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How To: Achieve Maximum Screen Resolution in Windows 8

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Some computers that come preloaded with Windows 8 automatically make text, title bars, and other parts of the user interface larger than they need to be. Even if your screen resolution is set to the highest possible setting in Control Panel, your graphics card may be enlarging everything to 125% on its own. This tutorial will show you how to achieve the maximum screen resolution on your Windows 8 PC. In the screenshots above, the … Read more

Control-Alt-Delete is Part of Windows History, Not a Mistake

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Yesterday at a Q&A at Harvard University, Bill Gates admitted that the keyboard command Ctrl-Alt-Del was a mistake. According to Gates, the reason Ctrl-Alt-Del even made it into Windows is because the designer of the original IBM keyboards felt that it was a security concern, so they created a combination of keys that no user could accidentally press. Stumbling around a bit, he finally said “And so we had … we programmed at a low … Read more

Skillshare School of #MakeOurMark: Learn Some Creative Skills Quickly

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I love learning and there is not a day that goes buy that I don’t spend some part of it learning and mostly it is by reading blogs, things I find on the web or watching video tutorials on how to do things.  I also have no limit to how much I want to learn, artistic stuff, technical stuff, entertaining things I just have a craving to learn as much as possible and diversify my … Read more

Review of the Anker 5 Port Wall Charger

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The Anker 5 Port Wall Charger is a great option for those who need to charge 3-4 devices at a hotel room or at home on their desk at the same time and beats having a power strip with having 5 separate outlet plugs consuming a power strip as this takes only 1 outlet.

Review of the D8 iPocket

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Recently I got a nice little toy. It is a portable battery back up for nearly any device out there. It is billed as an Apple product, but I have tested it out on My Samsung Phone, as well as my Kindle Fire, and it works great on both. The D8 IPocket is very easy to use. All you need to do is plug it in and let it charge completely, and then take it … Read more

Why Microsoft’s Surface 2 Is Going to Fail

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When Microsoft released their original Surface tablet last year, I was intrigued. A product that not only competes with tablets such as Apple’s iPad, but also can compete with full-sized Windows laptops. It showcased Microsoft’s new Metro UI in a way that didn’t invoke criticism (like it did on desktops and other PCs), the hardware was top-notch, it came with Microsoft Office installed, it allowed the use of flash drives, expandable storage, wireless printers, and … Read more

Do You Think the Kindle Fire HDX Trumps the Nexus 7?

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Amazon continues to do a fantastic job creating a portable Amazon hub with it’s Kindle Fire line of devices and nothing could showcase this further than with the Kindle Fire HDX which was just announced as a 7″ version and a 8.9″ version. The Kindle Fire 7 HDX is clearly the latest and greatest in hardware with a 2.2 ghz quad core Snapdragon 800 and an Adreno 330 graphics processor.  This is a bit faster … Read more

Recover Your Deleted or Formatted Data with Data Recovery

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I usually keep so many backups of my data that I don’t have to worry about recovering deleted files or data that was on a drive before it was formatted but when Tenorshare contacted me asking if I would review Data Recovery I was curious to see what it could do and how much it could recover. I decided for this testing the easiest way to test all the scenarios I wanted was to use … Read more

How to Leverage Interact Quizzes for Email Lead Generation

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I will be the first to admit that I really haven’t tested out quizzes at all for email lead generation or audience engagement over the past several years of blogging other than an occasional poll to see what product a user wants to see me giveaway next. So when Interact contacted me to test out and showcase their quiz builder and interaction tool for sites to help engage readers and add entertainment as well as … Read more

RAVPower 14000mAh External Battery Pack Review

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When it comes to mobile devices these days people want to have a device that they can rely on that will give them the longest battery life possible. Nothing can be more frustrating than when we receive an important call, email or text and notice that our phone has only about  3-5% left on it making that important response back seem like a game of “Beat the Clock” However I was given the opportunity to … Read more

Showcasing Keep and Share for User Collaboration

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Keep & Share is a very versatile collaboration service with social, professional and personal tools for team and event management, file and photo sharing, database management and daily To-Do lists. Let’s review the main features in detail. · A Calendar app with email and text alerts lets you set reminders for future events as well as share those alerts with your friends and colleagues! Premium accounts offer up to 30 different calendars per user, while … Read more

Record Spotify or Pandora Music With Streaming Audio Recorder #giveaway

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I recently had the chance to test out Streaming Audio Recorder from Wondershare and was very impressed with this software product which lets you record Internet Streaming Radio songs to add to your permanent mp3 file collection. Now some readers have told me they can just use Audacity to record streaming audio for free, but this won’t give you the feature capabilities of streaming audio recorder nor the convenience. First, here is a video showcasing … Read more

iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner: Super or Superfluous?

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Apple’s latest announcements regarding the iPhone 5S have been met with mostly mixed results. Despite the hardware tweaks and improvements, critics note that the innovations on the upcoming model seem few and far between. One innovation Apple is hoping will attract buyers is the addition of the Touch ID fingerprint scanner. The scanner in question is intended to act as an alternative to securing your iPhone with a password and attempt to further protect your … Read more

Review of the UtechSmart USB Memory Card Reader

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UtechSmart shipped me the UtechSmart USB 3.0 Superspeed Multi-in-1 4-Slots Memory Card Reader to review and share feedback on the product with my readers.  The 4 slot Memory card reader supports UHS-I SD,SDXC, SDHC, SD, CF, High-Speed CF (UDMA), MS, M2, Micro SDXC, Micro SDHC, and Micro SD Cards and allows you to easily just transfer cards between your cameras or smartphones and PC if you don’t want to plug the device itself in via … Read more

iPhone 5C Will It Dent Android Worldwide?

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You have no doubt heard that Apple released 2 phone models this year which it in itself is has never been done before, in addition they have also targeted the “cheap” market for the first time in history with the iPhone.  This was no doubt in response to Samsung being the phone market leader and Android phones dominating the Operating System of the mobile phone market, but they also saw a way to invigorate sales … Read more

The Simple Way of Embedding Chatwing Into Your Site

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Most people nowadays love to chat with their friends or families and even with people they don’t know. And with the vast number of chatting tools one can use over the internet, it’s really not that hard to do so. But what about creating a chatroom for a site so it can have the user can have the capability to chat with his viewers? That can be pretty easy too with Chatwing chat app. Chatwing … Read more

Review of the UtechSmart USB Bluetooth Adapter

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Sometimes you just want to pair a Bluetooth device with your laptop or home computer and either your computer doesn’t have Bluetooth built into the motherboard because it is older or you just are having problems with it and need a newer or more capable one. This is where something like the UtechSmart USB Bluetooth Adapter comes in, this very small thumbnail sized device plugs into your USB port on your PC and allows your … Read more

Review of the HooToo USB 3 8-Port Hub

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A USB hub that includes 1 2A USB Device Charging port is an excellent thing for those who have a limited amount of USB 3 ports on their laptop or PC and the convenience of extending those ports to make room for more devices comes at the cost of charging a tablet.  The HooToo USB 3.0 8-port hub is really a 7 port hub with 1 USB 3 Charging port, since the charging port that … Read more

Managing Domain Names with Off Site DNS

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Very few hosting providers offer off-site DNS, GoDaddy is the only major one that I know of, so when I switched DragonBlogger.com from a Bluehost shared hosting plan to WebSynthesis back in February I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I need an Offsite DNS management because WebSynthesis only hosts your WordPress they don’t do any domain management at all. Most hosting providers that use CPanel like Bluehost, Hostgator, Hostmonster…etc require that you have a … Read more

Sony Xperia Z Against the Nexus 4

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Sony is often not the first company that comes to mind when you are considering Android smart phones, but nobody can argue that the Xperia Z isn’t one of the most attractive and full featured Android phones on the market right now.  The Sony Xperia Z oozes Sony style and has the highest pixel density screen on a 5″ screen right now at 443 pixels per inch. Spec wise a 1920×1080 resolution screen compared to the … Read more