| Charles Dickens’ wild success with A Christmas Carol led him to chase the holiday again with many (not as successful) Christmas stories like The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time—none of these titles gained anywhere near the popularity of A Christmas Carol.  | |
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| A Daisy Wheel Printer is a noisy, slow, and now obsolete type of printer that functioned on the same principle as ball-head typewriters. Daisy Wheel Printers could produce letter-quality printouts at about 10-75 characters per second, but were unable to print graphics. | |
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| So you’ve unpacked a shiny new iPad (or laptop, or camera, or other gadget) and it’s time to get rid of the old one. Why not make a few bucks in the process? | |
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| It’s the holidays, which means new gadgets for everyone! Whether you’re rocking a new PC or trying to get a handle on what the Amazon Echo really does, we’ve got you covered. Here’s how to set up all your new tech gifts (and, let’s be honest: your family’s). | |
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| Crackling, popping, and other sound problems can occur for a variety of reasons. You may be able to fix the problem by adjusting your audio device settings, updating your sound driver, or pinning down another hardware device that’s interfering. Here are some things to try. | |
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| Have a Fire TV or Fire TV Stick you’re not getting much use out of? Now’s the time to dust them off and turn them into a cheap, compact Plex device. | |
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| When you minimize a window in macOS, it goes to the right edge of your Dock by default. If you’d rather it minimize to the app’s icon, like Windows’ taskbar does, you can alter this behavior in System Preferences. | |
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| Cortana now lets you create and manage lists with your voice, and even lets you connect to Wunderlist if you want. Here’s how to do it. | |
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| The market of electronic consumers reaches maximum growth at the end of every year. Mobile phones and tablets turn to be the hottest Christmas gifts for family and friends, but how do you get your media onto the new phone? The best way to do it is a mobile-specific video converter and iPhone file manager. | |
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| When you're buying a console game, you've got two options: you can buy it as a download through the PlayStation Store or Xbox Games Store depending on your platform, or as a physical disc from Amazon or a local retailer. | |
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| If you’re troubleshooting your Mac, you’ve probably seen this advice before: reset your NVRAM. Some forum denizens talk about this as a cure-all solution to Mac instabilities, but what is NVRAM? And what problems can it actually solve? | |
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