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Q&A: Can a cell phone damage a credit card or key fob?

Posted on September 11, 2026

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Question from Cam: I’ve been wondering about the something and I’m hoping you can set me straight.

I always carry my credit cards, my debit card and the key ring with my car keys and key fob on it all in my purse right next to my cell phone.

My question is could the battery or any parts of the cellphone or the electric current in the phone (which I leave turned on) somehow damage the key fob or erase the data on my bank cards? [Read more…]

RollerMouse Red Review: Contour Rollermouse Red

Posted on September 11, 2026

Sit at a keyboard eight hours a day and something eventually starts to hurt. Maybe it’s the shoulder that stays cocked out to the side to reach the mouse. Maybe it’s a wrist that bends at an angle no physical therapist would ever recommend.

RollerMouse Red is built around a simple idea: move the pointing device from the side of the keyboard to directly in front of it and a lot of that daily strain just stops happening.

It’s made by Contour Design, a company that builds ergonomic input devices including the RollerMouse, UniMouse, SliderMouse and Balance Keyboard lines. RollerMouse Red is one entry in that lineup and it earned a Red Dot Design Award, a recognition given for product design across industries.

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How Indie game developers can plan music for different game scenes

Posted on September 11, 2026

Music in a game does more than fill silence—it dictates pacing, signals danger, and grounds the player’s emotional experience.

While AAA studios rely on massive audio teams to map these details across a multi-year project, indie developers must achieve the exact same cohesion with significantly fewer resources, often juggling coding, art, and marketing simultaneously.

To solve this, audio planning must happen long before individual tracks are generated. By building a strategic framework first, you can use an AI Music Agent to create a dynamic, interconnected soundtrack rather than a disjointed playlist of unrelated stock songs that break player immersion.

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How Image-to-Video AI can turn existing visuals into more marketing content

Posted on September 11, 2026

Creating a good marketing image often takes more work than people realize. A team may spend hours choosing the right product shot, adjusting the composition, refining the lighting, and making sure the final visual fits the campaign. Once that image is finished, however, it is often used only as a static asset even though it could support much more content.

AI creative platforms such as Nano Banana Pro are making it easier to extend the life of existing visuals. Instead of starting every e-commerce video production from a blank timeline, creators can begin with an approved image and turn it into a short motion asset. This makes image-to-video workflows especially useful for e-commerce, social media, paid advertising, and recurring content campaigns. [Read more…]

How to quickly select multiple items on a PC or Mac

Posted on September 10, 2026

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You probably already know that holding down the Ctrl key on a Windows PC or the Command key on a Mac will allow you to select multiple items one at a time.

The thing is, if you have a lot of items to select it can get a bit tedious and boring by the time the task is finished.

But did you know there’s a super-easy way to select multiple consecutive items with just two mouse clicks?

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