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Here’s a party trick that works on every copy of Excel ever shipped. Open a blank sheet, type 60 into a cell, and format that cell as a date. Excel […]

A media server is usually the first thing I want to build when I get my hands on some new hardware for my homelab. Plex, Kodi, or Jellyfin promise an […]

Windows doesn’t slow down only because of the apps you install. Some of the drag is built in from the start. A fresh install can already have well over a […]

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Gmail groups your emails into threads by default. It seems like a small thing for getting an uncluttered inbox. But that same feature can also quietly bury replies, split conversations […]

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