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Review: WD My Book 6TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup

Posted on January 27, 2019

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 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…]

Review: Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series i5567-1836GRY Laptop

Posted on January 25, 2019

There are lots of Windows 10 laptops to choose from these days, and as you might expect, some are better than others.

I’ve spent some time checking a few of them out, and my favorite moderately priced Windows 10 laptop so far is the brand new Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Series i5567-1836GRY.

This is a very capable machine, offering plenty of power and functionality for most any computing task.

This stylish laptop has a beautiful 15.6 inch 1366×768 LED Backlit Display as well as plenty of speed and performance thanks to its powerful Intel Core i5 7200U CPU and built-in AC class Wi-Fi. Here is a detailed list of the specs: [Read more…]

Review: Pawtec External USB 3.0 Aluminum 8X DVD-RW Optical Drive

Posted on January 22, 2019

Many new laptops now come without an optical drive built-in, and that’s fine if you no longer have a need to play music or movies from DVDs, install software that’s distributed on discs, or back up your data onto blank writable DVDs.

But what if you still need access to an optical drive on occasion?

The easiest way to solve this problem is to purchase an inexpensive external USB optical drive. Just like external USB hard drives, these drives simply plug into an open USB port, allowing you to do everything you could do with an internal optical drive without the burden of the extra weight.

I recently had the opportunity to check out the Pawtec External USB 3.0 Aluminum 8X DVD-RW Optical Drive, and I really like it. [Read more…]

Review: HP Pavilion 27xw 27-in IPS LED Backlit Monitor

Posted on January 20, 2019

With all the programs, web browsers and apps we’re running these days, it seems like our computer screens are never quite big enough as we try to squeeze more and more windows onto our screens.

But that’s changing very quickly now as monitors are growing larger while prices remain the same, and even drop.

I received a beautiful 27″ HP Pavilion 27xw IPS LED Backlit Monitor for review, and since I had never used a monitor that was larger than 23 inches before it was a real eye-opener. [Read more…]

Review: CSS Hero – Easily customize your WordPress blog even if you’re clueless about working with CSS

Posted on January 14, 2019

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…]