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Best of the Rest: Extend Your Laptop's Life, Is Googling Always Wise?

by Thomas Houston on October 21, 2009 at 10:35 PM


There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Laptops seem to get old faster than ever these days, but you can extend their lives into three, four, or even five productive years. Keep your hardware clean, upgrade the memory, and, if all hope is lost, prep your data for transferring to a new computer. [NY Times]
  • A new study from Scientific American suggests getting the answer to something wrong is better, mentally, than answering correctly. Think twice about Googling during class. [From: Lifehacker]
  • Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently told the AP, "Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone." You can hear Mac fans worldwide building themselves into a rage. [From: BusinessInsider]
  • Literature and video games may be more similar than you think. 10 Similarities between 'Grand Theft Auto' and Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice.' [From: Time]
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