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Well someone just asked me what laptop would you buy. The good news is that with Intel performance stalking you have lots of choice. Even three year old laptops are the same speed as even the newest Kalby Lake versions. PC Magazine remains a decent source of reviews for this…

Batteries are rated in one of two ways. Watt Hours which means for how many hours can they supply 1 watt of power. The new MacBook Pro 2016 has a 76 Watt-hour battery.  Put another way if you load Battery Doctor and see you are drawing 18 watts then you…

Ok so this weekend, I’m staring at a phone on a Verizon MVNO (the AARP sponsored one) which worked fine and suddenly it can’t access the Internet. I also see an exclamation point next to the LTE signal symbol.  And when you click on the internet you get to a…

Well folks were asking on Facebook (it does seem like most of my “clicks” are landing there and on Yelp these days) about battery life with the new MacBook Pro 2016, I put a battery meter on this for the last few days and here’s what I’ve found even after…

Well with so many headlines, it’s nice to find some really engrossing (non big budget) action/thriller series. We’ve watched two you should check out: Shooter. Yes the original movie was kind of hokie (although I loved it), but the series is really terrific. 10 hours of really, how does he…

Well, we are in a new era in 2017, so nice once again to look at how to stay safe and private in this new age, here are some recommendations. For the truly tin foiled hat paranoids Remember just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have people snoopy…

One Mile At A Time reminded me of a good way to save significant dollars by quadruple stacking ITunes gift card are currently 15% off there Signup for the free staples rewards program. Over time this is another 1% off Signup for a Chase Ink business card. This gives you 5x…

Well, if you are lucky (woohoo!), you have gotten yourself a Chase Sapphire Reserve and also got an American Express Platinum Business card. Now in the rewards game, things are pretty exciting if complicated, here’s a short list and you can see how when you start with one program, you…

OK, there have been about a million opinions about the new MacBook Pro, here are the tips, tricks and traps: Unexpectedly cool Touch Id. I didn’t realize how much time I spent typing my password in and it is super cool that it is integrated into the phone. The Sound.…

Now that I’m taking so many more pictures with iPhones, I’ve been thinking about how to best move files off. With digital cameras, here is the flow: offload the SD or CF card use DxO to process them as I find it’s automatic features blow things out less than Adobe…