What Is JavaScript, and Why Is Gmail Blocking It?

Did You Know? The Dalai Lama has a rare and very valuable Patek Philippe Reference 658 watch, gifted to him by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943. Geek Trivia Which Of These Movie Theater Staples Was Originally Banned In Early Movie Theaters? Popcorn → Soda → Hot Dogs → Candy → Advertisement Download Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition ($20 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Is hacking something left up to the bad guys? Certainly not! Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your system to better protect your network against malicious attacks. This revised text helps you recognize any vulnerabilities that are lurking in your system, allowing you to fix them before someone else finds them.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Use SSH Tunneling to Access Restricted Servers and Browse Securely How to Block Someone on WhatsApp What Is JavaScript, and Why Is Gmail Blocking It? How to Quiet Your Mechanical Keyboard with Switch Dampeners How to Turn Off the Status Light on Your Nest Cam How to Install and Configure Add-Ons in Kodi The Complete Guide to Mastering Tabs in Safari How to Configure and Rearrange Windows 10’s Action Center Shortcuts How to Set Up and Use Samsung Gear VR How to Configure a Proxy Server in Firefox How to Electronically Sign PDF Documents Without Printing and Scanning Them Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Inode An Inode (short for Index Node or Identification Node) is a Unix file system index entry that stores the description for a file (unique number, file name, date, size, read/write permissions, and pointer to the file’s location). 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. One Reason Staffers Quit Google's Car Project? The Company Paid Them So Much For the past year, Google's car project has been a talent sieve, thanks to leadership changes, strategy doubts, new startup dreams and rivals luring self-driving technology experts. Another force pushing people out? Money. A lot of it.  [Bloomberg] Stranger Things will run "four or five seasons," according to showrunners Stranger Things will run for a few more seasons following its second this fall, showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer confirmed today. [Polygon] Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that identify visitors based on the digital fingerprint their browsers leave behind. [ArsTechnica] Dubai Will Have the World's First Rotating Skyscraper by 2020 By 2020, Dubai—the futuristic city in the United Arab Emirates—will be home to an 80-story rotating skyscraper, called the "Dynamic Tower," proposed in 2008 by Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher. [Motherboard] How to Use SSH Tunneling to Access Restricted Servers and Browse Securely An SSH client connects to a Secure Shell server, which allows you to run terminal commands as if you were sitting in front of another computer. But an SSH client also allows you to “tunnel” a port between your local system and a remote SSH server. Read This Article → How to Block Someone on WhatsApp WhatsApp is a great service, but anyone with your phone number can message you through it. Whether you want to stop a particular spambot or former friend from contacting you, here's how to do it. Read This Article → What Is JavaScript, and Why Is Gmail Blocking It? You might have seen a notification that things are changing in your inbox. Starting February 2017, Gmail changed its policy regarding JavaScript. Here’s why this is changing, and how you can protect yourself from malicious JavaScript. Read This Article → How to Quiet Your Mechanical Keyboard with Switch Dampeners Mechanical keyboards are known for their distinct sound, but that doesn’t mean that you (or those you share your living space with) are very fond of the loud clatter. Thankfully, it’s incredibly easy and inexpensive to dial down the volume with switch dampeners. Read This Article → How to Turn Off the Status Light on Your Nest Cam By default, the Nest Cam has a status light on the front that’s fairly subtle, but can still be distracting depending on how you use the camera. Here’s how to turn it off. Read This Article → How to Install and Configure Add-Ons in Kodi Kodi can do a lot out of the box. If you’ve got a collection of ripped Blu-Rays and CDs, you can browse them from your couch with a beautiful interface. If you’ve got a TV tuner card, you can watch live TV with NextPVR. As local media players go, it’s very complete. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Mastering Tabs in Safari Tabs, glorious tabs! Every web browser now has them, including Apple’s Safari. In fact, tabs have been a part of Safari since the very beginning, but there’s a lot more to them than you may have realized. Let’s walk you through and show you all you need to know to become a Safari tab master. Read This Article → How to Configure and Rearrange Windows 10’s Action Center Shortcuts The Quick actions buttons at the bottom of the Action Center of are a great way to quickly connect to your VPN, take down a note, or launch the Settings app with a single click. But, did you know you can also customize these buttons to your specific tastes? Read This Article → How to Set Up and Use Samsung Gear VR So you’ve got your Samsung Galaxy device and the company’s accompanying virtual reality headset, Gear VR. That’s awesome! Gear VR provides a great, inexpensive taste of what virtual reality has to offer. Let’s show you how to get that thing all set up and running so you can strap it your face and travel to far away lands. Get hype. Read This Article → How to Configure a Proxy Server in Firefox If you want to send your web browser traffic—and only your browser traffic—through a proxy, Mozilla Firefox is a great option. It uses your system-wide proxy settings by default, but you can configure separate proxy settings for Firefox only. Read This Article → How to Electronically Sign PDF Documents Without Printing and Scanning Them You’ve been emailed a document, and you have to sign it and send it back. You could print out the document, sign it, and then scan it back in and email it. But there’s a better, faster way. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition ($20 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Is hacking something left up to the bad guys? Certainly not! Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your system to better protect your network against malicious attacks. This revised text helps you recognize any vulnerabilities that are lurking in your system, allowing you to fix them before someone else finds them.Click here to download