Author Archives: Christine Persaud

Making Your Home Smart: Part 4 – The Backyard

By Christine Persaud
In the first three parts of this series, we’ve looked at how you can make the kitchen, living room, and basement  smart. Here, we’ll look at a room that isn’t technically a room in your home, but rather a space right outside of it: the backyard.

Tips On Using the Updated Gmail

By Christine Persaud
If you decided to upgrade your Gmail e-mail account to the latest version, you will have noticed some significant changes. The interface is different, and there are some handy new features, especially for business users.

Making Your Home Smart: Part 3 – The Basement

By Christine Persaud
The basement can either be a forgotten part of your home, where you store your seasonal decorations and boxes of items you never bothered opening when you moved in. Or, it can be a full finished oasis, complete with a theatre or games room, playroom for the kids, or perhaps even a home office.

How to use tech to reduce work-related stress

By Christine Persaud
It’s ironic that while technology like smartphones, laptops, and tablets can be a contributing cause of work-related stress, technology can actually also be used to help quell it.

A Tech Gift for Every Dad on Your List

By Christine Persaud
Whether he’s a business professional, sports fanatic, entertainment lover, or enjoys barbecuing, here are some great tech gift ideas for every dad on your list.

Tech That Helps With Sleep

By Christine Persaud
Ironically, just as tech might be perpetuating the problem, along with culprits like caffeine consumption, work demands, social commitments, and family dynamics, there’s also tech you can use to help by managing sleep patterns, like activity trackers that let you set bedtime reminders, encouraging more restful sleep, and simply helping you get some ZZZs.

A Tech Gift for Every Mom on Your List

By Christine Persaud
Whether she’s a fashionista, a world traveler, a TV nut, loves to cook, or works out, here are some great tech gift ideas for every mom on your list.