| 7-Up soda now has a simple and catchy three-syllable name but was originally called “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, a rather unwieldy twelve-syllable monstrosity of a name.  | |
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| Hundreds of Wikipedia Editors Got Banned for Secretly Promoting Brands Wikipedia has 381 fewer editors today, after hundreds of accounts were banned for taking undisclosed pay to create and edit "promotional articles." According to a post on Wikipedia's administrator board, Wikipedia's CheckUser team investigated for months to uncover the accounts clogging the site with bogus articles for cash. You don’t even want to know how corrupt the world of content really is. We get contacted every single day by people trying to post “guest posts” that are really being paid for by shady content marketing companies that hire writers to trick websites into getting their lousy products linked in guest articles. Reviews on almost every single website are faked and written by employees or friends of the people that make the products. We’ve had one writer years ago try to shake down a company for money in exchange for a good review (he was promptly fired, of course). And don’t get me started on forum spam. They have gotten so complex now that they will have one person post a legitimate question, and then a completely different person on a different IP (or maybe using a VPN) will post an answer that links to a Microsoft forum topic that seems like it might be legitimate, until you realize that they posted the spam link there because their forum admins are lazy and don’t do a good job removing spam. And that’s just the highlights. It’s much worse the deeper you get. The good thing is when you try to have integrity in what you do, you’ll stand out from the pack of scammers and spammers. Amazon Prime Lets You Download Videos and Watch Offline Now In a move to put pressure on Netflix with something other than Emmy-nominated series like Transparent, Amazon now allows Prime members to download movies and shows to their Android and iOS devices for offline playback. No Internet? No problem. This is such an important feature — we end up renting movies or TV episodes on iTunes so we can watch them while traveling or on the plane, since it’s often hard to watch streaming video on hotel Wi-Fi. It would be great if Netflix would let you download at least a few episodes, but it’s likely that their streaming agreements do not allow them to offer this feature — and with the increased competition in the marketplace, Netflix is struggling to keep deals with content providers as it is. They’ve already lost most of the good movie deals, and many of their TV deals expire in the next few years — it’s far from a sure thing that they will be able to renew them. So downloadable Netflix videos aren’t very likely. Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong. | |
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Today's Tech Term
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| Letterboxing refers to the process of adding black bars/sections to the tops and bottoms of movies or videos that have been shot in a widescreen format to help them properly fit smaller screens once they have been resized. | |
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| By default, when you insert a table, there is a simple, black border around all the cells in the table. However, you may want to change or remove the borders, and there are a few easy ways you can do this. | |
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| The Xbox One Controller is a fantastic gamepad, and although Microsoft has only recently started bundled the drivers for it in Windows 10, there are drivers available for Windows 7 and 8 on their website. Mac users do not have an official driver, but there is an lightweight open source solution that works well. | |
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| Antivirus should be a last-ditch line of defense, not something you rely on to save you. To stay safe online, you should act as if you had no antimalware software on your computer at all. | |
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| Anyone who has used Windows has seen the occasional system message stating that a program is not responding, but how exactly does Windows know that? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a baffled reader’s question. | |
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| We know how hard it is to remember passwords and other sensitive information. The temptation to write it down is great, but that is never recommended. Luckily, if you use OS X, you can create secure notes, and you only need to remember one password. | |
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| A screenshot is an image taken by a user to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, mobile device, or other visual output device in use. Today we’re going to show you how to take a screenshot in Windows. | |
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| Normally, Excel uses the A1 cell reference style which uses letters for column headings and numbers for row headings. However, if you notice there are numbers on both the row headings and column headings, that's the R1C1 cell reference style. No worries. It's easy to change it back. | |
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| In late 2014 Microsoft released the Band. It came out of left field. Rumors had been rolling around about Microsoft possibly doing a wearable, but details were non-existent. When it came out people were… well, confused. And rightly so. What is this thing? Is it a fitness tracker? Is it a smartwatch? Is it any good? The answer to all three questions is yes. | |
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| Attackers are trying to compromise your web browser and its plug-ins. “Malvertising,” using third-party ad networks to embed attacks in legitimate websites, is becoming increasingly popular. | |
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