One Soup Base – 3 Soup Recipes on Shelly’s Friday Favourites
Why make homemade soup when it’s so easy to open up a can and eat within minutes? Really, it all comes down to taste. If you go through the effort of making your own soup base and you let your soup simmer on your stove or in your slow cooker for hours, the flavours of what you’re cooking will practically explode when you eat it.
How to clean your coffee machine
To pour the perfect brew, you need your equipment to be in tip-top condition. Here's how to clean your coffee machine for the best results.
It’s time to make holiday Yule Log on Shelly’s Friday Favourites
It's two weeks until Christmas and at my house that means it's time to make our traditional Yule log. Here are a few recipes you can use to make your own.
How to have the best connected home workout
Lost motivaton to exercise? It's time to try a connected home workout. Take a look at all the ways you can find friendship and motivation with fitness tech.
How to make the perfect cup of coffee
It's not difficult to make the perfect cup of coffee at home. Just follow these tips and you'll be your own barista in no time at all.
Prepare for back to school with some brain food – Shelly’s...
I’ve been experimenting with brain food lately, and found a recipe that takes all of those nutrients and combines them into one delicious energy bar. Although they’re chock full of healthy ingredients, they taste almost like a chocolate bar. The local coffee shop sells them and calls them ‘Brain Bites,’ but I just call them delicious. I whipped up a batch of these little gems today – check out the recipe and my photos for the steps to make them.
Back to school: the perfect backup plan
Everyone (including students) needs to protect against data loss from drive failure, viruses or accident with a solid backup plan.
How an ergonomic office can make you more productive
When you’re looking for ways to boost productivity, technology is often the knee-jerk response. Get a faster PC and I’ll be able to work faster. What’s often overlooked is ergonomics. Setting up your office to so that it takes ergonomic design into account can pay huge benefits in increased productivity, while also helping to prevent injuries.
Replacing your wireless router: what’s really involved and what you gain
With 802.11ac (Gigabit Wi-Fi) now mainstream, we are currently in the midst of a big wireless router replacement cycle. I’ve tested so many routers in the past year that I’ve lost count. Despite the potential payoff of a new router, many people are reluctant to make the upgrade. Routers can be intimidating, and once our Wi-Fi is working, it’s such an integral part of our homes now that we’re naturally reluctant to do anything that might rock the boat. After getting a taste of what the latest generation of 802.11ac routers can do, I finally made the jump myself, replacing my own aging router. And to help you understand everything that’s involved, I chronicled every step of the process. Hopefully this account of one person’s Wi-Fi router upgrade will help to demystify the process and show why it’s worth doing.
How to host the perfect board game night
With board games becoming more and more popular as an option for an evening with your friends, here’s a great way to have a game night with friends that are new to the modern board gaming scene.