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5 awesome ‘Back to School’ tech deals for your child

Posted on August 3, 2018

Guess what? It’s almost time for the kids to head back to school for the new year!

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me like their summer vacation gets shorter every year – and this year’s is just about gone.

That means it’s time to start shopping for some new clothes as well as a bushel of school supplies like spiral notebooks, pencils, glue sticks and sanitary wipes.

But the really serious shopping will be for the tech items the older kids will need. You know, the laptop and other goodies that are pretty much required these days.

With that in mind, here are five suggestions to help you get started… [Read more…]

Review: 2018 High Performance HP 17.3″ Laptop

Posted on July 9, 2018

Long gone are the days when we had to choose between the convenience of a laptop and the speed of a desktop computer.

Many modern laptops are plenty fast enough to run even the most demanding software without bogging down under load. And some models even out-perform most desktop PCs.

I recently had the opportunity to check out one such machine…

The 2018 High Performance HP 17.3″ Laptop (#ad) comes packed with plenty of power for running your favorite applications, streaming HD video and more, all at a price that would have been unheard of just a year or two ago.

Here’s a quick look at the specs: [Read more…]

Review: Microsoft Edge for Android

Posted on July 2, 2018

With more people now use mobile devices to access the Internet than laptops or desktop computers, I’m always on the lookout for best mobile web browsers.

Opera Mini has been my favorite mobile browser for a good while now, but I’m beginning to re-think that choice now that I’ve used Microsoft Edge for Android for a while.

Microsoft included their new Edge browser as a replacement for the much-maligned Internet Explorer in Windows 10, and I really like it.

Edge is fast, clean and easy to use. I tend to use multiple browsers simultaneously on my work PC because every browser just seems to work better with specific websites that I use on a daily basis. [Read more…]

Review: Intocircuit Portable Charger 26000mAh External Battery Pack

Posted on July 1, 2018

I’ve been testing and writing about external battery packs for mobile devices for years, but the typical model is only good for three or four charges of a smart phone, at most.

What’s more, if you want to recharge multiple devices at once, you’re simply out of luck!

But now there’s something a lot more powerful than the typical portable charger.

Put simply, the Intocircuit Portable Charger PC26000 is a high power / high capacity external battery pack and charger that will charge multiple devices all at the same time. [Read more…]

Review: TP-LINK Archer C9 AC1900 Dual Band Wireless AC Gigabit Router

Posted on May 2, 2018

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Now that AC class routers have been out for a while, their prices have dropped considerably even as their wireless speeds have increased.

I recently had the opportunity to check out the TP-LINK Archer C9 AC1900 Dual Band Wireless AC Gigabit Router (#ad), and I came away very impressed.

This is a simultaneous dual-band router (2.4GHz 600Mbps and 5Ghz 1300Mbps) that also has four wired Gigabit Ethernet ports, making it an ideal router for connecting pretty much every device you own at blazing fast speeds. [Read more…]