| The Frito-Lay chip company takes their potato chip research and development seriously; after extensive research they determined that consumers like a chip that snaps in the mouth when bitten with approximately four pounds of pressure per square inch.  | |
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| Why do we celebrate Labor Day? Labor Day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City. After the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago on May 4, 1886, U.S. President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Therefore, in 1887, the United States holiday was established in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored.
When you really look into history at the origins of major holidays and other traditions, you usually find something terrible. Bragi’s Dash, the wireless earbuds of our dreams, aren’t up and running yet They were originally funded by nearly 16,000 Kickstarter backers to the tune of $3.4 million, but have since missed successive shipment dates, with their promised arrival pushed back from November of last year to sometime this August. And, they’ve been delayed again.
Kickstarter is a way for you to pre-order stuff that doesn’t actually exist yet. Unfortunately, much of the stuff that you spend money on either won’t ever ship, or will ship way after the deadline. In some cases, other similar products might even hit the market first. Before you back a Kickstarter project you should make sure that it’s really a legitimate company — some large or established companies, like Pebble, will use Kickstarter as a pre-order platform for something that they are definitely going to launch. Many of these good companies are backed by VC money and are only using the platform to get their order count right. It’s just one of those things you really need to be careful about. Don’t throw your money away. Premium Android hits the wall: the Q2 2015 smartphone scorecard The TL:DR: high-end Android OEMs had a terrible second quarter. The smartphone business generally grew less quickly than for a couple of years as China stagnated overall. But not for Apple; by contrast, it grew strongly. Samsung's Galaxy S6 did not impress the punters. LG's G4 sold less well than apparently the company hoped. Sony had a torrid time. HTC then redefined torrid. Premium Android has a real, immediate problem.
The Android phone makers are trying to mimic Apple by not allowing storage upgrades or removable batteries in the hopes that customers will pay a lot of money for more internal storage. In doing so they are removing the only real advantage they have over Apple. And since on the high end the premium Android phones cost the same as an iPhone, the only selling point they have left is that they aren’t Apple. And then there is the flood of Android security holes we keep learning about… | |
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| A Martian Address is an invalid IP address that has either been spoofed by a hacker or is unroutable due to being assigned an address by a misconfigured system. | |
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| Microsoft OneNote is now free to use on and sync among all your devices, such as computers, tablets, and phones, as well as on the web. So, what if you're using Evernote and want to switch? No worries. It's easy to convert your Evernote notebooks to OneNote. | |
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| If you only pay attention to the headlines that Microsoft wants you to keep your eye on, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Windows 10 has been a universal success. So far, Redmond’s latest OS has been installed on around 72 million systems around the globe, and for the most part, has been met with overwhelmingly positive reactions from both the press and the public. But what if Windows 10’s many privacy violations, annoying Start menu, and bogus apps are too much for you to bear? | |
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| Windows 10 is a great upgrade. Microsoft paid a lot of attention to the feedback they ignored while developing Windows 8, and it shows. Unfortunately, some parts of Windows 10 are inexplicably bad and hostile to users. | |
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| Apple’s iCloud now allows you to undelete files you’ve deleted from iCloud Drive, restore recently deleted photos, and revert your contacts and calendars to a previous state. If you accidentally deleted something, you can get it back. | |
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| Click-to-play plug-ins allowed you to prevent video plug-ins from starting as soon as you load a web page, but more and more websites are moving to HTML5 video. Thankfully, it’s still possible to prevent autoplay in many browsers. | |
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| Minecraft is one of the best ways to introduce young and new people to coding. Command blocks are easy to learn and use, and Java programming is right around the corner with Minecraft mods and Bukkit plugins. It’s also just a very fun place for experienced coders to tinker in. | |
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| Google Photos offers unlimited storage for your photos and videos, a slick website, and automatic-upload apps for Android, iPhone, Windows, and Mac. It’s a great option for storing your photos. | |
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| Google’s Picasa photo management tool is a really fantastic free tool for consumer photo organization but it has a really annoying habit: it snaps a picture of your entire desktop every time you press the Print Screen button. Let’s take a look at the effective (but very unintuitive) way to fix that. | |
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| If you use a Mac almost exclusively, but you’re still an Android holdout, you can manage your device’s storage using a handy, free app called Android File Transfer. | |
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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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