How to Make that New Smartphone Actually Smart
Your X-Mas wish came true! Santa wisely consulted one of our best-of-the-best lists and left you a shiny new smartphone under the tree. So, uh, now what? Here's a step-by-step guide to getting that bad...
View ArticleSo You Got a Fancy New Camera: Here's How to Use It
Congratulations! A loved one loves you back enough that they bought you a brand new fancy camera. Now what?1. Pimp your cameraGet LensesUnless they really love you, whoever dropped dime on your shooter...
View ArticleHow-To Build a Silent Gaming PC
Can we build a PC that’s quiet and cool without sacrificing performance—or spending a fortune?Anyone can build a gaming PC. Seriously, it’s easy. Minus a few technological bits of know-how here and...
View ArticleHow to Clear up Hard Drive Space without Giving up Data
The Holiday season is just recently past, and a lot of good boys and girls will have gotten a PC game, application, or iTunes gift card in their stockings this year. However, in order to enjoy your new...
View ArticleHow to Take Control of Your Context Menu with ShellMenuView
The Windows context menu—the set of options that pops up when you right-click a file or folder—is one of the quickest ways to execute simple commands. That’s why it’s unfortunate that Windows doesn’t...
View ArticleBuild It! A Sandy-Bridge Powered Gaming PC (for under a grand)
You don’t need to spend a fortune to take advantage of Intel’s newest platformPrevious builds in this section have tended toward the expensive side, whether they’ve been the $8,600 photo studio or our...
View ArticleHow to Monitor and Control Your Home From Anywhere
Modern Home Control Systems: Effective, Inexpensive, Easy to Install If you ever saw a “Home of the Future” exhibit and thought you’d never be able to enjoy such awesome levels of home automation,...
View ArticleCheat Sheet: 10 Tips And Tricks For Evernote
We used to have a love/hate relationship with sticky notes. They were great for jotting stuff down, but over time the small yellow squares ended up consuming the entire surface of our desks in a slow,...
View ArticleCheat Sheet: 10 Banging Bing Tips
With the exception of a few yahoos, when most of us think about searching the web, we’re thinking about Google. While Mountain View may be able to fulfill the bulk of our search-related needs, there’s...
View ArticleHow To Disable Google+ Notifications
Google+ is kind of like Darryl Hannah in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman: sexy, wealthy, and growing at an exponential rate. The search giant's stab at social media brings a lot of really cool things to...
View ArticleHow To Stop Spotify From Sharing Your Music Selections On Facebook
Spotify’s a pretty awesome streaming music service, but the Facebook integration it’s rolled out in the past week has left users with a pretty not-so-awesome taste in their mouths. Never mind the fact...
View ArticleSOPA Protests: How To Use Google Cache To View Blacked-Out Websites
Websites with a beef against over-reaching legislation have drawn a line in the sand; today, many of them are following Reddit’s lead and going black to protest SOPA and PIPA. The controversial bills...
View ArticleHow to Install Windows 8 from a USB Key
Forget the CD and install Windows 8 with your flash drive A guide? To install Windows? Slapping a new operating system on your desktop or laptop PC should be old hat by now, right? This is Windows 8,...
View Article35 Cool Gmail Tips You Probably Don't Use (but Should!) - Updated!
35 awesome Gmail tips and tricksTo those of you who might have had this article bookmarked, you'll notice it's a bit longer than before. Why? Well, we originally wrote this piece back in 2009, and...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Own GIFs
Make your own GIFs with Photoshop, or a free appGIFs (or JIFs, depending on who you ask) are the bread and butter of a good Internet conversation these days. While it’s easy to find reaction GIFs with...
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