How to Find Your Missing Phone

How to Find Your Missing Phone

Oh boy, now you’ve done it. Not only are you supremely hungover from last night’s rager, but your phone is nowhere to be found. Could you have left it at the bar, in a cab, in the gutter somewhere? Who knows! But don’t panic, there’s a host of apps that do. Here’s how to find your phone when it goes missing.

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How To Cut a Glass Bottle In Two Using Fire and Water

You might not be able to envision a time when you’re lathe-less and need to cut a glass bottle in two, but when it does happen, you’ll be quite happy you spent three minutes watching ‘CrazyRussianHacker‘ do it with string, alcohol, fire, and water. And even if you don’t ever cut your own glass, this hack is still incredibly fun to watch.

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The Gear and Apps You Need to Survive the Next Semester

The Gear and Apps You Need to Survive the Next Semester

Okay, this is it. Back to school, again. Whether it’s your first college semester or you can see graduation on the horizon, these tools will make the next few months infinitely more bearable.

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Quick and Easy MacBook Repairs That’ll Save You a Small Fortune

Quick and Easy MacBook Repairs That'll Save You a Small Fortune

Everybody’s MacBook breaks. At some point or another, the hard drive will shudder to a stop; the display hinge won’t hold up anymore; the logic board will cease to function. It’s only a matter of time. Fortunately, you can fix most of it yourself. Here’s how.

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How to Root Your Nexus, HTC One, or Samsung Galaxy S4

How to Root Your Nexus, HTC One, or Samsung Galaxy S4

Android offers a wide variety of advanced customization options, but that’s only scratching the surface of everything you can do with Google’s open source operating system. With root access you can get down to the system level and tweak things to your liking, even going so far as completely replacing the OS.

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Tips to Make Yourself a Keyboard Shortcut Wizard

Tips to Make Yourself a Keyboard Shortcut WizardA while back we asked you all to tell us which keyboard shortcuts you found most useful—we wanted to know about keystrokes that went above and beyond the basics. Here’s the best of what you had to say, culled from some 200 responses. Are you ready to get your motherfraking optimize on?

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How to Get Movies, Music, and More From Your Mobile Device to Your TV

How to Get Movies, Music, and More From Your Mobile Device to Your TV

There’s not much your phone or tablet can’t do these days, beyond maybe displaying their troves of mobile content on a screen larger than 10 inches. But that’s what televisions are for. And, with one of these five methods, you’ll be able to seamlessly throw music and movies from your little screen to your big screen.

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Five Free Online Tools to Learn Another Language

Five Free Online Tools to Learn Another Language

Rosetta Stone costs $500? Thank you, no. There are too many free language-learning resources on the Internet to warrant that sort of expense. Here are just a few that will cost you nothing but time and effort.

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How to Set Up a PC, the Right Way

How to Set Up a PC, the Right Way

All expecting parents have read What to Expect When You’re Expecting, because when that little bundle of joy drops out of mommy, you’d better be ready with lots of paper towels and a whole lot of specialized knowledge about what to do from that moment forward. Though it’s not quite as messy (or scary), setting up a new PC requires a similar sort of informed approach if you want to raise it properly from the moment it squirts out of the Fedex truck and into your life.

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How to Banish Bloatware from Your PC and Smartphone

How to Banish Bloatware from Your PC and Smartphone

You’re never going to use the borked trial versions of all these programs that came preinstalled on your new laptop or smartphone, so why should they continue taking up precious hard drive space? Here’s how to cut the deadweight out of your operating system.

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