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With the holiday season fast approaching and the pandemic over, international travel is back on the agenda once again. However, those long flights across the world's oceans will inevitably have your phone, tablet, laptop or Nintendo Switch running low on power well before the wheels touch the tarmac once again. And if you have children on the journey with you,
Battery packs are ten-a-penny on crowdfunding websites but this one from Chargeasap caught my eye. It's a total beast of battery pack, packing in a beefy 20 000 mAh of charge and delivering power to four devices simultaneously at a total rate of up to 150 W. The Australian team behind Flash are using advanced batteries developed by Tesla, which
Charging hubs seem to be a dime a dozen these days – ok, they cost a bit more than that, but you get the point. That being said there’s also some great innovation going on these days. There now hubs with multiple ports to allow to charge things from one outlet. Today we’re looking at the Charge Hub X3 from
This is a salutary warning to all geeks out there....even with all the year's of experience, it's still possible to make a rookie mistake and forget that all microUSB cables are not the same. Last week at work, I needed to present an Android tablet screen via a data projector. The tablet only had a microUSB port, so connecting up
In the past couple of weeks I've received three notifications from haveibeenpwnd informing me that a couple of organisations didn't do a good enough job keeping my info secure. While it's always going to be a good idea to change your login and password, any sites that use 2FA significantly reduce the value of stolen credentials (as long as you've
USB chargers are two-a-penny these days but often they are cheap knock-offs with poor quality transformers that either pose a fire hazard or fail to deliver the required current to quickly recharge a smartphone or tablet. For not much more money, iClever offers a CE-marked UK spec wall charger with two USB A ports, delivering up to 2.4A from each.
I have a Compaq desktop PC that’s a few years old that is handy for tasks such as doing taxes or writing articles with. Unfortunately, it came with Windows Vista. More than a year ago I installed an inexpensive 128 gigabyte SSD in it. The SSD sped things up dramatically to the point where Vista was actually usable. To be