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How do I know which cables to use?
The cables for electronics devices come in an astounding variety. Should you buy gold-plated connectors? Do expensive cables mean better quality?
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How to Add RAM to Your Desktop
If your desktop computer is acting sluggish, it might need more memory. Adding more RAM will help your machine run more smoothly -- and it's not as difficult as it sounds.
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How to Add RAM to Your Laptop
Unlike desktop computers, laptops are carefully designed to be extremely compact. That makes it difficult to get inside to add more memory, right? You might be surprised how easy it is.
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How to Avoid Facebook Scams
Facebook applications are usually great ways to interact with your friends and have a good time. How have some developers used them to scam Facebook users?
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How to Avoid Spyware
Spyware can track what you do on your computer and can even steal your passwords. But you can avoid it -- the trick is knowing how spyware programmers think.
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How to Back Up a Hard Drive
Your computer's hard drive has all your stored music, pictures and everything you've worked on for the past few years. What would you do if your hard drive crashed?
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How to Build a Computer
Why build your own computer? Because you can make it to fit your needs exactly and save some money in the process. Plus, it's fun and easy to do.
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How to Build a DVR
Digital video recorders (DVRs) let you stay up-to-date on your favorite TV shows, but they can be expensive. They're essentially computers -- could you build one yourself for less?
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How to Build Your Own Arcade Machine from an Old Computer
If you love classic video games, have an old computer lying around and some skill with power tools, you could build your own home gaming machine.
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How to Cheat at Video Games
Cheaters never prosper, right? Apparently not in video games. Otherwise, developers wouldn't encode cheat codes right into the games themselves. But the easy road isn't always easy.
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How to Choose a Surround Sound System
You thought your home theater setup was nice until you watched TV at your friend's house. He's got it equipped with a surround sound system. How can you match his movielike audio quality?
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How to Clean Your Computer's Registry
Nobody likes to see the blue screen of death taunt you from your computer, but will fiddling with the Windows Registry fix the problem or make you live to regret it?
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How to Connect Your Computer to Your TV
You downloaded your favorite show to your computer, but now you're watching it on that tiny laptop screen. You could set up your computer to watch it on your TV instead. But how?
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How to Defrag Your Hard Drive
Your computer is running slowly. You've checked it for viruses and spyware, but other than a few cookies, it's clean. So what's the problem and what can you do about it?
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How to Detect if Someone's Stealing Your WiFi
Your wireless network's running slow again. It's time to get to the bottom of things. But why does it always happen when that same car parks in front of your house?
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How to Detect Online Scams
There's an old adage that says if something seems too good to be true then it probably is. It's true on the Internet, too. So why are people still getting scammed?
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How to Donate Your Computer to Charity
You just bought a brand-new computer. But what'll you do with the old machine? Is there something else it could be doing, instead of sitting in your closet?
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How to Download YouTube Videos
Every day people watch millions of hours of video on YouTube. But what happens if you have a favorite video that you'd like to watch offline? Can you save a copy on your hard drive?
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How to Fix Your Zombie Computer
Installing malware on your computer could enable crackers to take it over as a zombie computer. So what happens once you find out your machine's been hijacked?
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How to Go Completely Mobile
If your electronic devices' wires are starting to feel like chains, it might be time to go completely mobile. How do you cut the cord (figuratively speaking, of course)?
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