BBC News is reporting: Dozens of Android phone owners are reporting on social media that a picture featuring a lake, a cloudy sunset and a green shoreline is crashing their handsets when used as wallpaper. How could such a serene image cause a phone to crash? Basically, its too much for the phone to handle. …
A recent post on Reddit says: “2.1 million people visited the page ‘How do I exit the Vim editor?’ according to stack overflow survey” This is very understandable. Let me answer this. :Q! — exit without saving :Q — exit / close window :w — write / save file shift-ZZ — exit (attempt, save if …
This has been irking me for the past couple of days. I would come back to my laptop (Lubuntu) after a period of time away and I would find Zoom (the video meeting app) open. I use Zoom for work, so I just dismissed it as a screen that I had forgotten to close. After …
Instagram AR Filters are taking over. Wheather you are wondering what Disney princess you are or what type of Taco Bell item represents you, there is an AR filter out there for you. How do you use them? AR Filters can be found on a user’s “Story”. The title of the filter will be in …
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Paleotronic has a fascinating article highlighting 55 of the best Christmas computer video game magazine covers. Hold on to your nostalgia, this one might hit you right in the feels.
I had a conversation with my in-laws this past week we got into a conversation about their wifi password. Basically, they have an ATT router setup where the password is on the underside of the modem. This password is something like “7%b6c9m4k”. No one can ever remember it. The best you can do is take …
This is quite interesting and I’m pretty amazed it has taken so long for this to be created. (via businessinsider.com) tl;dr A big new feature for iPhones this year is Shortcuts, an app that lets you write scripts for the iPhone. One widely shared shortcut is called Police, which records police interactions and texts a …
Before the trend of food trucks and street food, night lunch and food wagons were all the rage. From Atlas Obscura: “IN 1893, BOSTON WAS BUSTLING, especially after the sun went down. “Night owls of all classes” roamed the streets, wrote the Boston Daily Globe, including “workers, idlers, pleasure seekers, spendthrifts, tramps and bums.” At some point, all …