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Enable Category Enrolment for Moodle in 3 Steps

The category enrolments plugin while a legacy plugin allows users to be enrolled in courses under a category or sub-category as opposed to individual courses.

Top 10 Best Budget Phablets: Cheap & affordable for everyone

We love phablets for its’ potential to replace both your smartphone and tablet. While most phablets are premium devices and come with high price tags, there is a new breed of phablets that will meet the needs of the masses striking a balance between performance and cost.

How to Lock User Profile Fields and Add Custom Fields in Moodle

If you manage a Moodle server or servers and the user accounts for your organisation, you might consider locking down some of the user profile fields such as their first name, surname and email address.

MacBook vs MacBook Air 13: Is it worth the extra

The new MacBook from Apple is currently the world’s most efficient laptop. Running at only 5Watt of power, it does not require active cooling so no noisy fans and even slimmer body compared to the MacBook Air 13. Is the smaller foot print, lighter body and colour options enough to make you pay the extra for […]

Top 12 Best High Capacity Powerbanks – Portable External Battery Chargers

We looked at 10 of the best portable power bank, with a range sizes from big and small capacity to ultra high capacity. There is a growing need for longer lasting portable external battery charger and the demand is being met by manufacturers with the line-up featured below.

Best Budget 120GB SSD Drives – Low cost performance upgrade for everyone

Here is our line up of the best and most affordable 120GB SSD upgrades for your laptops and desktops. We looked at 250GB, 500GB and 1TB SSD upgrades, it’s time we look at some of the cheapest, most affordable and popular SSDs in the market.

Best High-End Premium 10-inch Tablets Compared

Nothing says quality, solid build and premium design more than our 8 best premium 10-inch tablets. From major manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Amazon, Sony, Microsoft, Google, and Lenovo; these tablets carry the state of art in technology and design with no holds barred.

Top 10 Best 10-inch Budget Windows Tablets – Surface 3 Alternatives

Microsoft has just announced the latest Surface RT replacement, the Microsoft Surface 3. While the first generation Surface RT runs on a cut down version of the Windows OS, the new Surface 3 runs the same OS as its bigger brother, the Surface Pro 3.

Best 10-inch Windows Tablets with Full HD Display

If you are like me and prefer bigger spatial screen resolution for your tablet and the Windows desktop, which translate to things looking smaller but more room to arrange multiple windows on the desktop or multi-tasking apps from Windows Store then one of these tablets is for you.

Top 10 Best 7-inch Small Tablets

We have taken a look at 8-inch Tablet (Android and Windows) and bigger than 10-inch Android Tablets but never quite considered the 7-inch tablet properly. Now while many are opting for Phablets, with screen sizes between 6.0-inch to 6.8-inch, these are still premium devices compared to the low cost of a 7-inch tablet. Here, we […]

The What’s Hot List – Feb 2015

We thought we bring back our What’s Hot List to showcase some of the technology that our readers and visitors are looking for.

Best 500GB Solid State Drives SSDs – Upgrade both storage & speed

It used to be that if you wanted high performance storage, it would have be a compromise on size as high capacity SSDs were super expensive. You would only consider 128GB or 256GB at most. These days, however you can find great value 256GB SSDs up to the super sized 1TB SSDs as more and more manufacturers enter the […]

Top 10 Best 240GB, 250GB & 256GB Solid State Drives SSDs – Upgrades on a Budget

Fresh from looking at the Best High Capacity Solid State Drives (SSD), we are on to something a little smaller and a whole lot cheaper. Around a third of the price of 1TB and 960GB SSDs, equally fast and energy efficient, these budget 256GB, 250GB and 240GB are the choice SSD upgrades among Technophiles looking to improve the performance of […]

Top 5 Best 1TB and 960GB Solid State Drives – SuperSize SSD

The high performance storage based on flash memory or better known as Solid State Drives (SSD) have come a long way. Gone are the days where we are limited to small capacity drives such 128GB or 256GB. We can now get huge SSDs from 500GB to 1TB. The increasingly competitive SSD market, mass production and maturing […]

Top 12 Best Chromebooks and Reasons To Get One

The Chromebook platform especially the available hardware from different manufacturers has matured. We now see a range of devices with different processors and screen sizes, the biggest being the soon to be launched Acer Chromebook with 15.3-inch screen.

Best Thunderbolt Portable Hard Drives for Mac

While we are on the subject of portable hard drives, let’s look at ones with the Thunderbolt interface for Macs. Choosing a Portable Thunderbolt Hard Drive Let’s look at the technologies powering the portable thunderbolt hard drives in the market today. USB3.0 vs Thunderbolt Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB 3.0, there I said it. While […]

Best USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drives

I have had numerous external portable hard drives, still have them and will buy some more if I need to. The idea of being able to backup your work, carry incredible amount of data with you without sacrificing the storage on your laptop and have the files you want when you need them in a portable and […]