ever Constructed Was Nicknamed The? Cricket → Mouse → Flea → Grasshopper → 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. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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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. A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids. Now you can understand all of the private data you and your teen are giving up to social media When Terms of Service are rewritten for middle schoolers, the terms become pretty clear (and maybe fewer people would agree with them). [Quartz] How the scientific method came from watching children play The authoritative statement of scientific method derives from a surprising place — early 20th-century child psychology [Aeon] 10 years of the iPhone, and 10 years of iPhone reviews Revisiting every single one of Apple's iPhones in a trip down memory lane. [ArsTechnica] How Honey Bees Helped the Internet It took decades before a bee algorithm assisted engineers in making Web hosting services more efficient. [Pacific Standard] How to Rotate a Video on Android There’s a war going on out there. You won’t see it on the news, you won’t read about it in the paper—but it’s happening. It’s a hard-fought war that many of us never think about: the war against improperly oriented video. Got a video that’s showing up sideways? Here’s how to rotate that video 90 degrees on Android. Read This Article → How to Use Snapchat: The Basics of Sending Snaps and Messages I love Snapchat, but I'd also be the first to admit the user interface design is…poor. If you’re using Snapchat for the first time and just feel lost, here are the basics. Read This Article → How to Control Which Websites Can Use Flash in Any Browser Making Flash click-to-play is a good idea, but browsers are going further. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge will all soon disable Flash by default, allowing you to enable it only on websites that need it. Read This Article → How to Take a Screenshot of an Entire Webpage A simple screenshot is great for capturing what’s immediately visible on your monitor, but what if you need to capture an entire webpage? Here are three simple ways you can capture a long web page as one continuous image and, in the process, preserve it exactly as it appears to the viewer. Read This Article → How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space Apple offers 5 GB of free iCloud space to everyone, but you'll run up against that storage limit sooner than you'd think. Device backups, photos, documents, iCloud email, and other bits of data all share that space. Read This Article → The Ultimate Guide to Using Emoji on Your Mac You might think emoji only belong on your phone, and it’s true these post-modern hieroglyphs didn’t really take off until the smartphone revolution. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use them on your computer, especially if you own a Mac. There are all kinds of emoji-specific features baked right into macOS. Read This Article → How to Add “Open PowerShell Here” to the Right-Click Menu for a Folder in Windows If you’re a fan of using Windows PowerShell rather than the Command Prompt, you might enjoy being able to access it right from the context menu you get when you right-click a folder in Windows. Here’s how to make it happen. Read This Article → How to Display Extended Tips When You Hover Over Buttons in LibreOffice LibreOffice displays short tips when you hover over buttons in each of the programs. There are also extended tips available that display longer descriptions about the toolbar buttons. Read This Article → How to Block Certain Android Apps from Syncing Passwords with Smart Lock Google’s Smart Lock for Passwords makes it easy to sync the passwords you have saved in Chrome over to your Android device. Not only will it sync the passwords with Chrome on your phone, but also to supported apps—so you don’t have to remember your password for apps like Netflix or LinkedIn. The thing is, you may not want to auto-login to specific apps. Or any app at all, for that matter. Read This Article → Don’t Rummage Around for Photoshop’s Hidden Tools: Use These Keyboard Shortcuts Instead Photoshop has dozens of different, powerful tools, each with their own uses. You can use the spot healing brush to clean up blemishes or the brush tool to change the color of someone's eyes. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Creating Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on Windows Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista all support symbolic links—also known as symlinks—that point to a file or folder on your system. You can create them using the Command Prompt or a third-party tool called Link Shell Extension. 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. Click here to download