| In Australia, roughly 80 kilometers east and slightly north of Adelaide, there’s a cave called “Well It Wasn’t There Last Year Cave”–we can only presume that whoever discovered and named the cavern was quite confident that it wasn’t, in fact, there last year.  | |
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| Demon Dialing was a phone dialing technique from the 1980s where a computer or specialized device was used to repeatedly call a telephone number in order to try and be the first one to get through after the previous individual had just ended their call. Reasons for Demon Dialing included trying to access crowded modem pools and trying to win radio show call-in contests. | |
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| By default, when you create a new workbook in Excel, the row height and column width is always the same for all cells. However, you can easily change the height and width for one or more rows and columns. | |
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| They say that blue spectrums of light are bad for your eyes, especially at night when you're more likely to be looking at your phone in a dark environment. This also supposedly leads to poor sleep, which leads to poor health. Here’s how to combat that on your Android phone. | |
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| Windows 10 and 8 include a volume display that appears at the top left corner of the screen whenever you adjust the volume using a shortcut key. Microsoft offers no built-in way to disable it, but there is a way to hide it. | |
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| Want to put your computer’s screen on your TV? You could hook it up with an HDMI cable, but then your computer's placement depends upon the length of the cable. With Google’s Chromecast, however, you can mirror any browser tab or your entire desktop–wirelessly–in just a few clicks. | |
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| With iOS 10’s new “Recognized Faces” feature, you never have to spend time looking for photos of friends and loved ones–all your photos are automatically cataloged and right at your fingertips. | |
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| You may already know about smart outlets, or outlets with integrated USB ports. But you might be surprised at how many “normal” outlets you can actually buy for your house. They’re all built for different situations, and you want to make sure that your house is equipped with the right outlet for the job. Here are the different kinds of electrical outlets you can buy. | |
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| If you use Apple Mail, you may have noticed you can swipe messages to perform certain actions. It’s a useful shortcut, but if you find yourself invoking it accidentally, here’s how to turn this feature off. | |
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| The Amazon Fire Tablet is a great little device for $50, but even though it runs Android, it doesn’t feel like a true Android device. Here’s how to get a more traditional Android home screen on your Fire Tablet–without rooting it. | |
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| You logged into your Facebook account on your friend's computer, and you're not sure if you logged out. Or maybe you’re worried someone else has your password. Thankfully, Facebook tracks where you're logged in, so you can see every device logged into your account, and end any sessions you don't want active. | |
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| If you browse through your Task Manager in Windows 8 or 10, you'll probably see several instances of a process named "Device Association Framework Provider Host" running. If you've ever wondered what it was, why there are so many, and why it might be spiking your CPU usage, we've got the answer for you. | |
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| Apple claims their live streams are only available in Safari on macOS and iOS. But you don’t have to miss the new iPhone launch if you’re using a Windows PC or Android device. Apple doesn’t make it obvious how to do this, but you can watch its live events on any operating system. | |
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| Windows 10 is controversial partly because it “phones home” so much. That’s true, but so does every other operating system–and practically every single program you use. Saying a program “phones home” doesn’t have meaning anymore. It’s why a program phones home that’s important. | |
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| | Download Free eBook: Android Programming Cookbook
In this ebook, we provide a compilation of Android programming examples that will help you kick-start your own web projects. We cover a wide range of topics, from Services and Views, to Google Maps and Bluetooth functionality. With our straightforward tutorials, you will be able to get your own projects up and running in minimum time. Click here to download | |
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