figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I've just discovered that I can right-click on my Dell touchpad by using a two-fingered tap. That was driving me crazy!
Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned
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Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Same on the Mac, which I only discovered a couple of weeks ago (I've only been using a Mac for about 3 months though).
And also a two fingered drag up or down is the equivalent of using the scroll wheel on the mouse (no wheel exists on the Mac mouse, but dragging your finger over the top surface has the same effect).
If you go in to system / settings / mouse / trackpad there’s a load of gestures and they all have a little video demonstrating how they work. Well worth a poke around.
Gillstay
Veteran
Yes `Bumblebees'!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
It works on the touchpad of my laptop too. Interesting. Not that I find it at all useful as there is a right click button on said touchpad, which I already use.
But stored away for future reference
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Windows 10 has a display calibration setting.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
That’s the problem with my new Dell laptop - no click buttons at all, just a MacBook-alike touchpad. Hence my (now appeased) frustration.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Well I've met the criteria of the thread as
1) not previously realised bumblebees lived in hives / large groups. I'd previously though they were solitary or handful sized. groups
2) not realised bumblebees were managed
commercially for polination though I knew honeybees were used in this way, as a sideline to honey productio
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
Dumbledore is an old English name for the bumble bee, which gets the name from the Latin for buzzing or humming.
cougie uk
Guru
WOW ! Me too on my Chromebook. Thanks !
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
I went to visit an old Uni mate in Athens, and he had to correct a street vendor (who was also Greek) who was trying to sell "Acropolis" paper weights, but they were actually models of the Parthenon
matticus
Guru
I am admitting my ignorance of what the heck this (almost ubiquitous) english usage means! Can someone please explain, so that I can learned it.
Thanks! x
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I have just discovered (thanks to Series 3, episode 1 of Jack Ryan) that if you and your raiding party flee from Sevastopol in Crimea in a motorboat in the middle of the night, you can reach the Greek coast by early morning... Not bad going considering it is well over 1,000 km away!
Actually, I think that the boat they raided had sailed from the Crimea when they raided it, but it was still in the Black Sea and the overnight raid was completely implausible.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
You'll be a week next Tuesday years old before you figure it out
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
The fact that watermelon rinds are edible. That Watermelon rinds are actually packed with nutrients that can be beneficial for your health and are often used in dishes and salads.
