by Dave McKillen | Nov 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
How cool would it be to be able to play and control the volume of your music in just about any room in your house? Not only that but be able to dim the light and all from your phone as well? No hub, installation or hardware and the HelloTwist, being LED, lasts for 15...
by Dave McKillen | Nov 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Microsoft has had it’s share of problems but what would you say if I told you the Surface Pro 4 might just be the rebirth of Microsoft? I’ve had several laptops across several platforms over the last 15 years but was never 100% satisfied with finding an...
by Dave McKillen | Nov 11, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
So just how far have 3D printers come? We hear all sort of gimics; but maybe we are further along than we realized. The Glowforge 3D printer is in essence a 3D laser cutter meaning it doesn’t actually build blocks or lay down materials so we aren’t quite...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
There seem to be several overly complicated solutions out there on how to use CrashPlan to backup an external drive over WIFI. So I thought I’d post a quick note on how I did it. I am using a small external RAID 1 server to backup my desktop data but wanted a...
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by Dave McKillen | Aug 9, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
OK so you can’t boot from a USB on Surface Pro 3 using Windows 10 because the login screen won’t load and it just keeps flashing. You tried the volume down idea but that didn’t work and you are going mad? Well HOPEFULLY this will help. I had the same...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 19, 2015 | Conversion Rate Optimization, Gadgets 'n Gifts
OK so you have an email address, a nice form and a phone number prominently displayed as conversion points, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to respond to customers even when you aren’t at work? There have been several pretty nifty live chat options for...
