| A language isolate is a language that has no relationships with other languages. English, for example, is not a language isolate because it is a Germanic family language. Korean, on the other hand, is considered to have developed independently of outside influence and thus qualifies as a language isolate (with over 78 million speakers, it is larger than all other language isolates combined).  | |
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How to Make Your Steam Profile Private 
Yesterday, fellow How-To Geek writer Eric Ravenscraft recommended a Steam game in our office chat room. It’s all about writing…and also it’s about anime-style schoolgirls and the wooing thereof. | |
How to Blur Faces and Text in Photoshop 
There are plenty of reasons you might want to blur some part of a photo in Photoshop. Maybe you're sharing a photo and you want to anonymize some people, or perhaps you want to show off how bad your passport photo is without revealing private information. Whatever the reason, here's how to blur something in Photoshop. | |
The NVIDIA SHIELD Is the Most Powerful Set Top Box You Can Buy 
There are a lot of streaming set-top boxes out there: The Apple TV, the Roku, the Amazon Fire TV…and sure, they each have their advantages. But if you want the set top box that does the absolute most, that can handle anything you throw at it and leave some room for tweaking, it’s the NVIDIA SHIELD with Android TV. | |
What Is the Pixel 2’s Visual Core? 
The Google Pixel 2 has one of the best cameras you can get in a smartphone right now. But generally speaking, these “best camera” sort of ratings only apply to the stock camera app. Google is changing that thanks to the “Pixel Visual Core”—a custom image processing chip. But what does this chip do? | |
How to Use Emoji in Photoshop 
In the last few years, Emoji have become a huge part of pop culture. There's even a movie about them (although I'm trying my best to forget that). With Photoshop CC 2017, Adobe added proper support for Emoji, so let's look at how to use them. | |
Without Google Chrome, the Windows Store Will Always Suck 
Microsoft won’t allow Google Chrome in the Windows Store. Google tried to help users by putting an “installer” for Chrome in the Store instead, but Microsoft quickly tore it down. Microsoft is making the Store worse just to serve their business interests. The Store even allows other apps that use Google Chrome’s “Chromium” browser engine—just not Chrome itself. | |
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Dashlane has a slick Web 2.0-type interface with a host of similar features--like syncing, password auditing, assisted automatic password changes, and alerts in case of security breaches. Dashlane has definitely led the pack in the good interface department Click here to download | |
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