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SteelSeries has been a popular brand over the years known for their good gaming keyboards, mice and headsets. This year SteelSeries is not showing any signs of retreat with the announcement of the SteelSeries Apex and SteelSeries Apex Raw. The Apex will retail at $99.99 and $69.99 for the Apex Raw. While both look to be a great option for those who want gaming equipment at an affordable price the Apex does stand out more … Read more
The Nvidia Project Shield is a portable game controller that will play android apps and computer games. Just in time for CES 2013.Running the Android operating system Nvidia hope it will turn out as the next step up for hand held computer and android gaming. To play pc games a player must have a computer in their house turned on and it must have a geforce gtx 650 or higher, it will then connect and you … Read more
Kingston Digital ships the largest capacity and fastest USB 3.0 drive to date with the launch of the Kingston HyperX Predator 512gb and 1TB Drives. We are talking about a 1TB USB 30 flash drive that is the size of a finger and it is capable of storing not only 1TB of data, but also is capable of 240MB/s read and 160MB/s write speeds. I have tested much smaller versions of Kingston USB 3.0 flash … Read more
It took less than 2 days for the GameStick which is an Android based console that merges the controller and console into the same device to be fully funded. GameStick is also now announcing XBMC and DLNA support for the device. The GameStick which looks like a standard 2 analog stick controller that you would find on a Wii, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 actually houses Android Jelly Bean. The device has a USB dongle … Read more
For those looking to know the answer to the question Is the Samsung Galaxy 4 available you may be happy to know that rumors would seem to indicate April may be the answer to your questions. The Samsung Galaxy 4 is supposedly rumored that it will have a EXYNOS 5440 quad-core processor according to IBTimes. There is also talk of a 13 megapixel camera in the Samsung Galaxy 4 as well. The Samsung Galaxy 3 … Read more
I run a lot of giveaways and often work with co-sponsors and co-hosts who want to write a blog post to share the contest. Rather than send the entire HTML code via social media or email which sometimes can get broken or modified with script code elements removed or damaged there is an easier way to share script code that you may want to share with others. This service is called Pastebin Watch a Quick … Read more
I actually was in the market for a new gaming mouse and had been wanting to do a review of a few to compare and see how they were. It was just coincidence that Anker just released a precision laser gaming mouse in December 2012 they had never sold a mouse product before and I was one of the first to get my hands on a copy to review. Here is a quick video review of … Read more
I have had most of my blogs protected by Incapsula for the past several weeks and have seen improvement in both performance, reduced downtime and benefited from the increased security of using Incapsula to protect my sites over the past few weeks. What is Incapsula Incapsula is a web application firewall, CDN and website optimizer all rolled into one package. It is a cloud based service that sits in front of your websites or blogs, … Read more
How are your preparations going on for this Christmas 2012 season? It is right upon us next week and I’m sure you all are be busy preparing your house for Christmas and doing your last minute shopping for gifts. It’s really tough to take time out from this busy schedule and check few things out on the Internet. However, this time, your search for Christmas live wallpapers for your Android devices ends right here. Free … Read more
In recent years soundbars have sprung up all over and are being made and offered by just about every single manufacturer of LCD Televisions and sound equipment. A soundbar is a poor substitute for a quality Gecko Home Cinema but may be the right decision depending on the size of the room you are working with and your budget. What is a Soundbar Essentially a Soundbar is a collection of small speakers set into a … Read more
My lessons in backing up important data and files goes all the way back to Commodore 64 days where I was typing out a book called “World of Drakken”, I was about 7 years old and there was a thunderstorm outside in N.Y. a power outage that ensued caused me to lose all of my data and about 28 pages of my novel because I didn’t backup my document to a 5 1/4 inch floppy … Read more
On December 26th the Canon PIXMA MG6320 Wireless Color Photo printer goes on sale. This gorgeous printer which comes in Black or White supports AirPrint which allows you to print to it directly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch directly without needing any drivers or to proxy to a computer. It also supports Google Cloud Printing allowing any Android device or mobile device from anywhere to print to it remotely as well. Need to … Read more
Small Businesses often lack the IT talent that large scale organizations have the resources to employ but if you are a business with between ten and a hundred employees you may still want the enterprise level service and stability of a Microsoft Exchange email system. This can be equally important if you want to leverage Microsoft Office Cloud, SharePoint and other Microsoft products where it is easier to have an Exchange integration for keeping everything … Read more
In this weeks episode of The Dragoncast the guys discuss Batman and since the new Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy has been released Brian, Bryce and Andrew talk about each of the films (WARNING there are some movie spoilers!) and even rate them from best to worst, but let’s be honest here all of the movies were great…right? Also Andrew and Brian give a review of the newly released game in the Far Cry series “Far … Read more
I am always curious and keep in the loop on IT career certifications and pay attention to shifts and trends as to what skillsets and certifications become in demand and become worth more to employers and organizations. So recently when I came across several websites listing their top 10 paying career certifications all of the sites (probably citing the same sources) listed the same one on the top but varied once you got past the … Read more
What is Sphero? Sphero is the world’s first true robotic gaming ball, It uses iOS and Android to implement features for users. There are many different uses for it and it can provide a lot of fun for every age, You can control it with a device and move it around courses or even use augmented reality to turn the ball into a beaver with your camera. How does a person control Sphero? Start by … Read more
Since I started the switch to running my contests from Rafflecopter to PunchTab primarily I have worked with the PunchTab team to help get 3 new features implemented into the PunchTab contest service. These additional features just added recently are: Punchtab Updates Export to CSV Now you can export the entries to a CSV file which you can open in Excel and filter your entries to get the total counts you need for various entry … Read more
Welcome to another week of The Dragoncast. November 18th 2012 marked a very special day in the history of video games as Nintendo officially started the eighth generation of home video game consoles. The Dragoncast’s very own Brian was one of the few that was able to pick up a Wii U this past weekend and on this episode he provides us his own review of the Wii U. Also be sure to join Brian, … Read more
If you need a simple and easy way to rip and convert all of those DVD’s sitting in your library to a digital format for any smartphone, tablet or computer in your house then take a look at WinX DVD Ripper Platinum 2012 from Digiarty. I did a video demonstration showing you how easy it is to rip a DVD and select any output format from the WinX DVD Ripper Platinum 2012 application. Rip DVD … Read more
It is no surprise that I have been contacted by a lot of web hosting companies over the past few weeks and have worked with several myself over the past few months. While my site is reaching the limits in traffic and connections I can get from a shared hosting solution I have managed to optimize my site as best as possible leveraging both a CDN(Content Delivery Network) like MaxCDN as well as using an … Read more