The largest platform for editing and creating documents at home, work or school is easily Microsoft Office. With apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint it seems like using anything else nowadays seems to be almost futile. Since the virtual extinction of the permanent download for Microsoft Office, users are now virtually stuck in paying for a subscription for Microsoft 365 to continue to use the office suite. While $0 might be an overreach, here are some ways you can get a discount or lower your Office expense costs in 2022. Microsoft 365 is free for students Students and teachers who […]

Getting great Wi-Fi coverage and making the most of your home or small business Wi-Fi connection can be hard. With the variety of different wireless router options and now a whole slew of Wi-Fi 6 products hitting the market, there are a plethora of options to kill those Wi-Fi dead zones. The Linksys Atlas Pro 6 is one of the many mesh WiFi router system options that claim to provide massive capacity for videos and gaming while providing improvements in coverage that only a new Wi-Fi 6 router can provide. First impressions aren’t everything Out of the box, the Atlas […]

Nest x Yale is a first-of-a-kind partnership between a major tech company and a legacy lock maker like Yale.  This marriage of Google and Yale is like fine wine meets fine cheese – both compliment each other, and one without the other is just disappointing. While almost everyone has some smart tech in their home (i.e. connected doorbells, smart speakers, etc.), not everyone has addressed the age-old problem of lost or forgotten keys in the same way. The Nest x Yale lock is a fully-connected smart-lock experience that makes coming home a lot more convenient.  At first, you may be […]

ConnectSense, an IoT manufacturer based in Naperville, IL, has announced their latest product dubbed the “Internet Rebooter.” This device monitors the user’s internet connection (through your modem/router) and resets the connection by restarting modems or routers. “The operating system, processor and memory used by your router can get hung up when there’s a change in the temporary IP address your internet service provider like Xfinity, Spectrum, or Cox assigns to your modem,” said Adam Justice, CEO of ConnectSense. “Your device, router and connection to the internet get out of sync; Internet Rebooter fixes that by scheduling a daily reboot to […]

Apple hosted its April product launch event from Copertino, California with many new products, product updates and even some changes to existing services. During its April 20th announcement, Apple primarily focused on updates to Apple iPad, Apple TV, iPhone, iMac and introduced a new accessory line called the Air Tag. While this event didn’t announce new iPhone models (just a new iPhone 12 Purple), there were some significant product announcements. Here are our highlights from the Apple launch event: Apple Air Tag -“Find My” gets a new companion Customizable, even add emojis Customizable and lots of accessories Track in-app. Precision […]