Rather than buying online again, we decided to try our local Best Buy. It was a much better idea! I have hardly bought anything at Best Buy in years (not just because of living 1000s of miles from the nearest…
Adventures in Linux Mint: Part 1 – ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW
My Toshiba Ultra-book has been dying for some time. I think if we hadn’t moved country, we would have replaced it about 6 months ago as it’s about 4 years old now and can barely load a website in addition…
Product Review: Delicol Foldable Flexible Waterproof Keyboard
Chris decided to try out a cheap keyboard claiming to be waterproof for our kitchen shopping list set up. Have a look at our video review to see if it really is waterproof:
Certainly Sony
So this may be a rather obvious thing to say, but Sony appear to make better products than Proscan, a television company we’d never heard of. In our rush to get things, we bought a tv a bit too hastily.…
Computer Butler: Auntie-Virus Edition
A frequent experience of people in IT is that it’s a huge, huge field and once you are in it, your friend and relatives will try to get you to do all manner of IT related tasks for them. Most of…
Selfie Stick 3.0
In the course of our travels, we have had 3 selfie sticks. This first one was quite good and lasted us until the Arizona Nevada border. The second one was quite similar, but more cheaply made. It lasted us until…
Happy Thanksgiving or Chris Installs Windows 10
So we are both horribly sick this Thanksgiving (and have been since last Friday in my case and two days ago in Chris’s case), so that means we don’t have a new video or even a future video about Thanksgiving…
Product Roundup
We bought many pieces of equipment before and during the journey such as a selfie stick, a car, some phones and a kettle. Here is a roundup of what did and didn’t work:
Product Review: Skooba Cable Stable DLX
Life on the road means making choices about what you bring along. A missing cable or adapter is the difference between being able to watch your own media on a hotel TV and being stuck with a grainy hotel-provided content…
A Dodge-y Cup of Tea?
Like most adults, Chris and I are fans of caffeine. I am mainly a tea drinker, while he is more into americanos. In order to get proper (black) tea, you need to be able to boil water, not just make…