| The term “pungency” is used to refer to food with a very strong, sharp, or sometimes even disagreeable taste. When a food still has a stronger taste but is more agreeable to the palate, it is referred to as “piquancy”; thus a habanero pepper or chunk of Roquefort cheese would have pungency, but a mild pepper like a banana pepper or a sharp cheddar cheese would merely have piquancy.  | |
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| White Box Testing (a.k.a. Glass Box Testing, Clear Box Testing, Open Box Testing, and Structural Testing) is a type of software testing where intimate knowledge of the internal structure, workings, and coding of the program is known and applied to the testing process. White Box Testing is done so that the output of the program can be examined and to see if the program deviates in any form or manner from the intended behavior or results. | |
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| Microsoft’s Surface Pen, included on most of its first-party Surface machines, is one of the nicer options as far as modern touch screen styluses go. The latter version of the Pen, introduced with the Surface Pro 3 and subsequent models, includes a few customization options that weren’t present before. Here’s how you access them. | |
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| Most Chromebooks have relatively limited storage, which can fill up quickly with nigh-useless debris—like screenshots, for example. The default location for screenshot storage is in the Downloads folder, but you can easily change that. | |
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| Social media makes it easy to keep in touch with people you otherwise wouldn't see or hear from. If your best friend is travelling in a different country, or you've just moved to a new city and left your mates behind, it's nice to be able keep up to date with what's going on in everyone's life. | |
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| Microsoft doesn’t want you to keep installing Windows 7 (or 8) on new PCs. If you try, you’ll see an “Unsupported hardware” message and your PC won’t receive any security updates from Windows Update. Other hardware features may not work properly, either. | |
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| If you’re a prolific shutterbug, you know what a hassle it is to constantly pull the SD card from your camera, plug it into your computer, and transfer the files to get to the snapshots you just took. Here’s how to add Wi-Fi based photo transfer to your digital camera. | |
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| The Echo Look is a new device from Amazon that’s able to take a look at your outfits and tell you which one looks the best on you. However, you actually don’t need the Echo Look to get this kind of instant fashion advice from Amazon. | |
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| You recognize most of the processes you see while browsing Activity Monitor, but not hidd. The name is cryptic, and there’s no icon for you to recognize. Should you be worried? | |
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| Amazon’s new $20 Dash Wand is a handy little device for Prime customers that lets you order anything from Amazon just by scanning a bar code. It also comes with Alexa built in, so you can ask it questions or add items to your shopping cart that you don’t have a bar code for. Best of all, you get $20 in free Amazon credit when you set it up, so it’s essentially free. Here’s how to set yours up and start using it in your home. | |
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| By default, Chrome OS is pretty good at picking the best app for a specific purpose, but sometimes that’s not what you’re looking to do. While you can easily pick apps as you need them, you can also change the default option pretty easily. | |
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| In photography, there are two types of lenses: zoom lenses and prime lenses. Zoom lenses cover a range of focal lengths. If you've just bought a new DSLR, the kit lens that comes with your camera is almost certainly a zoom lens; most come with an 18-55mm lens, which means that lens covers every focal length between 18mm and 55mm. A prime lens, on the other hand, covers just one focal length. A 50mm lens is just a 50mm lens. | |
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| Macs have a thriving ecosystem of software, but some programs still only support Windows. Whether you want to use business software or play Windows PC games, there are many ways to run Windows programs on your Mac. | |
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