| Despite producing the films, Mel Brooks left his name off the advertising for The Fly and The Elephant Man because he didn’t want movie goers to think the films were comedies.  | |
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| CTD (short for Crash To Desktop) is a computer program crash/error that occurs when a program or video game suddenly terminates without displaying an error or warning message of any kind and takes the user back to their desktop. | |
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| In typesetting terms, “widows” and “orphans” are lines at the end or beginning of a paragraph that are separated from the rest of the paragraph by a page break. If you think widows and orphans in your Word document are distracting, you can enable a setting that prevents them. | |
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| Smartphones are convenient, but sometimes it's more trouble than it's worth to pick up your phone when you're already sitting at a computer. It would be nice to do whatever it is you want to do from the comfort of your PC—especially if you work at a desk. Thankfully, there's a simple (and brilliant) way to completely mirror your Android device's screen over USB with a Chrome app called Vysor. | |
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| There is a plethora of remote desktop solutions on the market, and it can be tricky to pick the right one for your needs. Don’t worry though, we’ve done the legwork for you, cataloging and comparing the most popular remote desktop solutions so you can easily pick the right one. | |
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| Windows 7 and above are set to automatically enable TRIM on solid-state drives. You shouldn’t need to worry about enabling TRIM yourself. But, if you want to double-check that Windows has enabled TRIM, you can. | |
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| It’s all too easy to lose your phone around the house, especially if you’re prone to losing things in general. However, your Amazon Echo can help you find it using a neat third-party service. | |
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| If you have a large Steam library, then you may be running out of space, or maybe you have it located on an old, slower spinning hard drive. Whatever the case, you can painlessly move your Steam collection to a new location. | |
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| Windows 10 changed the interface for the clock, calendar, and battery pretty dramatically from previous versions. While the new style is attractive and fits in well with the Windows 10 look, you can still restore the old interface used in Windows 7 and 8 for these features if you prefer them. Changing back to the old battery interface also gives you a quicker way to toggle between power plans. You’ll need to make a couple of edits in the Registry to make these changes happen, but it’s a pretty easy hack. Here’s how to do it. | |
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| There are two ways to protect a PDF file: an owner password and a user password. We'll explain the purpose of each and show you how to apply them to your PDF files. | |
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| When your phone's internal storage starts to get full, it can be frustrating. Things slow down, apps won't install, and in some cases, you can't even download anything. Fortunately, Samsung has a built-in way to help users see detailed information about what is taking up space, and also provides a simple way of deleting unwanted items. | |
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| Set up your Xbox One’s TV integration and you can do more than just watch TV on your Xbox: you can also stream that live TV from your Xbox to a Windows 10 PC, Windows phone, iPhone, iPad, or Android device over your home network. | |
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| Animated GIFs can be a fun way to spice up reactions on social media, or get a point across in an article–but they can also be annoying, and take forever to load if you have a slow connection. If you’d rather not see them, here’s how to stop them from automatically animating. | |
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