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The Pixel 7 Pro now represents the best of Android. | It’s taken Google quite a few years. Even more, if we counted from the era of Nexus smartphones. But better late than never. This year, Google launched the ...
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Easy way to make smart your regular light fixture. | One of the easiest ways to get smart lighting at home is to replace existing light bulbs with smart light bulbs. This is what WiZ does with their LED Light Bulbs. I ...
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I love 2-in-1 convertible laptops. They are versatile and adapt to different working styles. PC users have quite a few good choices. Here’s one more, Dell’s latest Latitude 7430 2-in-1, which is targeted at business ...
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Run a QNAP NAS and other services behind a reverse proxy. | This post is about setting up an Nginx reverse proxy to provide public Internet access to a QNAP NAS inside a private home network. This can easily be ...
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This NAS easily fills up a 2.5 GbE connection. | I reported some filesystem speed test on the QNAP TS-464 with IronWolf disks recently. Those were done with a 1 Gbps network connection, and I promised an update using ...
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The MacBook Pro of Wintel laptops has a radical update. | The Dell XPS 13 has a great reputation. It’s said to be the MacBook Pro of Wintel laptops. With the latest iteration, Dell has decided to get bolder with ...
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Smart portable projector that checks all the boxes. | Some people like watching movies on a big screen. Some want to take that big screen movie experience on-the-go. If that sounds like you, here’s some good ...
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A mobile gaming powerhouse that is also a convertible workhorse. | You want a hybrid, convertible laptop, and you also want to do some serious gaming. ASUS has the answer for you. Their newly launched ROG Flow X16 ...
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TL;DR this easily maxes out your GbE network. | The QNAP TS-464 NAS, not unlike many from other brands, are often sold disk-less, meaning that they come without any storage, or in a bundle that includes some the ...
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Powerful NAS that does a whole lot more than just storage. | QNAP has a new prosumer NAS on the market. The new TS-x64 NAS is available in 4- or 6-bay variants (TS-464 or TS-664), and they are great options for those ...
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Midrange phone but will be quite a conversation piece. | The Nothing Phone (1) is that kind of gadget that will be quite a conversation piece. But beneath its unconventional design, features, and the company that made ...
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A 2K pro webcam for your continued hybrid work. | Even as we resume in-person meetings, the need for online meetings is not only never going away, but still continue to be ever ubiquitous. Dell’s new Pro Webcam ...
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Nothing is back with new earbuds. | Nothing is back with a new thing. It’s a new earphone, the Nothing Ear (stick). You might think it’s an update to last year’s Nothing Ear (1). That’s not ...
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Keeping watch on credit card fraud. | So it came to be, after so many years, that a credit card fraud happened to me. The card fraud itself is not much of a story to tell. But there are other things about it that are ...
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Good value, basic with decent sound quality. | I just got yet another True Wireless Earbuds come by recently for review. This is Huawei’s latest, the FreeBuds SE, which aims to deliver premium sound quality ...
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Passengers should be paid for false arrival claims and cancelled rides. | Commuters have aired a lot of grouses with Grab Car after the latter announced a change in their pickup grace period policy. Passengers who are ...
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Nokia true wireless earphones are quite affordable. | If you’re looking for true wireless earphones, here are two affordable ones in this review that you can consider. They are the Nokia 3103 and 3511, the ...
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Dark is the new light. | I’ve gone with a dark theme on most of my gadgets — phones, tablets, and laptops — but for a long time, I’ve not come around to turning my blog dark. Well, it’s ...
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I suppose I’ve been doing this for too long. What comes as second nature, and common-sense, to me, seems to be exceedingly complicated for some other people to understand. Or, maybe, as I sometimes think, they just cannot ...
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ANC earphones with new Spatial sound mode. | A new Sudio true wireless earphones dropped by last week just in time for their in-store availability. This is the Sudio E2 earphones, the successor to their Ett earphones ...
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SMS web links aren't bad per se; the real problems are much more complicated | OCBC, maybe through no direct fault of theirs, became the unfortunate bank that is being associated with scams and phishing. In the ...
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Scams have been a part of the Internet for well over two decades. Despite much awareness being raised about these scams, they’ve also gotten a lot more clever, and there is still no end to people getting conned. Reducing ...