| You can rest easy knowing your greatest of grandfathers hated mosquitoes as much as you do: the oldest example of a mosquito with an anatomy similar to modern species comes from 79 million-year-old amber and the oldest mosquito-like insect found comes from 90-100 million-year-old amber.  | |
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Today's Tech Term
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| Hammering refers to the process of repeatedly attempting to connect to a server that is currently unavailable or busy. Hammering can be an automated process or the result of a user who is frustrated and constantly retrying the connection manually in order to connect to the server. Hammering is very much like repeatedly hitting the redial button on a phone when a dialed number is busy (until the phone call is successful in getting through). | |
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What We're Reading from Around the Web | |
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| If you've applied various formatting changes to the content in your document, and they either don't work or you want to start over, you can easily clear formatting from selected text. We'll show you a couple of ways to do this. | |
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| Chromebooks are designed to be pretty simple machines, but did you know they come with a range of features you wouldn’t expect? Taking a screenshot of anything on your desktop is a breeze with these quick shortcuts, and you can even single out a small section just in case you want to cut down on cropping time in the photo editor of your choosing. | |
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| Windows 10 is finally out — kind of. Microsoft initially promised that everyone could take advantage of the free upgrade offer on July 29, but you may have to wait a while before Microsoft offers the upgrade to your PC. | |
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| You can reinstall Windows from scratch using the product key that came with your PC, but you’ll have to find installation media yourself. Microsoft offers free Windows ISO files — if you know where to look. | |
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| The trackpad gestures and keyboards shortcuts on OS X are highly customizable right out of the box, but if you’re a power user who wants to tweak every setting possible, you may have to resort to third-party software. BetterTouchTool is a utility designed to make gesture controls more powerful on OS X. | |
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| Creating installation media for your operating system of choice used to be simple. Just download an ISO and burn it to CD or DVD. Now we’re using USB drives, and the process is a little different for each operating system. | |
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| Want to install Windows 10 on your own PC? We’ve got you covered with the instructions, although it’s just like installing any other version of Windows. | |
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| You probably shouldn’t install Windows 10 on your primary PC. But, if you are going to, you should at least install it in a dual-boot configuration. You can then reboot to switch between your installed versions of Windows. | |
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| If you are a busy person, then the last thing you need is to be bothered with a huge amount of ‘useless’ notifications, so how do you quieten things down? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some great answers to help a reader quieten down the amount of output. | |
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| Windows 10, by default, sends everything you search for in the Start Menu to their servers to give you results from Bing search — so you better make sure that you don’t type anything private into your own PC’s Start Menu. Or, you could just disable the Bing integration in the Start Menu. | |
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