• October 10, 2024

Three ways portable air conditioners reduce energy usage

Summary: There is a lot of room for savings when using a portable a/c, with better temperature control and more efficient cooling. One of the biggest costs for the average home is the energy bill. Cooling in the summer months is a costly affair and bringing it down by even a little will make a…

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3 Ways To Use An Old Hard Drive

Putting an old hard drive to good use is easier than you think even if you don’t see how that’s possible.  Of course, if you think that all it can be used for is as a paperweight or you have no other options but to get rid of it, that’s not true. With that said,…

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Cell Phone Charger Alternatives and Tips when Traveling

Going short of juice in your smartphone is not a major bother when you’re at home. When traveling, running short of power may leave you stuck at a gate with no boarding pass, get lost in a backcountry, or dining at a cheap restaurant instead of a starred bistro whose details had been texted to…

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3 Tips to Increase Your Chromebook’s Battery Life

Given that Chromebooks employ a less resource-intensive operating system, the battery life is so much compared to Macbooks or even PCs with Windows. However, there are other tweaks that can be made so as to ensure the battery last even longer. Having said that, here are 4 tips to increase your Chromebook’s battery life: #1:…

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All About SD Cards

By definition, the acronym SD stands for Secure Digital, and in short, is referred to as SD cards. And as you all know, SD is the present standard for removable flash storage cards used in mobile devices and come in a wide range of three physical sizes along with a number of speeds and capacities.…

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How to open Google Drive files in Office directly

When Office 2013 was rolled out by Microsoft, there was a promise made that it would be deeply integrated with the cloud. Of course, this only applied to Microsoft services such as OneDrive but not for Google Drive or even Dropbox. So, Google, in seeking to fix this problem, released its plugin that works with…

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The Importance of Installing Windows Updates

Are you one of the many people who ignore the popup about available windows updates? You should not. Windows updates are issued every Tuesday by Microsoft and are available to download shortly afterward. Urgent updates are pushed as soon as they are available. These patches, and the urgent ones even more so are important for…

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Virtual reality on your mobile phone

Written by Costbuys The problem with the introduction of new technology has always been the initial cost. 3D took a long time to spread in Cinemas, and just as long when it came to consumer TVs. The same will be true for a lot of today’s emerging technologies like 4K, HDR etc. The worry is…

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3 Things to Consider Before Switching to a Tablet from a Laptop

With iPads and other tablets improving in performance every other day, it becomes really tempting to consider making a clean switch to a tablet from a laptop. Best part: not only is it good for play but most definitely for work as well. But before you do this, here are 3 things to consider before…

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What You Need to Know About “Can You Run It”

PC gaming can be an excellent way to spend your free time. However, it can be a real headache when finding whether or not certain games work on your PC or not. Of course, if your PC has been created for gaming then that might not be much of a problem but this will be…

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