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Measuing the Diagonal Dimensions of a TV set
How to Measure a TV Screen

It's not the size of your TV that counts, but what you watch on it.

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What Is a System on a Chip (SoC)?

The next step in electronics integration makes devices smaller, cheaper, and faster.

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What Is an In-App Purchase?

Download now, pay later.

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Is the iPhone 13 Waterproof?

Can your iPhone go swimming with you?

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How to Make System Image Backups on Windows 11

Keep yourself from having to reinstall and reconfigure everything after a major system drive crash.

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How to Change the RDP Port on Windows 11

Home is where the Remote Desktop Protocol is.

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How to Change the RDP Port on Windows 10

Change the virtual address for your remote PC.

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How to See EXIF Metadata in Photos on iPhone

No more special tools needed!

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Getting Older? Here's How to Make Windows More Comfortable

Why struggle with tiny cursors and fonts when you can make them larger?

Two leaking alkaline batteries.
Why Do Alkaline Batteries Leak?

Avoid the dreaded battery acid---which is actually a base?

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A World Without Wires: 25 Years of Wi-Fi

Imagine if all our smartphones had to be plugged in to connect to the internet. Thankfully, there's Wi-Fi.

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How to Check Your iPhone's IMEI Number

Reveal the hidden ID code that lurks inside every iPhone.

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How to Type an Em Dash on Windows or Mac

"Auntie Em, Auntie Em! It's Typography!"

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"Atari Was Very, Very Hard" Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later

The father of the video game industry talks triumphs, mistakes, and Sunday tea with Steve Jobs.

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What's the Difference Between Em Dash, En Dash, and Hyphen?

So many lines. What do they all mean?

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How to Clear the Recent Files List in Adobe Photoshop

Make sure that whatever happens in Photoshop stays in Photoshop.

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What Does Shift+Enter Do in Word?

It's a dark mystery as old as time itself that no one will ever figure out.

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How to See What Something Is Worth Using eBay

Thinking of selling your stuff?

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45 Years Later, The Apple II Still Has Lessons to Teach Us

Insight from legends Steve Wozniak, Tim Sweeney, and John Romero on what the Apple II did better than modern PCs.

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