| There’s a single, and rather chilly, temperature wherein the otherwise different Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales display the same temperature; -40 degrees is the same level of bone chilling cold on both scales.  | |
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| Glass House is an older slang term that was used to refer to the large, centrally controlled windowed data center rooms that housed enterprises’ mainframe computers in past decades and is still used as a term to refer to centralized computing in enterprises today. | |
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| If your Taskbar, System Tray, or Start menu acts up, you might be tempted to restart your PC. Instead, you can usually just restart Windows Explorer—and Windows makes it pretty easy. | |
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| Instagram has taken a leaf out of Snapchat’s book and added a disappearing Story feature. Now, as well as posting normal images to Instagram, users can share what’s happening in the moment. Any image posted to a Story stays live for just 24 hours. After that, it’s gone. | |
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| If you’ve been using Facebook for a few years, then you know your account contains a veritable treasure trove of information that thieves would just love to mine. It may go without saying, but firmly securing your Facebook account is going to go a long way towards protecting you from exposing a big chunk of your personal life to unsavory elements. | |
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| If you’d like to share your local Minecraft game with friends across the internet, it’s a bit more complicated than just pushing a button. Let’s look at the behind-the-scenes settings you have to tweak in order to connect two remote Minecraft players together. | |
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| The Amazon Echo is a very capable speaker that can easily fill up a room with sound. While you can play music directly from the device itself, here’s how to connect your smartphone or tablet to the Amazon Echo and use it as a Bluetooth speaker. | |
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| It’s one of the great annoyances of the streaming media age: figuring out which shows and movies are on which services. Searching Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other sites individually takes up way too much time, especially when you just want to relax and watch something. | |
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| Apple Photos on macOS can be trained to recognize faces so you can search for family and friends in all the photos in which they appear. Training is easy, though it might take some time if you have a lot of pictures in your library. | |
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| When you hook a game controller up to your PC—whether it’s an Xbox controller, PlayStation controller, Steam controller, or something else—you can remap the buttons for individual Steam games however you want. Here’s how. | |
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| Most smartphones have a feature in which you can double tap the spacebar to insert a period. Wouldn't it be nice if you could do that on your Windows PC too? We'll show you how you can. | |
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| With Android Nougat, Google released an oft-requested feature: the ability to run two windows side by side. Instead of some sort of janky workaround like Samsung or LG’s solutions, which only allow certain apps to work in a multi-window scenario, this one is baked into Android. That means it works for essentially all apps, all the time. | |
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| Making selections and masks is one of the most fundamental Photoshop skills. If you want to change your model's eye color or remove a pesky photobomber, you need to be able to select only the area of the image you want to effect while keeping everything else safe. | |
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| iTunes on Windows is terrible. Launch it, and everything comes to a screeching halt as iTunes consumes all your resources to do the most basic of things: play some music. | |
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