🧹 It's Time to Clean Up Your Mac Desktop — I Bought a TV on Black Friday and It Didn’t Go Well

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The Colosseum had an elaborate system of underground passages and elevators that allowed ancient event coordinators to lift wild animals up into the Colosseum. A modern recreation of the elevator systems demonstrated that they were capable of lifting up to 600 pounds at once.

📀 The End of Blu-Ray

Happy Thursday! Who still uses a Blu-Ray player? Google Gemini’s new ‘Deep Research’ tool is great, you can now share files from iPhone to Windows with Phone Link, and LG won’t make Blu-ray players anymore. And no, Microsoft doesn’t want you installing Windows 11 on unsupported PCs.

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It's Time to Clean Up Your Mac Desktop

Can’t stand looking at a messy Mac desktop? Fortunately you don't have to. You can either hide everything for effortless zen, or automatically move old files to the trash after a set period. Here's how.

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I Bought a TV on Black Friday and It Didn’t Go Well

Like many of you, I went shopping for a new TV on Black Friday and found what I thought was a good deal. You see, Walmart had a 55-inch 4K Smart TV for only $178, which I quickly bought. Unfortunately, things didn't go very well, and it's partially my fault.

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How to Move Changes to Another Branch in Git

While Git keeps track of your daily changes, it also features systems like branches that help you organize. If you're not careful, though, you can end up with problems like commits and changes made to the wrong branch that can be difficult to solve without the right commands.

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I Always Use These 6 Security Features In Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge offers powerful security features to protect your online privacy and browsing experience, though they aren't all enabled by default. These are the features I use, and I recommend you do too.

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You Should Buy a Smart Plug for Your Holiday Lights

Are your holiday lights connected to one of those old-fashioned timer switches or, worse still, manually operated? You can do better with one of the cheapest smart home upgrades available.

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Why Does Netflix Show a Black Screen When Screen Recording?

If you try to screen-record a movie or TV show on Netflix, the recording outputs as a black screen. Does this mean there’s an issue with your screen recording application, or is there another reason?

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How to Batch Rename Files in the Mac Finder

Tired of renaming files one by one? Your Mac has a powerful built-in tool for renaming multiple files at once, whether you need to fix a typo across dozens of vacation photos or add sequential numbers to a hundred work documents. The best part: it’s easy to use.

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Question of the Day

When Was the Last Time You Posted on Facebook?

Facebook is still hugely popular, with billions of monthly users, but I almost never see anybody I know posting anything on it outside of a few Stories. At best, I'll see their Instagram posts getting mirrored to Facebook. When was the last time you made a post?

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