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How to Boost the Performance of Your Old Laptop/Desktop with ReadyBoost

What is ReadyBoost? ReadyBoost is a function that allows the system to temporarily store essential data on an external media. SuperFetch, a disk cache management mechanism in Windows that speeds up your system, is the primary driving force behind it. It is yet another bonus that arrived with Windows Vista. On Windows XP, however, there …

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Best MS Office Alternatives

The Microsoft Office suite has been the longtime leader in office productivity software. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and a handful of other office productivity tools. However, wide variety of alternative competitors have become increasingly attractive, not least because of more price-competitive licensing fees, and some are free to use. On the other hand, …

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Configuring Git with More than One Remote Repository

Git Remote A branch’s “remote” is a URL from which your local git repo fetches changes. Your local git repo is entirely yours—other people’s code has no effect on it until they push their commits to the remote. Hopefully, you’re all using the same remote and everything is in sync, but the remote is just …

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Big Tech Must Stop Trying to Create Their Own Metaverse

The race is on to capitalize on the excitement surrounding the metaverse. Last week, Microsoft described its $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming studio Activision Blizzard—a move that would normally be interpreted as the Xbox maker simply expanding in the gaming sector—as a way to create the “building blocks for the metaverse.” Meta—which was rebranded from Facebook to …

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