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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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Picty is a Simple and Easy to Use Photo Manager for Ubuntu

If you’re on Linux and looking for a good photo manager, Picty is highly recommended as simple to use and can support large photo collections. Let’s check it out.

By Himanshu Arora – Apr 28, 2015

Two Ways to Hide Disk Partitions in Windows

Two Ways to Hide Disk Partitions in Windows

Hiding drives or partitions in Windows isn’t hard & can be helpful in different scenarios (i.e. lending your laptop to a guest). Here’s what to do.

By Vamsi Krishna – Apr 28, 2015

How to Effectively Create and Manage User Accounts in Windows

How to Effectively Create and Manage User Accounts in Windows

Windows has a computer management setting that extends control over user creation & management. Here’s how to effectively create & manage user accounts.

By Vamsi Krishna – Apr 27, 2015

How to Capture Screenshots Without Drop Shadows on Your Mac

How to Capture Screenshots Without Drop Shadows on Your Mac

While the screenshots with drop shadows look good, some may prefer plain captures. Here are three ways to capture a screenshot without drop shadows.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 27, 2015

Two Ways to Convert Videos For Free on Your Mac

Two Ways to Convert Videos for Free on Your Mac

You don’t really need to install third-party apps to convert videos on Mac. Here’s how you can convert video easily and for free in Mac OS X.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 25, 2015

Make Your Audio Sound Better With Pulse Audio Equalizer on Ubuntu

Make Your Audio Sound Better with Pulse Audio Equalizer on Ubuntu

You might find yourself disappointed that you can’t tweak your Linux sound setup to have an equalizer. Luckily, Pulse Audio Equalizer can help with the rescue.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 24, 2015

How to Lock the Display on Your Mac When You Are Away

Ways to Easily Lock the Display of Your Mac When You Are Away

There are multiple ways to lock the display on a Mac, and it’s up to you to decide which one you want to use. Here are all of them.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 24, 2015

How to Make Smart Mailboxes Deliver

How to Make Smart Mailboxes Deliver [Mac]

In this article, we organise your communications with Smart Mailboxes to help you ignore the clutter and focus on your important correspondence.

By Phil South – Apr 23, 2015

Icecream PDF Split and Merge Review

Easily Split and Merge PDF in Windows with PDF Split & Merge

Are you looking for ways to split your PDF files or merge multiple PDFs into one document? Icecream PDF Split & Merge can get this done easily. Check it out.

By Vamsi Krishna – Apr 22, 2015

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In this article, we will learn how easy it is to customise your terminal window in Mac OS X to make it more readable and also more fun to use.

By Phil South – Apr 21, 2015

How to Enforce Password Rules on Users in Windows

How to Enforce Password Rules on Users in Windows

If you are a Windows administrator managing multiple user accounts or computers, here’s how you can enforce password rules to keep computers safe.

By Vamsi Krishna – Apr 20, 2015

Change the Colour of File Names in Windows

Change the Colour of File Names in Windows

Are you looking for ways to change the color of the file name in Windows? This is possible, albeit limited. Here’s the step-by-step guide.

By Paul Ferson – Apr 19, 2015

Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive Easily with Gnome Disk Utility

Back Up and Restore Your Hard Drive Easily with Gnome Disk Utility

Having only one hard drive to hold your personal files can be dangerous. This is why backing up your hard drive via Gnome disk utility is essential.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 17, 2015

How to Find Large Files on Your Mac

How to Find Large Files on Your Mac

This guide will help you find large files on your Mac that you don’t use anymore and delete them to free up space for new files.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 14, 2015

How to Check and Monitor Hard Disk Health on Linux with Smartmontools

How to Check and Monitor Hard Disk Health on Linux with Smartmontools

Smartmontools is a free software package that takes advantage of modern hard drives with SMART capabilities. It can monitor your drives and report errors. Let’s check it out.

By Obaro Ogbo – Apr 14, 2015

Batch Image Processing with ImBatch

Batch Image Processing Made Easy with ImBatch [Windows]

If you want a batch image processor that can do all kinds of things, then ImBatch is a must-have tool due to its powerful features and ease of use.

By Vamsi Krishna – Apr 14, 2015

How to Disable GTK3 Client-Side Decorations on Ubuntu

How to Disable GTK3 Client-Side Decorations on Ubuntu

Outside of Gnome Shell, client-side decorations on windows can be quite annoying. Luckily, someone has created some software to bypass these decorations.

By Derrik Diener – Apr 13, 2015

How to Stop iPhoto From Automatically Launching When You Connect A Device

How to Stop iPhoto from Automatically Launching When You Connect a Device

The iPhoto app automatically launches each time you connect your iPhone or a media device to your Mac. Here’s how to stop it from automatically launching.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 12, 2015

12-inch Macbook Versus 13-inch MacBook Pro (2015)

12-inch Macbook Versus 13-inch MacBook Pro (2015): Which One Should You Choose?

While it might be a no-brainer for some people, it is still worth deliberating the merits of each MacBook model. Find out which MacBook you should choose.

By Irene Enriquez – Apr 11, 2015

How to Control Multimedia Content with Gestures on Your Mac

How to Control Multimedia Content with Gestures on Your Mac

ControlAir is a free app on the Mac App Store that lets you control your machine using your hand gestures. Here’s how to get started with it.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 10, 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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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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