| Admiral Boom, the eccentric cannon-firing neighbor in the Mary Poppins book series and film, was inspired by a real-life eccentric, Fountain North. North was an 18th century naval officer who missed life on the sea so much that he built a house in London, England with a quarterdeck on the roof, complete with cannons that he would fire to celebrate British naval victories and, naturally, the King’s birthday  | |
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| OLAP (short for Online Analytical Processing) is a category of decision support software that provides quick analysis of data that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies, like trend analysis of sales and financial information, for example. | |
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| Like other modern web browsers, Apple’s Safari has a few features that send your data over the Internet. For example, Safari sends all your searches to Apple with the default settings. We don’t recommend you disable all these features, as they do useful things. But we’ll explain what the various options do so you can make informed decisions. | |
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| There are times when you want to take your music with you, but you may not want to bring along your phone—like when going for a jog. The good news is that you can transfer music to an Android Wear watch and leave the phone at home. | |
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| By default, when you post a photo to Instagram, it's visible to every other user. If you add any hashtags to your photo, like say, #landscape or #selfie, anyone who searches for that hashtag will be able to find it. | |
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| The built-in backup utilities in Windows are pretty solid. Let’s take a look at how to create a full backup image of your PC without the need for a third party utility. | |
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| When working with Windows PowerShell, you may have come across the term cmdlet and found yourself somewhat confused. Is a cmdlet something totally different from a command or is it just the PowerShell name for them? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. | |
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| A new feature was introduced in watchOS 3.2 called Theater Mode, denoted by a button with two little theater masks. But what exactly does it do? | |
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| Tile is a handy tracker that you can use to find your keys, wallet, or anything else you might lose often. If you misplace your stuff while you’re away from home, Tile can send you a notification as soon as it locates your stuff. You’ll need to ask for it, though. Here’s how. | |
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| Google and Mozilla now offer 64-bit versions of Chrome and Firefox for Windows. Here’s how to find out what version you’re running and how to upgrade. | |
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| Windows is great at a lot of things. Handling its sound devices is not one of them. Despite the fact that most desktop PCs come with multiple sound output options (standard stereo, surround, front and rear, and so on), it’s still a pain to actually switch between them. Let’s see if we can change that. | |
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| The PlayStation 4 Pro has a lot of benefits over its predecessor, like a significantly faster GPU—an update that was basically required in order for the console to push 4K content. But what about older games—shouldn’t they be able to take advantage of this increased performance, too? | |
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| Whether you've just gotten married, no longer identify with your birth name, or just want to change the overly formal "Robert" to "Rob" on your profile, here’s how to change the name you're using on Facebook. | |
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