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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 Easiest Way to Manage Dotfiles Using GNU Stow

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This AI Assistant Makes the Linux Desktop Much Smarter

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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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You Can Now Share Your Chromebook Screen With Others

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How to Change the Launchpad Layout on Your Mac

How to Change the Launchpad Layout on Your Mac

Want to change up the Launchpad layout on your Mac? The following method lets you change the number of rows and columns for apps in Launchpad.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 22, 2016

An iPad-like Launcher For Windows

PaperPlane: An iPad-like Launcher For Windows

PaperPlane is a free app that acts as a smart launcher for Windows; you access frequently used apps, folders, and more using an iPad-like launcher.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 21, 2016

How to Stop the Cursor From Getting Bigger in OS X El Capitan

How to Stop the Cursor from Getting Bigger in OS X El Capitan

In El Capitan you can find where the cursor is by shaking your fingers on the trackpad to make the cursor get bigger. Don’t like this effect? Here’s how to disable it.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 20, 2016

How to Adjust Volume and Brightness in Smaller Increments on Your Mac

How to Adjust Volume and Brightness in Smaller Increments on Your Mac

There’s now a way to change both volume and brightness on your Mac in smaller increments. The trick allows you to change levels in as small as 25% of the default bar.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 19, 2016

How to Hide the Menu Bar in OS X El Capitan

How to Hide the Menu Bar in OS X El Capitan

Did you know there’s a way to automatically hide the menu bar on your Mac so that you don’t see it unless you move your cursor near it? Here’s how it’s done.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 18, 2016

Control Your Windows Desktop With Your Xbox 360 Controller

Control Your Windows Desktop with Your Xbox 360 Controller

In this article we show you how to utilize your Xbox 360 controller to control your Windows PC with the help of Gopher360, an open-source application.

By Christopher Harper – Mar 17, 2016

9 Little Tweaks To Make Big Improvements in Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with many features to help you in your productivity, but you can make further improvements with these tips and tricks. Let’s check them out.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 16, 2016

Turn Off Your Monitor Automatically When You Lock Windows

Turn Off Your Monitor Automatically When You Lock Windows

When you lock your Windows computer, the display or monitor won’t turn itself off. Here’s how to turn off your monitor automatically when you lock the computer.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 15, 2016

How to Configure and Use VPNBook in Windows

How to Configure and Use VPNBook in Windows

VPNBook is a free VPN service provider that puts no limit on bandwidth. If you only want a VPN for casual things, VPNBook is a good choice. Check it out.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 14, 2016

How to Find the Uptime of Your Mac

How to Find the Uptime of Your Mac

Looking to find the uptime of your Mac? There are two ways to see this info, neither requiring a third-party app. Here are those methods.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 13, 2016

Mapping OneDrive As Network Drive In Windows 10

Mapping OneDrive as Network Drive in Windows 10

If you loved the OneDrive placeholder feature, then you can simulate that by mapping OneDrive as a network drive in Windows 10. Here’s how.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 12, 2016

How to Add a Location to an Image in Photos for Mac

How to Add a Location to an Image in Photos for Mac

If you have images that do not have location data embedded, here’s how you can add a location to an image in Mac.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 12, 2016

How to Try Out OpenShot 2.0 Beta

How to Try OpenShot 2.0 Beta in Linux

OpenShot is a fairly famous simple video editor for Linux. The new version is in public beta. Here’s how to get it installed and working.

By Derrik Diener – Mar 11, 2016

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Filepane for Mac: Add Useful Drag-and-Drop Actions to Improve Your Productivity

Filepane is a nifty little tool for Mac to add useful drag-and-drop actions to your system and allow you to complete mundane tasks quickly. Let’s check it out.

By Damien Oh – Mar 10, 2016

Improve Your Mac Sound Quality with Boom

Improve Your Mac Sound Quality with Boom

Not 100% happy with the sound quality when listening to music or watching videos on your Mac and yearning for more? Check out Boom 2.

By Jeffry Thurana – Mar 7, 2016

How to Install Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi

How to Install Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi has been around a few years but only ARM-based OSes could be installed – until now. Here’s how to install Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi.

By Derrik Diener – Mar 4, 2016

Liquid Info - The Fastest Way to Get More Information on Selected Text

Liquid – The Fastest Way to Get More Information on Selected Text [Mac]

Meet Liquid, your free personal search bar for Mac that helps to simplify the process of getting more information on selected text.

By Jeffry Thurana – Mar 4, 2016

Download Any Video from the Web with Downie

Download Any Video from the Web with Downie

Downie is a Mac-only video downloader tool that is very easy to use. After installing a browser extension, you can download any video from a site just by clicking the browser extension’s icon.

By Jeffry Thurana – Mar 3, 2016

How to Empty the Trash Securely in OS X El Capitan

How to Empty the Trash Securely in OS X El Capitan

While the secure empty trash option is gone in OS X El Capitan, there is still a way to do it if needed. Here’s how to empty the trash securely on your Mac using a Terminal command.

By Mahesh Makvana – Mar 3, 2016

Easily Mount and Manage VHD with Simple VHD Manager

Easily Mount and Manage VHD with Simple VHD Manager

Windows allows you to create and manage VHDs using native tools. However, if you want to make your work much easier, here’s how to mount and manage VHD using Simple VHD Manager.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 2, 2016

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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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Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

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.

Jun 10, 2026

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