| Cats have a very precise method of walking, called “direct registering”, wherein their hind paws fall almost exactly into the place their fore paws did a moment before—this method of walking minimizes noise and visible tracks while ensuring more stable footing as the place has already been felt out by the fore paws.  | |
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| Deadlock (a.k.a. Deadly Embrace) is a condition/situation where two different programs or processes are waiting for the other to complete before proceeding, or are dependent on each other for completion because both are using the same resources, have experienced erroneous cues, or encountered other problems that have caused them to hang. | |
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| Windows’ “Enhance Pointer Precision” setting helps with some mice, but hurts with others. If you find that it keeps enabling or disabling itself automatically, here are some potential fixes. | |
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| Microsoft will end support for the Windows Essentials 2012 suite on January 10, 2017. If you use any of the suite’s component apps—Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, OneDrive, Family Safety, Mail, or Live Writer—here’s what you need to know. | |
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| If you are looking for ways to tweak your Windows system to conserve disk space, you might be looking at NTFS compression as an option. But if you choose this option, then how does the decompression process work? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. | |
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| If you use Google Calendar and want Alexa to read off your upcoming events without having to take the time to actually look, you can easily link your Google Calendar to your Amazon Echo and have the quintessential personal assistant you’ve always wanted. | |
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| When you double-click a ZIP file on your Mac, the files are automatically uncompressed and the ZIP itself is sent to the Trash. What if that’s not what you want? | |
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| Ever get into a situation where you know an option exists in a menu somewhere, but you can’t find it? Thankfully, macOS lets you search the menus of any open application to find what you’re looking for. | |
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| Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform applications use the .Appx or .AppxBundle file format. They’re normally installed from the Windows Store, but Windows 10 allows you to sideload Appx packages from anywhere. | |
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| Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably heard someone mention the social network/chat app Snapchat. Depending on how you measure things, it's now more popular than Twitter and Pinterest, with only Facebook and Instagram having more users daily. The difference is that most of Snapchat's users are millennials and teens, so it's flown under the radar of a lot of older internet users. | |
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| The Professional, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 allow you to defer updates so they are not downloaded for a while. You can use Local Group Policy to set a different deferral period than the default. | |
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