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A couple of years ago I made the decision to take my home office off the grid and start powering it with a small solar power generation/storage system.
Simply put, I grew weary of not being able to work during the outages that frequently shut down the power grid in my rural neighborhood.
I procured the parts necessary to build that first solar setup and I was so impressed with the results that I decided to take my entire home (mostly) off-grid, one step at a time. [Read more…]
If you’ve been using computers for a while you’ve probably experienced the loss of irreplaceable data at some point in the past.
After all, hard drives go belly-up, flash drives become corrupted and unreadable, viruses render computers unbootable and all manner of other disasters strike when we are least expecting them.
That’s why it’s so important to always have a high-quality data recovery tool at your disposal.
I recently had the opportunity to test and evaluate Stellar Data Recovery Professional, one of the most popular and highly-rated data recovery solutions that’s available today. [Read more…]
Important update: I installed this inverter a little over a year ago and all was well until early last week.
All of a sudden the inverter started beeping and shutting down at random times. A quick check revealed that the fan had stopped operating, causing the unit to over-heat.
This was quite unexpected because, as I mentioned in the initial review, the device had always remained cool to the touch and the fan rarely turned on at all during normal operation.
Long story short, this device developed a serious issue shortly after the warranty had expired. For that reason, I can no longer recommend it since it failed even though it was never forced to operate under a heavy load.
My original review continues below… [Read more…]
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A while back I had an opportunity to check out and review an awesome 4 port USB compact wall charger from Anker.
I was so impressed with that particular charger that I decided to check this latest model as well.
Have you ever had a laptop stolen or suffered a hard drive crash?
If so, you already know that losing your precious photos, music, Word documents and other critical files is even worse than having to replace the hardware.
If you didn’t have a current backup, you most likely lost every scrap of your irreplaceable data. That’s why always having a current backup of your hard drive on hand is absolutely critical.
But did you know that just backing up your data onto an external hard drive isn’t enough?