The 1-Minute Trick - A Productivity Hack:

Are you feeling your everything is messed up..? Here is a cool productivity hack, it's simple, easy and efficient.. Just give it a try

When you are doing your day to day life. You encounter a lot of things which can be completed within a minute. For example keeping your shoes in the right place, replying an e-mail or a SMS message, keeping a book at the right place. But we usually neglect those tasks and postpone that task. The result is a messed up and untidy life. This trick is simple

Any task you can do within a minute, Do it at that time, without any delay.

Just give it a try and see how beautiful and easy you life would be :)

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Do I really need to use 'safely remove' feature for USBs?

    

Safely remove hardware and Eject Media feature is beneficial in three ways

1. Removing the USB drive when some files are being writing into the drive will definitely corrupt data. That feature will prevent it
2. Operating Systems use a write cache to speed up writing into drives, Sometimes OS would not write all the date at the time it receives the write request, but OS might keep it in a cache and write once substantial amount of data is present to write. When we use the safely remove feature OS flushes the cache and writes all the date to the drive.
3. A stable supply of power is required for  a small time period for a USB device to properly write all the date. It is actually an electrical requirement. That time is not very significant. Therefore this will not affect most of the time

The Good news is

Most operating systems including Windows do not use a write cache for removable drives, which means your removing without using this feature would not do much harm
to your data in the USB drive. But it is better to use that feature unless you are in a big hurry :D

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