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Improve your Landscape Photos with LandscapePro
Great photographers can get fabulous photos with even a smartphone or other simple camera. It’s the photographer, not the gear, right? Turns out that’s only half-true, because good photographers master...
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How Business Owners Can Increase Their Online Security
While it’s impossible to protect yourself against every type of cyberthreat, indefinitely, even basic security measures can improve your resistance to them. Ultimately, there are two main categories of...
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How to Change Your IP Address [Step By Step Guide]
The problem is, you might not want people to know your location. Having your IP address easily accessible is not the safest thing for being online. In fact, a smart step for privacy is to change your...
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Software Review: Wondershare PDFelement 7.0 for Mac
It’s hard to remember how computing worked prior to Adobe’s introduction of Portable Document Format (PDF). People sent editable documents in Microsoft Word and some people took that as an invitation...
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Rip any DVD on your PC with WinX DVD Ripper Platinum
It’s one of the great frustrations of the digital age: Owning media doesn’t mean that you can watch it when and where you want. Plenty of people have smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, laptops and, yes,...
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Cyber Attacks: Credible Threat or Digital Boogeyman?
Advances in technology don’t just benefit the average consumer. They also benefit the scammers and cybercriminals looking to prey on unsuspecting Internet users. We’re not talking about an email from a...
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Save Your Kids Hearing with PuroQuiet Headphones
The outdated parenting adage of children being seen but not heard has taken on a darker overtone with the rise of personal entertainment devices. Kids as young as 2yo are now glued to their phones or...
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Review: BenQ InstaShow Wireless Video System
Whether you’re a teacher, an entrepreneur or just sitting in a meeting, it’s all too common for people to end up crowding around a laptop or tablet screen to see a presentation because the connectivity...
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Airborne Fun with the Yuneec Mantis Q Drone
I’ve flown a lot of drones and all too many of them have a fundamental problem: they can’t hover in place. Sounds like it wouldn’t be a big deal, but it is challenging and stressful if every time you...
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The Cloud Lets You Avoid Worrying About Data Longevity
The latest stats suggests that 60% of computer owners have backed up their data, which is a big improvement over the dark old days. Still, not only do we need to consider whether you back up, we need...
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Pets and Tech: The Cool “Wicked Ball” Dog & Cat Toy
Imagine a tough toy ball about the size of a tennis ball, but with a mind of its own. It can flash, shake and roll in a variety of different patterns and being completely autonomous, can do this for 8...
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Convert MKV video files to MP4 with WinX HD Video Converter
The three most common video formats are probably MP4, WAV and MOV but it’s not uncommon for me to end up wanting to watch a video that’s in MKV format. MKV is known as “Matroska Video” (named after...
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What is a Time-of-Flight Camera?
I saw that same discussion from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (here’s CNBC’s article) and was also intrigued by the terminology. Is Time-of-Flight something to do with dropping your phone? Could it be related...
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Geeky Product Review: Fenix PD36R Tactical Flashlight
I know, “tactical” flashlights are theoretically for law enforcement, the military and hunters. They’re tough, rugged and you can toss it out of your car at 75mph and (if you can find it again) it...
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Back Up Your Windows PC to the Cloud w/ iDrive
The great benefit of cloud storage is that it’s a vague concept so you don’t have to worry about cables, capacity or formatting. It’s just “space” in the cloud, right? Well, it’s really a huge array of...
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Altec Lansing Baby Boom XL: Tiny Speaker, Big Sound
If you’re going to be sitting within a foot or two of your smartphone, a lot of ’em have surprisingly decent little built-in speakers. Talk radio? Podcasts? Listening to an audio book while in the car?...
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How to Avoid the New DNS Hijacking Attacks (Step by Step Guide)
These out-of-sight-out-of-mind approaches to security are a significant reason why hackers and other malicious actors on the Internet have been forced to use more technically challenging methods that...
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Gizmo Review: Deenkee DK600 Robot Vacuum
I already have a number of robot vacuum cleaners – as I’ve reviewed on my YouTube channel – and they’re great. I will often fire up the main unit as I’m leaving my house, and when I get back, it’s...
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Batch Edit Photographs with BatchPhoto for Mac
I’ve been working on a media campaign with LEGO and Marvel and as part of the project they require a very specific copyright notice on every single image produced. Adding a watermark, as it’s called,...
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How to Convert iTunes & Audible Audiobooks (M4A & AAX) to MP3?
Technically, the answer is “no, you can’t do that.” Peruse the terms of service of any of these sites that use digital rights management (known as “DRM”) and you’ll find that you don’t actually own...
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