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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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How to Add PIN Security to Your Windows 10 Account

How to Add PIN Security to Your Windows 10 Account

Looking for extra Windows security? In this article we show you how to add PIN security to your Windows 10 account and explain why it’s a better option.

By Karrar Haider – Nov 9, 2015

How to Get Videos to Float Over Existing Windows on Your Mac

How to Get Videos to Float Over Existing Windows on a Mac

If you would like videos to float over your existing windows while using your Mac, you can do so using a free Mac app called Helium. Here’s how it works.

By Mahesh Makvana – Nov 6, 2015

How to Set Up AWStats On Ubuntu 14.04

How to Set Up AWStats On Ubuntu Server

AWStats is an open-source web analytics reporting tool that generates advanced web, streaming, FTP or mail server statistics, graphically. Here’s how to set up AWstats in Ubuntu.

By Hitesh Jethva – Nov 6, 2015

How to Check a File's Checksum on a Mac

How to Check a File’s Checksum on a Mac

In order to ensure the integrity of downloaded files, some websites give you a checksum to compare to. If you’re on a Mac, you can use Terminal to check a file’s checksum. Here’s how.

By Mahesh Makvana – Nov 5, 2015

How to Monitor Progress of a Linux Command Line Operation Using PV Command

How to Monitor the Progress of a Linux Command Line Operation Using PV Command

The pv command, used to monitor the progress of a Linux command line operation, displays related information through a pipeline, including time elapsed, percentage completed & ETA. Here’s how it works.

By Himanshu Arora – Nov 5, 2015

5 Things to Do Before Upgrading to Windows 10

5 Things to Do Before Upgrading to Windows 10

Though the process of upgrading to Windows 10 is simple, there are few things that you should do before upgrading. This article outlines those things.

By Vamsi Krishna – Nov 4, 2015

Corebird, the GTK Twitter Client for Linux

Corebird, the GTK Twitter Client for Linux

Corebird is a desktop Twitter client for Linux that integrates seamlessly into your Gnome or Unity desktop. Here’s how to install and use this handy app.

By Attila Orosz – Nov 3, 2015

VeltOS: An Arch Derivative To Look Forward To

VeltOS: An Arch Derivative to Look Forward To

VeltOS is an Arch-based Linux distro that comes with a custom desktop environment, a unique selection of packages, and a core philosophy that sets it apart. Let’s take a closer look.

By Attila Orosz – Nov 2, 2015

Setting Up Fail2ban to Protect Apache From DDOS Attack

Setting Up Fail2ban to Protect Apache from a DDOS Attack

In this article we explain how to install fail2ban and configure it to monitor logs and protect Apache from malicious authentication failure attempts.

By Hitesh Jethva – Oct 30, 2015

6 Modern Apps for Windows 10 That You Should Try

One of the most improved things about Windows 10 is the new modern apps and how you interact with them. Here are six we feel are worth a try. Check them out!

By Vamsi Krishna – Oct 30, 2015

Lock Your Computer with Your USB Flash Drive and Predator

Predator turns your USB flash drive into a key. Literally. With it you can take your USB flash drive out to lock your computer, and put it back in to unlock it.

By Lori Cline – Oct 29, 2015

How to Delete File Explorer Address Bar History in Windows

How to Delete Windows Explorer Address Bar History in Windows

Just like a web browser, the Windows File Explorer keeps track of your frequently opened files and folders. If you don’t want that, here’s how to delete the File Explorer address bar history.

By Vamsi Krishna – Oct 28, 2015

Setting up Apache Server with SSL Support on Ubuntu

Setting up Apache Server with SSL Support on Ubuntu

In this article we explain how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for Apache which will allow you to encrypt traffic to your Apache server.

By Hitesh Jethva – Oct 28, 2015

Quickly Recover Deleted Files, Folders and Partitions - Active Undelete Review and Giveaway

Quickly Recover Deleted Files, Folders and Partitions with Active Undelete

To recover deleted files, you need is a powerful data recovery software like Active Undelete for Windows. Enter to win a license in our giveaway.

By Vamsi Krishna – Oct 27, 2015

How to Extract Individual Audio Tracks from CDs with Flacon

How to Extract Individual Audio Tracks from CDs with Flacon

Flacon, a software for Linux, can extract single audio tracks with all relevant information from CD images and convert them into various file formats. Here’s how.

By Attila Orosz – Oct 27, 2015

How To Pin Sites to the Safari Browser in OS X El Capitan

How to Pin Sites to the Safari Browser in OS X El Capitan

Safari in OS X 10.11 El Capitan has a useful feature: pinned sites. It appears as a tiny square icon, located to the left of your tabs and never goes away.

By Shujaa Imran – Oct 26, 2015

Meet Simon, the Linux Speech Recognition Engine

Meet Simon, the Linux Speech Recognition Engine

Simon is for Linux what Siri is for iOS. The difference is that Simon is a lot more controllable. It can be fully trained to recognize voice commands. Here’s a closer look.

By Attila Orosz – Oct 25, 2015

How to Manage Your To-Do Lists in Ubuntu Using Go For It Application

How to Manage Your To-Do Lists in Ubuntu Using Go For It Application

Go For It is a simple and stylish productivity app for Ubuntu, featuring a to-do list merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. Check it out.

By Himanshu Arora – Oct 23, 2015

How to Set up Password Protect Web Directory in Apache

How to Set Up the Password Protect Web Directory in Apache

This article shows how you can password protect a folder in Apache using .htaccess in Ubuntu 14.04 if you want to limit access to one of your apps.

By Hitesh Jethva – Oct 22, 2015

How to See File Checksums in Windows

How to See File Checksum in Windows

Windows doesn’t have a tool for viewing file checksum by default, so we’re going to show you how to see file checksums using software called HashTab.

By Paul Ferson – Oct 22, 2015

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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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