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  1. Windows 7 Quotation mark key not working properly

    I just bought a brand new Dell Insprion 15R special edition, and I've noticed that the quotation mark key isn't working properly. This is going to be a problem for someone like me who writes fiction in his spare time... Basically what happens is that when I press SHIFT+', the quotation mark...
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  2. VIDEO 400 years early: Star Trek's tricorder prototype work began in 2007 by Peter Jansen

    Anyone who has watched the science fiction television series Star Trek will remember the tricorder: A fictional device capable of scanning for anomalies in space and time, diagnosing irregularities in your health, and helping the crew of a starship find their way through obstacles on an alien...
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    Windows 7 Help Needed: Laptop Screen Flickering Issue and Potential Loose Connections

    So I'm new to the forum, and I was hoping you guys can help me with a problem I have with one of my laptops. So the laptop I'm having trouble with is the one I use for fiction writting and I'm worried that if I dont get help or find out what's happening all my work will get deleted. So the...
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  4. Decipher fact from fiction: Deconstructing the debut of Windows 8

    The debut of Windows 8 has everyone talking, but do they really know what they are talking about. Deb Shinder deciphers fact from fiction for you. Link Removed
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  5. 'Dead alien' turns out to be stale bread

    Students behind the discovery of an alien's body at a UFO crash site have admitted it was a hoax - made out of stale bread. A video of the find shot by Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19 - supposedly showing the alien's mangled body frozen in snow in Irkutsk, Siberia - became a...
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  6. VIDEO Hitler is informed Fegelein had open the portal to hell

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  7. Windows 7 Author Jennifer Egan's new novel uses Power Point

    Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a film starring Cameron Diaz. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship,a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. In her...
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  8. Any avid readers here?

    Just looking for anyone who would like to share some information regarding recent or maybe old favorite books or authors that they enjoyed and might consider recommending. I don't really want to limit the scope of this thread but my particular interests lie mostly along the mystery, thriller...
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  9. Windows 7 The Office Show: Storytelling with Office 2010

    In this episode, you’ll see how three very creative people use Microsoft Office to realize their ideas. Joannie Stangeland uses OneNote 2010 and a digital pen to capture inspiration and organize her poetry. David Salaguinto uses a Visio template to create comics for his popular “Office Comic.”...
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