The benefits of a power bank in one small, compact package!

If you find your phone often tapped out of battery power, no doubt you’ve probably looked into portable power banks. If you like the idea of having extra power with you, but dislike having to carry around the extra weight, you may love these super small and thin power packs!

GMYLE Ultra-Thin
PowerJet Ultra-Compact pocket power bank
TravelCard Charger
Lankoo power bank

GMLYE Ultra-Thin

The GMYLE Ultra-Thin power pack has a capacity of 2,500mAh, which is more than enough to extend your iPhone’s battery life for a marathon session of Pokémon GO.

The GMYLE is only about 5mm thick and about the same width and height as a credit card, so you don’t have to worry about finding space to carry this thing around.

It starts around $17 and comes with a built-in Lightning cable and even a Micro-USB cable, which saves you the trouble of keeping track of your charging cords for all your devices.

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New Macbook Pros are here, and we’ve got your shot at winning one totally free! Check it out!

There were several new and exciting things announced during Apple’s October event, but undoubtedly the stars of the show are the new Macbook Pros. This is the first major redesign since the introduction of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display in 2012, and Apple’s laptops are seeing a substantial upgrade.

The new MacBook Pro is slimmer, with smaller speakers, and features a Retina multitouch strip above its keyboard called the Touch Bar, which can provide a multitude of abilities depending on the app you’re using. The MacBook Pros with Touch Bar start at $1799 for the 13-inch model and $2399 for the 15-inch laptop. Don’t like fancy new things like the Touch Bar? That’s fine, the company is also introducing a version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with traditional function keys for $1499.

We’re so excited and can’t wait for everyone to experience these fantastic new MacBook Pros — so we’re go…

The October Mac event — as recapped in Sketch Notes form!

Andy McNally is an illustrator, animator, and web designer — and also a huge tech geek. He’s been doing amazing ”Sketch Notes” of recent Apple devices and events, and we thought it only appropriate to have him draw his reactions to Apple’s October Mac event.

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The Philips Hue Motion Sensor is a great addition to any Hue light setup.

If you have Hue lights in your house, you’re going to want to check out the Philips Hue Motion Sensor — trust me.

This tiny white box solves one of the most annoying hurdles in home automation: that you need some sort of controller to interface with your devices (your voice for Siri, your finger for an app, a remote from the manufacturer, etc.).

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Hands- (and voice-) free is the way to be!

I’ve unashamedly gone all-in on home automation, and one of the critiques I hear regularly from guests is ”it’s much easier to flip a light switch than to use a phone.” Fair point — it’s one I’m reminded of every time we host someone and I have to give them a tutorial for controlling the lighting.

With the Philips Hue Motion Sensor in my home, I just have to to tell them not to worry about the tiny white box looking down from above, mwahahahaha! Kidding, I tell ’em exactly what it is and what it does…

A week with Apple’s new MacBook Pro.

For the last week hours, give or take, I’ve been working on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro 2016. No, not the one with the fancy Touch Bar instead of function keys — that’ll come soon enough — but the superlegere version that strips away the bar, a couple of ports, and some of the performance in order to become something else: A replacement for the 13-inch MacBook Air.

The bad news is that the starting price is $500 more than the 13-inch MacBook Air — $1499 vs. $999 and, for some people, those bleeding edge ports are more of a dongle-edged annoyance. The good news is that even the stripped down 13-inch MacBook Pro (late 2016) still includes the same, high-density Retina display, now with eye-popping wide color, a version of Intel’s Skylake processor and Iris graphics, and Apple’s high-speed storage architecture.

So, is the new baseline 13-inch MacBook Pro a legit replacement for the trust 13-inch MacBook Air, the computer that was my primary…

Update: Looks like all these models are now showing as currently unavailable! If you were interested, hope you got your order already!

Right now you can pre-order the new base model Macbook Pro for just $1140 at Amazon, a savings of $360. This listing is for the Space Grey variant without the Touch Bar that comes with a 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 paired with 256GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. If you’d rather grab the silver version, you can save $200 on that one. The model with the Touch Bar is also $200 off right now, but only the upgraded model with the 512GB SSD.

It is currently only a pre-order, with no exact shipping date listed yet. If you are looking to save some cash, and can wait for it to begin shipping from Amazon, this is a deal you won’t want to miss out on.
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With how much personal information we put online, you should make sure that your browsing sessions are as secure as possible. Using a Virtual Proxy Network, or VPN, will allow you to establish multiple connections at the same time, browse more securely and even have all of it monitored for you. These services can get a bit pricey at times, but not all of them will cost you a fortune.

Right now you can pick up Shimo’s VPN client for Mac for just $19, which is 65% off its regular price. Shimo can be quickly accessed right from the menu bar at any time, and it will allow you to use multiple connections and more within minutes.

Some of the other great features of Shimo include:

Access Shimo quickly & easily straight from the OS X menu bar
Browse more protocols than are supported by any VPN application in existence
Establish multiple connections at the same time
Define triggers based on network configuration, your geographic location, or the Wifi network to automatically connect VP…