REVIEW – I’ve been using a MacBook as my main computer for many years now. It’s a workhorse that I enjoy using on my lap and at a desk. But like all laptops, the screen can sometimes feel cramped when I am trying to compare two documents or open two browser windows. When I’m using …
REVIEW – I am always fumbling for my phone while I am working. It’s awkward. But look at me now! My laptop and my phone are living in perfect harmony thanks to the Rolling Square Edge Kit. This kit not only mounts my phone next to my moneymaker, but it adds some extra features as …
Rolling Square Edge Kit review – attach your phone to your laptop Read More
NEWS – I’m a child of the 70’s back when classrooms had chalkboards instead of whiteboards and teachers used overhead projectors. The MirrorMeThis is a new take on that classic tool, but this time it’s an adapter that is so small that it can fit in your pocket. It’s made of plastic with a mirror …
The overhead projector is back, only much smaller! Read More
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Anna and Eli Jay, filmmaker, project engineer, and siblings, turn to Kickstart to fund a product they created called DriveSlide. Aptly named, the DriveSlide is a sleek two-piece, “slide & lock” laptop attachment to keep your hard drive as safe as the data backed up on it. What is it? DriveSlide, is …
DriveSlide – A secure home for your laptop accessories Read More
REVIEW – By now, everyone reading this post probably has a piece of opaque tape over the webcam on their laptop. We’ve seen the horror stories, TV shows, and news articles about cameras being hacked, as well as the famous picture of Mark Zuckerberg with tape over his laptop’s webcam. Now, rather than this ugly solution, …
If you like to use aromatherapy while you work or surf on your home computer, you need a USB Aromatherapy Diffuser. The one in the image is from Sharper Image, and it requires you to use your own essential oils. You put a drop or two of the oils on the scent pad, place the …
Plug the Kensington VeriMark Fingerprint Key into a USB port on your laptop and you now have an easy way to sign-in to Windows and websites with the touch of a finger.
If you use your laptop outdoors for work or recreation, you may find it’s impossible to see your screen on bright, sunny days. Throw a Pixel Sunscreen V2.0 in your gear bag, and you’ll be able to work outdoors, no matter how sunny the day is. It’s made of polyurethane-coated nylon and ripstop taffeta, and …
If, like my husband, you have a laptop that you plug into a monitor, connect to WiFi, and maybe attach a couple of USB peripherals, you’ll find connecting and disconnecting everything to be a pain. At work, Butch plugs in a monitor, network, and a disk; when he needs to work from home, he only …
Most external batteries can charge up your phone or your tablet, but you’re out of luck with your laptop. The BatteryBox is only 0.98″ x 2.63″ x 3.55″ and just under 9 ounces, but it packs 50Wh of energy – enough juice to power your MacBook with enough left over to charge your mobile device, too. …
Come on, you know you have felt it if you own a laptop. You’ve felt it in bed or on the couch maybe even when traveling. Admit it, you have felt the heat on your lap coming from your laptop computer. It can be more than discomforting – it can down right burn. The Comforter …
Anyone who’s sat working with a laptop computer on their legs for any length of time realized how much heat they put out. The heat can cause permanent damage and discoloration to the skin on your legs, and it can even adversely affect male fertility. It’s not just heat you have to worry about, though. …
Protect your health with the DefenderPad Laptop Radiation Shield Read More
My laptop is my home away from home. It serves as everything from office to stereo to audio game centre. Being totally blind, I truly care about how things sound. Sadly, as far as laptop designers are concerned, sound is at best an ill-considered afterthought. That may well be fine for many poor souls afflicted …
I frequently use a whiteboard to convey a concept or have a dialogue with a client. With whiteboads and whiteboard markers it is a good chance that they are not what you want them to be when you show up at someone’s office: the whiteboard is blurry or stained and there is usually one red …
Need a whiteboard? Use the back of your laptop with DrawTop! Read More
If you use your laptop in public a lot, you’d probably benefit from having a means to secure it against theft. Griffin offers the universal TechSafe Cable Lock System that uses the laptop’s hinge as the attachment point, so it will work equally well with all laptops. You slide the patented hardened steel LockBlade through …