How to Contact Customer Support and Actually Get a Human

Did You Know? An “eggcorn” is a linguistic error in which the user idiosyncratically substitutes a word or phrase for a similar sounding word or phrase in their dialect, such as saying “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”—the term was coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum in response to a case linguist Mark Liberman was dealing with, wherein a woman referred to acorns as “egg corns”. Geek Trivia Which Of These Amusements Was Banned From New York City For Over Thirty Years? Video Games → Pinball Machines → Pogs → Pigeon Racing → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Humanity and AI will be inseparable By 2021, everyday software will be vastly more intelligent and powerful, replacing humans in more and more tasks. How will we keep up? [The Verge] Luxembourg's New 'Finder's Keepers' Asteroid Mining Law is Logical Weirdness Space is full of resources we could really use, but how does Earth law apply to claiming them? [Inverse] Mario comes to iOS on December 15 for $10 Free demo will also be available for all three of the game's modes. [ArsTechnica] The Origins of Creativity New evidence of ancient ingenuity forces scientists to reconsider when our ancestors started thinking outside the box [Scientific American] How to Clear the Recent Documents List When You Exit Windows You never know when that “Recent Documents” jump list will come back to bite you. Maybe you share your user account with other people, or maybe you’re just really cautious. Your reasons are your own. We’re just here to show you how to make sure it clears every time you shut down. Read This Article → How to Delete Your Yahoo Mail Account With Yahoo suffering massive data breaches and selling itself to Verizon, you may want to delete that old Yahoo account. If you still have important data in your account, you can download much of it before you delete it, too. Read This Article → How to Contact Customer Support and Actually Get a Human Companies are making it harder and harder to actually get a human being who can help you solve a problem. Call them, and you’ll often end up in a phone tree, asked to enter number after number or speak your issue for an automated system. Read This Article → Can You Losslessly Increase the Volume of MP3 Files? There are few things as frustrating as listening to your favorite music and suddenly having one or more songs play at a lower volume. Is there an easy way to fix the volume problem without sacrificing quality? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps a frustrated reader solve his volume problems. Read This Article → How to Control Your Smarthome Devices with Google Home To provide your Google Home with even more capabilities, you can connect a few different smarthome devices to the Google Home and control them using nothing but your voice. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Create a Bootable Backup of Your Entire Mac on an External Drive Dead hard drives are stressful. Your files might be gone forever, which is bad enough, but you also can’t use your Mac until you install a new one. If you’re working on a deadline, that’s a problem. Read This Article → How to Connect Stuff to Your New MacBook with the Fewest Dongles Apple has made quite the splash with their new MacBook Pros. While the Touch Bar may have garnered the most attention, it’s what Apple removed from their top-of-the-line laptop that has people talking. Namely: ports. Read This Article → How to Play Windows 10 Store Games Offline Until recently, Windows 10 store games could only be played when connected to the internet. Microsoft has thankfully changed this, but as usual, they had to make things complicated: You can only have one “designated offline device” at a time. Read This Article → How to Create a Guest Account in Windows 10 If you find that your guests are asking fairly often to use your computer temporarily to check their email or look something up on the web, you don't have to let them use your personal account or create a special account for each guest. Read This Article → How to Take a Good Portrait Photo Portraits are one of the most powerful kinds of photographs. A great portrait can last for decades, memorializing a person's entire life, or just a single instant. The difference between a snapshot and a good portrait is more narrow than you'd think. It just requires a little bit of thought. Read This Article → How to See Other Devices Logged in to Your Google Account Feel like you forgot to log out of Gmail on your friend’s computer? Google makes it easy to see all the devices—laptop, phone, tablet, and otherwise—logged into your Google account. You can view both a list of IP addresses that have accessed it, and a list of devices that have actively used your account in the last 28 days. Read This Article → Why You Shouldn’t Download DLL Files from the Internet When you get an error saying that Windows could not find a particular DLL file, it can be awfully tempting to download the file from one of the many DLL sites out there. Here’s why you shouldn’t. Read This Article → Advertisement Free Tips and Tricks Guide: Microsoft Windows 10 -- Free Reference Card Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization! Click here to download