How to Repair Windows Bootloader Problems (If Your Computer Won't Start)

Did You Know? Stone crabs regenerate their large meaty claws and fisherman don’t harvest the whole crab, but just one (and sometimes both) of their claws, returning the crabs to the sea so they can harvest them again at a later date. Geek Trivia Elisha Otis Paved The Way For The Skyscraper With The Invention Of? Tempered Glass → Rivet Gun → Safety Elevators → Automatic Fire Sprinklers → Advertisement Download Windows Malware Analysis Essentials ($30 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This book will guide you on how to use essential tools such as debuggers, disassemblers, and sandboxes to dissect malware samples. It will expose your innards and then build a report of their indicators of compromise along with detection rule sets that will enable you to help contain the outbreak when faced with such a situation. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Replace a Light Switch with a Switch/Outlet Combo How to Rearrange Your Mac’s Windows With a Keyboard Shorcut How to Temporarily Disable Your Keyboard with a Keyboard Shortcut in Windows How to Find Out Which Version of Microsoft Office You’re Using (and Whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit) How to Rotate a Video on Android How to Use Snapchat: The Basics of Sending Snaps and Messages How to Control Which Websites Can Use Flash in Any Browser Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Flat File A Flat File is a type of data file with only basic formatting, a small number of fields, that serves as a bare means of storing table information, and does not have any structured relationships between the tables included in it. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The Many-Moons Theory Our planet may once have had dozens of small moonlets, which welded together over the millennia into the object that's visible today. [The New Yorker] Luxembourg's Bid to Become the Silicon Valley of Space Mining In the 1980s the tiny country capitalized on satellites---now it wants to capitalize on mining asteroids. [Wired] The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world's most revolutionary phone The amazing modular phone that never made it to thrive (or fail) in the wild. [Venture Beat] DOJ: Let's make eyewitness identification more scientifically rigorous New policy builds off an old scientific idea: simply conduct a blind study. [ArsTechnica] How to Control What Other People Can See About Your Google Profile If you use any Google services—Gmail, Drive, Photos, Google+, etc.—then you undoubtedly have a Google Profile. When you set up your Gmail account, you included information about yourself, like your name, birthday, and even places you’ve lived. If you haven’t taken the necessary steps to ensure this information stays private, then it could be out there for the whole world to see. Read This Article → How to Convert Images to Black and White on Your Smartphone Converting an image to black and white is one of those simple tasks that photographers should be able to do well on any device. Unfortunately, a lot of the apps that do black and white conversions on smartphones don't give the photographer a lot of control. Let's look at how to do it properly. Read This Article → How to Repair Windows Bootloader Problems (If Your Computer Won’t Start) If your Windows PC is throwing an error message at you before it even begins to load Windows, it’s possible that the boot sector on your system partition is damaged, corrupted, or has missing files. Here’s how to troubleshoot those problems. Read This Article → Why Do CDs and DVDs Add Data From the Center Outwards? When burning a CD or DVD at home, you might find yourself wondering why data is always added from the center outwards? Would it really matter if the data was added in the opposite direction like old vinyl records were fixed? Is there more to it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Replace a Light Switch with a Switch/Outlet Combo If you’re running out of outlets to plug things into, installing a switch/outlet combo is a great way to squeeze in another receptacle without completely wiring in a new outlet or sacrificing existing outlets or switches. Read This Article → How to Rearrange Your Mac’s Windows With a Keyboard Shorcut When it comes to arranging windows, macOS is lagging behind…well, Windows. On Microsoft’s operating system, you can easily arrange two applications so they both take up half the screen, which is perfect for things like researching and writing at the same time. On macOS, though, you need to do any such arranging on your own. Read This Article → How to Temporarily Disable Your Keyboard with a Keyboard Shortcut in Windows If you’ve got a pet or small child, you know that an unguarded keyboard can spell disaster—or more likely, spell “dhjkhskauhkwuahjsdkja,mnsd”. We’ve got a tool for locking and unlocking your keyboard with a quick keyboard shortcut. Read This Article → How to Find Out Which Version of Microsoft Office You’re Using (and Whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit) Many of us use Microsoft Office programs daily, but you may forget which version of Office you're running. If you need to know which edition of Office you have, as well as which architecture (32-bit or 64-bit), we'll show you how to quickly find this information on Windows and Mac. Read This Article → How to Rotate a Video on Android There’s a war going on out there. You won’t see it on the news, you won’t read about it in the paper—but it’s happening. It’s a hard-fought war that many of us never think about: the war against improperly oriented video. Got a video that’s showing up sideways? Here’s how to rotate that video 90 degrees on Android. Read This Article → How to Use Snapchat: The Basics of Sending Snaps and Messages I love Snapchat, but I'd also be the first to admit the user interface design is…poor. If you’re using Snapchat for the first time and just feel lost, here are the basics. Read This Article → How to Control Which Websites Can Use Flash in Any Browser Making Flash click-to-play is a good idea, but browsers are going further. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge will all soon disable Flash by default, allowing you to enable it only on websites that need it. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows Malware Analysis Essentials ($30 Value) FREE For a Limited Time This book will guide you on how to use essential tools such as debuggers, disassemblers, and sandboxes to dissect malware samples. It will expose your innards and then build a report of their indicators of compromise along with detection rule sets that will enable you to help contain the outbreak when faced with such a situation. Click here to download