In pretty much every house where an outlet is close to a water source, you’ll usually find what’s called a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI). This is a type of outlet that’s meant to quickly shut off power at that outlet when it detects a short circuit or a ground fault.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Geek Trivia: Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Carried Which Of These Mementos From Her Deceased Husband?
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How to Use a Raspberry Pi as a Networked Time Machine Drive For Your Mac
Why spend $300 on an AirPort Time Capsule when you can make one yourself with a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive? It takes a little tweaking, but once it’s all set up, your Mac will back up automatically, without any effort on your part. No more having to plug a drive into your computer.
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How to Prevent Safari from Checking to See if You Use Apple Pay
Apple Pay’s incorporation into macOS Sierra makes it really easy to pay using the service on your Mac with your iPhone or iPad. But that doesn’t mean just because you can, you will, or will want to use Apple Pay in the future.
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How to Make Windows Automatically Create a System Restore Point at Startup
By default, System Restore automatically creates a restore point once per week and also before major events like an app or driver installation. If you want even more protection, you can force Windows to create a restore point automatically every time you start your PC.
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How to Find Your Missing USB Drive in Windows 7, 8, and 10
USB drives should automatically appear in Windows Explorer when you connect them to your computer. Follow these troubleshooting steps if Windows doesn’t show a connected drive.
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What Is Apple CarPlay, and Is It Better Than Just Using a Phone in Your Car?
You get in your car, connect your phone to the Bluetooth head unit, and toss it in the dock. For the next umpteen amount of minutes/hours, this is your source of music, navigation, and everything else. Apple’s CarPlay looks to re-invent the way you use your phone in the car with a sort of “second screen” setup.
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How to Make Windows 10 Look and Act More Like Windows 7
If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 but don’t love what you see, there are ways to make Windows 10 look and act like Windows 7. That way, you can get the familiar interface you love while still taking advantage of Windows 10’s other useful features.
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Animals Has The Fastest Tongue?
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
How to Install Ubuntu Linux on Your Chromebook with Crouton
Chromebooks aren’t “just a browser”—they’re Linux laptops. You can easily install a full Linux desktop alongside alongside Chrome OS and instantly switch between the two with a hotkey, no rebooting necessary.
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Geek Trivia: The Modern Celebration Of Halloween Was Heavily Influenced By The Festival Of?
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
Five Ways to Customize Android that iOS Still Can’t Match
Android is very customizable–many of its features are just defaults, and can be swapped out for third-party alternatives without any rooting required. When it comes to iOS, well…not so much.
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Friday, October 28, 2016
How to Install and Set Up the Kuna Home Security Camera
The Kuna Home Security Camera is a porch light fixture that installs and works just like any other porch light, but with a security camera built-in. The camera is motion-activated, so you can be alerted of any activity going on outside your house. Here’s how to install it and set it up.
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Geek Trivia: Which U.S. State Capital Has No Roads Linking It To The Surrounding Land?
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How to Supercharge Your Halloween Like a Pro with a Digital Projector
Halloween is one of those holidays that really brings out the tinkerer in a lot of geeks. There’s a veritable laundry list of things to deploy, modify, and enhance all in search of becoming the spookiest house on the block and throwing the best party. Read on as we highlight how easily you can turn a digital projector into a Swiss Army knife of cool Halloween tricks.
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How to Reset Your HomeKit Devices and Configuration
Apple’s HomeKit home control and automation system is largely plug, play, and enjoy, but sometimes stubborn devices need a nudge to play nice. Read on as we show you how to reset both devices and the general HomeKit configuration.
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Where Are My Outlook PST Data Files, and How Can I Move Them Somewhere Else?
Most people know that Outlook stores email for each account in a personal table storage (PST) file, but figuring out where that file is located depends on what version of Outlook you’re using. Here’s where Outlook stores your files and how you can move them if you need to.
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How to Easily Change the Case of Text in LibreOffice Writer
We’ve all done it before. We’re typing fast and then realize that we had the Caps Lock key on and the case on our text is bACKWARDS. That’s easy to change in Microsoft Word, but what if you use the free alternative, LibreOffice Writer?
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Full License Giveaway: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum V7.5.17 [Sponsored]
Streaming is perceived as better now and is overtaking discs according to data such as declining Netflix DVD subscribers. But DVD did reign over the world for years, meaning hundreds of millions or billions of DVDs are still in use, which makes DVD-to-video backup tools a must-have to keep your precious DVD movies safe. So this Halloween giveaway of top-notch WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is just too fantastic to let slip.
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How “Trusted Devices” Work on Windows 10 (and Why You No Longer Need to “Trust This PC”)
Windows 8 asked you to “Trust This PC” after you signed in with a Microsoft account. This message is gone in Windows 10, replaced with a new “Trusted Devices” system that works differently.
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How to Update the Windows Bash Shell to Ubuntu 16.04
Starting with the Windows 10 Creators Update, which comes out this spring, anyone who installs the Bash environment will get Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). But, if you’ve previously installed Bash in the Anniversary Update, you’ll be stuck with Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) until you manually upgrade.
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The Biggest Design Mistakes Apple Has Made in the Past Two Years
Apple has lost its mojo. Their obsessive attention to detail seems to have slipped away.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Why Does Linux Allow Users to Remove the Root Directory?
Most of the time, none of us willingly performs an action that will literally break our operating systems and force us to reinstall them. But what if such an action could easily occur even by accident on the user’s part? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a confused reader’s question.
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