Dan's Tech Reviews
Tech Reviews from the Lansing Star Online
From time to time we review new tech and gadgets in the Lansing Star Online. This site is a compilation of those reviews.
Read more »Last week iOS 10 arrived on a Wednesday, and only one day later it was already on 14% of devices. That is pretty impressive when you consider that Apple celebrated the billionth iPhone sale last July. As of Monday iOS…
A few weeks ago I reviewed the Kangaroo Mobile Desktop Computer, a $99 Windows 10 computer that is the size of an iPhone 6-Plus. Its performance exceeded my expectations, so I wanted to be able to use it with a full scr…
I am a long-time Firefox user. Firefox has its roots in the now defunct Netscape Web browser, a popular alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer back in the day. So I perked up when I learned that the Mozilla orga…
I switched from Windows to an iMac four or five years ago. But I require a few -- a very few -- Windows programs that do not have Mac versions for work. So I use a program called Parallels that runs Windows on a 'virtua…
I always feel like downloading a major operating system (OS) release is like getting a new phone or computer. Sure the hardware is the same, but it looks and acts differently. Lately the major updates in the Apple sta…
Wednesday was the big day for iPhone users. A new leaner, meaner iOS was promised, and if you checked for updates after 1pm you found that iOS 9 was ready for download. This was big news for many iPhone users, because…