| 16th century Spanish explorers referred to the large reptiles they found in the Americas as “el lagarto de Indias,” or “the lizard of the Indies.” Thanks to their phrase and a few phonetic shifts as it made the jump to English, we now refer to those same large reptiles as alligators.  | |
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| A Vortal (short for Vertical Portal) is a website that serves as an online resource of news, articles, and services focused on a specific industry such as IT, retail, etc. versus general purpose websites that focus on multiple industries or topics. | |
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| It’s quite possible to install third party applications to your Android phone without using the Play store to download and install them, but today’s question comes from a reader who has run into a rather curious set of circumstances wherein the very “install” button itself is unavailable. Read on as we crack the case of the frozen button. | |
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| Your smartphone or tablet’s home screen isn’t just for apps. Whatever platfgorm you’re using, you can pin your favorite websites to your home screen so you can quickly access them. | |
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| Bluetooth speakers are everywhere these days and it's, frankly, rather hard to tell one from the other. Rather than hold one speaker above all as the end-all solution to your wireless music needs, let's instead take a look at the entire gadget category and highlight which features you want for the best experience. | |
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| Virtual machines allow you to run an operating system in a window on your desktop. Use them to run software made for other operating systems, experiment with different operating systems, and sandbox software. | |
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| The permissions here are really file and directory permissions, but they're generally called "disk permissions." Your Mac won't automatically repair permissions except while installing or upgrading Mac OS X itself. | |
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