| Despite their portrayal in movies and cartoons as carrying a cask of liquor around their necks, St. Bernard dogs never performed such a function and historians attribute the popular trope to a 19th century painting by Edwin Landseer (which did feature a dog with a cask).  | |
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| A TAN (short for Tiny Area Network) is a small LAN that only has a few nodes and is typically found in home or small office environments. | |
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| Whenever you plan a new purchase, you want to make sure you’re buying it at an ideal time—nobody wants to be the sucker who put a down payment on that brand new sports car a month before it was replaced with a new model. So it is with PC monitors…albeit on a slightly smaller scale. So, is now (summer 2017) a good time to purchase one or more for that perfect desktop setup? | |
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| Most Linux distributions configure the Bash prompt to look something like username@hostname:directory$ . But you can configure the Bash prompt to contain whatever you like, and even choose whatever colors you like. | |
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| Not everyone is model pretty and capable of posing perfectly on a split second's notice. For most mere mortals, photographs can be a risky business. If you're caught mid-word, after a few drinks or, God forbid, while you're dancing, no amount of work in Photoshop can ever save the photo. | |
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| Python doesn’t come prepackaged with Windows, but that doesn’t mean Windows users won’t find the flexible programming language useful. It’s not quite a simple as installing the newest version however, so let’s make sure you get the right tools for the task at hand. | |
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| If you looked under your desk and finally got fed up with the mess of cables underneath, here’s how to organize that mess and get your cables under control. | |
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| Google I/O 2017 keynote is in the books, and as usual, Google showed us a preview of the latest version of Android. Codenamed O, the next iteration of Google’s mobile operating system is coming this summer, but you can get your hands on the beta right now. Here are the best features you’ll see when it drops. | |
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| You know how to take screenshots on a Mac, but not how to take screenshots of the second display on your new MacBook Pro: the Touch Bar. What if you want to share how you’ve customized the Touch Bar, or the dumb Touch Bar apps you’ve found? | |
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| Your little one is growing up and finally ready to start driving. They may be allowed to drive on their own once they get their license, but you may still want to know they’re being safe. With an Automatic Pro OBD-II adapter and automation app Stringify, you can build a powerful system to keep an eye on your teen’s driving even when you’re not in the passenger seat. | |
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| The reports of the MP3 file format’s death have been greatly exaggerated. This past week, news sites around the internet ran stories claiming that the MP3 is dead. This seems to come from a misunderstanding of a press release, and then others trying to play copycat for clicks. So what’s the deal with MP3, and why do people think it died? | |
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| We’re currently experiencing a renaissance of laptops, with both incredible specifications and some really amazing design work adorning the latest models. As part of these next-generation designs, we’re also seeing a lot of new materials going into laptops as well. Aluminum, magnesium, carbon fiber, even the super-tough tempered Gorilla Glass—it seems that if you want to make a new high-end laptop or tablet, old-fashioned plastic just isn’t an option anymore. | |
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| Origin’s “Great Game Guarantee” applies to all games published by EA itself and a few third-party games. If you’re not happy with a game purchase, you can return it for a refund—just like on Steam. Origin began offering refunds before Steam did, but Steam’s refund policy does apply to a wider selection of games. | |
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| By default, Snapchat lets anyone who adds you send you Snaps, which isn't ideal. If you’d rather not get messages from strangers, here's how to change it so Snapchat only lets Friends (people you've added as well) contact you. | |
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| Passwords can be reset or bypassed on every operating system, so even if you’ve forgotten yours, there may be a way in. This also means that evildoers can likely get into your system if they have access to it—and it’s way easier than you think. | |
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