The Universal Serial Bus (commonly referred to simply as USB) is one of the great innovations of modern technology. The proliferation of USB ports has made interconnecting most common devices with one another far easier than deciding what to have for lunch.
But even with all the wonderful advantages of connecting devices via USB, there has always been one headache associated with it: the plethora of different cables used by different devices. While the small USB Micro-B connector has helped standardize the cables used to connect most smart phones in recent years, there are still a number of other non-compatible cables in use today.
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No other upgrade will speed up your computer as effectively as replacing the hard drive with a Solid State Drive (SSD). But there are a couple of caveats with such an upgrade:
on the SanDisk Ultra Plus 256 GB SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch SSD that helps mitigate both of the caveats mentioned above. Not only will they sell you one for about $100, they’ll also ship it to you for free! 
When Microsoft released Windows 8.1, they released the brand new Internet Explorer 11 along with it. The IE 11 reviews that I have read have been very good overall, and my own testing shows that it’s definitely an improvement over IE 10 (which was already the best version of IE ever).
Back in the days before Netflix, Redbox and streaming video, Blockbuster stood high atop the video rental market. But today marks the end of that era as Blockbuster’s parent company Dish Network has announced the closure of the company’s 300 remaining brick and mortar video stores.