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Geek Trivia: In Hong Kong, The Majority Of Residents Flush Their Toilets With?
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How to Automatically Pause Your Music When Other Sounds Start Playing
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How to Turn on Line Numbers in vim
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Geek Trivia: The Largest Single Source Of Dust Pollution In The United States Is A?
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Philips Hue Lights
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Geek Trivia: The Highest Grade Of Leather Is Called?
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Four Tools That Automatically Download Stunning Wallpapers Every Day
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How to Create, Rearrange, Organize, and Remove Shortcuts on Your Synology NAS Desktop
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How to Enable Color Filters on Your iPhone or iPad for Easy-on-the-Eyes Reading
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Musicians Composed The Score To Spyro The Dragon?
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How to Show Emergency Medical Information on Your iPhone
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The Most Useful Chat and Bot Commands In Discord
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How to Set Up Your Own Discord Chat Server
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Why You Shouldn’t Turn Off Virtual Memory on Your Mac
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How to Add Attachments in Gmail for Android
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How to Stop Twitter Highlights from Pestering You with Unrelated Notifications
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What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It?
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How to Get More Detailed Weather Info From Alexa
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Geek Trivia: Actor James Doohan Was Awarded An Honorary Degree In?
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How to Install Chrome OS from a USB Drive and Run It on Any PC
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How to Override Chrome’s “Quit Everything” Ctrl+Shift+Q Shortcut
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How to Completely Remove a Book From Your Kindle Library
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How to Activate Third Party Game Codes in Steam
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How to Listen to (and Delete) Every Command You’ve Ever Given to Alexa
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Geek Trivia: Bears In Yellowstone National Park Get A Significant Number Of Calories From Eating?
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What Is launchd, and Why Is It Running on My Mac?
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How to Catch Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Go
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What Is a “Fast” Camera Lens?
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How to Backup / Export a Single Table from a MySQL Database
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Microsoft Paint Was Never Going to Die, But It Made for Good Headlines
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How to Control Your Smarthome Products with the Amazon Echo
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Geek Trivia: Many Of John Hughes’ Films Take Place In The Shared Imaginary Town Of?
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How to Find or Create an RSS Feed for Any Website
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Domino’s Pizza Sucks, So Why Can’t Anyone Else Top Their Tech?
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How to Properly Thread Tweets for Your Tweetstorms
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What’s New in Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update, Arriving September 2017
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How to See Which MySQL Tables are Taking the Most Space
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How to Add IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes Ratings to Your Plex Media Server
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How to Receive an Alexa Alert When Your Amazon Package Is Out for Delivery
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Geek Trivia: The Composition Of The Iconic “Bliss” Windows XP Wallpaper Was Only Possible Because Of?
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Why Don’t Macs Have “Intel Inside” Stickers?
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How to Install (or Move) Apps to Another Drive on Windows 10
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How (and Why) to Disable 2.4GHz Wi-Fi on Your Network
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How to Download Google Maps Data for Offline Navigation on Android or iPhone
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10+ Useful System Tools Hidden in Windows
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How to Test Your Nginx Config File (and Why You Should)
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Geek Trivia: Tamagotchis, The Fad “Pocket Pet” Toy That Swept The Late 1990s, Was Created By What Company?
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Amazon Echo
If you’re new to the Amazon Echo, you probably know most of the basic actions and commands that you can tell Alexa, like playing music, sett...Read More
How to Find or Delete Files Less Than X Minutes Old on Linux
Say you just ran some script that was supposed to move files around or download stuff, or anything else that involves files, and then you re...Read More
Geek Trivia: The Term “Dungeon Master” Belongs To Which Company?
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How to Find Someone’s Phone Number Online
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How to Time a How Long a Terminal Command Takes
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How to Back Up and Restore Your Synology NAS Configuration
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How to Use a Multimeter
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Geek Trivia: When You Play A Video Game So Much You Begin Dreaming About It, You’re Experiencing?
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How to Turn Twitter Threads Into Readable Blog Posts
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How to Use Someone Else’s Music Subscription On a Shared Google Home
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How to Check Your Mac for 32-Bit Applications That Will Stop Working After High Sierra
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How to Install the Beyond Skyrim: Bruma Mod
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How to Run a Cron Job Only on Sunday (or Any Other Day)
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How to Sync Your Desktop PC with Google Drive (and Google Photos)
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How to Get Notified When a Certain Account Tweets
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Why Is the Dialogue So Quiet on My HDTV?
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Geek Trivia: The First Volunteer Computing Project Was Focused On?
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How to Install Applications On a Mac: Everything You Need to Know
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How to Find Public Wi-Fi Using the Facebook App on Your Phone
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How to Format USB Drives Larger Than 32GB With FAT32 on Windows
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What to Do If Clicks Don’t Register in Android Apps on a Chromebook
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How to Add a Link to Your Snapchat Snaps
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What Is “Windows Modules Installer Worker” and Why Is It Running on My PC?
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What Is the “Queue” Tab in the Alexa App?
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Geek Trivia: Volkswagen Sells More Of What Thing Than They Sell Cars?
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How to Make the Mouse Cursor Bigger or Smaller on Your Mac
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How to Stop Facebook Videos From Playing Sound Automatically
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How to See Who Logged Into a Computer (and When)
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How to Avoid Abusive Online Gamers
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How to Add a Voice Filter to Your Video in Snapchat
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What Is the AppData Folder in Windows?
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Geek Trivia: Which Star Trek Character Was Added Specifically To Appeal To Teenage Viewers?
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How to Test Your Internet Speed from the Command Line
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What Is Xbox Game Pass, and Is It Worth It?
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How to Erase and Format a Drive in Windows
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What Is Intel Optane Memory?
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How to Mute (Most) Spam Accounts and Trolls on Twitter
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How to Set Up and Get Started with Your Synology NAS
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Geek Trivia: Which Breed Of Dogs Is Considered The Universal Blood Donor For Their Species?
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How to Disable Window Transparency in macOS
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Geek Trivia: The Name Of The Most Popular Supercomputer Job Scheduler In The World Is A Nod To?
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Nest Thermostat
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Geek Trivia: The Color Your Eyes See In The Absence Of Visible Light Is Called?
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How to Run PC Games at Resolutions Higher Than Your Monitor with Supersampling
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Geek Trivia: The Now-Ubiquitous “Times New Roman” Font Was Originally Commissioned By?
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How to Empty the macOS Trash on Your External Drives
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Geek Trivia: Kintsugi Is The Japanese Art Of Repairing Pottery With?
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How to Enable macOS’ Dark Menu Bar and Dock
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Do You Need Amazon Prime to Use the Amazon Echo?
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Geek Trivia: Lisa Simpson Is A Vegetarian Due To The Influence Of?
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Convenience Stores Was Originally Called “Tote’m Stores”?
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Geek Trivia: The Traditional Yellow Color Of American Pencils Is A Nod To?
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Geek Trivia: Painted Navigational Markers Left On Hiking Trails Are Called?
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Geek Trivia: This 1990s Television Show Ushered In The Era Of Sophisticated Title Sequences?
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How to Use the Built-in Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10
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Geek Trivia: In Early America, What Kind Of Entertainment Was A “Mud Show”?
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How to Find Out Why Your Windows PC Crashed or Froze
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How to Use Your Amazon Echo as an Intercom with Drop In
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Streaming Services Originally Cost A Dollar An Hour?
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How to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet Connection
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Geek Trivia: The Color Changing Structures Found In Chameleons, Squids, And Other Creatures Are Called?
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How to Mute Tweets with Specific Words on Twitter
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How to Get iOS’ Autocorrect to Work in Multiple Languages
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How to Ensure Your Amazon Echo’s “Drop In” Feature Is Completely Disabled
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Geek Trivia: The Best Selling Single-Cylinder Car Of All Time Was The?
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Geek Trivia: One Of The Plot Lines Of Which Of These Animated Films Was Based On A Real Conspiracy?
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The Best Linux Distributions for Beginners
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Animals Plays The Most Significant Role In The Seeding Of North American Forests?
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How to Record a Phone Call on an iPhone
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