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12/26/2022
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The Best Kindle and Ring Doorbell Features You Should Be Using

Did You Know?: In the movie Toy Story, the toolbox used to trap Woody beneath a milk crate is labeled Binford Tools—a nod to the fictional tool company featured in the show Home Improvement, a show
12/25/2022
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10 Windows 11 Taskbar Features You Should Be Using

Did You Know?: A polar bear's fur is so efficient at retaining body heat that the bears are practically invisible when viewed with infrared cameras and night-vision goggles. Read in Browser Logo
12/24/2022
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10 Samsung Camera Features You Should Be Using

Did You Know?: Despite what you may have been taught in school, there are only 4 Great Lakes, hydrologically speaking, not 5. Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are not distinct bodies of water, but one
12/23/2022
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Should You Use a TV as a PC Monitor?

Did You Know?: Elephants cannot jump; they weigh so much that it is physically impossible for them to lift their bodies completely off the ground (and in fact they always have at least one foot on the
12/22/2022
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Stop Using Your Phone as a Flashlight

Did You Know?: The symbol for the band Queen, a large crest-like logo, was designed by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and includes references to the zodiac symbols of all four members: the two lions (
12/21/2022
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AirPods Pro and Roborock S7 MaxV+ Drop to Black Friday Prices

Logo for How-To Geek Deals December 21, 2022 AirPods Pro and Roborock S7 MaxV+ Drop to Black Friday Prices Now that Christmas is practically here, the largest return season of the year is also right
12/21/2022
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Skip the Auto Shop, You Can Decode a Check Engine Light at Home

Did You Know?: President Reagan is the only US President whose inauguration has ever conflicted with Super Bowl Sunday. He was inaugurated, for his second term, on Sunday, January 20, 1985 in a private
12/20/2022
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5 Reasons You Should Buy a Windows PC Instead of a Mac

Did You Know?: The vast majority of people (96 percent in the surveyed group) can detect the difference between hot and cold water based on the sound it makes when poured. The key is how the
12/19/2022
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Give Your Parents Mesh Wi-Fi to Give Yourself Peace of Mind

Did You Know?: The majority of the dairy companies in the United States use a simple color-coded system for the caps on milk jugs: red (whole milk), blue (2% milk), green (1% milk), and purple (skim or
12/18/2022
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Want Free Live TV? Get an Antenna, Not a Streaming Service

Did You Know?: Betteridge's Law of Headlines states that “Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.” Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek December 18, 2022 Did
12/16/2022
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Why Are We All Using Our Webcams if No One's Looking at Each Other?

Did You Know?: The word “verb” is a noun, as it names (but itself is not a member of) the class of words that function as the main elements of predicates. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek December
12/16/2022
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Huge Sales on New MacBooks, Xboxes, Online Privacy Tools, More

Logo for How-To Geek Deals December 14, 2022 Huge Sales on New MacBooks, Xboxes, Online Privacy Tools, More Sit down, lean back, and get comfortable, because we have a pretty stellar deals roundup
12/16/2022
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Marques Brownlee Is Right: 5G Sucks Right Now

Did You Know?: Dogs, despite the often repeated myth, do not see only in black and white. They are a dichromatic species and they perceive color like humans with red-green color blindness. Read in
12/13/2022
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How Much Does a Heated Driveway Cost?

Did You Know?: The sheathed tip of a shoelace is called an “aglet” (or “aiglet”); the word finds its way into English via Old French (“aguillette”) and can trace its roots back to “acus”, the Latin
12/12/2022
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You Should Buy a Big Ass Mousepad

Did You Know?: The man who invented the Pringles Can, Fredric Baur, was cremated and had part of his ashes buried in one. Read in Browser Logo for How-To Geek December 12, 2022 Did You Know? The man
12/11/2022
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Can You Really Use a Flamethrower to Clear Snow Off Your Driveway?

Did You Know?: The RMS Titanic was one of three Olympic-class liners, sistered with the RMS Olympic and the RMS Britannic. Of the three, only the RMS Olympic had a long and safe service life, sailing
12/10/2022
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15 Super-Charged Alternatives to Built-in Windows Apps

Did You Know?: The prehistoric shark megalodon could bite down with up to 182000 newtons of force—approximately ten times more force than the bite of a great white shark. Read in Browser Logo for How-
12/9/2022
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5 Ways to Speed Up Your Windows PC in 5 Minutes or Less

Did You Know?: There is zero historical evidence that Vikings ever wore horned helmets; the first instance of horns on Viking helmets was actually in Richard Wagner's 19th century opera Der Ring
12/8/2022
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I Can't Imagine Using Windows Without the Everything App

Did You Know?: Despite the stereotype of body builders and boxers slugging back raw eggs to build muscle, it's actually a very ineffective way to consume an egg. The body can only absorb around 50
12/7/2022
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Save Big on an Android TV Projector, Portable SSD, and More

Logo for How-To Geek Deals December 7, 2022 Save Big on an Android TV Projector, Portable SSD, and More Welcome back to the first full edition of How-To Geek Deals since the Cyber Weekend rush. To kick