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When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug that caused it to crash on the new operating system—but instead of forcing the game studio to fix it, Microsoft engineers actually rewrote the core Windows 95 source code to detect if SimCity was running and safely allocate memory for it.

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The Myth of Linux Optimization Tools, and Why You Really Don’t Need Them At All

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Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs wanted users to reach for the mouse first. Then Apple quietly sold the missing keys as an accessory.

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Protect Yourself From the macOS Flaw that Bypasses Apple Privacy Controls

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You Can Now Share Your Chromebook Screen With Others

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Useful Linux Commands to List Contents of a Directory

There are tons of commands that you can run in the Linux terminal, and if you want to list the content of a directory, you can do so with these commands.

By Divya Lakshmanan – Mar 3, 2020

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How to Clean Up Your Mac Hard Drive

It is much easier to fill up a hard drive than to free up space on it. Here are some ways to clean up your Mac hard drive and improve its performance.

By David Joz – Mar 2, 2020

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What CBR and CBZ Files Are and How to Read Them in Linux

You may have come across CBR and CBZ files and are not sure what they are. Here is how you can read and make CBR and CBZ files in LInux.

By Odysseas Kourafalos – Feb 26, 2020

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How to Create Thumbnail Sheets for Your Videos in Linux

Thumbnail sheets are image files containing frames from a video. You can easily create thumbnail sheets from video with readily available tools.

By Odysseas Kourafalos – Feb 25, 2020

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How to Do Spelling Checks in the Linux Terminal

Do you know that Linux has its very own command-line spellcheck utility to check your writing in the Terminal? Here’s how to use aspell to spellcheck in Linux.

By Divya Lakshmanan – Feb 24, 2020

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How to View Photoshop Files on a Mac without Photoshop

It can be frustrating when you can’t open Photoshop files on your Mac. Here are some ways to view a Photoshop file on a Mac without Photosop being installed.

By David Joz – Feb 21, 2020

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Get Your Own Cloud-Driven Operating System with FydeOS

Fyde OS is an open-source, cloud-driven operating system from China that offers similar browser-like computing experience as any other Chromium OS.

By Sayak Boral – Feb 21, 2020

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Understanding the Differences Between Soft and Hard Links in Linux

In Linux, you can use a soft or hard link to connect two files together. Check out the differences between soft and hard links and which one you should use.

By Divya Lakshmanan – Feb 20, 2020

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Using find, locate, which and whereis Commands to Search for Files in Linux

There are a few ways to find and locate files from the terminal in Linux. find, locate, which and whereis are some of the commonly used commands to do so.

By Divya Lakshmanan – Feb 19, 2020

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How to Use Your iPhone as a Remote Control in macOS

With macOS Catalina, you can now set up your iPhone as a remote control for Apple TV and Apple Music. Learn how to use your iPhone as a remote control.

By David Joz – Feb 18, 2020

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Mac Had More Malware Detections than PC in 2019

Malwarebytes keeps a log on how many infections it detects per operating system, and for the first time ever, Macs saw a higher infection rate than PCs.

By Simon Batt – Feb 17, 2020

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How to View Pictures as a Slideshow in Windows 10

You can easily view your pictures as slideshow in Windows 10, either from a native Windows app or by using a slideshow-maker app. Find out how.

By Sayak Boral – Feb 16, 2020

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How to Free Up your Hard Disk Space with CompactGUI

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to increase your HDD’s space for free? CompactGUI makes use of transparent compression to compress your files and free up spaces.

By Odysseas Kourafalos – Feb 15, 2020

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How to Access an Android Phone using Kali Linux

Your Android phone have data that hackers been trying to access. Here is a basic demo of how hackers can access your Android phone with Kali Linux.

By Sayak Boral – Feb 14, 2020

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How to Snap or Split-screen Windows in macOS

The Split-screen mode is the best way to work with multiple windows and keep your productivity. Here’s how to snap or split-screen applications in macOS.

By David Joz – Feb 12, 2020

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How to Create a Mac Boot Entry in Grub

If you can’t boot into macOS on a dual boot machine, use the instructions here to add the macOS boot entry in Grub.

By Damien Oh – Feb 12, 2020

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How to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Windows 10

Duplicate files can easily choke your hard drive and make your system slow. Here are a few apps to help you find and delete duplicate files in Windows 10.

By Sayak Boral – Feb 12, 2020

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Why Users Aren’t Migrating From Windows 7

Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows 7, but there is still a considerable chunk of users still holding on to it. Why is this so? Let’s check it out.

By Simon Batt – Feb 11, 2020

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Upgrade Your Linux Terminal with Tilix

Tilix works as a great terminal alternative for your Linux PC. Let’s see how you can use it to turn your terminal into a modern and efficient workspace.

By Odysseas Kourafalos – Feb 11, 2020

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How to Control Your Startup Items With Startup Delayer [Windows]

Startup Delayer allows us to control the startup items in Windows and delay the loading of all applications that auto-start when we login to our desktop.

By Odysseas Kourafalos – Feb 8, 2020

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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

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Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

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The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

Jun 11, 2026

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Jun 10, 2026

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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