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Sofortbilder haben ihren Charme – und es muss nicht immer die klassische Sofortbildkamera sein. Flexibler ist das Duo aus Smartphone und Sofortbilddrucker. Wir haben sechs aktuelle Druckermodelle getestet.
People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices. I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts. My B shelf begins with a disturbingly large number of copies of Destinies, a paperback SF magazine edited by Jim Baen in my own pers...
Does a Dark Watch Face Save Battery Power on Apple Watch? Why Do Dark Themes Use Less Power? Apple opted for OLED display technology for the Apple Watch from the very first model. Unlike traditional LED-lit LCD screens, OLED is a self-emissive technology. That means there’s no need for a backlight at all because each pixel generates its own light. This enables for pixel-level light control and perfect blacks. To display pure black, pixels are simply turned off. This consumes no power and makes the rest of the watch face stand out against the deep black background. Apple Watch faces that use...
33 Delicious Indian Main Dishes You Can Make at Home Amrita Thakkar © The Washington Post/Getty Images indian main dishes The hyderabadi chicken biryani is photographed at Akshaya Thursday May 9, 2013 in Sterling, VA. The restaurant features the Indo-Chinese cuisine. In the background at left is the lamb pepper fry. Biryani If there's one dish that almost everyone knows in Indian cuisine, it's biryani. The origin of this aromatic mixture of rice, spices and meat is usually credited to the Mughal kings who once ruled the subcontinent, but it's now a popular dish all over the...
Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more The rest of the world may be slowing down as we prepare for Christmas and the new year, but we are not taking our foot off the gas. Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX, the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8 billion. “Selling a tenth of yo...