| English legal terms like “cease and desist” or “null and void” are redundant as a result of their translation from Latin legal terms to French (and onward from there).  | |
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| Google Chrome Blog: Chrome improvements for a faster and more efficient web Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn’t busy with some other task, and use the free time to aggressively clean up old, unused memory. In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps. With Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.
Finally, Google Chrome is going to start using less RAM when in use, which should really help people that have a lot of tabs open. They are also going to start enabling the option to disable Flash that isn’t essential to the page — basically ads and other things that aren’t actually necessary for the page to run. We’re one step closer to a world without Flash. Which is a good thing, especially for your laptop’s battery. Introducing the new Street View app from Google Maps For all the Street View fans out there: exploring the world just got even easier. Today we are introducing the new Street View app for Android and iOS, which allows you for the first time, to tour immersive 360-degree imagery and instantly contribute your own — right to Google Maps. Find a great hiking trail, check out restaurant and hotel interiors, and snap and share your own photo spheres (360-degree panoramas) to Google Maps for others to explore and enjoy. All in one place.
It’s interesting that Google Maps has become so big that they are separating out some of the great smaller features, like Street View, into a completely separate app to make it easier to discover things. Street View has always been a great way to look around and essentially take a virtual trip to some popular destination, but getting into and finding the street view wasn’t easy before. Now it’s much more simple. Probably the most important feature in Maps right now for many people is the restaurant lookup — they include a lot of other information like restaurant hours, reviews, photos, and links to the menu along with the Zagat rating, since they bought them a while back. They do have a standalone Zagat app right now, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see them rebrand that as Google Eats or something down the road to split out the feature into a separate app that’s still integrated with Maps. Apple CarPlay review This year, Apple and Google are finally making it possible to use your smartphone safely while driving. Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto integrate with a vehicle's existing infotainment system, providing quick access to navigation, music, messaging, phone calls, and more, without requiring you to ever look at your phone. A few months ago, I took a look at Android Auto in a production car, and now I've had the chance to test out Apple's system in a 2016 Corvette Stingray.
The future is using your smartphone to control everything. Google and Apple have control of the entire smartphone market, so it’s likely that they will control all the screens in our cars — almost all car companies have partnered with one or both of them to integrate CarPlay or Android Auto to replace the system in the car. And while a lot of things need to be worked out and tweaked and it’s not the greatest system right now, almost anything is better than the nonsense the car companies have been putting out. It’s worth noting that the screen in your car is one more screen that Microsoft likely won’t be a part of in the future. | |
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Today's Tech Term
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| A Lightweight Browser is a web browser that is made to have minimal impact on a system (processing and RAM), utilize minimal storage, and may even go so far as to forgo some or all web standards in exchange for speed. | |
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| The days of scrambling around in Gmail with a bunch of different plugins for four different browsers is over, because Google has finally taken the veil off their brand new, browser-based Google Hangouts platform. The messaging app has proved wildly popular with the professional set, offering a quick and simple way to get in touch with all your email contacts in an instant. But now that Hangouts has its own browser window, there a few new tips, tricks, and settings you should know about before you dive in. | |
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| Dolphin is an open source Wii and GameCube emulator that supports the majority of games for both consoles. Dolphin will run your collection of Wii and GameCube games very well at 1080p on most new PC’s, and even older systems still can crank out playable speeds at 480p, the native GameCube resolution. Installing Dolphin is easy, although if you want to put your collection on your computer, you will need a Wii and be willing to homebrew it. | |
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| Music streaming is the hot new thing, with many services offering access to millions of songs for a monthly fee. If you have your own music collection on your computer, you can put it online and stream it from anywhere — free. | |
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| What do you do when your computer only recognizes your hard-drive part of the time? Is it simply a matter of the hard-drive going bad or is it a BIOS setting that needs adjusting? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice for a frustrated reader. | |
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| If you join the Apple Beta Software Program, you’ll be able to test the latest versions of OS X and iOS before everyone else, and you can use the Feedback Assistant if you run into any bugs, or want to make suggestions. | |
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| Word allows you to put a border around most types of items in your document, such as text, pictures, and tables. You can also add a border to either all the pages in your document or certain pages in your document using section breaks. | |
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| In a world that was divided by a glut of sub-par, aimless entries from Windows laptops up against sleek/wallet-gouging Macbooks, Google saw a hole in the market, and thus, the Chromebook was born. A new type of light, functional, and durable laptop which wouldn’t break the bank of investment-weary consumers, but could still pack in enough features to stand up with the big boys. | |
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| Windows 10 is designed for PCs with unlimited Internet connections, and it normally uses as much of your download and upload bandwidth as it wants without asking. Setting a connection as metered puts you back in control, and it’s essential on some types of connections. | |
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