| Thanks to the close proximity of the Diomede Islands, located in the center of the Bering Strait, Russia and the United States are only 2.4 miles apart at their closest point; Big Diomede is owned by Russia and its companion island Little Diomede is owned by the United States.  | |
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| A FEP (short for Front End Processor) is a computer that handles input and output communications for a mainframe computer. A FEP transmits/receives messages, assembles/disassembles packets, and detects/corrects errors. | |
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| There’s a war going on out there. You won’t see it on the news, you won’t read about it in the paper—but it’s happening. It’s a hard-fought war that many of us never think about: the war against improperly oriented video. Got a video that’s showing up sideways? Here’s how to rotate that video 90 degrees on Android. | |
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| I love Snapchat, but I'd also be the first to admit the user interface design is…poor. If you’re using Snapchat for the first time and just feel lost, here are the basics. | |
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| Making Flash click-to-play is a good idea, but browsers are going further. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge will all soon disable Flash by default, allowing you to enable it only on websites that need it. | |
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| A simple screenshot is great for capturing what’s immediately visible on your monitor, but what if you need to capture an entire webpage? Here are three simple ways you can capture a long web page as one continuous image and, in the process, preserve it exactly as it appears to the viewer. | |
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| Apple offers 5 GB of free iCloud space to everyone, but you'll run up against that storage limit sooner than you'd think. Device backups, photos, documents, iCloud email, and other bits of data all share that space. | |
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| You might think emoji only belong on your phone, and it’s true these post-modern hieroglyphs didn’t really take off until the smartphone revolution. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use them on your computer, especially if you own a Mac. There are all kinds of emoji-specific features baked right into macOS. | |
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| If you’re a fan of using Windows PowerShell rather than the Command Prompt, you might enjoy being able to access it right from the context menu you get when you right-click a folder in Windows. Here’s how to make it happen. | |
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| LibreOffice displays short tips when you hover over buttons in each of the programs. There are also extended tips available that display longer descriptions about the toolbar buttons. | |
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| Google’s Smart Lock for Passwords makes it easy to sync the passwords you have saved in Chrome over to your Android device. Not only will it sync the passwords with Chrome on your phone, but also to supported apps—so you don’t have to remember your password for apps like Netflix or LinkedIn. The thing is, you may not want to auto-login to specific apps. Or any app at all, for that matter. | |
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| Photoshop has dozens of different, powerful tools, each with their own uses. You can use the spot healing brush to clean up blemishes or the brush tool to change the color of someone's eyes. | |
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| Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista all support symbolic links—also known as symlinks—that point to a file or folder on your system. You can create them using the Command Prompt or a third-party tool called Link Shell Extension. | |
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