Justin Germino

I have been obsessed with computers, tech, gadgets and games since the early 1980's having grown up on the Commodore 64 and Amiga computers. By day I work in the IT Security Industry and have been in IT for over 20 years. On my spare time I am a Vlogger, Blogger, Streamer, Gadget Reviewer, affiliate marketer, influencer and entertainer. I am also an avid movie fan, TV Show fan, Anime fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

Cloud Storage for Small Businesses

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Small and medium sized enterprises generally use centralized servers and external hard drives for storing their data. But this technology is getting fairly old as new technologies are emerging in the market everyday. Small business should look into changing their storage solutions because hard drives can be easily stolen, are not so secure and can not cater to excessive data.  A better option is to use online data storage services via cloud solutions. Cloud storage … Read more

Win a 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive from Kingston Technology

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My awesome friends over at Kingston Technology sent me one of the 64GB DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB drives to review and another one to give away to one of my readers in a contest. I want to tell you that I have reviewed USB 3.0 flash drives before, but nothing I have ever used match the read and write speeds of the DataTraveler HyperX 3.0. I put this USB stick in my system and started … Read more

Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HD

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Amazon announced 3 versions of it’s new Kindle Fire HD brand which include the traditional $199 7″ Version, a larger 8.9″ version for $299 and a 4G LTE Enabled 8.9″ version for $499. 8.9″ Kindle Fire HD Probably the most impressive is the $499 tablet comes with a $49.99 (1 year cost) 250GB per month 4G data plan package.  So if you look at the savings compared to other tablets in the same size range … Read more

Review of the Visopix MiniTouch Keyboard Touchpad

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Our friends over at Visopix were interested in having me test out their just released MiniTouch Ivy Keyboard to see if it was worth telling my readers about, so for this article they sent me a sample version to put through it’s paces. What is the MiniTouch Ivy Keyboard? We are dealing with a full wireless mini keyboard that is about the size of a TV remote control! Seriously, this thing has a full QWERTY … Read more

Cleanup and Improve PC Performance with Cloud System Booster Pro #Giveaway

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I always like testing new software to help clean up and optimize performance on Windows PC’s so when Anvisoft contacted me and asked me to review a copy of Cloud System Booster Pro and then host a giveaway for my readers I was eager to put it to the test. The first step is to download and install Cloud System Booster, you can get a free trial version but you will really want the pro … Read more

Google Plus Starts Rolling out Custom Profile Links

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I had an email from Google that they had pre-selected a custom URI for my profile and I was quick to accept it.  My custom Google+ profile URL no longer contains that long crazy number string and Google Plus was far behind other services in letting you hand out a simplified profile URL you can just share with your friends that had your name or brand in the URL itself.  (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and just … Read more

Win a Free 1 Year Web Hosting Package from Zyma

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Here at DragonBlogger.com we have partnered up with Zyma Technologies to bring our readers a chance to win a free 1 year unlimited web hosting plan. This unlimited web hosting plan includes: Unlimited disk space Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited email accounts Unlimited SQL Databases Unlimited FTP Accounts Free transfer from existing account (and assistance) Free tech support CPanel Web Hosting and Free Google Vouchers If you are looking for another hosting provider, or currently running a … Read more

Configure Link Click Opt-In with SimplyCast

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I have since switched my email subscriber list from MailChimp to SimplyCast and really like that SimplyCast has a free epic plan which lets you send unlimited emails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers of your mailing list.  This is actually more than MailChimp which only lets you send 2,000 emails per month period, as you can send any number to the same set # of subscribers until you get over 2,000 subscribers. In … Read more

Win a Copy of The Hunger Games on Blu-Ray

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We have partnered with our friends over at FilmBook to give readers a chance to win a free copy of The Hunger Games on Blu-Ray. I thought the movie was very well done and saw it in theaters though I hadn’t read the books myself.  We did a review of The Hunger Games here on DragonBlogger.com back when it came out in theaters. Contest Rules: All entries must be in by October 21, 2012 at 11:45pm … Read more

Protect Your WordPress Blog from Being Framed

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After reading about @ileane having her blog iframed by other blogs which can lead to not only your content being read and used on another site, but your Google banner ads displayed on another site and a violation of AdSense ToS which does not allow AdSense ads to be displayed via an iFrame.  This could risk in an account ban. So I decided to test out the WP No Frames plugin after I saw it … Read more

Bloggers Start Paying Attention to Your Mobile Users

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How often do you check your Google Analytics for your blog to see what percentage of your users come from a mobile browser, compared to standard desktop browser?  Have you started putting in a mobile theme yet or started on a plan to appeal to your mobile readers/customers? You have even more limited real estate on a mobile browser screen, so it is imperative that your mobile theme be optimized for the mobile experience.  In … Read more

Which Race Will You Be in Guild Wars 2?

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Guild Wars 2 which is set to release on August 28th by NCSoft (get access 3 days early if you pre-order on Amazon.com) showcases a handful of playable races to add some diversity from the human driven campaigns of the original Guild Wars game and expansion packs. These races add their own distinctive stories, quests and choices to the mix and make the replay-ability factor very high for Guild Wars 2. So here is a … Read more

Amazon Instant Video iPad App

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I have been an Amazon Prime customer for over a year now and enjoy not only the free 2 day shipping benefits, but I also like the streaming video options while not as full as Netflix they do offer some variety and a few movies that you won’t find on Netflix. So when I saw the Amazon Instant Video app is released for the iPad and now lets you select any of the catalog of … Read more

Speed up Chrome with HTTP Pipelining

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In the later versions of Google Chrome HTTP Pipelining which was available in Firefox and Opera for a long time was finally made available.  HTTP Pipelining allows the Chrome browser to open multiple threads to call and load web page resources at the same time in parallel instead of sequentially which can speed up website load times when visiting websites online.   Update:  This article is pretty much useless at this time as Chrome has … Read more

Review of the Roku 2 XS

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I finally broke down and purchased my 4th Roku device about a week ago and this time I got a Roku 2 XS as I needed the USB slot which the lower end models do not have.  For the same price that the Roku XD used to be you get a much more functional device with the Roku 2 XS and even though I have seen and read reports that they may be slower, I … Read more

Speed Up Google Chrome: GPU Composition Rendering

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If you have a decent video card in your system you may be able to get improved performance from Google Chrome simply by adjusting the GPU compositing setting in Google Chrome.  This setting is easy to experiment with and the worst it can do is cause Chome to be slower and you can just undo it. The first thing you want to do is go to your flags, type chrome://flags and be careful what settings … Read more

Reached 6000 Entries in the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 Giveaway Contest

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It didn’t take much longer than 2 weeks to break the 6,000 entry mark in the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 Giveaway contest, which puts it so far on track to do at least equal if not maybe exceeding the iPad 3 Giveaway contest I held back in May 2012 on DragonBlogger.com. This contest was to appeal to my rapidly growing gaming audience and more gaming writers have signed up for the site recently as … Read more