If you have two different GPUs or graphics processors in your laptop, chances are Windows could be using the wrong one performance wise. Benchmarking always come out with the inferior one with a lower score. How to change the default graphics card in Windows for an Nvidia GPU? Search “nvidia control panel” in Start, click …
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It seems we have been living with the Snowden revelations forever. But in truth, he has only been a household name since mid-2013. There was so much news released that it quickly became information overload. There was too much information to fully process any one piece of it. The takeaways from the information dumps can …
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Firefox has come with a tremendously useful feature that is the spell checking. However the problem is, by default, it only checks the spelling of text in <textarea></textarea> the block text input. How to make it also check the spelling of <input type=”text” /> so that we can be worry-free of misspelled words in single-line …
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For every free Dropbox plan, it comes with 2GB online backup storage that has a public folder in which you can publish HTML web page files that are publicly accessible around the Web. It will give you a URL that you can hand out to your friends so they can view the page on the …
There are millions of websites online, each of which has its own unique web address or domain. It’s what the visitors, us, use to type in the browser address bar and go to the site. It universally identifies a website on the web. And it’s something EVERYONE can have. Yes, you can have one too, …
HTML is the abbreviation of Hyper Text Markup Language invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who’s also been called the father of the Web. HTML is what websites are written in. All websites on the Web are written in HTML that your browsers and email software recognize. It’s a way of representing, organizing and containing information as …
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CSS standards for Cascading Style Sheets. It’s a descriptive programming language that specifies how web pages look like in appearance and style. Take a book for example. The texts in the book are content, just like the texts you are reading right now in a web page or HTML page. The publishers of the book …
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To get the exact Astronomical Unit in kilometers: astronomical unit 1 Astronomical Unit = 149 598 000 kilometers To get Google to return the mass of proton: mass of a proton proton mass = 1.67262158 × 10-27 kilograms To get the mass of any planet in solar system from Google, search by: m_Earth Will yield …
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Want a reference to the speed of light in vacuum with a meter / second precision? Just ask Google: c And it returns the speed of light in m/s: the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s To get the Gravitational Constant, simply type ‘G’: G And it returns: gravitational constant = …
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For a normal search, Google decides the best results and the web page order by a variety of matching criteria such as in anchor text, page title, page URL. Sometimes, however, you need Google just to search certain part of the entire spectrum of comparison candidate. For example, to search with the matching phrase just …
Google identifies data in a lot of fields across the web and population is one of them. To get the local population of a city, a state or a nation, simply type in Google search: population new york population paris population shanghai population CA Or population california population japan What can be more handy. Google …
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Sometimes you may only want to pull information and searching results from a specific sites such as nytimes.com, just use the site clause in the searching phrase. For example, to search ‘mortgage loans’ only from the website nytimes.com: mortgage loans site:nytimes.com Google will then only return those web results from the site nytimes.com that’s about …
Google’s a supercomputer! With Google toolbar, these can be as handy as they get. To get the value of pi: pi // Google spits pi = 3.14159265 Add them up (and don’t worry about overflow): 62385761827351234125236 + 29893847592638741692387568 Calculate the product (same as above): 854736820183475 * 29347568389187 You get the idea. And of course you …
Google recognizes HTML definition structures and some of the web’s most prominent definition sites such as wikipedia.org, wordnet.princeton.edu and so on, and it has collected adequate stock of definitions in its database. You can navigate to your favorite online definition resource or you can just search on Google for any words or phrases’ definition: define:RAM …
We forget things. There’s a time when we want to search for a full sentence that we read before but can’t remember the full line with the correct wording here and there. To look up its original complete form or the author of it so that we can quote the literature, we have come to …
Google’s getting smart, not only basing its algorithm on existing natural language theories and references but also the feed of billions of searches performed by people around world daily. It learns from you. For example, Google knows PC and laptop are common types of computer, while when you search ‘computer’ alone it would present results …
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Other than just glancing at the clock (at the bottom right if you are using Windows) of your desktop or laptop computer screen, you can try a slightly more geeky way of querying the Internet for the current time. By asking Google. With Google toolbar installed, this would even come more handy than you think. …
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What is HTTP in all the web site URLs / web page addresses you see everywhere online? HTTP Explained: Just like people communicate with each other following certain protocols, HTTP is the protocol between the client (your computer using web browsers) and the server (web server serving web pages and similar online resources). So what …
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