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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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Linux

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A Complete Guide to Dotfile Management with GNU Stow

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 Rename Administrator Account in Windows

How to Rename Administrator Account in Windows

One of the best security practices is to rename the Administrator account to deter attackers. Here’s how to rename the Administrator account in Windows.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 23, 2015

How to Manually Adjust the Color Temperature on Your Mac

How to Manually Adjust the Color Temperature on Your Mac

If you don’t like to install apps like Flux, you can still manually adjust the color temperature on your Mac. Here are the steps to follow.

By Irene Enriquez – Mar 22, 2015

Chat With Your Steam Friends in Pidgin or Empathy on Linux

How to Add Steam Chat to Pidgin or Empathy on Linux

It is kind of a pain to have to open Steam just to chat with your friends. Here is how you can bypass this by adding Steam chat to Pidgin on Linux.

By Derrik Diener – Mar 21, 2015

Revealing Hidden Files on OS X

Revealing Hidden Files on OS X

There are many reasons to expose hidden files and a few ways to turn them on and off. In this article, we will cover the simplest ways.

By Phil South – Mar 19, 2015

Windows Magnifier and its Alternatives

Using Windows Magnifier and Its Alternatives for Easier Reading on the Screen

Not everyone finds reading from a computer screen to be easy. Yes, Windows Magnifier exists, and here are 3 more magnifying alternatives you may prefer.

By Paul Ferson – Mar 18, 2015

How to Restrict Access to Windows Administrative Tools

How to Restrict Access to Windows Administrative Tools

If you are a Windows administrator, it’s only natural to want to restrict users from easily accessing Administrative Tools. This is how to do that.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 18, 2015

How to Create Your Own NAS With GlusterFS

GlusterFS provides network storage which has the ability to be made fault-tolerant, redundant and scalable. Here’s how you can set up your own NAS.

By Sarah Li Cain – Mar 17, 2015

How to Publish Podcasts to iTunes with OS X

How to Publish Podcasts to iTunes with OS X

In this article, we show how to manually code, submit and host your podcasts so they appear and pop up on iTunes for your future subscribers to download.

By Phil South – Mar 17, 2015

6 Cool Uses of Linux Live CDs

In case you are wondering, here are a few useful and important reasons why you might want to have a Linux live CD with you all the time.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 17, 2015

Recover Files from Ext3/Ext4 Filesystem with Linux

Recover Files From Ext3/Ext4 Filesystem with Linux Live CD

Accidentally deleted your files in your Linux machine? Here is how you can recover files from Ext3/Ext4 filesystem with a Linux live CD.

By Obaro Ogbo – Mar 16, 2015

15 NirSoft Utilities Every Windows User Should Have

NirSoft has some of the best free and portable Windows utilities; it’s the perfect software library. Here are 15 NirSoft Utilities for you to check out.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 16, 2015

Organize Your Notes With CherryTree

CherryTree: A Powerful Notepad For Easy Note Taking

CherryTree, an Evernote client written in Python for Linux and Windows, lets you organize notes in a smart and logical way. Let’s check it out.

By Ivana Isadora Devcic – Mar 13, 2015

Generate Spoken Samples using Voiceover on OS X

How to Easily Create Audiobooks From Text Files in OS X

Did you know that you can use the Voiceover system in Mac OS X to produce audiobooks and spoken word prompts? In this article, we’ll show you how.

By Phil South – Mar 12, 2015

Beginners guide to installing, using, and configuring Net-SNMP - Part 2

Beginners Guide to Installing, Using, and Configuring Net-SNMP – Part 2

In part 2 of this series, we explain how you can configure the Net-SNMP agent as well as set up authentication and encryption.

By Himanshu Arora – Mar 12, 2015

Hack Old USB Drives into a Mini RAID on a Mac

Do you have a lot of old USB thumb drives lying around? This article explains how to turn old USB drives into a mini RAID on Mac OS X to give them new life.

By Phil South – Mar 10, 2015

How to Map a Crouton Installation to An External Device (Chromebook)

The problem with a Chromebook is its low storage space. The good news is, you can easily setup Crouton installations (for Linux) on an external device. Here’s how.

By Derrik Diener – Mar 10, 2015

What is EMET and How to Use it to Secure your Windows Computer

What is EMET and How to Use it to Secure your Windows Computer

EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) is one of the best and lesser known security tools by Microsoft. Here’s an in-depth look at how to use it.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 9, 2015

How to Prevent Users From Installing Removable Devices in Windows

How to Prevent Users From Installing Removable Devices in Windows

Blocking the installation of external removable devices renders them inaccessible and it is helpful in an organization environment. Here’s how it’s done.

By Vamsi Krishna – Mar 7, 2015

Beginners guide to installing, using, and configuring Net-SNMP - Part 2

Beginners Guide to Installing, Using, and Configuring Net-SNMP – Part 1

SNMP is a protocol for monitoring network-attached devices. This article shows you how to download, install, and start using the Net-SNMP suite.

By Himanshu Arora – Mar 6, 2015

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Simplify File Management With File Manager Gold for Windows 8

File Manager Gold for Windows 8 brings back the 80-90’s way of navigating the window. Let’s check it out and see how it works.

By Maria Krisette Capati – Mar 5, 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

Jun 15, 2026

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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