How to Overclock Your Intel Processor and Speed Up Your PC

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Later that day it plunged, and it sure seems like this isn't a coincidence. How to Disable the Lock Sound on an iPhone or iPad By default, Apple’s iPhones and iPads make a sound when you turn their displays off (aka when you “lock” them). You can disable this sound entirely and never hear it again, or just silence your phone if you’d rather not hear it in certain situations. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between Android One and Android Go? In 2014, Google announced a lineup of low-cost, low-spec phones called Android One. In 2017, they announced Android Go, specifically designed for low-cost, low-spec phones. So…what’s the difference? Read This Article → How to See Posts From Your Favorite Facebook Pages More Often Facebook's News Feed algorithm is a bit of a black box. It monitors dozens of signals and (supposedly) delivers the content you want to see. Unfortunately, it rarely works like that. Read This Article → How to Overclock Your Intel Processor and Speed Up Your PC Your computer is fast. Unbelievably fast, at least compared to the PC you had ten or twenty years ago. But it could always be a little bit faster. If that statement stirs a bit of tech-flavored longing in your soul, you might want to look into overclocking your processor. Read This Article → Rooting Android Just Isn’t Worth It Anymore Back in the day, rooting Android was almost a must in order to get advanced functionality out of your phone (or in some cases, basic functionality). But times have changed. Google has made its mobile operating system so good that rooting is just more trouble than it’s worth. Read This Article → All the Ways You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free Windows 10’s free upgrade offer is officially over. But, unofficially, free copies of Windows 10 are still available. Read This Article → How to Disable the Pathlight on a Nest Detect The Nest Secure system comes with two Nest Detect devices, which are open/close sensors that can also act as motion detectors. They even have a small, motion-activated LED light (named Pathlight) that can light your way in a dark hallway. However, if that’s not something you need, you can disable Pathlight in the Nest app. Read This Article → How to Watch or Stream the 2018 Super Bowl (Without Cable) We’re at T-minus three weeks to Super Bowl, the biggest event in American sports (sorry-not-sorry, “World” Series). What’s that? You don’t have a cable or satellite subscription? Don’t worry, you still have ways to watch. Read This Article → How to Hide Your Activity Status on Instagram Instagram recently added a new option that allows other users to see when you were last active on the service in their direct messages. If you’re not into letting everyone on the planet know what you’re up to every minute of the day, you can disable it pretty easily. Read This Article → How to Share Your Work Under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons licenses make it easy for people to share their creative works so that other people can use them for their own projects. Here’s how to release your work under a CC license. Read This Article → What Is WPA3, and When Will I Get It On My Wi-Fi? The Wi-Fi Alliance just announced WPA3, a Wi-Fi security standard that will replace WPA2. It was one of the most covertly interesting things announced at CES 2018. In a few years, when the laundry folding robots and smart fridges are forgotten, WPA3 will be everywhere making it harder for people to hack your Wi-Fi. 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