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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 Access Android Files and Folders from Windows PC

How to Access Android Files on Windows PC

Want to access Android files from a Windows computer? Here’s how you can do so.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 1, 2016

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How to Perform Screen Recording in Ubuntu Using SimpleScreenRecorder

There are many screencasting tools for Windows and Mac OS, and ironically, there’s no dearth of applications on Linux. In this article you will learn about the functioning of one such tool – SimpleScreenRecorder.

By Himanshu Arora – Feb 29, 2016

How to Change the Default Font to Lucida Grande in the OS X El Capitan

How to Change the Default Font to Lucida Grande in OS X El Capitan

If you don’t like the new font used in OS X, here’s how you can change the default font in El Capitan to Lucida Grande.

By Mahesh Makvana – Feb 27, 2016

How To Block Edge Browser In Windows 10

How to Block the Edge Browser in Windows 10

If you’re not a fan of the Microsoft Edge browser and want to get rid of it in Windows 10, this tutorial will show you how it’s done.

By Judy Sanhz – Feb 24, 2016

How to Extend the Gnome 3 Panel to Dual Monitors

How to Extend the Gnome 3 Panel to Dual Monitors

If you’re a Gnome 3 user with dual monitors, you only get one screen with a taskbar and workspace switcher. Here’s how to make it appear on both monitors.

By Derrik Diener – Feb 24, 2016

How to Disable Contacts Found in Mail on Your Mac

How to Disable Contacts Found in Mail on Your Mac

Using the Mail app on Mac? There’s a feature that constantly scans your emails and finds contacts to add. Want to turn this off? Here’s how to disable contacts scanning.

By Mahesh Makvana – Feb 23, 2016

How to Change the Login Screen Wallpaper in OS X El Capitan

How to Change the Login Screen Wallpaper in OS X El Capitan

Bored with the default login screen wallpaper in OS X El Capitan? Luckily, you can change it without any third-party apps. Here’s how.

By Mahesh Makvana – Feb 22, 2016

How to Create VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) in Windows

How to Create VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) in Windows

A Virtual Hard Disk is a simple container file that mimics the file structure and other elements of a physical hard disk drive. Here’s how to create one in Windows.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 22, 2016

How to Make Windows Send Email Notification on User Login

How to Make Windows Send Email Notifications on User Login

If you’re managing multiple Windows users accounts or just want to keep tabs on things, here’s how you can get email notifications of user logins.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 21, 2016

Make Command Prompt A Different Color In Windows 10

Make the Command Prompt a Different Color in Windows 10

Tired of the same old boring command prompt theme in Windows 10? Here’s how to change its background color and text color.

By Judy Sanhz – Feb 20, 2016

How to Show Custom Message At Windows 10 Login Screen

How to Show Custom Message on the Windows 10 Login Screen

Want to display a custom message on the Windows 10 login screen for others to see or as a reminder to yourself before logging in? Here’s how to do that.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 18, 2016

Introducing The Fishery: Plugins for Fish Shell

Introducing The Fishery: Plugins for Fish Shell

The Fishery is a plugin repository for Fish Shell (a replacement shell for Bash that has a lot of features going for it). Check it out.

By Derrik Diener – Feb 18, 2016

How to Use Windows Defender Offline to Clear Persistent Infections

How to Use Windows Defender Offline to Clear Persistent Infections

Microsoft recently introduced Windows Defender Offline. It can be used to scan and remove nasty viruses and malware. Here’s how to use this antivirus program offline.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 17, 2016

How to Bypass the Password Prompt When Downloading Free Apps From the Mac App Store

How to Bypass the Password Prompt When Downloading Free Apps from the Mac App Store

Tired of having to enter your password when downloading free apps in the Mac App Store? Here’s how to bypass the password prompt for free apps.

By Mahesh Makvana – Feb 16, 2016

How To Get Rid Of SkyDrive Pro In The Windows 10 Context Menu

How to Remove “SkyDrive Pro” Option from Windows 10 Context Menu

If you’re not a SkyDrive (OneDrive) user or if you don’t want this option in the right-click context menu, here is how you can get rid of it.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 16, 2016

How To Hinder Upgrades To Windows 10

How to Hinder System Upgrades in Windows 10

Tired of Windows 10 automatically running system upgrades on your machine? Here’s what you can do to slow down those annoying reminders and defer upgrades.

By Judy Sanhz – Feb 15, 2016

How to Create an HTML Signature For Emails in Mail for OS X

How to Create an HTML Signature in Mail for OS X

In order to create an HTML signature in the Mail app on your Mac, you need to go through a nifty trick that gets the job done for you. Here’s how it works.

By Mahesh Makvana – Feb 13, 2016

Why You Shouldn't Disable User Access Control Feature in Windows

Why You Shouldn’t Disable the User Access Control Feature in Windows

Annoyed by UAC prompts when installing software or making changes in Windows? You’ll just have to deal with it. Here’s why you should not disable user access control in Windows!

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 5, 2016

Use QuickTime to Easily Extract Audio from Video Files in Mac [Quick Tips]

Most people think of QuickTime as a video player, but it has the capability to extract audio from video files. Here’s how.

By Damien Oh – Feb 3, 2016

Easily Clean Your Mac Using Dr. Cleaner

Easily Clean Your Mac Using Dr. Cleaner

Dr. Cleaner is a free Mac utility app that helps to clean your Mac and provides you with better computer performance by optimizing your Mac OS X disk and memory. Here’s how it works.

By Jeffry Thurana – Feb 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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