How to make audio earmuffs As the winter months bring their biting chill, thoughts will turn to warm gloves, scarves and earmuffs. The latter are great for ensuring your ears don’t freeze, but they can make it awkward to wear headphones or even earbuds. Well, help is at hand, because with a little bit of sewing you can quickly transform those boring old ear warmers into the fluffiest headphones known to man....
Razer Blade Stealth review Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict The Razer Blade Stealth is an accomplished little laptop that can sidle up to the flashiest ultraportable laptops without seeming like the weird gamer kid in the corner. It’s slim, it’s moody, and you can tweak its personality with the multi-colour keyboard backlight: pink on black is a strong look. Its 4K screen is stunning if you don’t mind ultra-energetic Adobe RGB-style colours and while battery stamina isn’t amazing, it roughly matches the new MacBook with OLED touch panel....
Synology 216+II NAS review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict All-in-all the 216+II NAS matched up to our expectations from Synology and will be a very good choice for home or small business use. If you aren’t confident about installing hard disks, then this is the box to get as it’s easy and doesn’t require tools. There’s a huge range of applications to choose from the processor SoC offers plenty of horsepower to run them on too and it all runs quietly....
How to make any gloves work with touchscreens In the cold weather you don’t want to have to keep taking off your gloves whenever you want to answer a phone call or check your email. But that’s exactly the scenario in which many smartphone owners find themselves. This is due to the fact that touchscreens work by interacting with the small electrical charges in our fingers, something that warm woolly mittens negate....
Netgear ReadyNAS RN212 review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Netgear’s physical design is very impressive, but a few issues mean it lacks the appeal of drives we’ve tested from QNAP and Synology. In particular the interface for installing and using apps isn’t the best we’ve seen, nor is the range of choices. Performance is good, but the ARM processor doesn’t quite have chops to handle 4K transcoding. It’s a good NAS, but only if you can find it cheaper than the competition....
