How to Avoid Going Over Your Home Internet's Data Cap

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While lithium-ion batteries are, on the whole, incredibly safe they do very very occasionally catch fire or explode. When it happens, like with Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 fiasco or HP's more recent laptop recall, it's always big news. So what's going on and why do batteries sometimes go out with a bang? Let's find out. Read This Article → How to Avoid Going Over Your Home Internet’s Data Cap It’s not uncommon for internet service providers to cap the amount of data offered to home users as a way of getting them to pay more money for more bandwidth. If you find yourself within these artificial constraints set by your ISP, you have to carefully watch what you do online. Here are some tips to keep you under your cap and free from overage charges. Read This Article → How to Enable the Root User in macOS Want to enable the root account on your Mac? You can, but the functionality is a little buried in System Preferences. Here’s how to find it. 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If you wanted to see their posts again, you'd need to deliberately go back and unblock or refollow them. Read This Article → How to Check if Your PC Is Protected Against Meltdown and Spectre Warning: Even if you’ve installed patches from Windows Update, your PC may not completely protected from the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws. Here’s how to check if you’re fully protected, and what to do if you aren’t. Read This Article → Advertisement Dashlane - Never Forget Another Password Dashlane has a slick Web 2.0-type interface with a host of similar features--like syncing, password auditing, assisted automatic password changes, and alerts in case of security breaches. Dashlane has definitely led the pack in the good interface department Click here to download