Normally when I write speaker reviews, it is during the summer. I get to rave about how the warmer weather brings outdoor activities and music. Expect, on this past Halloween day in Wisconsin, we received five inches of snow fall. Luckily, I am the type of person who likes to sing and dance while I cook dinner and with Christmas around the corner, I can play Christmas music for my review all day long. While outdoor parties have come to an end for the year, we’re all bound to have indoor family parties and a little background music lightens the…
Author: Justin Vendette
In 1967, CBS’s Walter Cronkite hosted a one-time show called The 21st Century in which Walter explained to the TV viewers on their small tubed TVs what the home of the 21st Century would be like. He goes on to explain that the home of the 21st century will have unthinkable features such as a 3D television, speakers that are built into the wall, a home office with a computer to do work from home, and full artificial intelligence making home life so much easier. Even things that we take for granted, such as being able to print a document…
Oh, the woes of RGB computer equipment. It does absolutely nothing to performance, burns a hole in gamers’ pockets, and yet every gamer, including myself, strives to have it in their equipment. I have RGB glittered around the inside of my computer tower as well as my mouse and keyboard. As we all do, I love the customization of each light module that allows for a unique setup. Plus, it makes for a great conversation piece when showing off your computer! As a relatively new keyboard manufacturer, Kingston’s HyperX brand has recently made a strong name for itself in a…
There is an Austrian software company that makes project management software for businesses that I decided to put some stock investments into. Little did I fully realize at the time, but their stock has been on the up and up and has made me a fair amount of money at this point. While I am no financial advisor, I feel like their success comes from the fact that they take business-grade software but make it usable by anyone, and it just works without much tinkering. With that, this is the reason that I wish Synology would go from private to…
My career has been in Information Technology for a long time now, and I absolutely love what I do. Every day is different, every challenge is a new one, and it’s a career that has endless possibilities. I also find that it’s unique and incredibly complex. You see, technology is not many people’s strong suit. While we all use it every single day, many people just don’t fully understand how it all works. All they know is that it works. Having such vast know-how in how technology works, especially for consumer devices, I offer my personal time and expertise for…
Amazon’s Twitch TV network is an online streaming website that hosts thousands of streams at any given moment on nearly every single topic. When the network first came to be, it was focused as a gamer’s experience where people could go online and watch other people play their favorite game. Some streamers on Twitch are professional eSports players while others are casual gamers looking to enjoy the game with virtual friends. It’s similar to watching football, hockey, baseball, or another sport, but instead of watching it alone, Twitch invites you to communicate directly to the streamer via chat and with…
We’re getting to the point in computing that there aren’t any moving parts. In fact, as I write this on my Razer laptop, the only moving parts of this thin and light laptop are the fan and the key switches that I am tapping down. Although there are fewer moving parts, the amount of heat this laptop generates is significant. The rear of the laptop heats up enough to cause great discomfort to my lap as well as to the touch. That’s because I ask the laptop to do a lot. Using this laptop for work, it is running multiple…
Not many companies create new products that immediately catch my eye. There’s so much new technology being released every week that it’s becoming the era when Steve Jobs left Apple and the brand started to go crazy releasing new products every few months. Synology, however, is someone that happens to always catch my attention when they release something new. You see, their products aren’t just revisions of the previous model, but something entirely new and exciting. As a brand who pioneers with on-premises storage solutions, Synology’s latest offerings look to get their product name into small-to-medium-sized businesses and give them…
In August of 2018, I had gained some interest to start going to the gym. Not knowing any workouts or even how to use some of the equipment properly, my brother said that we’d go together and that was a strong incentive for me to go. All of these months later, the thought-to-be short-lived experience is now something that I quite enjoy weekly. In December of 2018, I moved into a new apartment complex with a windy road that snakes through all of the different buildings. Despite the cold Wisconsin winters, I still find it relaxing to go out on…
Everything is becoming smart nowadays; we have smartphones, computers, personal home assistants, washer machines, and even fridges that need access to the internet. As we grow in our smart devices, we can’t possibly plug them all into an Ethernet jack. Technology has advanced to allow wireless internet connectivity that assists in digitizing everything, and it’s something we all have in our homes. The IEEE 802.11 wireless standard has been around for many years now, but today’s modernization is far superior to that of the past. Whereas wireless in the home was spotty, interfered with microwaves, and didn’t penetrate through objects…