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HP’s YouTube Channel Is Now A Treasure Trove For Tech Support And Tinkering
Either some intern is having the most boring Silicon Valley summer or HP’s YouTube team has gone mad with power. Whatever the reason, the company has been on a YouTube flurry lately, uploading hundreds of detailed technical support videos covering countless ways to disassemble, fix, and otherwise mess with its many laptops, desktops, and other…
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Pin Videos On Your Screen While You Work With This App
If you don’t have a dual-monitor setup or an ultra-wide display, your options for multitasking on your PC are limited. It’s going to be trickier to put on a YouTube video while you work, since anything you’re doing in your primary window — Excel, let’s say — is going to sit on top of what…
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9 Reasons It Might Be Time To Switch To Microsoft Edge
Years after we all jumped ship from Internet Explorer to Firefox and Chrome, we don’t really want to go back to a Microsoft browser, do we? While buggy and slow when it first appeared, Microsoft Edge has been given a continuing stream of new features and updates that make it worthy of your consideration now.…
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Ask LH: How Can I Recover An Old IPhoto Library?
Dear Lifehacker, Three or four years ago, my Macbook died, and because I was an avid user of Time Machine, I was able to retrieve virtually everything I cared about from my external hard drive, except my photos. Because this tragedy happened to coincide with a software update, the updated photos couldn’t access the old…