Netgear modem refusing an IP address change? Try this...

In my line of work, I install new ADSL modems on an ongoing basis, and I often need to change the default IP address that the modem is setup with. One of my best sellers is the Netgear DGN2200, however I ran into an odd problem recently which puzzled my poor brain to pieces, until one of the awesome...

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This has to be the king of PC error messages...

This is not what you want to see when copying files from a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini...: ...

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Simple cool stuff to do with the kids during the break...

So the school mid-term break is now in full swing for the parents among us, and after Disney Junior (DSTV channel 309 for those non-parental readers) is all maxxed out, we have to start getting a little bit more creative in terms of stuff to do. After all, this is meant to be quality time that we...

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Get your 50GB of FREE cloud storage...

There are dozens of cloud storage providers out there today who all provide free and paid storage options to new customers. Putting a copy of your data on the cloud is a great way to guard against potential device failure or loss, however the amount of data that we generate nowadays...

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Do not drop your hard drive. You have been warned...

How much data do you generate in a single day? Between documents, images, videos and other content, I would guess that the figure is somewhere in the tens of megabytes at least, if not hundreds or more. The amount of data that we generate nowadays is just scary, and the more data we create, the more...

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What to do if your Apple has run out of USB ports...

All too often nowadays, I come across Apple owners who are at their wits end because they have run out of USB ports. Well the obvious solution would be to go out and buy a USB hub to upgrade the amount of USB ports, right? Well thankfully, there is now a far simpler, and indeed cheaper solution which...

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What will the next "WOW" feature be in smartphones...?

Of late I have noticed that most of the big players in the smartphone game are releasing new phones with obvious improvements over older models, but lacking any real sanity-smashing game-changing new features. Some may beg to differ, but I am talking about influential features like these: NFC -...

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The day that Evernote died...

Evernote, for me at least, is the king of all note-taking apps. Evernote (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Let's go through some essential features that set it apart from the crowd: Cross platform: This is a biggie - Evernote runs on any device that you may be using, be it Apple, Android,...

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We review the Turtle Shell 2.0 Bluetooth Speaker, and it's one decent piece of kit...

So I was fortunate enough to get my grubby paws on a pretty funky piece of techno gadgetry recently, in the form of the Turtle Shell 2.0 Bluetooth Speaker. Everything today is going wireless - I don't even want to start thinking of all of the wonderful things that are probably happening to our brains...

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