| Despite how King Leonidas is portrayed as a younger man in popular depictions (like in the 2007 film 300), he was actually sixty years old when he fought in the Battle of Thermopylae.  | |
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| When you insert a picture into a document, Word always defaults to the Pictures Library folder for selecting your picture file. However, you can specify a different folder as the default picture location that displays when you insert pictures in Word. | |
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| With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft included a simple way to see your Android phone’s notifications on your PC. It's not as robust as some of the third-party options out there, but it's extremely easy to set up, and even easier to use. | |
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| Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade offer is over–or is it? There’s still a way to activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 key, in addition to Microsoft’s accessibility offer. | |
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| Did you just install the Anniversary update? If so, there’s more than 10 GB of data wasting space on your hard drive. On a laptop or tablet with a limited amount of storage, this can fill up your device quite a bit. | |
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| Despite advances in streaming technology over the years, watching the Olympics on anything but a TV with a cable subscription is still a hassle. Read on as we show you how to get your Olympics fix without resorting to signing up for a cable plan. | |
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| While the Ring Doorbell can send you alerts if anyone actually rings it by pressing the button, you can also receive alerts whenever motion is detected. Unfortunately, it isn’t perfect. Here’s how to adjust the sensitivity of that motion. | |
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| Chromebooks have a slightly different key layout than most keyboards. If you're the type of person who likes to yell on the internet, the search key—which is in the same spot where you'd normally find a Caps Lock key—can really throw you off your game. Nothing quite like hitting a Google search mid-rant. | |
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| You accidentally closed a tab, then realized you weren't done with that webpage. Or, you want to open that elusive webpage you visited last week, but you forgot to bookmark it. No worries, you can get your closed tabs back. | |
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| Windows 10’s Action Center finally brought you a central location for all your notifications to Windows. With the Anniversary Update of Windows 10, you can now set priorities for applications so they are grouped in the Action Center just the way you want. | |
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| Need to adjust something on your Mac, but it’s all the way on the other side of the house? You don’t need to get off the couch: your Mac’s built-in screen sharing works great with your iPhone or iPad, and it’s a snap to set up. | |
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