How (and Why) to Replace Your Outlets with GFCI Outlets
In pretty much every house where an outlet is close to a water source, you’ll usually find what’s called a ground fault circuit interrupter...Read More
Geek Trivia: Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Carried Which Of These Mementos From Her Deceased Husband?
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Carried Which Of These Mementos From Her Deceased Husband? His Hair His Teeth His Heart His Ri...Read More
How to Use a Raspberry Pi as a Networked Time Machine Drive For Your Mac
Why spend $300 on an AirPort Time Capsule when you can make one yourself with a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive? It takes a little ...Read More
How to Prevent Safari from Checking to See if You Use Apple Pay
Apple Pay’s incorporation into macOS Sierra makes it really easy to pay using the service on your Mac with your iPhone or iPad. But that do...Read More
How to Make Windows Automatically Create a System Restore Point at Startup
By default, System Restore automatically creates a restore point once per week and also before major events like an app or driver installat...Read More
How to Find Your Missing USB Drive in Windows 7, 8, and 10
USB drives should automatically appear in Windows Explorer when you connect them to your computer. Follow these troubleshooting steps if Wi...Read More
What Is Apple CarPlay, and Is It Better Than Just Using a Phone in Your Car?
You get in your car, connect your phone to the Bluetooth head unit, and toss it in the dock. For the next umpteen amount of minutes/hours, ...Read More
How to Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7
If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 but don’t love what you see, there are ways to make Windows 10 look and act like Windows 7. That way, you ...Read More
Geek Trivia: Which Of These Animals Has The Fastest Tongue?
Which Of These Animals Has The Fastest Tongue? King Cobra Hummingbird Gecko Chameleon Think you know the answer? via: ...Read More
How to Install Ubuntu Linux on Your Chromebook with Crouton
Chromebooks aren’t “just a browser”—they’re Linux laptops. You can easily install a full Linux desktop alongside alongside Chrome OS and in...Read More
Geek Trivia: The Modern Celebration Of Halloween Was Heavily Influenced By The Festival Of?
The Modern Celebration Of Halloween Was Heavily Influenced By The Festival Of? Devil's Night Pitru Paksha Samhain El DÃa de...Read More
Five Ways to Customize Android that iOS Still Can’t Match
Android is very customizable–many of its features are just defaults, and can be swapped out for third-party alternatives without any rootin...Read More
How to Install and Set Up the Kuna Home Security Camera
The Kuna Home Security Camera is a porch light fixture that installs and works just like any other porch light, but with a security camera ...Read More
Geek Trivia: Which U.S. State Capital Has No Roads Linking It To The Surrounding Land?
Which U.S. State Capital Has No Roads Linking It To The Surrounding Land? Providence, Rhode Island Juneau, Alaska Honolulu, Hawa...Read More
How to Supercharge Your Halloween Like a Pro with a Digital Projector
Halloween is one of those holidays that really brings out the tinkerer in a lot of geeks. There’s a veritable laundry list of things to dep...Read More
How to Reset Your HomeKit Devices and Configuration
Apple’s HomeKit home control and automation system is largely plug, play, and enjoy, but sometimes stubborn devices need a nudge to play ni...Read More
Where Are My Outlook PST Data Files, and How Can I Move Them Somewhere Else?
Most people know that Outlook stores email for each account in a personal table storage (PST) file, but figuring out where that file is loc...Read More
How to Easily Change the Case of Text in LibreOffice Writer
We’ve all done it before. We’re typing fast and then realize that we had the Caps Lock key on and the case on our text is bACKWARDS. That’s...Read More
Full License Giveaway: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum V7.5.17 [Sponsored]
Streaming is perceived as better now and is overtaking discs according to data such as declining Netflix DVD subscribers. But DVD did reign...Read More
How “Trusted Devices” Work on Windows 10 (and Why You No Longer Need to “Trust This PC”)
Windows 8 asked you to “Trust This PC” after you signed in with a Microsoft account. This message is gone in Windows 10, replaced with a ne...Read More
How to Update the Windows Bash Shell to Ubuntu 16.04
Starting with the Windows 10 Creators Update, which comes out this spring, anyone who installs the Bash environment will get Ubuntu 16.04 (...Read More
The Biggest Design Mistakes Apple Has Made in the Past Two Years
Apple has lost its mojo. Their obsessive attention to detail seems to have slipped away. Click Here to Continue Reading via: howtogeek....Read More
Why Does Linux Allow Users to Remove the Root Directory?
Most of the time, none of us willingly performs an action that will literally break our operating systems and force us to reinstall them. B...Read More
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