| The blaster rifles in the original Star Wars trilogy are based heavily on the design of the Sterling sub-machine gun that was used by British military forces until 1994. In some scenes, the actors actually fired real Sterling guns with visible muzzle flash from the blank rounds.  | |
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| EMS (short for Enhanced Messaging Service) is a messaging service with more advanced features than SMS (Short Message Service). EMS-enabled mobile phones can send and receive messages that have bold and italic text formatting, simple animations, pictures, icons, sound effects, special ring tones, and operator logos. | |
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| If you're working with different currencies in one Excel spreadsheet, you'll need to change the currency symbol on certain cells, without affecting other cells. When you format your numbers as "Currency", you can easily use multiple currency symbols in the same Excel spreadsheet. | |
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| With the addition of 4K video recording on smartphones like the iPhone 6s and Samsung Galaxy S6 this year, many consumers have been left wondering what all the fuss is about. What makes a 4K video so much better than 1080p, and how is the camera on the back of an iPhone any different from a 4K camcorder from Sony or Nikon? | |
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| Many Android tweaking and hacking guides warn that you’ll void your warranty by continuing. But will you actually be denied repair service if you’ve rooted or unlocked your bootloader? | |
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| Commercial DVDs and Blu-ray discs are encrypted. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) is designed to prevent you from ripping them, copying them, and watching them on unsupported players. You can get around this protection to watch DVDs and Blu-rays on Linux, but it’ll take some tweaking. | |
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| If you have your PC set up as a living room gaming PC and media center, why use a mouse for everything when you could just use your game controller? | |
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| In this day and age of weak battery life, it’s incredibly important to keep an eye on your usage. Unfortunately, Android doesn’t show you exactly how much battery you have left–just a vague graphic. Here’s how to add a more exact percentage to that icon. | |
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| If you have any video s on your Mac that are particularly large in file size, then putting them on your iPad or iPhone can easily devour tons of space. You can convert videos on your Mac, however, using no additional software. | |
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| Need to create a cover page for a report you're writing? You can create a simple, but professional cover page by centering the text both horizontally and vertically. Centering text horizontally on a page is easy, but vertically? That's also easy and we'll show you how. | |
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| Apple’s iPhones and iPads use its own Lightning connector for charging and data transmission. You can purchase third-party cables and accessories, but they must be certified. If a cable or accessory wasn’t certified by Apple, you’ll see a warning message when you connect it. However, this message can sometimes appear incorrectly, too. | |
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| Although unknown to and ignored by most people, cable modems have a diagnostic that can help you troubleshoot connection problems. | |
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