How to Easily Merge and Split Ebooks

How to Easily Merge and Split Ebooks: "Whether you want to merge collections of short stories into a DIY anthology, or you want to split a greatest-works volume you recently acquired into the author’s individual novels, you can follow along as we show you how to merge and split ebooks with ease."

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How, Exactly, Does the Windows Recycle Bin Work?

How, Exactly, Does the Windows Recycle Bin Work?: "You delete a file in Windows, it gets dumped into the Recycle Bin, and later you fish it back out. What exactly happens during that whole process?

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites."

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How To Diagnose And Fix A Dead Hard Drive To Recover Data

How To Diagnose And Fix A Dead Hard Drive To Recover Data: "Several years ago, I experienced a hard drive failure. I was at work when my laptop suddenly started to act particularly strange. First, I thought it was because I had too many windows open and the RAM was full, but when the problems persisted after a reboot, I knew it was more than that. I immediately started to back up recent files. About half an hour later, the hard drive failed audibly and the laptop wouldn’t boot anymore."

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The 10 Coolest Things You Can 3-D Print Right Now | Popular Science

The 10 Coolest Things You Can 3-D Print Right Now | Popular Science: "Cameras, guitars, RC aircraft and more!"

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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It? | Popular Science

Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It? | Popular Science: "avid Holz took the main stage at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual Friday. He wore an oversize blue polo shirt and billowy khakis with a big wallet bulge in the front pocket and had a wild nest of curly hair that frizzed around a thinning patch in the back. Even at South by Southwest (SXSW), a gathering teeming with bright-eyed inventors with big ideas and little time for haircuts, the 24-year-old founder of the company Leap Motion, which makes a new motion-tracking controller for computers, stood out as a particularly glorious example of the species geek."

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Chromecast isn't a Roku/Apple TV killer -- but at $35, it doesn't need to be | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews

Chromecast isn't a Roku/Apple TV killer -- but at $35, it doesn't need to be | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews: "Google today announced a $35 streaming-TV dongle called the Chromecast, and everyone promptly went nuts.
The product sold out almost immediately. For a while, the Chromecast coverage was the most popular content on CNET -- surpassing interest even in the newly announced (and very promising) Nexus 7 tablet."

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Get Organized: Email Contacts | PCMag.com

Get Organized: Email Contacts | PCMag.com: "In email, your contacts are one of the most valuable long-term assets you own. These are the people that support your work, drive your social life, and keep you human. If you're changing jobs or moving to a new email program, you will definitely want to bring those people along with you."

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10 Useful Options You Can Configure In Your Router’s Web Interface

10 Useful Options You Can Configure In Your Router’s Web Interface: "Your wireless router has a variety of useful options you can configure. These are practically hidden — you wouldn’t know these features exist unless you were digging through your router’s configuration pages."

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Automatically remove tracking tokens from URLs in Chrome, Firefox | How To - CNET

Automatically remove tracking tokens from URLs in Chrome, Firefox | How To - CNET: "Urchin Tracking Modules, or UTMs, are tracking tokens added to URLs. They are a tool used by Google Analytics to help calculate the unique number of clicks on a specific link, navigation choices on a Web site, and how much time is spent looking at it. The namesake comes from Urchin Software, a company Google acquired in 2005. Google Analytics borrows a great deal of its structure and features from Urchin 6."

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Detroit Bankruptcy: The Failure of Liberalism

Detroit Bankruptcy: The Failure of Liberalism: "Detroit is a showcase for the liberal agenda — and now it is bankrupt. More than 50 years of control by big-government liberals and union bosses have left a once-great American city crippled and deteriorating."

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