Buying a Budget Laptop: Here’s everything you need to know
We often get asked how to pick the right laptop on a budget. Here are your key considerations when choosing the best budget laptop.
Top 14 Tips on How to Budget As a Student
Have you been feeling broke lately? Are you behind on bills that you just can’t seem to catch up, you live on instant noodles as they save time and money, and you have to pay back friends for the meals they bought you the last time you met… You can’t figure out how to go […]
New Amazon Fire HD 8 (2018): The budget tablet to beat
The new Amazon Fire HD 8 got a much needed upgrade from its 2017 version. Not only did it get the Alexa Hands-Free feature like its bigger sibling the Amazon Fire HD 10 but a whole host of other features including the support for ‘wireless charging’ with optional dock and Show Mode, a first for […]
10 Helpful Ways to Make Homework Fun and Engaging
Homework… The word alone is enough to bring on a huge yawn. Your children come home after spending a long day at school and now you want them to sit down quietly and do their homework. What kind of torture is that?
Dell Chromebook 5190 Education Laptop & 2-in-1s for Schools & Colleges
Schooling can be a costly affair especially when it comes to learning technologies. Dell’s new Chromebook help takes the edge off if you or your school are suffering from budgeting nightmares.
10 Awesome Tips to Make the Best of Your College Experience
Going away to college or university is a life experience that is often seen in the modern world as a coming of age experience. Leaving home, being fully independent, making choices and friends that can both influence and affect the rest of your life, it’s an exciting, yet scary time.
Laptops with Minimal Bezel – Best ultraportables with infinity display
Minimal bezel is not just reserved for smartphones now. Laptop manufacturers are doing the same to their displays. This not only reduces the overall dimensions of the laptop giving it a small footprint making it even more portable but offering an enhanced viewing experience to the users.
How to Encourage the Reluctant Reader – Tips to get your little ones reading
When I was four years old, my father bought me a book I instantly fell in love with, ‘Milly Molly Mandy Stories’. While I could hardly read back then, I loved looking at the pictures and following the random adventures of a little girl while my parents read it aloud for me.
The 10 Best College Dorm Hacks on a Budget
After finishing high school, you go off to college full of hopes, dreams, and aspirations. You bid farewell to your teary-eyed and proud parents, your best friends, and your home. You take a last look around the room you grew up in – The creaking bed, beloved broken toys, dazzling movie posters and old pictures.
7 Best Colouring Pencil Brands for Serious Amateurs or Professional Artists
Colouring and colour pencils used to be child’s play… and real adults with real jobs would not dream of spending their time colouring.
10 Steps on How to Deal with Back to School Blues
Summer vacation allows you to delve into a leisurely routine. There is no fixed time to wake up in the morning, you can have pizzas or pastas for breakfast, and movie nights and slumber parties happen every other night.
8 Essential Kits to Get Your Child Excited About School
Some kids are overly excited about the new term starting while others can’t be more glum about it. However, one thing is for certain, almost everyone is obsessed with stationery supplies and kits. As a grown-up, I still get butterflies in my stomach when I come across a shiny box of crayons or scented fruit-shaped […]
Top 5 Best Chromebox PCs – Nettop mini PC that just works
When minimal fuss is what you want from your everyday computing and your primary tasks are based online then one of these cost effective low maintenance Chromeboxes or nettop boxes is your thing.
10 Essential Things Parents Need to Know About Raising Teens
As a parent, you have lived through everything, or so you thought. The sleepless nights when your infant just wouldn’t close their eyes, the unbearable cluster feedings, tiny monsters rejecting solids and spitting out healthy spinach soup you just made, toddlers turning the whole house upside down and let’s not forget those never-ending tantrums. It […]
How Music Enhances a Child’s Learning and Development
In one way or another, we feel connected to music. It can be a favorite song that takes you back in time with intense nostalgia, your old guitar with rusty strings that somehow still manages to make a sound or a beloved music box that slightly creeps you out, but you just can’t bring yourself […]
Microsoft Surface Go Tablets with Pen Support and Alternatives for Schools
The education market is huge and Apple knows this but what about Microsoft. Since Microsoft stopped selling the 10.8-inch Surface 3 tablet back in 2016, there hasn’t really been an entry level tablet for the education sector from the tech giant, until now. Surface Go, a 10-inch tablet is going up against Apple’s iPad 9.7-inch […]
5 Essential Accessories for Mobile Photography To Help You Take Better Photos on Your Smartphone
Flagship smartphones are pushing the boundaries of phone photography with each release performing better than the last. Incredible AI, use of multiple lenses, camera sensors and software are turning the phone in your pocket into a little pro-shooter.
10 Best Toys & Gadgets to Encourage Coding & Programming for Kids
What better way to prepare your kids for a future driven by technology, software and programming than to start them young and give them every opportunity to explore and learn coding and programming.
Best Budget Monitors for Multiple Screen Setups: Cheap 21-inch & 24-inch monitors
We established that having multiple monitors does make you more productivity. Those who have to work on a single screen will tell you that toggling between windows to get a simple research task done is no fun. We take a look at some of the best budget monitors to set you up with a dual monitor […]
Unstructured Play vs Structured Play: Why Finding Balance is Key
I spent majority of my childhood in a quaint house on a forested trail. Whenever we were allowed to play outdoors, we would grab our rusty bicycles and ride them through the trees with branches stuck in our hair, by the stagnant pond we were fond of and finally to the bumpy pebbled track that […]