Friday, November 8, 2013

Really Private Browsing: An Unofficial User’s Guide to Tor — www.makeuseof.com — Readability

Really Private Browsing: An Unofficial User’s Guide to Tor — www.makeuseof.com — Readability: "The issue of privacy on the Internet has long been a difficult one: there are a lot of good reasons that you might be leery of strangers reading your emails or spying on the websites you visit – and there are equally compelling reasons that various unscrupulous people, corporations, and governments might want to do just that. The whole issue has come to a head recently with the revelation that the NSA has been illicitly spying on American citizens and others through Facebook, Google, and Skype – including, probably, you."

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Up, up and away with HGST's 6 TB helium-filled HDD — www.gizmag.com — Readability

Up, up and away with HGST's 6 TB helium-filled HDD — www.gizmag.com — Readability: "Last year, Western Digital subsidiary HGST announced the development of a helium-filled hard drive that would offer increased storage capacity and a reduction in power consumption compared to its air-filled cousins. The company has now delivered on its promise of a 2013 release by beginning shipments of what the company is trumpeting as the world's highest capacity HDD, the 6 TB Ultrastar He6."

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Why Are Minimized Programs Often Slow to Open Again? — www.howtogeek.com — Readability

Why Are Minimized Programs Often Slow to Open Again? — www.howtogeek.com — Readability: "It seems particularly counterintuitive: you minimize an application because you plan on returning to it later and wish to skip shutting the application down and restarting it later, but sometimes maximizing it takes even longer than launching it fresh. What gives?"

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How to Transpose Rows and Columns in Excel 2013 — www.howtogeek.com — Readability

How to Transpose Rows and Columns in Excel 2013 — www.howtogeek.com — Readability: "You’ve setup your worksheet with all your row and column headings and you’ve entered all your data. Then, you discover that it would look better if the rows were the columns and the columns were the rows. How do you accomplish this easily?

There is an easy way to convert your rows to columns and vice versa using the Transpose feature in Excel. We’ll show you how."

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