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Entries for September, 2008

Feed problems

I am having a few feed problems. Please bear the inconvenience as I fix them. Thanks.
Update: Solved. A broken RSS feed was caused by my last post - the RSS format did not like my usage of the “&” character in the topic title.

a2a_linkname=”Feed problems”;
a2a_linkurl=”http://superphysics.awardspace.com/2008/09/21/feed-problems/”;
a2a_show_title=1; [...]

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Disk Defragmenters - the Best of the Best: OandO and JkDefrag

For years, I had (and have) been trying to find a solution to that eternal problem on Windows PCs - file fragmentation. In that quest, I have read hundreds of reviews, tried just about every single defragmentation software that exists. Finally, I have made up my mind as to the best defragmentation softwares.
What was I [...]

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More on Google…

Google seems to be taking the tech world into its own hands. They are staying permanently on the news - and not for messing up.
First, Google Chrome. Then the Google-Yahoo! deal. Then the Android mobile platform.
I am amazed, really. They are going length to length, height to height. They are stable. They are innovative. Are [...]

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The Ways of Google (and Microsoft too)

Google. In a short era, Google has become very easily one of the most recognizable names in the internet and computer world, and almost equally so in the business world. Forget Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple and IBM, no name is so well integrated into our networked world as Google. Googling and Googlizing has become a more [...]

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The Large Hadron Collider opens - a great day for science

Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva was tested for the first time.
It was run on very low power: the full functionality is still possibly a year away. Nevertheless, the accelerator worked well.
The test particles were protons. They were accelerated in a clockwise direction - the anti clockwise direction is yet to be [...]

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