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How to speed up a computer as it gets slow over time

Introduction
It’s true, computers do get slower over time, specially if they’re heavily used. There are two major reasons for that: hardware and software.
But hardware is much less of a problem. Most computer hardware nowadays is solid state, which means there are few moving parts that slow down from wear and tear. The hard disk is [...]

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Faster than light - Impossible, even if Sci-Fi says so

Once upon a time, I was watching some movies, and I realized how many sci-fi movies rely on the concept of faster than light travel. This was many years ago (I was hardly into high school then). I wrote, at that time, a small article about why faster than light travel is impossible. While there [...]

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The fastest download manager of all - Gigaget?

Every once in a while, you come across freeware so interesting, you wonder “Now why didn’t I know of that earlier?”
This was the case when I recently found out about the Gigaget download manager. It is free, easy to install, and simple to use. But that is not saying anything, until I get to the [...]

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