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April Fools!
Every Friday here at the SuperUser Blog is WTF Friday and what better way to start this one out on April Fool’s. Super users love a good practical joke. Ever since BOFH came on the scene there have...
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How to Mess up your PC‽
Who in their right mind would ever want to mess up their computer? Don’t we already have enough problems to fix as it is? Well, that didn’t stop pHelics from asking this: How to mess up a PC running...
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Putting an Apple back on the tree
Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause and a warm welcome for our first WTFriday post/column! WTFriday is a brand new section that should produce an awesome post for The Super User Blog every single...
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Gnome 3.0 is here!
Assuming everyone has already heard of Canonical’s Unity Desktop environment, which for the latest version of Ubuntu (11.04), is pushing Gnome off to the side. But fear not! Gnome is still alive and...
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The Alien dream of every Techie
Hardware, that single thing every techie could likely go on for hours about. Being myself, I’m a tad out of date as usual, but I did get to have a neat experience that nearly tipped my inner nerd over...
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Digging Deeper: Mastering Spotlight in OS X
Spotlight is a great feature of OS X that many of its users love for being simple and fast. With a single click or keystroke you can search for files and applications on your Mac. Results are displayed...
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Battle of the Package Managers!
What is a package manager? A package manager is a software tool that is used to install other software. This software is often referred to as “packages,” hence the name. Package managers exist on many...
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Some April morning last year I received a letter from the local police department, bureau of criminal investigation. “Whoops”, I thought. What could have happened there? Had I forgot to pay for a...
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Clouds & Droplrs: Comparing CloudApp and Droplr
If there is one thing that almost anyone will need to do sometime in their life with any operating system is upload a file. Whether it be an funny picture they want to show a friend, or a draft of a...
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WTFriday: What happens when Windows runs out of Disk Space?
I have been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview for about 5 months or so and in order to install it on my PC, I had to create a rather small partition on my primary hard drive consisting of only...
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