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When it comes to laptops these days, thin is in – as in the thinner the better!
The problem is, as laptops become thinner, sacrifices must often be made in terms of performance, features and connectivity.
With their new Spectre 13.3 Ultrabook, HP has managed to create one of the thinnest laptops ever without sacrificing much of anything at all! [Read more…]
Windows 10 laptops have now firmly taken over the market and I’ve had the opportunity to check a number of them out.
Today I’m going to tell you about the sleek new Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241 that I recently took for a spin.
This laptop comes equipped with a bright 15.6-inch widescreen HD 1366×768 TruBrite display, a powerful 2.2 GHz Core i5-5200U CPU, 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM and a spacious 1TB hard drive. That all adds up to plenty of power for most anyone who isn’t into competitive gaming. [Read more…]
When I built my first website back in 2003 I was pretty much in over my head. Even though it was a very basic site, I still found myself struggling with most every aspect of building and maintaining it.
One of the things I struggled with the most was choosing a good web hosting company. I tried a number of hosting companies and plans over the next couple of years, and finally found one that gave me the support I needed as I expanded the site and began to build more traffic to it. That company was Hostgator, and I can honestly say they are great!
As I learned more and built more websites and kept adding content to them, the traffic my sites were receiving on a daily basis began to grow exponentially. It soon became apparent that I desperately needed to move my sites onto a dedicated server. I chose the most economical plan that Hostgator offered, and was quite pleased with the results. [Read more…]
If you’re struggling to promote and grow your small business, you have probably recognized the awesome potential of marketing on Facebook to their 1 billion or so active users.
It’s very true that Facebook offers some amazing potential for helping you grow your business, but you’ll need a clear, effective strategy if you want to take full advantage of it.
Facebook Marketing is simple in concept, but I can tell you from personal experience that there are countless ways to do it wrong and end up spending a ton of money with little in the way of tangible results to show for it. [Read more…]
Mobile devices have changed the way we use technology more than perhaps any other innovation in history. They have truly been a game changer in my opinion.
There’s a great deal of freedom and empowerment that comes from being able to pull a computer that’s more powerful than a vintage desktop PC literally out of a shirt pocket and use it for virtually any task one can think of.
But as powerful and empowering as they are, mobile devices have always had one serious drawback: the lack of a truly usable mechanical keyboard. And as I’m sure you are aware, there are times when we really need one. [Read more…]