How to Save Money on Computer Repair

Spending too much money on computer repair can be a real drag. Some shops charge as much as $200 for an hour of service that includes relatively simple processes such as upgrading the RAM and performing system restores. In many cases, these high charges can be avoided by following a few simple tips. The solution [...]

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How to Protect Your Electronics from Theft

Having something of yours stolen can be one of the worst feelings in the world. Even more so when that particular item contains your personal information. These days we keep more and more of our personal data on our electronics. My iPhone, for example, has at least five apps on it that have direct access [...]

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How to Choose Your Next Keyboard

The computer keyboard is the one input device everyone uses and most take for granted. When you buy a computer from Dell or HP, you will usually get a keyboard included with it. Likewise, you can find plenty of different designs and features across hundreds of different models, most of the time at very cheap [...]

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Five Ways to Put an Old LCD Monitor to Good Use

After a few years of upgrading and changing your PC, you’ll probably have quite a collection of used computer parts, monitors, cables, and an abundance of documentation just sitting there waiting to be used. While you might not be able make much use out of your old warranty cards, monitors often sit in neglect at [...]

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Top Five Pens for Geeks

The ancient art of putting quill to paper has been a celebrated sign of a civilized society. While we may not rely on the plucked feathers of a large bird to place our thoughts down in writing today, there is still a place for handwritten notes in our daily lives. Whether you’re a student in [...]

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Five Low-Tech Gifts for Geeks

As the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year quickly approaches, many of us are still left with the question of what to get the geek (or geeks) left on the shopping list. Sure, you might know exactly what they want, but how do you summon the means (or will) to cough up the money it [...]

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Going Paperless with the Canon DR-C125 Desktop Scanner

This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Canon; the opinions represented are 100% my own. Almost two years ago, I began my first sustained effort to go paperless. Since then, I’ve scanned thousands of pages of receipts, documents, and other details that no longer need to exist in paper form. Along the way [...]

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Why Military Surplus Stores are Great for Geeks

Military surplus stores are some of the most interesting and unique places to shop. Where else can you pick up a pair of high-quality boots, a high-grade camp axe, a gas mask, and a bulletproof helmet that are battle tested and proven to be capable of withstanding virtually anything you can throw at them? Military [...]

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How to Make a RAID-1 DAS for Under $125

I love working with video. Shooting, editing, uploading, watching, and even facilitating the storage of video is a process that feels a lot like archiving moments in time. Through video, we are able to see an event as it happened in the past, and keep it preserved for generations to come. Indeed, the people who [...]

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RIM Only Shipped 150,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks in Q3 – but Why?

RIM’s introductory tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, has been on the market for roughly seven months now, and hasn’t seen the traction that the company would exactly like. In fact, sales are so bad that only 150,000 PlayBook tablets were shipped in Q3. RIM announced today, prior to its Q3 earnings call next week, that it’ll [...]

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