| If you wanted to see all Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, there was a very brief window in which you could see them in all their glory—the Colossus of Rhodes was completed around 280 BC and destroyed in an earthquake in 226/225 BC, leaving a window of roughly 60 years when all Seven Wonders were intact.  | |
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| The term Land refers to the non-indented/raised areas on CDs and DVDs. Lands represent a “1” (reflect the laser) when a CD or DVD is being read while Pits represent a “0” (no reflection of the laser). | |
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| Android Wear is a useful tool for checking notifications and getting quick info without having to actually take out your phone. But it’s kind of useless if your watch’s battery is dead. Here’s how to figure out what’s causing your battery drain. | |
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| Most Linux distributions include the bash shell by default, but you could also switch to another shell environment. Zsh is a particularly popular alternative, and there are other shells, like ash, dash, fish, and tcsh. But what’s the difference, and why are there so many? | |
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| Screencasting can seem a bit daunting at first, but there are a few good free ways to do it. | |
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| If you have decided to make use of Windows 10’s file history capabilities, how long will a saved copy of a file remain in the backup folder if you decide to delete the original? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. | |
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| If your television’s picture is looking a little dim, you might be inclined to head into the settings and bump up the “brightness”. But that’s actually the wrong setting to mess with. | |
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| Google Home can help you remember important things, like where you put your passport or what your Wi-Fi password is. Here’s how use it to remember all the stuff you constantly forget. | |
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| Are you getting notifications about a full Time Machine drive? Do you feel like your backups are taking too long? A bigger, faster hard drive might be the best solution, but you can also help by excluding particular folders from your backups. | |
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| QR (Quick Response) codes are found in many places, such as advertisements, billboards, business windows, and on products. But you don’t necessarily need a separate app to scan them—if you use Google Chrome on your iPhone, it has a QR code scanner built-in. | |
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| By default, WhatsApp saves any images you get sent to your iPhone's Camera Roll. While this might seem like a good idea, if your friends are the kind of people who share… questionable… photos and GIFs, you may not want them automatically getting mixed in with your family photos. | |
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| On Facebook, the News Feed is king. The algorithms behind it control which posts you see from your friends and your frenemies. Every little action you do on Facebook is tracked and it's all factored in to determine which posts show up first. | |
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| There are two ways you can buy Microsoft Office. You can buy the traditional Microsoft Office 2016 product, or get it as part of an Office 365 software subscription. Here’s the difference. | |
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