Tag: Hardware
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How to add Bluetooth audio to your car for under $20
If you are like me, you like listening to content from your phone or MP3 player in your car while traveling. If you don’t have built-in Bluetooth in your car, there are several options for adding it. You can use a cassette adapter (if your car has a cassette deck), an 8mm audio cable (basically…
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Improve your writing productivity with a physical iPad keyboard
Do you need a physical keyboard for your iPad? That is the question I have been debating for myself for a while now. I write for this site and a few others, and I am often writing the articles for all of these sites on my iPad. I have always typed directly on the iPad…
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How to build a custom desktop computer, Part 2: The Processor
This article is part of a series on building your own custom desktop PC. Building your own desktop PC is viewed by many as a difficult task. There are many things you need to consider before you set out to build your own machine, so in order to help you and simplify the task, I…
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Samsung and Google create the ultimate mobile companion for cloud enthusiasts
In the world of technology, we invent and or create some things, and that becomes the end of the story. We sometimes invent and create, but some consumers just do not like the results. There is a breed of innovations, however, that sell out even before they are actually unveiled to the public. Since their…
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How to build a custom computer, Part 1: Getting Started
Today we look at big and bulky desktop PCs like they are a thing of the past. Our mobile devices pack huge amounts of processing power and they manage to squeeze that into very small formats. Consoles are taking over gaming, but a good desktop PC can still turn heads. There are many companies that…
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Everything you need to know about the new iPhone 5
The much anticipated iPhone 5 is finally out and from a glimpse of the gadget during the launch, Apple did not make us wait all this long for nothing. Measuring 0.30 inch thick, the iPhone 5 is 18% thinner than its predecessor and Apple claims that it is the thinnest and lightest (3.95 ounces) phone…
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Google’s Awesome Sauce: The Nexus 7 Tablet Review
Google has been doing impressive things lately, by anyone’s standards. Google Glasses, and the awesome live streaming skydiving stunt Google pulled at Google I/O this year blew the minds of fans all over the world. At that same conference, Google announced the release of two Nexus devices: the (Asus) Google Nexus 7 tablet and the…
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Inside Apple’s USB Power Adapters
If you own an iPhone, you most likely are in possession of Apple’s 5W USB power adapter, a great little contraption that charges your iPhone via a wall outlet using your normal USB cable. From the face of it, it’s a fairly elementary device. It simply takes alternating current from the wall and turns it…
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Why I Won’t be Buying a New MacBook Pro
I’ve never denied being a bit of an Apple fanboy, and I waited eagerly for the announcement of the new MacBook Pro range. When the announcement came yesterday and I read about my much-hoped-for retina display, it was all I could do not to reach immediately for my credit card. I’m glad I didn’t. I’ve…
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Review: Sonos Play:3, the Wireless Hi-Fi Stereo System
The term high fidelity (or hi-fi) can be traced back to the dawn of music recording, and in general defined a system that could reproduce music with the sharpest and most fulfilling audio quality. And as the generations moved from turntables to boomboxes to walkmans to portable music players, so too did the continual desire…