Does Brand Really Matter When Buying a Hard Drive?

Did You Know? Although often erroneously called “CliffNotes”, the ubiquitous yellow study guides that generations of students have consulted are actually called “CliffsNotes” (as in Cliff’s Notes), named after the man, Clifton Hillegass, who created the study guides back in the late 1950s. Geek Trivia What Type Of Auction Ends After The First Bid? English → Dutch → Vickrey → Blind → Advertisement Download 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $16 value!) FREE for a limited time The 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit compiles the latest information to help you decrease threat exposure and data loss. These resources cover the basics, the important developments, and unique approaches to reduce exploitation. Download this exclusive kit to gain all the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your business! Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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What's the Best Music to Listen to While Working? Studies show that for most types of cognitively demanding tasks, anything but quiet hurts performance. [The Atlantic] When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood? When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood? [The Washington Post] We couldn't live without 'zero' - but we once had to Mathematician Hannah Fry tells the intriguing story of how the number zero was 'discovered' – and why we couldn't predict the future without it. [BBC] How to Free Up Space on Your Android Phone with One Tap, Thanks to Google Photos Let’s be real here: modern smartphones have limited storage. While they’re coming with a lot more than they used to, it’s easy to fill 32GB without even realizing it. And with today’s high-end cameras, well, pictures and videos can quickly consume a big part of that. Read This Article → How to Create a Bootable Linux USB Flash Drive, the Easy Way A bootable USB drive is the best way to install or try Linux. But most Linux distributions—like Ubuntu—only offer an ISO disc image file for download. You’ll need a third-party tool to turn that ISO file into a bootable USB drive. Read This Article → Does Brand Really Matter When Buying a Hard Drive? When it comes to hard drives, everyone seems to have a horror story about one brand or another that failed them. But are some brands really more reliable than others? Read This Article → How to Stream TV on Your Plex Media Center with Plex Channels Plex Media Center is best known for super easy playback of local media files, but that doesn’t mean you can’t tap into the power of streaming video. The Channel system makes it easy to add content from a variety of sources ranging from well known TV stations to specialty content. Read This Article → How to Let Anyone Connect Their Phone to Your Google Home If you have guests over and want them to have access to the Google Home’s speaker functionality, you can enable Guest Mode, which allows them to connect without being on your Wi-Fi network. Read This Article → How to Use Facebook’s Search to Find Anyone or Anything When you think of Facebook, search probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. And to be fair, for a long time Facebook’s search function was pretty terrible. Read This Article → How to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips Reading Have you ever wished you could download Wikipedia in its entirety, and have a copy of it on your personal computer or Android tablet? There’s actually an easy way to do this, though you will need some extra disk space and a little time. Read This Article → How to Back Up and Restore Sticky Notes in Windows If you use the Windows Sticky Notes app, you’ll be happy to know you can back up your notes and even move them to another PC if you want. How you do it just depends on what version of Windows you’re using. Read This Article → How to Automatically Clear Private Data When You Close Your Browser Web browsers normally save your private data—history, cookies, searches, downloads, and more—and only delete it when you ask. If you are constantly clearing it, you can have any browser automatically clear private data when you close it. Read This Article → How to Share Your Location with Android’s Trusted Contacts Feeling safe is important, but in this day and age it can sometimes be difficult. Fortunately, we’re surrounded with brilliant technology that can be put to good use. Google’s Trusted Contacts does just that by allowing you to share your location with, well, people you trust. Whether you’re walking home alone after work, lost in the woods, or caught in natural disaster, this app can help you (or your loved ones) stay safe. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $16 value!) FREE for a limited time The 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit compiles the latest information to help you decrease threat exposure and data loss. These resources cover the basics, the important developments, and unique approaches to reduce exploitation. Download this exclusive kit to gain all the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your business! Click here to download