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Do you wish you could control when your children can use their mobile phones and which apps they can use at what times, even when you aren’t with them?
Well, thanks to a great app called DinnertTime Plus, you can. Simpy install the app on both your child’s phone and your own phone, then link the two phones via a text message. [Read more…]
Most solid state drives sold today were designed to fit into a standard 2.5 inch drive bay.
This is perfect if you’re upgrading the hard drive in your laptop to an SSD. Simply remove the hard drive and slide the SSD into it place.
But a problem arises if you’re planning to add an SSD to a typical desktop computer. Most desktop PC cases don’t have an empty 2.5 inch drive bay, so an adapter bracket is required in order to make it fit properly into an empty 3.5 inch bay.
A few days ago I ordered a Silverstone 3.5″ to 2 X 2.5″ Hard Drive HDD/SSD Bay Converter (#ad) that I needed in order to install a Samsung 860 QVO 1TB SSD (#ad) that was shipped to me for review.
After working with the converter I came away very impressed. [Read more…]
These days most people seem to be looking for the thinnest, lightest and most powerful laptop they can find.
If you happen to be one of them, the sleek new Dell XPS9360-5000SLV-PUS Laptop (#ad) just might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
Thanks to its virtually borderless super-thin bezel, this attractive ultrabook has one of the smallest footprints you’re likely to find in a laptop with a 13.3 inch screen. And it weighs in at just 2.8 pounds!
But don’t let the small size and weight of this machine fool you. This is one powerful laptop! Check out this quick run-down of the specs: [Read more…]
If you use Twitter you’ve probably noticed that they’ve started displaying “Best Tweets” at the top of your Timeline when you log in.
These “Best Tweets” are selected by an algorithm similar to the one Facebook uses to select the “Top Stories” you see on there.
Personally, I don’t much care for “Best Tweets” or “Top Stories”.
I’d much rather have everything show up in my Timeline in reverse chronological order and decide for myself which tweets and posts are the best.
If you feel that way too, a simple settings change will prevent those so-called “Best Tweets” from taking over your Timeline. Just follow these steps: [Read more…]
Do you have a young child who uses a computer of his/her own?
If so, you probably know that the major search engines make it very easy for your child to stumble upon web pages, photos and other content that are more suitable for teenagers and adults while searching for “kid” topics.
There are a number of great child-safe search engines out there, and I’ve tried a bunch of them over the years. After all my testing, I must say the one I like best is KidzSearch.
KidSearch is powered by Google, regarded by many to be the best search engine on the planet.
That means your child will get the best search results possible for most any query without having to be subjected to all the nasties that lurk about on the Internet. [Read more…]