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How to Open a Specific Set of Webpages When You Start Your Browser . If you have certain webpages that you visit every time you open your browser, you can save time by having them automatically open when you start your browser. We'll show you how to set this up in the five most popular browsers. For example, we want visit to How-To Geek and Google's advanced search page every time we open our browser, so we're going to set up each browser to open these two websites automatically. Chrome Open Chrome and, on separate tabs, visit the webpages you want to open automatically when you open the browser. Then, click the Chrome menu button (three horizontal bars) in the upper-right corner of the window and select "Settings" from the drop-down menu. The Settings screen opens on a new tab, unless you chose to have the Settings open in a separate window. In the On startup section, select the "Open a specific page or set of pages" option and then click...

Add Blank Spaces to Your macOS's Dock to Better Organize Apps . If you've been using your Mac for a while, you've probably accumulated a lot of shortcuts in your Dock, which can make finding things difficult. Adding a blank space or two is a great way to organize apps into groups. A blank space on the Dock is just that: nothing. When you click on it, it won't do or launch anything. They just let you scan your eye along your icons so you'll be able to better make out your applications. To begin, you first need to fire up our trusty old Terminal, which can be found in the Applications > Utilities folder. Now that your Terminal is open, you're going to want to type or paste the following command, and then hit Enter: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}' Now type the command: killall Dock Make sure to press Enter again. The procedure will look like this in your...

Geek Trivia: Unlike Humans, Octopus Blood Is Not Iron-Based But? . Answer: Copper-Based Life in the ocean requires creatures to make all sorts of adaptations for everything from the cold, to the pressure, to the salinity, and the octopus is no exception. Unlike humans (and most other creatures for that matter), octopuses don't have red blood, but blue. Our blood is red because of the iron-based hemoglobin molecules within it. Octopuses, on the other hand, have hemocyanin which is like our iron-rich blood, but the iron atoms are replaced with copper. The copper-based blood molecules are more efficient at transporting oxygen when the temperature and oxygen levels are low, an adaptation well suited for life in the deep and cold waters of Earth's oceans. There is, however, one downside to this adaptation–they are, as a result of it, very sensitive to changes in the pH value of the water around them. With that in mind, many scientists are concerned about trends in ocean aci...

How to Charge Your Ring Doorbell When the Battery Gets Low . The Ring Doorbell is a Wi-Fi-enabled doorbell system with an integrated camera so that you can quickly see who's at the door. But its internal battery means that you need to recharge it once or twice every year. Here's how to recharge the Ring Doorbell whenever the battery gets low. While you can run the Ring Doorbell off of traditional doorbell wiring and not bother with recharging the battery, its big feature is that it can be powered completely by the internal battery so that you don't have to mess with any wires, making installation super easy. The good news is that recharging the Ring Doorbell unit is really simple. First off, you can see how much juice your Ring Doorbell still has left by opening up the Ring app on your phone and tapping on the device at the top of the screen. The battery level will appear in the upper-right corner. If you want an exact percentage of how much battery is l...

How to Make Internet Explorer More Secure (If You're Stuck Using It) . Internet Explorer is on the way out. Even Microsoft is recommending people avoid it in favor of their new browser, Edge. If you require Internet Explorer for an old website, though, you can secure it against attack with optional features like Enhanced Protected Mode. If you can move away from Internet Explorer to another browser, you definitely should. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox are all better choices. But a few old websites, especially ones using ActiveX controls, still require IE. Enable Enhanced Protected Mode and 64-bit Processes Microsoft introduced a feature named "Enhanced Protected Mode" back in Windows 8. In Enhanced Protected Mode, Internet Explorer runs website content sandboxed in an "AppContainer." Even if a malicious website manages to exploit Internet Explorer, that AppContainer environment will prevent it from escaping to tamper with the res...

How Clinton, Trump clash on money matters . AFP/Getty Images Clinton, Trump clash about cash From their speeches and comments, you might assume that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are far apart on every topic. Not so. The Democratic and Republican nominees for president are close on issues like Social Security (don't cut it, although some GOP leaders would disagree), the minimum wage (raise it), and trade (reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement). But the electoral combatants differ on a few money matters, differences that were on display during the conventions and, later, in dueling economic speeches in Michigan. For example, in a speech before the Detroit Economic Club, Trump distanced himself further from Clinton on the issue of taxes. In her economics speech in Warren, Michigan, Clinton offered a little something for everyone -- support for clean energy, broadband for everyone, simplified tax filing for small businesses, debt-free college education for ...