| The QWERTY keyboard layout, common on keyboards throughout the Western world, has been in use since the early 1870s when it was created by Christopher Latham Sholes to minimize mechanical jamming in early typewriters.  | |
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Channel Bonding | |
| Channel Bonding refers to the process of combining two or more lines in order to double/increase data transfer speeds. An example of Channel Bonding is using two modems (at a speed of 56 Kbps each) and two telephone lines for a total Internet connection speed of 112 Kbps. | |
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| Google’s Pixel Launcher is a fantastic and clean home screen utility that everyone should be able to enjoy—the problem is, it’s a Pixel-exclusive feature. The good news is that you can actually set Nova Launcher up to look and function exactly like Pixel Launcher. And since it’s Nova, you can actually improve on Pixel Launcher’s functionality. I call that a win-win. | |
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| Amazon's Kindle lineup has expanded: there are now four different models, with different features at different price points. That means deciding which one you want is more difficult than ever. Let's look at what separates the four Kindles and how to work out which one is right for you. | |
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| At this point, smartphones are prolific. We use them for calls, text messages, social networking, photos, quick searches, streaming music, watching videos…the list goes on. But each thing you do drains your battery life, and some apps will even continue to drain your battery in the background when you aren’t using them. A free app called Greenify can fix that. | |
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| In this day and age, it is not a bad idea to be leery of untrusted executable files, but is there a safe way to run one on your Linux system if you really need to do so? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice in response to a worried reader’s query. | |
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| Does using a scroll wheel on your Mac feel…wrong? You’re not alone. | |
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| The app system in iMessage is really cool, letting you paste content directly into messages that once required several additional steps. If you’re choosy about which apps appear in iMessage, though, you can prevent iMessage from automatically adding them. | |
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| In some specific types of environments, you might find it useful to add a static route to the routing table in Windows. Here’s how to go about it. | |
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| Outlook data files can get very large over time, especially if you get a lot of attachments. Even if you delete old messages, the size of your Outlook data file is not reduced accordingly. | |
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| PPAs, or “Personal Package Archives”, offer software that isn’t available in Ubuntu’s software repositories. Some PPAs offer newer versions of software packages that hasn’t made it to Ubuntu’s repositories yet. Installing software from a PPA is easier than compiling the software from its source code, so it’s good to know how to do it. | |
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| The tilt-shift effect is a weird optical illusion where a regular photo looks like a photo of a toy model. By creatively blurring different parts of the image, you trick people's eyes into interpreting everything in it as really tiny. | |
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| It’s that holiday time of year again, and that means it’s over the river and through the woods to…well, fix your family’s Wi-Fi and other tech problems. | |
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