We often hear the joke that people these days couldn’t live without their smartphones. While that’s an exaggeration most of the time, sometimes having a trusty smartphone when and where you need it actually is a matter of life or death. Having a smartphone in your back pocket is great, but in moments where every…

Smart home upgrades are kind of a big deal these days. There’s just so many ways to add a dash of convenience and coolness to your home life, it can be tricky to know where to begin. There are, after all, many roads to your own private smart home nerdvana. So, let’s start simple! In…

Written by: Mark Lambert Like leaving a bumper assortment bag of candy bars just lying around, leaving young kids unattended with an iPhone is kind of inviting trouble. It only takes a few wrong finger taps for things to start going all kinds of horribly wrong. Case in point: this funny-because-it’s-not-me news story about a…

This guide, we think, is long overdue! In our fifteen plus years of repairing computers, we’ve noticed there’s a lot of uncertainty about what you can reasonably expect from a computer repair service.   This is a bit mysterious, given that most folks tend to have a fairly clear set of assumptions when, say, taking…

Back in ancient times (OK, the ‘80s and ’90s), all you needed for sensible road travel was a road map, some coinage for a payphone and a York Peppermint Pattie (no other candy bar will do) for when you wanted to get your snack on. These days, while the pepperminty goodness remains just as necessary…

Whether for a business trip or for a vacation, the process of travel can be fun. But it can also be … well … a grueling nightmare. While a lot of that boils down to luck, a good travel gadget can significantly stack the odds in your favor. Here are a few geeky gizmos which…

Written by: Mark Lambert   Recent studies have shown that 112% of American kids and pre-teens desperately want a smartphone. We’re pretty sure we read that somewhere. It’s probably the most common and all-pervasive bone of contention in a household blessed with children: they won’t stop whining, whining and (just when you thought it was…

Weddings are a kind of odd cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, they’re meant to be romantic — and to be fair, more often than not they actually, genuinely are. On the other hand, they’re work. None of that gooey romance stuff happens unless you work really hard to get those logistics details, bridesmaid’s “disagreements”…

While our modern, technology-filled lives are certainly more convenient, they can also be deeply stressful. The stress hits the whole family, too. Work life seems to seep into every corner of many adult lives but add to that the additional struggles kids face in navigating an increasingly technology-mediated world and you have a cocktail for…

If you’re new to computers, (or even if you’re not and you just don’t have much interest in tech details!) you probably refer to all your computer components collectively, as “a computer.” The screen, the keyboard, the big boxy thing with all its magical techno-innards; they all get lumped into that big general and fuzzy term,…