Weekly Roundup Friday 4 April 2014
Good morning I returned back from New Zealand earlier this week, and enjoyed two more splendid flights on Hawaiian Airlines. That makes four excellent flights in a row with HA, all pushing back on time …
Reviews
The Very Best Pocket Camera?
As part of preparing for my trip to New Zealand, I decided it was finally time to retire my present camera – a lovely little Casio pocket camera that has been my faithful companion since …
How Many Megapixels Should Your Camera Have?
If you’re considering a new camera, the two measurements you are most likely to fixate on are the number of megapixels the camera’s sensor contains, and the zoom range of the lens. Neither of these …
The Mobile Safe Case
One of the problems of miniaturization is that things today are just so, well, just so small. As in easy-to-lose small; as in, even, too small. Few people remember the first SIM cards that were …
Another Thousand Reasons to Buy a Roku Video Streaming Device
We’ve written before about the tiny Roku video streaming devices, primarily in the context of being a full featured way of getting Netflix and Amazon Prime video streaming from the internet to your television/video screen. …
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How to Speed Up the Internet When Traveling
When you’re at home and at work, you hopefully enjoy fast stable internet. If a problem arises, it is also something you can resolve or have resolved for you. But when you’re traveling, your internet …
The Reality of the Nexus 5 : More Disappointing than Good
I love my new Nexus 5 smart phone. It has a stunning screen, an amazingly fast processor, and I’ve already loaded a great array of wonderful apps onto it. So why then, when I go …
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Should You Buy the New Nexus 5 Phone?
Google’s long-awaited and thoroughly leaked new Nexus 5 super phone is now a reality – although it quickly went out of stock and currently shows a two to four week delivery delay (depending on your …
Anker 24W Dual Port Car Charger
As we add more and more portable electronic devices to our lives, the issue of keeping them all charged becomes more and more a challenge. While we’ve seen reasonable improvements in how to charge multiple …
Apple’s New iPad – Will it Reverse its Market Share Decline?
Earlier today Apple held a release event to announce its latest generation iPads. It also announced new Mac computers – devices that seemed mouthwateringly advanced, albeit of interest only to Mac users rather than PC …
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Handwarmers – Helping Keep You Warm in Wintry Destinations
Some of us are blessed with living in climates that remain warm all year, and the thought of traveling to a cold destination can be off-putting and interfere with what might otherwise be a wonderful …
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Another Anker External Battery
Almost exactly a month ago we wrote about the new high-capacity Anker Astro 3 External Battery. This unit holds 12 Amp hours of power – enough to recharge a typical smart phone almost ten times, …
