| The radiant eyeball floating atop the pyramid on the back of the U.S. $1 bill is called the “Eye of Providence” and is meant to represent the eye of God watching over mankind–while most people are familiar with this symbol because of the dollar bill, the entire arrangement (the pyramid, the floating eye, the triangle) is actually the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States and not just a design found only on currency.  | |
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| Do Not Disturb mode on Android can be handy if you're in a meeting, at a movie, or anywhere else where your phone needs to not be a distraction for a little while, but the real value is found in Do Not Disturb's automatic rules. Basically, you can tell Android when not to bother you—like at night while you're sleeping, for example—as well as who can bother you if they must. It's pretty brilliant and only takes a few minutes to get set up. | |
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| When you first install the Ubuntu Bash shell on Windows 10, you’ll be asked to create a username and password for the Bash environment. Bash will automatically sign into that user account whenever you launch the shell, but you can change it–and its password. | |
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| There are a lot of changes in Windows 10's File Explorer compared to Windows 7's Windows Explorer. If you've upgraded to Windows 10 and you don't like the changes, we'll show you how you can get the look and feel of Windows 7's Windows Explorer back. | |
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| The Plex Media Server experience is generally pretty smooth, unless you do a lot of streaming when you’re away from home or your server hardware is underpowered. Fortunately, it’s very simple to have Plex optimize your media for silky smooth playback. | |
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| If the weather is really nice out and you decide to open up windows, it’s easy to forget to turn off the A/C so that you don’t waste energy. However, with a smart thermostat (like the Ecobee3) and SmartThings, you can automatically turn off your thermostat when you open a window. | |
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| If you’ve ever run out of the house with your iPhone, but left your wallet or purse behind, you know how annoying it is to turn around and go back to get it. If you use Apple Pay, you don’t have to. | |
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| Google announced on March 22, 2016 that the Chrome App Launcher–which provides quick access to all your offline Chrome apps–will be retired (except in Chrome OS). It's being phased out over time and will be completely gone in July 2016. There will not be any official replacement for the Chrome App Launcher from Google, but don't worry–Chrome apps are not going away. You will just need to access them in some other way. | |
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| Windows 10’s “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” environment contains a few different components. The first time you run the bash.exe program, it will download and install an entire Ubuntu user space environment. You can access these files in File Explorer or other Windows programs, if you know where to look. | |
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| Can you transfer your Windows license between PCs? It depends–the answer isn’t so cut and dried. | |
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