How to Break Into a Computer (and Prevent It from Happening to You)

How to Break Into a Computer (and Prevent It from Happening to You)

Sometimes you need to get into a computer without knowing the password. Perhaps you’ve forgotten yours, or perhaps you’re up to no good. Either way, it’s actually pretty easy to do, provided your victim hasn’t taken the necessary precautions. Click one of the links below to find out how to do it on either a Windows PC
or a Mac
, and how to prevent others
from doing the same to you
.

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How to Beat Time Warner’s Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee

How to Beat Time Warner's Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee

The only thing worse than paying out the tuchus for unreliable Time Warner Cable service is being forced pay $4 (NOW $6) per month to rent the cable modem necessary to use this crappy internet. Here’s how to buy your own modem and stick it to the man, no matter where you live. Because screw you, Time Warner.

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How to Take Flawless Phone Pics of Your Naked Body

How to Take Flawless Phone Pics of Your Naked Body

After a spate
of recently-hacked phone nudes, it’s clear our advice to never shoot pictures of your own junk isn’t going to catch on. So if you’re going to do it, at least do it well. Here’s how to make your naked shots shine.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: Better, But Not Best (Update: LTE Version)

Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: Better, But Not Best (Update: LTE Version)

Since it arrived last year, the Galaxy S III
has been the world’s best-selling smartphone that wasn’t born in Cupertino. An impressive feat, but one that—along with Samsung’s Megatron-sized hype-machine—has made for sky-high expectations for the sequel.

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How to Book Travel Online for Less

With clear skies and rising temperatures around the country, the summer travel season is nearly upon us. And unless you’ve got money to burn or a first-born to offer, now’s the time to book your travel plans. Here’s how to get away without breaking the bank. More »

Stop Worrying, Your Internet Past Is Not Embarrassing

There’s something on the internet that you desperately want to keep everyone from seeing. Something you’re deeply embarrassed of. That would show all your friends how you’re not actually as smart and fashionable and ironically self-aware as you pretend to be. And you really ought to get over it. More »

Why Amazon Wants To Make You Pay Sales Tax

Our days of sales-taxless, free-love internet revelry may be numbered. Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted to open the floor to a bill that could end tax-free online shopping once and for all. More »

Michael Bay Is Why Transformers Got So Complicated

Have you tried to put together a Transformer lately? Without an instruction booklet, you stand a better chance of dismantling a nuclear warhead than making Optimus look like Prime, instead of a 16-wheeler with a robot head for a butt. That wasn’t always the case. More »

An Introduction To Complications: The 21st Century Watch

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of introductory pieces on mechanical watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read the rest here. More »

Silk: Nature’s Homespun Supermaterial

Most of your exposure to silk probably comes in the form of uncomfortably sensual linens or cobwebs in a dusty old closet. In reality, though, silk is an incredible and overlooked material. While it may have roots in the ancient past, it could also form the building blocks of the future. More »