| The use of an arrow, like  , to indicate direction on signage did not appear in use until the 18th century (with the arrow’s fletching being removed during the mid-to-late 19th century). The symbol appeared as an abstract evolution of the previous symbol, in use since the medieval era, of a painted hand pointing a finger (a manicule).  | |
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| Packet Filtering (a.k.a. Static Packet Filtering) is a firewall technique for controlling network access that analyzes incoming and outgoing packets, then lets them pass or stops them based on the source and destination IP addresses associated with them. | |
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| Most PCs—whether you buy or build them—have at least one unused drive bay. Why not make use of them? | |
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| In the age of smartphones, we keep everything stored on our little pocket computers: pictures, spreadsheets, documents, videos, music, and everything in between. If you want to share this content with other people, though, why huddle around a tiny screen when you have that nice, big TV just sitting there? | |
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| There are lots of reasons you might want multiple Instagram accounts. Maybe you need one for your personal life and one for your business. Or maybe you and your partner share a device, but want to post photos to your own accounts. Here’s how to do it. | |
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| Microsoft Office document files you download from the internet can harm your PC. Office files can contain dangerous macros, but macros aren’t the only risk. With new malware attacking PCs through dangerous Office documents that don’t even contain macros, keeping yourself safe in Office is just one of the security practices you should follow. | |
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| Whether you want to share family photos with distant relatives or make a shared pool of vacation or event photos with friends, it’s easy to create and share collaborative albums in Google Photos. | |
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| The Wink smarthome hub lets you automate all sorts of different tasks around the house by setting up Wink “Robots”. But strangely, when it comes to scheduling your smart lights, that feature is set up differently. | |
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| You want to find specific information from a given website, but it doesn’t offer search. Or maybe its internal search feature is just plain awful. What can you do? | |
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| Like other modern browsers, Microsoft Edge includes some features that send your data over the Internet. A few of them even send your browser history to Microsoft. We don’t advise 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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| Windows 10’s Creators Update adds Dynamic Lock, which tries to automatically lock your PC when you step away. Dynamic Lock uses Bluetooth to check the signal strength of your smartphone. If the signal drops to a certain level, Windows assumes you’ve walked away with your smartphone and locks your PC. | |
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| Google released an Android version of Chrome in 2012, and have never bothered to give it a fullscreen mode. If you’re tired of waiting on your favorite Android app to offer fullscreen, there’s a way to do it yourself with Immersive Mode. | |
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| Typing with a controller can be a huge pain. But if you’re not into hitting the directional buttons over and over to navigate through the keyboard on the PS4, there is a potentially faster way: gesture typing. | |
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| By default, when you Tweet, you're broadcasting it to the world. You could make a bad joke to your 170 followers, get on a plane, and by the time you land, find out your Tweet went viral and now you're out of a job—that's literally what happened to Justine Sacco. Whatever you say on Twitter is in the public record. That is, unless you make your Twitter account private. | |
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| The Windows 10 Creators Update—which you can get manually if it hasn’t rolled out to you yet—brings with it a new “Game Mode” that focuses on improving performance for game applications. | |
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