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REVIEW – Adding ports for a laptop or tablet that needs more connectivity options is part of Gadgeteer life. There’s even a name for it: DongleTown. Many newer laptops and tablets have USB-C ports (maybe exclusively), but you have an entire collection of things that predate this plug, but need to use them. You can carry a bag full of adapters, or you can invest in a travel USB-C adapter. IOGear recently sent us their Travel Pro USB-C Mini Dock, and I have found it to be an express ticket out of DongleTown. Let’s take a closer look. What is...

The Loftdirected by Eric Van Looy"If you don't like my loving woman, you sure don't have to stall/Cause I can get more pretty women than a passenger train can haul!"This older film is an English language remake of the Belgian film of the same name helmed by the same director. It shares some DNA with similar late 80s and early 90s erotic thriller films starring such women as Shannon Tweed, Shannon Whirry, and Tanya Roberts among others. It tries to be a little smarter than such films but only briefly succeeds. The film can't rise above what I thought was a silly...

Many a hacker has dug an old flash drive out of the bottom of a backpack, and peeled apart the damaged plastic case to look inside. More often then not, you’d expect to see some SMD chips on a PCB along with a few passives, an LED and a USB port. [Gough] found something else entirely, and documented it for the interested public. Inside the Comsol 8GB USB stick, [Gough] found an entire microSD card. One might be led to think this is a card reader and microSD masquerading as a normal flash drive, but the reality is far different....

Using a combination of social media, search engine optimization, pay-per-click campaigns, among other things, you may be garnering a substantial amount of traffic to your e-commerce store, but what’s the point of all that effort if those visitors don’t convert into customers? Does this question ring a bell? You’re not alone — with the average e-commerce conversion rate hovering around 2.63%, it’s safe to say there’s plenty of room for improvement for most online stores. Now, conversions are not always about directly generating more sales. Depending on what your goal is, a conversion can also be defined as a newsletter...

Here is the board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending July 17, 2020. Gaming News Lone Shark Games is offering a Recovery Booster Pack, which includes 26 copies of a variety of their games, to physical retail outlets for a flat $100 to cover shipping. The package is designed to help local stores boost sales in an effort to help them through these difficult times. The Gen Con Online event catalog is now live. The Op has posted a designer diary that looks into the development of the classic Christmas game Die Hard:...