[ Review ] Just Dance 2020 (Nintendo Switch Version): Pumped Up for Fun and Fitness

Image courtesy of Ubisoft

For a little backgrounder, it's probably safe to admit, with all my collection of the game, that I'm obsessed with the Just Dance platform. When it first came out, I was immediately hooked. Which for very obvious reason, having the Just Dance 2020 copy is pretty much self-explanatory.

Let's dissect the game.

Tech Talk: 10 Best Local Places To Get WiFi When You're In Dire Need of One

Peace and Quiet + Free Wifi at the Library for the win!

Before you jump to the list, let me give your brain a little visual stimulation. Imagine yourself on a tight deadline. You're typing mercilessly on your laptop keyboard like a mad woman. You hit save and boom! Blank screen stared back at you with a message yelling at you saying, "you don't have internet connection!"

The shock for heart attack! It's like having a really bad nightmare, except awake, doesn't it? I knew the feeling too well. I had to suffer and endure it for 3 days. Thanks to careless city government workers, they cut my internet cable while digging my neighbors driveway! However, it was not the end of my world. It just meant I have to invoke my creative thinking to resolve my problem while waiting to get the mess fixed.

So, I went to hunt. And fortunately, it yielded a great bounty.

Tech Talk: Get Powered Up And Stay Charged With a Powerful Travel Charger! (Back to School Giveaway)

UPDATE: Giveaway is over and winners will be chosen and announced shortly. Thank you to all who entered and best of luck!

For some parents and their children, back-to-school can be a source of anxiety. You may call it separation anxiety but I prefer to call it "safety and adaptability concerns issue". This is why there's an urgent need to arm our young smartphone-ready kids with smartphones and any communication devices as they head back to school to make sure they're always "within" reach when needed. But, there's more to just having a smartphone. Ensuring that your child's smartphone stay charged and powered up is another story.

Smartphones battery life are proven to drain pretty quick. It is crucial to partner with a good power charger that's reliable and powerful to recharge their gadgets whenever and wherever, so that your child can always make that important call to you when the need arises!

TechTalk: How To Get Rid of Your Cable And Dish For Good - Survive It and Save Tons of Money!

With the rising cost of cable TV and satellite dishes, I'm sure the sound of saving thousands of dollars sounds very appealing to you right now. As to date, we have saved approximately $3,312 derived from a $69/month subscription fee in the course of 4 years. Money that went to more important stuffs like food and other essential necessities. How did we pull this off?

30 Ways To Unplug Your Way Into The Living

Doesn't it offend you when you are talking to someone and their nose is stuck on their phones and their fingers are busy doing its thing while they're "pretending" or "trying" to listen to you? These days, it's now referred to as multitasking. I admit, I'm guilty of this "crime" once too often. Though in certain social circles I belong to, this is unofficially accepted but not totally embraced by all. If any, it's more of an impending demise of a skill our society used for socializing - for we are slowly getting overrun by our addiction to Gadgetism!

America's New Addiction: Gadgetism

If you're one of those whose nose is acceptably not always implanted on the screen of their phone, imagine yourself waiting inside a restaurant to be seated. Look around. Look at the people sitting next to you or those standing with their family or friends. What do you see?

I Took a Shot at Couponing and Saved Money Using Apps

I was walking down the freezer aisle at SuperTarjay for our regular weekly grocery shopping and passed this cart parked on the side. Nothing unusual about a parked cart I thought, but what got my attention was this huge, transparent plastic file folder sitting on the cart's "baby carrier" compartment filled with tons of coupons! I immediately looked around to see who this dedicated couponer was, simply to satiate my curiosity. I saw an older couple by the dairy section, flipping through a pile of coupons trying to find the right one for the item they were going to purchase. I was speechless. That's pure smart shopping right there! Ironically, I can't see myself doing coupons that way. I can't keep up with even the few coupons I have. That day, I even forgot all the coupons I meant to bring. Talk about total fail! But there was hope - or savings - to be had in my horizon!

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 - Not Your Typical Mom Phone

Personalized the Note to reflect "me" 

Disclosure: I'm a Verizon Wireless Voices SE Ambassador and received this phone as part of the program. All opinion you read in this post is mine unless I say otherwise. I'm a Tech Geek and testing new gadgets are my cup of tea - or coffee if you knew me!

All about the Note
The Note 3 have been making a lot of raves and waves in the mobile phone arena lately. Thanks to its more advanced S Note technology, Geeks such as I, can't wait to discover its wonders and rich features. Lucky for me, I recently received the Note 3 and I'm currently giving it the test of its life.

TechTalk: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Unboxing

Watch the unboxing directly from our Channel: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Unboxing 

I #GetItDone with Microsoft Office 365 + Giveaway

Disclosure: This post is brought to you by Microsoft for their #GetItDone campaign. All opinion is mine unless I say otherwise. Read what I have to say about their product and check the fun giveaway!*

You and your Time
Do you frequently say to yourself, "I wish I have more time in the day to do things?" If you do, I completely get you! You are not alone. According to a recent study conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of Microsoft, more than half of office workers (53%) would be willing to work more hours—and one in five would be willing to take a pay cut—to have more flexibility in where and when they got work done. This proves how bad we wanted those elusive extra hours! Now, if I give you an ability to capture some extra hours in your day so you can enjoy those that matters to you most, would you take it?

Tech Talk: How to Fix Sidebar Shifting to the Bottom of Page in Blogger

If there is one thing that can easily ruin your day as a blogger, it would be when your blog's layout is messed up and you have no clue how it happened! This happened to me today after trying to "clean" up posts and updating images on my sidebar.

I tried to retrace and undo the work I've done and the changes I did but none worked. Frustrated was an understatement but save yours if you're in the same abominable pit!

The solution was simpler than I thought and took but a few 5 minutes to resolve!

How I took Control and Redesigned My Path to A Better Career #MSNKnowNow

Whenever I fill-up a form or is asked about what I studied in College, it almost always never fails to transport me to a time in my life when it was more of a disadvantage having a degree in Architecture. Back then, it was a predominantly male-dominated world and being a woman was an anomaly.

And it was.

After graduating in college, I was fortunate enough to immediately land a job in a modestly big Architectural firm in the city. Great right? No. The problem? I was a woman. I was a misfit in an industry ruled by men. Like a classic office politics, it was instantly decided on that since I was a woman, I'm not fit to work in the construction sites or be near any buildings being built. I was pretty much stuck in the office working as a... secretary. Believe it.

Tech Talk: Near Field Communication App for Android Smartphones

Ever seen that wickedly cool commercial of Samsung Galaxy where they bump their phones together and data got transferred like magic?! Well, eversince I saw that feature, I too, wished my android phone have that capability. Don't you wish your smartphones does that too?

This feature is called {NFC} Near Field Communication using {RFID} Radio Frequency Identification. My old Nokia phones had IR port that does the same feature and I obviously miss that. But wish no more. There is an app that does just that. Bump!

Yes bump. Not as famous as Princess Kate's bump but awesomely useful bump no less!

7 Signs You're Raising Digital Kids

Tech Talk: Apps That Turn Your Smartphone Beyond Smart

Wouldn't it be nice if your smartphone was like the transformers? Having the capability of turning itself into a whole different persona. Kind of like you with an alter ego {admit it, we all have one}. But yes, with the bounty of apps circulating endlessly in the ethernet, there are apps that are bound to transform your smartphone...beyond just a smartphone. And yes there are apps that does just THAT!

Tech Talk : Best Mobile Photo Watermark Apps for your Smartphones

With the recent controversy surrounding Instagram's controversial TOS and with the upcoming implementation of Facebook Graph and the rampant image theft online, as a parent, I'm mortified of the thought of regularly posting pictures of my child online without proper precautionary measures.

Tech Talk: The Mystery behind Google Code Subversion Repository Solved

How would you feel if you recently published a new post negating a need to embed a giveaway entry submission widget, you embedded the codes, checked, rechecked and completed the task confidently, hit publish, then went to bed, only to wake up to an annoying error message on your mobile when you check on it the next day? The crazy thing is, it's working find on your laptop. Then there's the issue of you not being sure which codes were causing the error. You installed a gazillion scripts the night before. Frustrating and tragically alarming?  You bet!

Duo Pinball App-Supported Controller for iPad Review and Giveaway

In this day and age, you have to keep up with technology, including the type of toys and gifts to give this holidays! With most games now app-based, it is very interesting to actually used a controller to play these games just like the Duo Pinball controller for iPad which I had the privilege of testing out!

Watch directly on our Youtube Channel: Duo Pinball Controller

How to Make Your Holiday Wish(list) Come True (Pronto!)

This post is more for the "slacker" who want a quick result. Quick result because yeah, they're slacking. So, if you are one and haven't yet (like me) completed and made your wish known to your "Santa", follow my lead and do this one pronto! Create a wishlist but not just any wishlist.

Create a wishlist that will incorporate all your "wishes" from different sites into one easily accessible site!

Is this possible? Yes. It is. So how do you do this? Well, let me tell you. This is afterall, the reason why I was writing this in the first place.

New Poptropica Adventures for the Nintendo DS™ System by Ubisoft® - Review and Giveaway

Poptropica is one of my little gamer's all-time favorite online. Online, because it is the only place available to her to play it. Not on her DS. And because of this, most often than not, you'll catch her playing it like there's no tomorrow when her computer-time comes around. I can't blame her. She obviously loves the game! BUT that's about to change...