How to Automatically Reboot Your Router the Geeky Way

Did You Know? When you lose weight, the by-product of the fat loss is removed from your body as gases and liquids; for every 10 kilograms of fat you lose, 8.4 kilograms is released from your body via exhaled carbon dioxide and 1.6 kilograms is released as water via sweating, urination, and other excretions. Geek Trivia Traditionally The Irish Scare Away Spirits On New Year’s With? Bread → Broken Bottles → Pots → Firecrackers → Advertisement Download Network Security For Dummies -- eBook (usually $22.99) FREE until January 1st! Get quick, easy, low-cost solutions to all your network security concerns. Click here to download Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Snake Oil In the context of computing, Snake Oil is a slang term for a software product that has been proven to fail in living up to the claims and promises made about the product’s capabilities by a company’s marketing department. What We're Reading from Around the Web The Actual Future Is So Much Cooler Than Back to the Future II Predicted [The Atlantic] NSA has VPNs in Vulcan death grip—no, really, that's what they call it [ArsTechnica] The weird, wonderful world of high-end personal audio [The Verge] Space Station Crew Gets to Celebrate New Year's Eve 16 Times [NBC] Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet [FiveThirtyEight] The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape [Priceonomics] How to Automatically Reboot Your Router the Geeky Way Verizon FIOS is great — the speeds are incredible, and the price is… well, kinda expensive. The real problem is that the terrible router they give you needs to be rebooted all the time, which is a royal pain considering it’s down in the basement. Plus I don’t want to get off the couch. Read This Article → How to Use Label to Rename Drives from the Windows Command Prompt Label is a another handy tool that you can use though the command prompt application. As its name suggests, its main function is to edit disk labels which is useful if you use many external drives or mapped drives and want to label them for specific uses. Read This Article → How to Manage Notifications on iPhone and iPad Android users have been a spoiled bunch when it comes to device notifications. iPhone and iPad users had to wait until 2011 to see a notification center appear on their devices. It works pretty well though it handles things much differently than its Google counterpart. Read This Article → How to Move a Window to a Different Space the Easy Way in Mac OS X The Mission Control virtual desktops feature built into OS X is really nice, but the one annoyance is that moving windows to a different Space is a little tedious. You can right-click on the icon in the dock, but that’s hardly a solution. Here’s how to do it the easy way. Read This Article → Stop Testing Software on Your PC: Use Virtual Machine Snapshots Instead We’ve long railed against registry cleaners and system tuners as useless products that waste your money, but how do you go about cleaning up after uninstalling shady freeware? Answer: You don’t. You avoid installing nonsense on your PC to begin with by testing everything in a virtual machine first. Snapshots just make it easier. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 9 Lethal Linux Commands You Should Never Run Linux can be a double-edged sword. It assumes that you know what you're doing and gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. It won't question you. This is convenient when you actually know what you're doing, but it also means that you could conceivably render your system unusable within seconds. Click here to download