How to Easily Boost Your Cell Phone Signal at Home

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[Mental Floss] The English of non-native speakers could make smarter computers Researchers create first major database of non-native English in an effort to improve machine learning [The Verge] How to Open Google Chrome Settings in a Separate Window When you access Chrome's settings, they are opened in a new tab. If you tend to have a lot of tabs open and don't want the settings to open on yet another tab, you can have the settings open in a new window instead. We’ll show you how. Read This Article → How to Transfer Contacts Between Google Accounts Google provides no way to automatically sync contacts between two different Google accounts. Instead, you’ll have to perform a manual two-step process where you export your contacts from one account to a comma-separated values (CSV) file, then import contacts from that file into your second account. Here’s how to get it done. Read This Article → How to Easily Boost Your Cell Phone Signal at Home Poor signal strength could be your carrier’s fault, or it could be because of signal-blocking materials in your home’s walls. Whatever the cause, you can boost that signal and get the maximum number of bars at home. Or, better yet, just use Wi-Fi calling on a modern phone. Read This Article → What Is the About:Blank Page in Web Browsers For? While most people prefer to use a specific webpage as the home page in their web browser, others have chosen to use about:blank instead. Is about:blank simply a blank webpage or does it have a special purpose? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions. Read This Article → How to Automatically Start Recording with Manything Whenever a Door or Window Opens With Manything, you can turn an old smartphone into a home security camera and have it start recording whenever motion is detected. However, if you have pets, the motion feature sort of goes out the window. By using sensors from SmartThings or Wink and pairing it with IFTTT, you can have Manything only record whenever a door or window opens. Read This Article → How to Erase Your iOS Device After Too Many Failed Passcode Attempts When someone tries to access your iPhone or iPad by guessing the passcode, it will initially lock them out, increasing each interval with each failed attempt. You can however, set it up so that it fully erases your device after 10 failed attempts. Read This Article → How to Transfer Bookmarks from Safari to Chrome on iOS Chrome for iOS may never outperform Safari, but it has still become a solid browser alternative with some nice extra features all its own. The trouble is, when you install Chrome for iOS, there’s no way to directly import bookmarks from Safari into Chrome. For that, you’ll have take a few steps and even get your desktop computer involved. Read This Article → How to Share a Google Calendar with Other People We all lead busy lives, and keeping track of appointments and events is key to maintaining your sanity. Lots of people use Google Calendar to manage their schedules, which means it’s very useful to share some of your calendars with other people, like co-workers or family members. Read This Article → How to Change Themes on Samsung Galaxy Devices With its modern handsets, Samsung has done a lot to remove the "ugly" stigma that has been attached to its Touchwiz user interface since…well, the dawn of Touchwiz. But if you still don’t like it, you can change it. Read This Article → One Year Later: Did Microsoft Listen to Windows 10 Complaints? Windows 10 is an odd beast. It’s a worthy upgrade to Windows 7, and a big improvement from Windows 8. But Microsoft made quite a few decisions people weren’t happy about. So, a year into Windows 10, with a new update on the way, we ask: Did Microsoft listen to the complaints? 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