How to Customize Your Icons in Windows

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How to Set Up an Out Of Office Reply in Outlook for Windows How to Install Kodi on Your Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick How to Automatically Save Your Snapchat Stories How to Encrypt Your Windows System Drive With VeraCrypt Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Intarweb Intarweb is a sarcastic/derogatory, purposeful slang misspelling of Internet. 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. Reddit overhauls its front page for new users and lurkers Reddit — the self-described "front page of the internet" — has changed its front page. Rather than the top stories from 50 curated subreddits, visitors to the site will now see popular stories from across the site, on a new homepage the company has appropriately named r/popular. [The Verge] ISPs ask lawmakers to kill privacy rules, and they're happily obliging Wheeler-era FCC rules that protect Web browsing data could be overturned. [ArsTechnica] 'Superflares' Likely Made Proxima b Uninhabitable Long Ago The nearby alien planet Proxima b is not a great candidate to host life as we know it, a new study suggests. [Space.com] How to Restrict Background Data for Metered Wi-Fi Networks on Android We’ve talked a lot about how to manage mobile data on Android, but what if your home internet has a data cap too? That can be an issue, especially if your phone starts chewing through your cap with background tasks. The good news is there’s an easy way to get Android to treat specific WI-Fi networks as if they were cellular networks. Read This Article → How to Block Someone from Calling, Messaging, and FaceTiming You on an iPhone or Mac There are few things more annoying than unwanted calls and texts. Even seemingly decent companies sometimes turn to scammy tactics; or perhaps you have a former friend who keeps trying to contact you against your wishes. Read This Article → How to Customize Your Icons in Windows Personalizing your icons is a great way to make a PC uniquely yours. Let’s take a look at the different ways Windows lets you customize your icons. Read This Article → How to Set Up Minecraft So Your Kids Can Play Online with Friends Your kids love Minecraft, their friends love Minecraft, and they want to play it together when they can’t be in the same physical place—and they’re begging you to make that happen. Don’t worry, you don’t have to figure it out on your own: we’re here to help. Read This Article → How to Customize Nest Cam Notifications Depending on where you have your Nest Cam set up, you might receive more notifications than you really need. However, you can customize your Nest Cam notifications so that you only the receive the ones that you truly care about at times when you need them. Read This Article → How to Enable Developer Mode and Sideload Roku Apps Maybe you’re curious about building your own Roku channels. Maybe you’ve found a Roku channel that you want to use, but there’s no officially supported way to install it. Either way, you need to know how to enable developer mode and sideload a Roku app that isn’t available in the store. Here’s what you need to know. Read This Article → Are Emoji Copyrighted? If you’re out and about shopping at your local Walmart or Target store, you’ve probably noticed a lot of products adorned with emoji, like the seemingly ubiquitous smiling pile of poo. Have you ever wondered if you can just make your own emoji merchandise? Read This Article → How to Set Up an Out Of Office Reply in Outlook for Windows When you know you are going to be out of the office for a few days, you can set up the Out of Office Assistant to reply automatically, letting people know that you are enjoying your vacation while they are stuck at work. Read This Article → How to Install Kodi on Your Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick If you’ve spent any amount of time exploring the set-top box software scene, you’ve likely heard of Kodi. Formerly called XBMC, Kodi can extend your Fire TV’s functionality with more channels and content. The thing is, it can be a bit more difficult to install than on other platforms. Here’s how to do it. Read This Article → How to Automatically Save Your Snapchat Stories Snapchat is already a go-to social network for millennials and teens, and its reach is now growing. You can share your life in auto-disappearing photos, without the fear of one bad photo coming back to haunt you in a job interview a few years later. Read This Article → How to Encrypt Your Windows System Drive With VeraCrypt Some Windows 10 devices ship with “Device Encryption”, but other PCs require you to pay another $99 to get BitLocker on Windows Pro for full-disk encryption. If you’d rather not, you can use the free and open-source VeraCrypt software to get full-disk encryption on any version of Windows. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a FREE PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about Information Security. The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions.Click here to download