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How to Set Up Your Own Discord Chat Server 
Discord is an excellent, free chat application that was built for gamers, but is useful for anyone. It comes with Slack-style text chat, group voice chat channels, and plenty of tools to manage your users. It’s a great tool for getting a community together or talking with friends while you play games. Here’s how to set up your own server. | |
Why You Shouldn’t Turn Off Virtual Memory on Your Mac 
Your Mac comes with a set amount of physical memory applications can use. Your running programs, open files, and other data your Mac is actively working with are stored in this physical memory. But that’s a simplification—applications can also use “virtual memory”, which your Mac can compress and temporarily store on disk. | |
How to Add Attachments in Gmail for Android 
If you don’t use email as part of your day to day life, it can easily be one of those things that seems more complicated than it is. But there’s no need to break out the computer if you simply need to email something—a picture, document, something—because you can easily do it directly from your phone. | |
What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It? 
Technology often yields ridiculous conveniences, like being able to turn on your computer from miles away without pushing the power button. Wake-on-LAN has been around for a while, so let's see how it works and how we can enable it. | |
How to Get More Detailed Weather Info From Alexa 
Alexa’s built-in weather forecast is handy for those who just want the basic forecast for the day, but it doesn’t do much more than that. However, with a third party skill called Big Sky, you can make Alexa spit out a ton of information about the weather and ask it nearly anything about what’s coming. | |
How to Install Chrome OS from a USB Drive and Run It on Any PC 
Google only officially supports running Chrome OS on Chromebooks, but don’t let that stop you. You can put the open source version of Chrome OS on a USB drive and boot it on any computer without installing it, just like you’d run a Linux distribution from a USB drive. | |
How to Override Chrome’s “Quit Everything” Ctrl+Shift+Q Shortcut 
Google seems to think there’s a good reason to have a shortcut that will kill every single one of your tabs at once. We disagree. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Q will close every Chrome tab or window you have open and ruin your work. If you’d rather keep your work where it is, here’s a workaround to make sure that doesn’t happen. | |
How to Completely Remove a Book From Your Kindle Library 
You’ve probably been happily reading ebooks on your Kindle (or the Kindle app) for years, accruing a nice digital library full of interesting titles. But what if, for some reason, someone else needs to see that library of yours…and there are some items within that you’d rather they didn’t? Say, perhaps, one of those steamy romance novels that makes up a massive 34% of fiction sales in US? | |
How to Avoid Toll Roads in Google Maps 
No one likes to pay to be able to drive on a specific road, especially if you’re just passing through. Thankfully, Google Maps has an easy way to bypass toll roads when using navigation. | |
What Is “Bulb Mode” on My Camera? 
If you've turned the shutter speed dial on your camera past 30 seconds, you might have noticed the strangely named "Bulb" mode. This is a throwback from the first film cameras, but it's still useful today. | |
How to Remotely Troubleshoot a Friend’s Windows PC Without Any Extra Software 
Windows offers a few built-in tools for performing remote assistance over the Internet. These tools allow you to take remote control of another person’s computer so you can help them troubleshoot it while you’re on the phone with them. They work similarly to Remote Desktop, but are available on all editions of Windows and are easy to set up. | |
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