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Speed Up Any PC, Smartphone, or Tablet By Disabling Animations

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Wikified (a.k.a. Wikify and Wikification) refers to a website that can be modified by users and/or converting a website so that it can be modified by users going forward.

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Speed Up Any PC, Smartphone, or Tablet By Disabling Animations

Animations on a desktop PC, smartphone, or tablet are nice — the first few times. Eventually, you just wish they would hurry up and stop wasting your time.

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How to Share a Network Folder from OS X to Windows

There are countless ways to copy files between computers, including great sync options like Dropbox, but if you just want to share one of your folders from your Mac to your Windows computer, you can do that easily.

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How to Better Manage E-mail in Outlook 2013 with Quick Steps and Rules

If you tell us email has fallen out of fashion, we’d ask you to have a look at our inboxes. Being able to sort through and organize the mess of messages that arrive daily is fairly key to maintaining workplace sanity.

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How to Ensure Your Home Router Has the Latest Security Updates

Keeping your home router updated is a crucial part of staying secure. Shellshock affected a number of routers, and we’ve also seen routers hacked and turned into botnets. Home router security is notoriously poor.

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Gatekeeper 101: Why Your Mac Only Allows Apple-Approved Software By Default

Gatekeeper is how Apple is “locking down” Mac OS X, forcing it to only run Apple-approved software by default. But a Mac is locked down in the same way Android is locked down — you’re free to change an option and install any application you want.

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