The Complete Guide to Creating Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on Windows

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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. Hackers unlock NES Classic, upload new games via USB cable It's not as simple as drag-and-drop, but no screwdriver or hardware mods needed. [ArsTechnica] Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—It's Something Way Weirder Bitcoin is not something that will improve what the world has. It's something that will give the world stuff it's never had. [Wired] Attitude, Not Quantity, Makes Homework Effective In an ironic twist, American parents overwhelmingly report that homework help is unimportant, and yet they highly value their own involvement. [Nautilus] What will we do in our cars when we no longer have to drive them? 'Third places' have traditionally been barber shops, parks, and cafes. Can autos redefine themselves as a social environments? [The Verge] 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 → The Best iTunes Alternatives for macOS iTunes is hot mess. Bloated and ponderous, iTunes continues Apple’s ongoing trend of having lost its design mojo. But fear not: there are some pretty good iTunes alternatives for macOS Sierra. Read This Article → How to Create a Home Inventory for Insurance Purposes If your house ever gets broken into or—God forbid—catches on fire, you’ll want an inventory of all your stuff, so that your insurance company will fairly compensate you for the items that you lost. Here are some different ways you can create that inventory. Read This Article → How to Disable Autocorrect for Your iPad’s Bluetooth Keyboard The take-for-granted features we enjoy when using an on-screen keyboard—like auto-corrections and auto-capitalization–quickly become a hindrance if you’re using a physical keyboard with your iOS device. Let’s look at how to quickly turn off those features so your physical keyboard acts the way you expect. Read This Article → How to Overlay Text (or Anything Else) Over Animated GIFs in Photoshop Sometimes a GIF alone isn’t enough; sometimes you want to add a little bit of text. Photoshop can do the job, but the process isn’t as intuitive as you’d imagine, especially if you’ve never edited animation in Photoshop before. Read This Article → How to Check If Your Computer Has a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Chip TPM hardware provides a tamper-resistant way to store encryption keys on a computer. On Windows 10, 8, and 7, a TPM is normally required to enable and use encryption features like BitLocker. Here’s how to check whether your PC has a TPM chip, enable your TPM if it’s disabled, or add a TPM chip to a PC without one. Read This Article → How to Manually Check for System Updates on an Android Phone When a new version of Android comes out for your phone, it doesn't usually drop for everyone at once. Instead, it rolls out over time. However, you can easily check to see if it’s available on your device instead of simply waiting for a notification to show up. Read This Article → How to Disable LibreOffice’s Startup Splash Screen on Windows and Linux Every time you open a LibreOffice program, or even the LibreOffice Start Center, a splash screen displays. This splash screen serves no real purpose, so if you'd rather not see it, we'll show you how to disable it in Windows and Linux. Read This Article → How to Copy a Folder’s File List with a Right-Click Say you have a folder full of files, and you want to save or print a list of those files. With a couple of quick Registry edits, you can add a right-click command for copying a folder’s contents to the clipboard. Read This Article → How to Restart a Super Mario Run Level Without Dying Super Mario Run is a really simple game, until you try to complete all if the extra coin challenges—all of a sudden those easy levels become tough when you’re trying to get all the pink, purple, or black coins instead of just running through. Read This Article → How to Build Your Own NES Classic with a Raspberry Pi and RetroPie The NES Classic Edition is a new, official clone of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, and one of the best ways to play your favorite retro games. Unfortunately, it’s so popular that it’s nearly impossible to get your hands on one. Don’t pay $300 on eBay when you can use the modestly-priced Raspberry Pi to build your own—with even more games. 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