| It’s true, in space no one can hear you scream; sound travels via the vibration of atoms (such as the atoms that make up the air around us or the oceans of Earth) and the near-vacuum of space means the sound of a scream wouldn’t make it much farther than the edge of your space helmet.  | |
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| Friction Feed is a method for feeding paper through a printer via tightly pressed together rollers that pull the paper through during the printing process. | |
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| Adobe Photoshop is the professional image editor. It's name is now a verb for image editing (which is something that Adobe absolutely hates). Photoshop though, isn't the only editor in town. Over the last few years, new image editing apps have come along that are almost as good as Photoshop, for a fraction of the price. Let's have a look at some of them. | |
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| While once considered a novelty item by many tech enthusiasts, Chromebooks have broken out of the “just a browser” mold and become legitimate laptops. They’re full-featured, lightweight machines that can do everything most users need them to do. Best of all, they’re more secure and often more affordable than the competition. | |
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| You’ve got a shiny new iPad, and an old one that’s about to start gathering dust. Don’t let it languish in a drawer—turn it into the ultimate kid’s tablet by cleaning it up, locking it down, and installing kid-friendly apps. | |
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| Snapping a screenshot of your iPhone is a great way to preserve exactly what you see on the screen and, thankfully, it’s dead simple to do since the shortcut is built right into iOS. | |
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| If you have a newer garage door opener from Chamberlain (or its professional brand LiftMaster), it’s likely that it comes with MyQ. Here’s how to set it up so that you can open and close your garage door remotely using your smartphone. | |
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| You sit down to watch something, only to realize you don’t know where your remote is. All hope is lost. | |
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| Apple Mail, the email application included with macOS, has some confusing account setup screens. If emails you send appear to be coming from the wrong address—for example, emails you send from your personal address are being sent from your work address, or vice versa—you can tweak your email account settings to fix this problem. | |
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| LibreOffice Writer allows you to measure your margins, tabs, etc. in several different sets of units, such as inches, centimeters, and points. If you use something other than the default of inches it's easy to change the unit of measurement in Writer. | |
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| Snapchat’s “Lenses” feature can make all kinds of silly alterations to your Snaps. If you've ever seen a photo of a friend with cute, cartoon-esque dog ears or "face-swapping" with someone else, it was a Snapchat Lens. | |
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| Windows HomeGroups are great for setting up quick and easy sharing on home and small business networks. Here’s what you need to know to use them. | |
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