Tag: gadgets

Small Smart Home Appliances to Simplify Your Life

By Christine Persaud
The smart home isn’t just about entertainment, audio, video, lighting, and security. It goes way beyond that into another central category: home appliances.

Tech For Outside The Home This Summer

By Christine Persaud
Last summer, in a multi-part series on smart home tech, I covered tech you could get for the backyard. Here, I’ll discuss more tech items, both smart and not, that can enhance the exterior of your home, simplify tedious tasks, and potentially help you save money in the process.

Sit Back and Relax With Tech for the Beach

By Christine Persaud
Now that the summer is fast approaching, it’s time to think about enjoying some fun in the sun. And for many of us, that often means spending a day at the beach.You can maximize your beach visit with a few cool tech items.

Different Ways to Back Up Your Computer Data

By Christine Persaud
March 31 was known as World Backup Day, encouraging people to create back-ups of their most important files. Don’t rely on a single, local device, or even just the cloud, to protect your data, is the awareness goal. But use another personal digital storage locker of some kind.

Tech Gifts for Mom on Mother’s Day

By Christine Persaud
Moms of all ages are into tech these days, from the Millennial moms who grew up knowing nothing but a digital world, to retirees whose interests are piqued by everything from smartphones to smart speakers and wearable devices.With that said, regardless of the age or tech-savviness of the mother on your list, there’s something for everyone when it comes to tech gifts for Mother’s Day.

How to Use a Media Streaming Stick

By Christine Persaud
Streaming TV is taking over, as more and more people opt out of the exorbitant costs for linear TV subscriptions that contain hundreds of channels they never watch (and just a handful they do), and instead sign up for a streaming TV service (or two or three) to watch shows and movies at their leisure, over the Internet.