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Posts about a variety of topics which are not news and are not reviews.

Edabit – the easiest way to learn to program #Sponsored

edabit programming teacher

Have you ever tried to teach yourself a new language using just a book? Β You can progress just so far before you need to talk to someone who is fluent in the language. Β Learning to program computers is that way, too. Β You’re learning a language with which you can tell the computer what to do. […]

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The year in review – Favorite gadgets of the Gadgeteer team for 2017 (part 2)

2017

Last week we posted The year in review – Favorite gadgets of the Gadgeteer team for 2017 (part 1) and now we’re back with part 2 where another group of Gadgeteer writers share their favorite gadgets and gizmos from the past year. Here we go with part two of the Gadgeteer’s favorite gadgets lists of

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Get the best purchase price using the Slice app or the price protection features of your credit card

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Did you purchase something with your credit card only to discover a little while later that it had gone on sale? If it was only a couple of dollars, you may not be too worried about that, but what if it was $20 or more? The easiest thing to do is call and see if

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The year in review – Favorite gadgets of the Gadgeteer team for 2017 (part 1)

2017

A few days ago I asked the Gadgeteer team to send me a list of their favorite products of 2017. I told them that the products that they picked didn’t need to be restricted to only gadgets that they had reviewed this year, but that they could include any products that they have enjoyed using

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Don’t panic, here are 7 last minute gift ideas

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There are only 11 shopping days until Christmas day. If you haven’t even begun shopping, I can imagine that knowing that the big day is so close is stressing you out. But there is still plenty of time. Amazonβ€˜s last standard shipping day for people who don’t have Prime, is next Monday the 18th. If

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iOS Hacks: Put your icons where you want them… sorta

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Regular readers of The Gadgeteer know that there is an ongoing – umm – discussion among the writers and regular commenters here about the two most popular mobile operating systems – Android and iOS – and which has the better feature set. I’m not here to stoke those fires or to say if the feature

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Science + music = The Happy Song, to make babies happy (especially over the holidays!!)

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β€œYES!!!!” You say. β€œI need this! JUST GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!” Okay, okay! Here are the links to access the song:Β Amazon Music, iTunes,Β Google Music, and Spotify. For those of youΒ who are curious about the background of the song, while I was reading my Curiosity app (which I LOVE, by the way), I stumbled upon

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Kia Stinger test drive: This car will make your heart race

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The Kia Stinger is a car that is practically 6 years in the making. It all started out as a Grand Turismo concept vehicle which evolved into a full-on passion project at Kia. The Stinger is actually Kia’s first high-performance focused vehicle, but you’d hardly believe it because they’ve managed to knock it out of

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