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Smartphones are some of the easiest items to resell or pass down to friends or family. Even if they are no longer the latest, greatest models, they are still functional for calling, messaging and running apps. Here’s how to prepare for the turnover.

When you think of data backup plans, you may think of work, business and office solutions. However, home data backup is more important than ever —think of all your digital photos, personal e-mails and music that could disappear if you don’t have them backed up. For students, backup is just as important, if not more so. A crashed hard drive has turned into the new “my dog ate it” when it comes to late assignments, so you don’t want to be faced with trying to convince a teacher or professor that your hard drive did crash and take your essay with it. The idea of a backup is to make recovery as fast and as painless as possible, should you lose your data in any way. Here’s my take on the perfect backup plan.

If your vacuum cleaner has gasped its last and you’re in the market for a new model, here are a few points that can help you decide whether you’ll get an upright, canister, or robot vacuum cleaner.

Want to add hands-free voice control to your Philips Hue lights? Getting them connected to Google Home or Amazon Alexa smart devices is easy. Here's how:

The shift away from traditional cable and satellite TV is on, and it’s not slowing down. Learn about some tech that makes a cord cutting transition easier.

Packing school lunches is not my idea of fun, and I know there are many parents who feel the same way. But instead of strugglng with that same-old sandwich, you could a few of these inspired back to school lunch box ideas.

Maybe because I’ve always been a fan of a good, old fashioned haunted house and am one of those people who can become unglued by a really scary movie, but Halloween ranks right up there with Christmas as one of my favourite times of year.   I’ve always been slightly envious of people who live in warmer climates during Halloween, because they are almost always guaranteed a nice night for trick or treating and great weather for getting outside and having some scary Halloween fun. But the one great thing about living in a place where the fog and chill sets in around mid-October? You have the opportunity to cook up and really enjoy some delicious hot food to get your Halloween night off to a great start.

I was pretty excited to find raspberries on my property, and after I picked two full buckets, I was on the hunt for what to do with them. Luckily I have a party planned for my son this weekend, so I dug up some kid-friendly raspberry recipes you should definitely try. Save

If you are looking for the absolute best sound experience for your home theatre setup, then let me show you how to create the perfect home theatre system with Dolby Atmos.

In this third installment of the “Setting up a Smart Home” series, we take a look at one of the easiest, yet neatest facets of a smart home: The Smart Lock. Smart Locks require very little effort to install, even less effort to upkeep and can make your life (especially in a large household) easier. No more worries of lost keys or getting locked out of the house by accident. Read on to find out why a smart lock should be considered as your first (or next!) smart home purchase.