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Home Printer Buying Guide: How to Choose the Best Printer for Your Needs

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Essays. Coupons. Last-minute directions to Grandma’s house. Whatever you need to print, there’s a home printer that can do it. And intense competition among competitors like HP, Lexmark, Canon and others has ground prices such absurd lows that you can now walk into a store and walk out with a brand new printer for $60.

But selecting a home printer among so many options can be tough, especially with all the convoluted terms that can complicate the process. With that in mind, we’ve put together a quick-and-dirty guide to selecting a home printer, with simple explanations of the most common terms and our recommendations for a majority of users.  Read more...

How to Reset Your iPhone or iPod Touch

apple-iphoneSometimes the simplest solutions to problems are the hardest to remember or find. If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch and it has frozen up or seems locked on an app or a screen, try holding the home button for up to six seconds. This usually brings you back to the “home” screen to you can continue on.

Now, if that doesn’t work, don’t worry. Here is how you reset your iPhone or iPod Touch. Put the sledgehammer down, take a deep breath and simply hold the sleep/wake button and the home button and the same time. Press and hold until the Apple logo appears. If this is the first time you have seen the apple logo, it is probably time you reset your Touch/iPhone – it has been a while  Read more...

How to Keep iPod Headphones From Tangling

Apple-ipod-classicHow many of you are constantly messing around with MP3 player headphones? If you are like me, you spend a good minute or two working the maze of cords free and watching your blood pressure rise. And if you are also like me (and not very smart, I might add), you might be trying to do this on a moving elliptical at the gym – trust me, don’t do this unless you are very coordinated.

There are some very good tricks out there to help you keep your cords untangled; short of using butter of course. Here are some of our favorites:  Read more...

Google’s New App: The Google Dashboard

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Google is serious about vamping up personal privacy on its site. Google launched a tool called Google Dashboard to give the average Google-user more control over their personal settings. Google Dashboard allows people to see what information is being collected about them. Dashboard is supposed to make checking up on your data scattered about Google’s various Web services a lot easier.


How to access Google Dashboard:  Read more...

  1. Sign into your Google Account
  2. Click on the settings link at Google.com and select “Google Account Settings” (Or follow this link)

How to Recycle Your Electronics

Recycle Electronics

The fun part about technology: Everyone loves something shiny and new, but what do you do with that mind-blowing gadget once it has lost its luster? You can throw it into the drawer or the trash, or you could do the smart thing – recycle it instead. Here’s how.

The Prep Work

As much as you’d like to go all “Office Space” on some of those electronics from years’ past, that can get messy. It’s also not too environmentally friendly, considering that there are glass, plastic, metals, and plenty of other non-biodegradable goodies inside and out that need to be dealt with. What’s more, you also need to be certain that they are being recycled properly.  Read more...

How to Extend Your Laptop Battery Life

Business TravelerIt’s happened to many a traveler: You’re onboard a flight from, say, New York to Los Angeles, with plans to finish a stack of work along the way. After all, an airplane is often a great place to be productive, thanks to the absence of nagging colleagues, email and ringing phones. Except you’re barely over Minnesota and your computer warns you it’s about to “hibernate” as your battery power is hovering somewhere around just five percent. Now how exactly do you plan to finish that sales report before you land?  Read more...

How to Get Books, CDs, DVDs and Games for Free

Used Media

Books, CDs, DVDs and video games are already some of the cheapest forms of entertainment around, but we’ve found three services that render them even more affordable – specifically, by making them yours at no cost whatsoever.

OK, there is a catch, but it’s a very small one: You’ll incur shipping fees, but this never amounts to more than a few dollars per item. And most of the services operate on a trading model, which means you’ll need to give up a book, CD, DVD or video game you own in order to get something don’t already have. Likewise, acquiring entertainment this way doesn’t deliver the instant gratification you’ll get from online shopping or visiting a brick-and-mortar store, especially because you can’t be sure that the item you’re looking for will be available, and it can take as long as 10 days to receive an item you’ve ordered. But let’s be honest: You seriously can’t beat the prices.  Read more...

Cancel Cable and Save with Free Internet TV

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At the beginning of September, I walked outside the house with a hatchet in hand and chopped the single line of coax that kept my household wired into the universe. I severed the cable TV.

Not literally, of course. That would have been pretty stupid – especially considering that our house kept the cable Internet connection as part of Plan B: Watch only what we could retrieve from the Internet. One connection, one bill.  Read more...

Enjoy Video Anywhere

Headrest Monitor

Nothing beats kicking back in a cushy recliner for taking in last night’s episode of Sons of Anarchy, South Park or even all three hours of The Godfather. But with the rise of digital video, home theaters have moved out of the living room to just about anywhere you might care to catch a show: the bedroom, your hotel room on vacation, even the car. And with sites like Hulu, YouTube and Joost, enjoying video digitally no longer entails a lengthy process of DVD ripping or piracy. Video is truly everywhere now, and enjoying it is truly simple. Here’s how to get started.  Read more...

Listen to Music Anywhere

Women listening to headphones on couch

Taking your music with you used to be as easy as popping the cassette out of your home tape player and into your car, boombox, or Walkman. Not so any more. Though the rise of the MP3 has made it possible to download albums in seconds, share them with your friends, and fit millions of songs in a single box, the actual process of getting it from off a desktop hard drive and playing it somewhere else has taken a step backward in simplicity. But that’s quickly changing, as a plethora of services and gadgets have sprung up to fill the void. Leave Bon Jovi at home no more. Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can get your music off your desktop.  Read more...

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