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A Techie Traveler's Guide to Save the Battery Life of Your Gadgets

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When on a business or a vacation trip, it is a usual thing for any traveler to bring gadgets in order to stay connected with families and friends, to be productive at work, and to be entertained at the same time. With prolonged and excessive use of these travel gadgets however, battery life depreciates. Nowadays, battery life on portable gadgets is given much attention on product reviews. After all, a large portion of users believe that the strength of any device is also best attributed to its battery power capacity.

For a techie traveler who is into many surprises during road trips, battery life is a valued commodity. Any techie traveler can’t afford to lose battery on a laptop while in the middle of uploading photos online, or get disconnected during a very important phone call.

If you’re a techie traveler who doesn't want to see your battery indicator run low, the following are important guidelines to observe while on a trip. These helpful tips will apply on any device, which you intend to bring with you on your next trip.

  • Turn off your gadget when not in use.  Turning off your gadgets when not in use ensures that battery life is saved for important use at a later time and will extend it instead of leaving your device idle.



  • Disable or turn off the wireless capability of your laptop or gadgets when you’re not using it. Enabled wireless adapters or Wi-Fi function on these devices even when not in use will still utilize battery power even when left idle.



  • Whether you’re working on an important project on your laptop or just playing games, listening to music with your iPhone, reading a material on your e-reader, or composing messages on your android phone, it is advisable to reduce brightness on these devices, especially when working on a well-lit area. Undeniably, maximizing g the brightness level of these gadgets can also contribute to fast battery consumption.



  • Stick on a single-task on your device. If possible, don’t charge your smartphone or any USB-enabled devices through your laptop. Any gadget plugged into the USB port of the laptop consumes battery power. It is highly recommended to use a different power source for external hard drives to prevent the laptop’s battery from getting exhausted. Same goes when you’re using your phone to listen to music, avoid playing games at the same time, if possible. Doing multiple tasks on a multifunctional device also excessively use its RAM, which then consumes more battery power. If possible, it is also recommended to properly set the power management settings of your computer for a more efficient battery life.


  • Lastly, do not overcharge your gadgets’ battery. When fully charged, batteries must be completely disconnected from the power outlet. This allows the battery last longer and performs better.



So to any techie traveler, who is already planning out his next vacation, better yet consider this recommendation before heading straight to your destination. You may then realize that your gadgets will be useless because you have insufficient battery supply when you need them the most.

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5 Must-Have Travel Gadgets

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Traveling has always been a passion to many nowadays. If work schedules and finances allow, many would want to spend quality time with families and friends away from home to unwind from the ever hectic schedules, relax from the ever-demanding jobs, and take a break from their everyday routine. Not to mention, the luxury to enjoy all-new mouth-watering delicacies, shop for cultural products, meet different people, spend the night in hotels, and capture those priceless adventurous moments. The thought of it makes me want to consider visiting another tourist destination soon. More than anything else, traveling can be a worthwhile experience when you have travel gadgets to get by with.

I used to travel a lot and what makes the experience a lot exhilarating are these five gadgets that keeps me connected with my loved-ones and friends, and at the same time entertained.

Phablet
Long flights can be very boring at times, especially if you can’t sleep. More so, there is not much to enjoy with the scenery by the window when you’re 6000 feet above the ground. For an avid reader like me, I spend long waiting hours on the plane reading a favourite book. If not, I play games, listen to songs, watch movies, or scribble notes about my travel escapade. However, you can’t just tag along your all-time favourite book, game console, and portable DVD player and then suffer a backache for having to carry them all. This is where phablets come in handy. Yes, you read that right, phone + tablet. A smartphone and a tablet combined in a single unit, which allows you to enjoy the features and functionalities of both a smartphone and a tablet. A phablet is perfect for listening to music, reading e-books, playing games, surfing the Internet, watching movies, composing notes, managing emails, making phone calls, and composing messages. With one device alone, you can be productive, remain connected, and entertained all at the same time.

Powerbank
Energy consumption has been a primary commodity since the widespread use of laptops, smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and phablets. For any seasoned traveller, large capacity battery life is a necessity. One can’t afford to lose power while in the middle of working on an important document on the computer or phone going dead while talking to someone. With the power bank, you can be at peace that even during long trips when there is no access to electricity, you could still continue to use your devices and get your tasks done without delay. Moreover, since power banks use micro USB or mini USB ports, it can be used to supply energy for several devices.

GPS Navigation System
Daredevil travellers have the tendency to explore new and never before visited destinations. Although tourist guides may be helpful, some of us are better off exploring various locations on our own. Over the traditional maps and compass, the GPS Navigation System provides a more accurate view of the destination determines location distance, gives accurate and alternate route to prevent a traveller from getting lost, and surprisingly locate favourite establishments like parks, malls, restaurants, scenic spots, movie theaters and many more. Vacations and road trips have never gotten easier with a GPS system.

DSLR camera or video cameras
Who wouldn’t want to capture those memorable moments spent with your family and friends? Photos or pictures and videos are likened to that of precious jewels. Travellers can’t live without their cameras. As for me, a DSLR camera is just the right addition to the rest of must-have travel gadgets. Not only does it prove that you’ve been to that certain place, it also relives those most cherished moments you’ve had during the trip. There’s no telling if you’d still get the chance to come back on the same place, at least you have souvenirs of your once-in-a-lifetime memories to reminisce by.

Laptop
Though not everyone is into travel blogging, a laptop can be a very important tool during vacations, especially when storing, editing, and sharing videos and photos over the Web. Oftentimes, we can’t wait to get our photos and videos uploaded and shared with friends. Apparently, our smartphones and phablets aren’t reliable for handling such task, thus a laptop plays a vital role. For business trips, a laptop is considered a necessity. Business executives and even students, while on vacation, could still continue working on some unfinished tasks during free time. After all, laptops have wider screens that make it more convenient to use than smartphones, tablets, or phablets.

Travel gadgets among travellers may vary depending on needs and interests. Regardless of what gadgets you may want to bring during your road trips, what is important is that you get to enjoy every waking hour of your travel escapade.


Written By: Jake Peras - Tech Support Engineer at Supportrix

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Top Apps for Planning Your Travel Adventure

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One of the best ways to relax and unwind is to travel. It is nice to visit and explore different places, tourist spots, and historical destinations around the globe.

Nowadays, traveling is more exciting when it is planned and through the help of the latest technology, we can find a lot of apps, which will help planning our travel adventures. There are different Android apps, which will give us ease and lessen our time to do our travel checklists.

These are some of the Top Android apps that can help you in your travel adventures:

Hotels.com
This is an app that has listings of over 220,000 hotels across 200 countries and will help you store reservations, track your rewards points, and save hotels as one of your favourites. It can also access your recent and future plan even when you are offline. Hotels.com Hotel Reservation app is available on both Android and iOS.

Bitehunter
This app allows you to find and enjoy real-time dining deals across the United States and soon all over the world. This app is a perfect companion for locals and travellers alike. Bitehunter is only available on the Apple App Store.

Foodspotting
This is an app that can help those who are budget conscious when it comes to finding affordable and delicious food. Unlike any other restaurant app, Foodspotting is all about FOOD; find great dishes whatever you are craving for at any nearby restaurant. A perfect app when you are travelling. You can download this app via Google Play or Apple App Store.

Pano
Capture those perfect travel memories using your smartphone with the Pano app. With its user friendly interface, it enables you to take a panoramic shot easier and like a pro. This is an award-winning app you can find using your favourite search engine and available on both Android and iOS.

Tripit
This app helps a lot in organizing and planning your travel itinerary. It has complete information about hotels, dining and even shopping spots. Access your travel itineraries anytime, anywhere on any device even when you are offline.  You can get the Tripit app on Android or iOS, Windows, and Blackberry platform.

GoSkyWatch
There are those travel moments when you are outside relaxing and enjoying the night sky and you wonder what constellation or stars are above you. Well, GoSkyWatch is the perfect app for you to quickly identify the heavenly bodies, whether it’s a moon, star, constellation, or even a planet. It’s an excellent app for those who are travellers and astronomers at heart.

ProCamera
Capturing perfect moments has never been easy especially using your iPhone, but the ProCamera app will help you capture those moments like a pro. You can also join their community to help you improve your skills through their tutorials and tips.

So there you have it -- my personal picks for top travel apps for your smartphone. If you happen to know more travel apps that will help adventurers like me, please feel free to share it in the comments.
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Smart Apps for Smart Travellers

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Do you want to go on worry-free a vacation?  Is being efficient still part of your priorities while having some fun? Surely, you can achieve these with the presence of mobile applications. Applications installed on smartphones and tablets prove to be of great help to a lot of travelers around the globe. They can be your personal assistants or guides throughout your quest. It is undeniable that you can get them for a lesser value or even for free, if you are keen enough to search the World Wide Web. Though they are free of charge and affordable, it doesn't guarantee that they are all worth your effort, time, and money to download. You can find below some of the most helpful applications that live up to the hype.

If you are looking for a pit stop, available restrooms, coffee shops and restaurants; SitOrSquat is just the right app fopr you. Incorporated with GPS components, this app will give you information fitted to your demand and situation.

When you don’t have Internet access along the way and would simply rely on applications that can be used offline, you’ll be delighted to get a hold of the MapsWithMe app. This is a pleasant iPhone application that contains maps of all the countries that you can browse even while offline. Certainly, a great help to all novice travellers.

If you want to know the time on the other side of the globe, you might get excited to have the World-Clock Time Zones app. This particular app provides definite time all over the world. So, if you have friends from afar and wondering when is a good time to give them a call, you can depend on this app. You’ll never make an annoying phone call in the middle of the night.

Nothing is more comforting than knowing the place where you are going. The TripAdvisor app is equipped with travel packages, cheap hotels, vacation packages, and many more. This app will definitely suit your travel needs.

Also, don’t forget to have Convert Units in your mobile devices. This is a great tool if you want to convert feet to meter, Fahrenheit to Celsius, currency of each country and many other units of measurement.

Lastly, if you want to have a real adventure and enjoy nature at its finest, then you should go ahead and download the Survival Guide and First Aid apps. Both apps are free of charge for iPhone users. These apps contain instructions and first aid tips, which are helpful in case of emergency or disaster situations.

With these apps available right at your fingertips, you won’t be left high and dry on your travels.

Enjoy!
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Gadgets to Bring on Your Most Exciting Adventures or Planned Travels

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Traveling nowadays is quite easy with high-end gadgets that will make your travel memorable and worthwhile. So below are our top pick essential gadgets that are perfect to bring along on your trip or any travel you plan to go to.

Travel is boring unless you were accompanied by state of the art technologies that will surely boost your mood. Here are our top 4 useful gadgets that you can tag along with you in a long travel.

The top pick is the Camera. Camera is defined as “a device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, movie film, or video signals.” This is something that you got to bring along for you to capture precious moments that you will reminisce later on. It is always good to look back on those memorable experiences or events in the past.


It doesn't matter what camera you bring. Regardless of the product features and specification, and brand. What is important is to bring one with you to preserve important scenes and sights you wish to document or capture. A 13-megapixel is pretty much substantive to create a photo of best quality. One thing that you have to consider is the camera size. Since you’ll be carrying it all throughout your travel, you probably would rather bring a small camera yet still on its high-end features, which gives you extra space and light to carry along compared to big and bulky cameras. A small yet compact camera will give you flexibility as you take photos without sacrificing the quality. It also gives you extra space since it fits right into your pocket, sling bag, or small back pack.


Second Spot goes to the MP4 players. These are portable devices that can play audio and video of almost any format depending on the model and brand. Some MP4 players come along with FM Tuner, which is considered an add-on feature by some manufacturers. There are MP4 players that can record audio and has some sleek feature like touchscreen, compact games and many more.

You couldn't be travelling without this pal in your pocket. This is a useful recreational way to spend your past time. You can still enjoy the fleeting time as you chase boredom away while on travel. You can play all the music you want or even watch movies while you are boarding, hiking, riding a cab, or while on a tourist tour. You can definitely rely on these gadgets to minimize dull and boring moments while travelling. So don’t forget to include this mini-companion on your travel checklist.


Another important gadget that made it to the list is the mobile phone. It’s a small yet compact highly-featured piece of gadget, which can be useful in many different ways. You can use it as an alarm clock to keep you on track with your itineraries, a GPS to help you find your way around, a gaming console, browse the Internet, and most importantly, connect with your friends and family through phone call, Skype, Viber, Kakao Talk and through social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many more.

Mobile phones have been evolving from the basic phone into multi-featured gadgets. Before, phones can just perform a simple call. For the past few years, it has gone to an era of the fastest technological trend setter and advance revolution. Manufacturers have been updating and releasing new products in matter of months, quarter or to the least every year. The phone features are available for users to maximize its potentials and usage in order to provide you improved travel experience or turn your ordinary day into a productive one.  Phones are one of the most useful things you need during a long trip or travel because it is the only thing that keeps you connected to your loved ones. In case you got lost, you can use your phone to help you find your way back either through its GPS feature or via apps such as Waze or Google maps. Traveling nowadays has gone sophisticatedly enjoyable!

So keep in mind to have this piece of gadget always in your palm or in your pocket because you will never know when an emergency arises.

Lastly, with all these gadgets tagging along, you’ll also need extra power on the go. When your battery runs out and you are outdoors busy taking pictures and plugging your device to an AC outlet is not an option, enter our last pick in the list – the portable power bank. This gadget is helpful enough to give your devices the power boost it needs. Your enjoyment will be cut short if you lack power to keep your devices going. A portable power bank can back you up and provide interlaced compatibility of charging capacity of different port connectors to different devices like smart phones, mp4 players, cameras and even laptops. It is always best to be prepared for the worst scenario by having a power source back up for your gadgets, which will surely make your travel moments captured up to the last minute.

Now you can start planning your trip and enjoy it to the fullest with the help of your useful gadgets. So there you have it, a camera to capture precious moments, MP4 to stir your mood, smartphone to be connected at all times, and Power bank that gives your devices enough power to keep going all day long. With these small, but equally important pieces of gadget, your trip will surely be a success!

If you have more notable outdoor gadgets in mind, feel free to suggest in the comments. We would really love to hear from you.

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Understanding the difference between Forums and Blogs



Forums- Refers to a free discussion of any topic at hand. This can resort to a certain forum moderator to create categories of discussion where everyone is allowed to provide solutions, comments and suggestions at any given time. Forums are usually being controlled by Forum Moderators, these are individuals who usually filter the post prior approving to be shown in public. Thus, as forum enthusiasts will still have abide of the forum rules. Forums are more into resolving concerns, discussing the content in public. At most cases, forums are spearheaded by big companies that offers wide range of services, products and software. Through forums the company can get more traffic and the most important is candid feedback of product solutions, comments, expert suggestions and future development of the company's product and services. One example are:
  1. www.supportrix.com/forum (is a wide range of technical support site that offers great deals in providing technical assistance for any network related troubleshooting that covers 24/7, Offers convenience for easier troubleshooting via a remote assistance tool.)
  2. http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php (the forums are part of the wider Ubuntu community which is governed as described on the governance page of the Ubuntu website.Note that the document above is structured to describe NOT JUST the Forums, but all the areas of the project which are large and independent enough to have their own dedicated leadership structures.) 
  3. http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/ (Use this forum to report issues with the online forums application. When reporting an issue, please include relevant details such as repro steps, error messages, and browser version. The goal of this forum is to either provide an existing solution to you or to get the bug logged to the Forums team. This is not a support forum. Fixes are not guaranteed.)

There are also forums created by some Web enthusiast to triggers the need of valuable information by extracting the information from a free flow discussion of people with different expertise and specialization. There are lot of site offering free and open source forum software which you can find now.Samples are https://www.phpbb.com and www.freeforums.org are among the few to mention.


Blogs - Personal expression of things that the blogger or author wanted to post. It can either be factual or fictional. Most blogs centralizes to certain topic that will fall under the author's interest which are solely being controlled by the site/blog owner. These are either promotional or just personal jot of and event, concern, product or services. Blogs are usually being used to improve Search Engine Optimization since Google is constantly doing update on Panda and Penguin. The call of quality on contents is the most effective way of putting your site in Number 1 of Google page. Cross or Guest blogging also helps to introduce fresh ideas and contents to the blog and thus, this promotes network extensions.


Comments on blogs are very essential to know that the Blog have either have raised an eyebrow for those who disagree or for those a blog that have gained praise due to quality content. Blogs are similarly related to how forum works but its not further organized into categories rather its categorized by topics.You can also get free blog site in an instant from www.blogger.com and blogspot.com.

So I was hoping to put justice to the the difference between the two terms that are not identical but symmetrical in many aspects but definitely two distinct word which sometimes baffles us with the exact meaning.







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Great Sales Tips from SALESTIPADAY.COM

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