| There is a phrase in French, “esprit d’escalier”, which literally means “stairway wit” and is used to refer to a witty remark a person thinks of too late to use in an encounter—a nod to how we often think of something great to say when we are taking the stairs to leave and it is too late to capitalize on our cleverness.  | |
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| A Nano Computer is a computing device with microscopic of very small dimensions. Types of Nano Computers could include: electronic, mechanical, quantum, chemical, biochemical, or organic forms. | |
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| If you’re rocking Android on your wrist, there’s a chance you’ve learned to rely on its convenience pretty heavily. And if you’re in that position, then you probably also know how annoying it can be if your watch runs out of juice in the middle of the day. | |
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| If you go to post a photo to Instagram but then decide not to, you get the option to save it as a draft. If it's a nice photo you want to come back and spend more time editing, that's a good thing; but if it's a throwaway photo you've no interest in posting, it stays in your drafts until you delete it. The delete option is a little hidden, though. | |
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| Google Chrome is based on Chromium, an open-source browser project. Anyone can take the Chromium source code and use it to build their own browser, renaming it and changing whatever they like. That’s why there are so many alternative browsers based on Google Chrome—but you don’t necessarily want to use most of them. | |
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| If you are thinking about setting up a web server, do you need a computer specifically built with that purpose in mind or can you use a more common type of computer? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. | |
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| Amazon Dash buttons are a quick and easy way to reorder products that you use often, but they only exist for certain brands and products. The good news, though, is that if you’re a Prime member, you can take advantage of virtual Dash buttons and quickly reorder almost anything that Amazon sells with Prime. | |
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| You see it every time you log into your Mac: your profile picture. If you’re like most people, you picked it way back when you set up your laptop, but how do you change it now? | |
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| The voice on Google Assistant has gotten better over the years, but it still stumbles sometimes when it comes to names. If Google frequently mispronounces your name, you can correct this in the Google Home app. | |
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| You may have noticed that some messages in iPhone’s Message app are green, while some are blue. What do those colors mean and does it even matter? | |
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| Chrome is Chrome, right? You download Google’s browser—now the most popular in the world—and you’d think you have the same experience as everyone else. But like most large software vendors, Google releases Chrome in differing “channels,” testing out features in more unstable versions before they get to the release build that hundreds of millions of people use every day. | |
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| Want to see what this VR thing is about, but don’t want to plop down a bunch of cash? Google Cardboard is an insanely cheap way to try it out. And, despite being a Google product, it works on iOS as well as Android. Google is fair, y’all. | |
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| Instagram is one of the most popular social networks in the world. It's a place where you can share photos you've taken, pictures from the lifestyle you (want people to think you) lead, and much more. While a lot of people are happy to share any old meme on Facebook and other social networks, they're often far more careful with what posts make it to their Instagram account. With this in mind, let's look at how to take great photos for Instagram. | |
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| It's ideal to have a dedicated machine for your BitTorrent client, so you can seed 24/7. But it’s energy intensive to leave a full rig powered up and online that often. Enter the Raspberry Pi. | |
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