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How To Speed Up Windows Using ReadyBoost And USB Drive? Does It Still Work?

M icrosoft first introduced the functionality to use a USB drive or SD card as a memory cache in Windows Vista in the form of a feature known as ReadyBoost. The feature was also inherited to Windows 7 and later versions, but with the ability to configure more than one USB drive for ReadyBoost. So, what is ReadyBoost in Windows? ReadyBoost is a feature that speeds up Windows by storing application files and data as cache in a USB drive. This disk caching is beneficial in case the system is running a slow hard drive. ReadyBoost works with USB drives, SD cards, and CF cards. However, it may not be able to deliver considerable performance in the case of newer hardware. So, if you’re stuck with an older hardware, you can speed up Windows using ReadyBoost and USB drive. How to speed up Windows 10 using ReadyBoost? As mentioned earlier, you can use a USB drive, SD card or a CF card to enhance the performance of your Windows 10 operating system. In the case of SD cards, pl...
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  1. Over 3.8 billion people use the internet today, which is 40% of the world’s population.
  2. 8 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020.
  3. More than 570 new websites are created every minute.
  4. There are over 3.5 billion searches per day on Google.
  5. Every minute 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60-day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years.
  6. By 2020, video will account for about 80% of all internet traffic.
  7. 340,000 tweets are sent per minute.
  8. 500 million tweets are sent per day.
  9. Facebook has more than 2 billion active users who have an average of 155 friends.
  10. There are more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook every day, 800 million likes per day, and 175 million love reactions per day.
  11. Your online reputation and privacy worst enemies are WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
  12. Facebook is a divorce lawyers best friend. In fact, 1 in 7 divorces are blamed on Facebook.
  13. Over 4.2 billion data records were stolen in 2016
  14. More than 88 million people will be born this year. They will be born into a data and algorithm economy.
  15. We are in the age of Big Data. 16 zettabytes (16×1021) of unique new data created worldwide in 2016.
  16. 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last couple years.
  17. 250 million hours of TV shows and movies are watched daily via Netflix
  18. More than 56 million hours of music is streamed daily.
  19. We spend more than 33 million hours playing the game League of Legends
  20. The amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a 4-year technical or college degree, this means ½ of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their 3rd year of study.
  21. There are currently 7.5 billion people on the planet and in 2050 there will be 10 billion people.
  22. In 1900 14% of the population lived in cities. In 2017 54% of the population lives in cities.
  23. Every minute 7 babies are born in the US, 32 babies are born in China, and 47 babies are born in India.
  24. 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s is greater than the population in North America… in India it’s the top 28%. Both China and India have more honor kids than North America has kids.
  25. For the first time in history, we have 4 generations working side by side. Traditionalist, Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial. Each are very different in the way they grew up communicating.
  26. A new term has been created, “The Silver Surfer” for those seniors +50 who use the internet on a frequent basis.
  27. The top in-demand jobs that barely existed 10 years ago are Digital Marketing, Cloud Specialist, Social Media Intern, Fintech Manager, IOS and Android Developer, Uber Driver, Data Scientist, Big Data Architect, Transformation Manager.
  28. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist using technologies that haven’t been invented; in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.
  29. 10 years ago (2007), Apple launched its first iPhone. 2.3 billion people now own an iPhone now.
  30. Candy Crush earns more than $1.74 million per day and over $636 million per year.
  31. In August 2017 Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Prices reached the $4000 mark.
  32. 10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020.
  33. In 2013, Amazon had 1,000 robots operating in its warehouses. Now Amazon has 45,000 robots operating across 20 warehouses.
  34. 47% of jobs will disappear in the next 25 years as robots will replace 5 million workers by 2020.
  35. The Digital Revolution is just starting. A working Quantum Computer could arrive within the next 10 years. It will enable exponential jumps in computing power. Artificial intelligence will outperform humans in many activities in the next 10 years.












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Top 100 Technology Facts

Technology has made an incredible advancement over the past 20 years, and the future of technology to some may seem unsettling, while to others it may be exciting.
Here we’re going to look at 100 interesting facts about old-school technology, as well as present and futuristic tech.
  1. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – this means the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox!
  2. In 1994, the company who had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.
  3. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head.
  4. Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ!
  5. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out.
  6. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.
  7. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labor, or work.
  8. CD’s (Compact discs) read from the inside to the outside edge, which is the reverse of how records work.
  9. You cannot reverse a Bitcoin transaction, or be forced to pay.
  10. The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
  11. The first ever VCR (Video Camera Recorder), which was made in 1956, was the size of a piano!
  12. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel about 12.6 miles.
  13. The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day“.
  14. On 1st April 2005, NASA pulled a prank telling the world that they had found water on Mars.
  15. The radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million. The television took 13 years and the iPod only took 3 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
  16. Using a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving is shown to be equally or more dangerous than driving drunk.
  17. If you were to have your picture taken by the very first camera, you’d need to sit still for 8 hours.
  18. A dentist named Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair.
  19. The creators of the PNG file format wanted it to be pronounced as ‘ping’.
  20. Credit card EMV chip technology has been around since 1986. It was first implemented in France, with Germany following shortly after.
  21. Alaska is the only state in America that can be typed on one row of a traditional English QWERTY keyboard.
  22. The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was launched in June 1977.
  23. Q33 was the first plane to hit during 9/11 in 2001, when you type in Q33 in Microsoft’s Wingding’s font, a very sinister thing appears; Q33
  24. In general, people tend to read as much as 10% slower from a screen than from paper.
  25. Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
  26. There are computers designed for Amish people, with selling points like “No internet, no video, no music”.
  27. Ubuntu is one of the more popular distributions of Linux. The word Ubuntu comes from an African word meaning “I am because of you”.
  28. The Name “Macintosh” Was Inspired by an Apple with the name “mcintosh”.
  29. Christopher Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard in 1868. In 1932 Professor August Dvorak created the Dvorak keyboard, which was made to be superior to the standard QWERTY keyboard.
  30. Doug Engelbart created the very first computer mouse from wood in 1964.
  31. Spam mail got its name from the canned meat after a Monty Python skit that made fun of Spam as tasting “horrible and being ubiquitous and inescapable.”
  32. In June 1983, the Apple Lisa was released; it was the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse.
  33. The original Xbox contained edited snippets of actual transmissions from the Apollo missions.
  34. In 1822, Charles Babbage created the first computer.
  35. 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte. 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte, and 1 Petabyte can hold 13.3 years of HD-TV video.
  36. 86% of people try to plug their USB devices upside down.
  37. The last game for the Sega Mega Drive was released in 2010 and was so popular it sold out before release.
  38. During the first live iPhone presentation, Steve Jobs had to frequently switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.
  39. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
  40. A Welshman threw away a hard drive containing a staggering sum of 7,500 bitcoins. The sum equates to almost $32 million and the man will never be able to retrieve it as it was already buried under a hefty 25,000 cubic meters of rubbish in 2013.
  41. The average age of gamers in the United States is 35.
  42. In 2010, the United States Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3’s to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. They used PS3’s because it was more cost efficient and “green”.
  43. The Sega Dreamcast was the first 128-bit console in the market. It was released in 1999 and was the first console which allowed real-time online play.
  44. Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37% fewer mistakes.
  45. Nintendo was started in 1889 as a playing card company.
  46. The astronauts of Apollo 11 couldn’t get life insurance, so instead they signed photos that their families could auction in case the landing went wrong.
  47. In January 2007, the PS3 DualShock controller won an Emmy Award for ‘Peripheral Development and Technological Impact of Video Game Controllers’ by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
  48. In mobile games, 60% of all revenue came from only 0.23% of players.
  49. When signing up to iTunes, if you accept their Terms & Conditions, you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.
  50. 2.1 million people still use AOL 56k dial-up in the U.S.
  51. The Atari 2600 was originally called “Atari Video Computer System”, or “VCS”.
  52. When Snapchat launched in 2011, it was named Picaboo, but in 2012, it was renamed to Snapchat.
  53. In 2004, the “at” symbol used in emails (@) became the first new character to be added to Morse code in several decades! The new character, known as the “Commat” consists of the signals for both A (dot-dash), and C (dash-dot-dash-dot) with no space or break in between.
  54. The very first domain name registered was www.symbolics.com, on the 15thMarch, 1985.
  55. According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group, between 88% and 92% of all emails that were sent in the first half of 2010 were spam.
  56. Anthony Greco was the first man ever arrested for sending spam messages in 2005.
  57. In May 2017, Samsung were given permission to carry out trials of a self-driving car in South Korea.
  58. All the letter combinations from aaa.com to zzz.com have already been registered.
  59. On eBay, there is an average of $680 worth of transactions every second.
  60. It is estimated that spammers only receive 1 reply for every 12 million emails that they send out.
  61. The domain name www.YouTube.com was registered 14th February 2005.
  62. Amazon now sells more eBooks than it does printed books!
  63. Amazon.com was previously known as Cadabra.com.
  64. The first ever Internet Service Provider (ISP) was a company named CompuServe.
  65. The original URL for Yahoo was http://akebono.stanford.edu
  66. The name Yahoo was created by Jonathan Swift for his book Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – which explained a “yahoo” to be a really ugly person.
  67. Klingon was added as a Google language option in 2002.
  68. The first country to build drones was Israel, with Israel Aerospace Industries heading the charge in terms of export numbers.
  69. In 1984, the number of internet devices reached 1,000. By 1992, it reached 1 million, and in 2008, the number of internet devices reached 1 billion!
  70. In 1999, PayPal was voted as one of the top ten worst business ideas.
  71. 97% of people type in random words on Google, just to see if they spelled it right.
  72. There are over 35 billion Google searches every month.
  73. The first word that was ever auto-corrected was “teh” to “the”. You corrected it by pressing the left arrow and F3.
  74. In 1993, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov took his Nintendo Game Boyto space, on the TM-17 space mission. Later, it was auctioned for $1,220 and is said to have orbited Earth 3,000 times.
  75. The word “Android” means a human with a male robot appearance.
  76. In 2000, the FIFA 2001 game used Scratch & Sniff technology on their discs; it had the scent of a football stadium turf on the disc.
  77. Phantom Vibration Syndrome is the name given when someone thinks their phone is vibrating but isn’t.
  78. The Comic Sans font is widely known as the world’s most hated font.
  79. Apple have a ‘smoking’ ban regarding their computers, which means if you smoke while using an Apple computer, you void the warranty.
  80. Using your phone while it is on charge can damage the battery; this is why the leads for the chargers are so short.
  81. In 1973, the very first mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, who was an employee of Motorola. The call was made from the streets of New York City.
  82. Nokia was founded in 1865 and its primary business was manufacturing paper. Nokia’s first mobile phones were released in the 1980’s.
  83. The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992.
  84. Technophobia is the fear of technology.
  85. Almost half the world’s population has never made a phone call.
  86. There are Braille accessories for smart phones.
  87. The most expensive number ever sold was a mobile phone number, 666-6666, which was put up for auction and sold for $2.7 million!
  88. Originally, the design for the first iPhone was literally the shape of an apple.
  89. Facebook has a blue color scheme because the creator, Mark Zuckerberg cannot see the colors red & green.
  90. Around 20% of all YouTube videos are music related.
  91. If you find a security bug in Facebook’s code, they are willing to pay from $500 for you to tell them about it!
  92. It is estimated that one in every eight couples in the U.S. who went on to marry each other met online.
  93. Someone on Twitter who has a million or more followers is known as a “Twillionaire”.
  94. In the 1990’s, the Japanese company Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutionscreated an ATM machine that heats bills to 200°C so that bacteria is killed before dispensing them.
  95. Google’s first ever Tweet on Twitter was in February 2009, and reads “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” Translating from binary into English, this tweet says “I’m feeling lucky.”
  96. Google+ was developed under the code name ‘Emerald Sea’.
  97. Remember MySpace? Well it still has over 200 million registered users.
  98. Facebook took 2 years to reach a market audience of 50 million.
  99. 60% of LinkedIn members have clicked one of their adverts.
  100. Spending 1 hour a day on Social Media reduces the probability of a child being completely happy with their life by 14%.



  1. PCs went by the name “Electronic Brains” in the 1950s.
  2. Email has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
  3. HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple have just one thing in common, other than the fact that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
  4. Bill Gates’ house was designed used a Mac computer.
  5. There are approximately 6000 new viruses released every month.
  6. Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations related to technology.
  7. 28% of IT professionals hide their career from friends and family to get out of giving free tech support.
  8. The 30th of November is known as “Computer Security Day”.
  9. Technophobia is the fear of technology, Nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone, Cyberphobia is the fear of computers.
  10. The original name of Windows was Interface Manager.
  11. The internet is 10,000+ days old. For the exact amount of days, you can visit here.
  12. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow you down. If you want to type faster, try the Dvorak Keyboard.
  13. Currently, the world’s largest hard drive is a 60TB SSD.
  14. The Apple II had a hard drive of only 5 megabytes when it was released.
  15. 51% of internet traffic is “non-human”. 31% is made up from hacking programs, spammers and malicious phishing.
  16. The first computer was almost 2.5 meters high and weighed nearly 30,000kg.
  17. The name Google was created accidentally. A spelling error was made by the original founders who were under the impression they were going for Googol.
  18. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
  19. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart and it was carved from wood.
  20. TIME Magazine named the computer the “Man of the Year” in 1982.



Did You Know Windows 10 Has a Green Screen of Death?

Everyone’s heard about the blue screen of death (BSOD) that appears when your Windows PC crashes. But did you know Windows 10 has a green screen of death, too?
The green screen of death only appears when you’re running an Insider Preview version of Windows 10. It’s the same as the blue screen of death, and it will show the same error messages.
In other words, anything that triggers a blue screen of death on a normal version of Windows 10 will trigger a green screen of death on an Insider Preview version of Windows 10. The only difference is this screen says you’re using a “Windows Insider Build” and it has a green background instead of a blue one.
The green color highlights that the error was generated by unstable development builds of Windows 10. These Insider builds often have crashes and bugs you wouldn’t experience on a normal version of Windows 10. Microsoft sometimes warns of “green screen” errors Windows Insiders may encounter while running this development software.
If you see a green screen of death (GSOD) on your PC, that’s a sign you’re using an Insider Preview build of Windows 10. The problem could just be a bug in the unstable build, although it could also be a deeper problem with your PC’s hardware or drivers. You won’t know for sure until you go back to a stable version of Windows 10.
Microsoft made this change back in the Creators Update, which was released in April 2017. Before that, Insider builds of Windows 10 used standard blue screens of death.















.160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.
.Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.
.9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.
.Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes  them a small profit).
.A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.
.There are more than 1 billion computers in use.
.There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.
.There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.
.The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

.Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.
.Amazon sells mre e-books than printed books.
.Facebook has more than 1.3 billion registered users; about 100 million of those are fake profiles.
.About 3 billion people connect to the Internet, 850 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.
.Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World .Wide Web (the public Internet).
.One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.
.Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons   of CO2 per day.
.The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.
.Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.
.The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.
.The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.
.The HTC Dream was the world’s first Android phone.
.About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.
.24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
.People view 15 billion videos online every month.
.On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.
.Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.
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8 Bits = 1 Byte
1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte
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