| The Bay City Rollers, a popular 1970s pop act, aren’t from Bay City, Michigan as one might assume but from Edinburgh, Scotland; the band chose their name by throwing a dart at a map of the United States and picking the nearest city.  | |
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| A Zeroconf (short for Zero–Configuration Network) is a type of network (computers, printers, and other network devices) that can be set up using Ethernet cables and does not require manual configuration (or configuration servers) to achieve network functionality. Automatic functions of a Zeroconf include: the allocation of IP addresses, translation between domain names and IP addresses, locating services (like printing, for example) without employing a directory service, etc. | |
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| The battery in the Apple Watch lasts approximately 18 hours, depending on use. If your battery gets too low, you can put the watch into Power Reserve mode so you can see the time for up to 72 hours. | |
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| Just like many of the other Internet of Things appliances that have been slowly trickling into our homes over the past several years, smart washers are a new class of device that can hook up to your smartphone or tablet via an app, and transmit vital data about their daily operation to you in realtime. | |
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| Microsoft has hidden the build number in an attempt to make Windows 10 look always-up-to-date, and there are still different editions of Windows 10 with different features. Microsoft is also still offering both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows 10, too. | |
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| Alexa and the Amazon Echo make for a great voice-driven personal-assistant and hardware platform combo but even the sensitive microphones in the Echo have their limitations. Extend the reach of your Echo with the companion Voice Remote for whole-house functionality. | |
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| Much has been made of Apple’s new Live Photos feature and with good reason, it’s really cool and a great way to preserve special memories. If you own an Apple Watch, you can view Live Photos and even turn them into watch faces. | |
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| The Force Touch feature on Apple Watch is similar to a right mouse click in Windows. It allows you to quickly access contextually-specific options on the watch. We'll show you 10 useful ways you can use Force Touch in different apps on your watch. | |
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| Have you ever heard of the Tab Groups feature from Mozilla’s Firefox web browser? If you said no then you’re not alone, in fact, Mozilla has recently stated that they estimate the Tab Groups feature is used by “around 0.01% of users” and due to this estimate they have decided to remove this feature from Firefox starting with Firefox 45. | |
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| Modern desktop operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X offer built-in tools for calibrating your display‘s brightness, contrast, gamma, and color levels. This can help make text more readable and give images and videos more accurate colors. | |
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| Mac OS X can read from NTFS drives, but it can’t write to them unless you use one of the below tricks. We highly recommend paying for a third-party NTFS driver if you need to do this as the other solutions don’t work as well and are more work to set up. | |
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