Dandelions are prolific seed bearers–a single dandelion head can produce anywhere between 54 to 172 seeds, a single plant can produce more than 2,000 seeds, and an acre of grassland dense with dandelions can produce over 240,000,000 million seeds per year. | |
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| With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Microsoft tightened the screws even further. But you can avoid the more restrictive driver-signing requirements by disabling Secure Boot. | |
| A good set of fans can keep your computer from overheating, but they can also make your computer sound like a wind tunnel. Here’s how to control your PC’s fans for superior cooling when it’s working hard, and silence when it isn’t. | |
| Keeping our passwords well secured is something that we all need to take seriously, but what do you do if a particular program or app displays your password in plain sight as you are typing it? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the solution to a frustrated reader’s password problem. | |
| With the introduction of the Force Touch Trackpad on the new 2015 MacBooks, Apple also changed some of the gestures around, including getting rid of the three-finger drag that made it easy to move windows around. However, the gesture is still there—you just have to enable it in the settings. | |
| You used to love Reddit, but it’s just not fun anymore. The jokes aren’t funny, the tips aren’t useful, and everyone is constantly fighting about internal drama or identity politics. | |
| Many questions come about when one ponders their final days. Where will we go? Is there really an afterlife? What will happen to my Facebook account? | |
| Whenever you walk out your front door with your phone, you carry with you the contents of your life. “Security” may seem like a boring topic, but your phone has all kinds of important, personal, and sensitive information on it—even if you think it doesn’t. When it’s so easy to lose your mobile device or have it stolen, you have to ask yourself: why take chances when protecting your data is so simple? | |
| If you have a bunch of user accounts on your Windows PC that you don't need anymore, it may be time to clean them out. Today we’ll take a look at how to delete a user account in Windows. | |
| There are lots of tools out there for taking screenshots in Windows. However, you may not need to install a third party app. Snipping Tool, included in Windows Vista and later, allows you to take screenshots, as well as edit and annotate them. | |
| Double exposure images are popular at the moment. Taylor Swift's Style music video and the True Detective opening theme both used the effect. It's a technique where two separate photos—typically a portrait and a landscape—are blended together into one unusual image. Originally photographers took two photos ("exposures") on the same piece of film to combine them, but now it's usually done with software like Photoshop or GIMP. | |
| Any time you have hard drive errors—or even strange behavior you might not at first associate with a hard drive—Check Disk can be a lifesaver. Here's a full guide to using the Check Disk tool that comes with every version of Windows. | |
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