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The Best Ways to Connect an External Graphics Card to Your Laptop

Laptops, especially gaming laptops, are a study in compromises. Smaller machines are lighter and easier to travel with, but bigger, heavier boxes offer the dedicated graphics cards necessary for high-end gaming. An external graphics card let you have your cake (no lie) and eat it too.

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How to Find Your Mac’s Serial Number (Even if You Don’t Have Your Mac)

Your Mac’s serial number is a unique identifier that distinguishes your Mac from all others. You have to provide your Mac’s serial number when requesting warranty service. You may also want to look up your Mac’s serial number if you’re reporting it stolen.

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How Facebook's News Feed Sorting Algorithm Works

Facebook doesn't use a chronological feed, like Twitter does (or like Facebook used to). Instead, what you see in your News Feed is determined by an algorithm that sorts things based on what Facebook thinks you want to see. This is a cause of some consternation.

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How to Use Local Artwork with Your Plex Media Server

Plex can automatically label your media and apply artwork to it, but sometimes there’s no substitute for your hand-picked movie and TV show artwork. Thankfully, you can easily use your own media assets with your Plex collection.

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How to Automatically Turn on Lights When Your Wi-Fi Cam Detects Motion

If you have a Wi-Fi cam (like the Nest Cam) set up for security, it’s one thing to catch any perps on video. But it’s also a good idea to scare them away by having lights automatically turn on when any burglars are detected.

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How to Set up Multiple Profiles in Kodi for Seperate Watch Lists

You’re not the only person who lives in your house, and you’re not the only person who watches things on your Kodi box. Why should there be only one media library, with one list of what has and hasn’t been watched, and one favorites list? Kodi has offered a profile system for years, and you shouldn’t overlook it.

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How to Recover Deleted iMessages from an iPhone or iPad

If you’ve ever deleted iMessages and then wanted to get them back, it’s not necessarily easy to do. But it is possible.

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How to Disable Aero Peek in Windows

Aero Peek is a feature that’s been available in Windows since Windows 7, and is on by default (except in Windows 8). It allows you to temporarily peek at the desktop behind any open program windows.

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How to Find Your Windows PC’s Serial Number

Windows doesn’t display your PC’s serial number anywhere in its interface, and neither do popular system information tools. But you can often find a PC’s serial number with a simple command, a peek in your BIOS, or on the hardware itself.

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How to Delete WhatsApp Messages

Sometimes you just want to delete a message from WhatsApp. Maybe it's something private like a password, or maybe you've just said something incredibly embarrassing and you want to never see the offending message again. Whatever the reason, here's how to do it.

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What Is “Developer Mode” in Windows 10?

If you dig through Windows 10’s settings, you may come across something called “Developer Mode”. When put into Developer Mode, Windows allows you to more easily test apps you’re developing, use the Ubuntu Bash shell environment, change a variety of developer-focused settings, and do other such things.

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