Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Apple’s Macbook Pro line of laptops are considered by many to be the cream of the crop because of their unique blend of power, durability and ease of use.
Well, the New 13″ Apple MacBook Pro (#ad) is no exception.
This sleek, yet powerful machine has plenty to offer in a 13 inch laptop.
I receive dozens of tech questions every week, and many of them ask me for advice on the best way to cover a large multi-story home with a strong and fast Wi-Fi network.
I’ve written several posts about this very topic over the years, and the solution that I recommend tends to depend on the state of wireless technology at that particular point in time.
I recently had the opportunity to check out the amazing Netgear Orbi Tri-band WiFi system (#ad), and I can tell you that this is hands-down the best solution for ensuring that every room in your home has a strong and super-fast Wi-Fi connection to the Internet.
The Orbi system is extremely powerful, yet dead-simple to set up. Simply connect the Orbi base station router to your modem, then place the satellite unit in a central location in your home and set up your Wi-Fi network using the simple browser-based setup utility.
Here’s a very short video that demonstrates exactly what you can expect after installing an Orbi mesh WiFi system in your home: [Read more…]
Do you have a blog that’s powered by WordPress?
If so, you probably know that WordPress is the most powerful and most customizable blogging platform there is.
By selecting a quality theme and customizing it to your liking you can give your blog its own distinctive look and feel – in other words, give it its own personality.
The thing is, to really customize all the various aspects of your blog’s theme you’ll need to make changes to its style.css file.
In a nutshell, the style.css file contains the Cascading Style Sheet (aka CSS) code that controls virtually every aspect of how your blog will look and respond to visitors when they arrive at one of the pages on your blog.
The following short snippet from this blog’s style.css file will give you an idea of what I’m talking about: [Read more…]
Western Digital has been making some of the world’s best hard drives for decades, and their current My Book line of external USB hard drives are simply outstanding.
External hard drives are perfect for backing up large amounts of data, and the WD My Book 6TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup (#ad) will store a ton of it.
6TB of storage is more than enough space to hold all of the average user’s data with plenty of room to spare.
Photos, music, video…you can keep it all safe and secure with this excellent drive and its included backup software. [Read more…]
The lines between notebook computers and tablets are becoming more blurred by the day.
“Convertible laptops” can also be used as fully-functioning tablets, offering you the best of both computing worlds in a single device.
The HP Elitebook X360 1030 G2 13.3″ Flip Design Notebook (#ad) is one of the more powerful “convertible” notebooks on the market today.
Like other convertibles, you can either flip up the lid and use it like a traditional notebook PC or fold it all the way back and use it as a tablet. The choice is yours.
This little gem weighs in at a mere 2.8 pounds but it packs plenty of power into its relatively small frame. Here’s a quick run-down of what’s inside: [Read more…]
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