Need more fun in your life? Check out these great iPad games.

Gaming on your iPad couldn’t be sweeter. It’s small enough to take with you everywhere, but with a big enough screen to allow for more precision with your taps, and it’s that deadly combination that makes me reach for my iPad to play my favorite mobile games over and over.

Whether you’re new to iPad gaming or are just looking for your next game to download, here are my top picks for iPad games.

Alto’s Odyssey
Ticket to Ride
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of Lions
Leo’s Fortune
Invisible Inc.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery
Stranger Things: The Game
Mini Metro
Red’s Kingdom
Alto’s Odyssey

Alto’s Odyssey trades in the bright, snowy, and colorful palette of the first game for a much warmer, darker environment. The desert — while stunningly gorgeous — feels harsher and less forgiving than the slopes Alto’s used to and the new landscape provides a plethora of new challenges for player…

Here’s how to move data from your old iPad to your new iPad.

If you’ve recently upgraded your iPad, you might be looking to transfer data from your old tablet to your new 9.7-inch iPad or iPad Pro. There are a few options available to you to get this done, whether you want to transfer data using iTunes, or wirelessly transferring everything through iCloud and Automatic Setup.

Here’s how you can move your data from your old iPad to your new one.

How to transfer your data to your new iPad using iTunes
How to transfer your data to your new iPad using iCloud
How to transfer your data to your new iPad using Google or Microsoft

How to transfer your data to your new iPad using iTunes

Just as you can with an iPhone, you can use iTunes to back up your old iPad, then restore that backup on your new iPad.

Plug your old iPad into your Mac or PC.
Open iTunes.
Click on the iPad icon.

Click Back Up Now under Manually Back Up and Restore. Wait for the backup to complete.
Disconnect your old…

Them dead zones feel alive again.

This TP-Link AC750 Dual Band Wi-Fi Range Extender is down to $18.99 on Amazon. It normally sells for $30, and this price is a match for the lowest we’ve seen. This is a one-day only deal as part of Amazon’s Gold Box sale on TP-Link gear.

Make sure you don’t have any dead zones in your house with this simple range extender. It can help you get that signal to the lamp in the corner you want to add a smart bulb to, for example. It will work with most routers and gateways with dual-band speeds up to 750 Mbps. The smart signal indicator shows you the best location for optimal coverage. After initial setup, it can be moved to any outlet. TP-Link backs it up with a two-year warranty.

See on Amazon
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Just because you’re using a Mac, doesn’t mean you’re forced to use macOS all of the time. You can have your cake and eat it too!

If you’re switching from PC to Mac and aren’t comfortable with the big change yet, if you’re a dual-computer user and want to work on both Windows and macOS, or if you just want options, you can run Windows on your Mac and have the best of both worlds on one screen. There are a couple of options out there for getting Windows on your Mac, and even older Macs can support Windows if you know the trick. Here’s my advice for the best way to run Windows on your Mac.

Running Boot camp is the best if you have the space
Running a virtual machine works great and you don’t need to partition your hard drive
What to do if you’re on a Mac that doesn’t support Boot Camp anymore
How to troubleshoot Boot Camp issues with High Sierra

Running Boot Camp is the best if you have the space

Installing a licensed copy of Windows on your Mac’s internal hard drive by partitionin…

AppleCare+, insurance, or something else — how to pick the perfect protection plan for your iPad!

If you’re getting a new iPad Pro, iPad, or iPad mini, you may also be thinking about getting a protection plan for it. Apple, of course, offers AppleCare+, but there are also third-party services, credit card benefits, and other programs that might be of interest. Here they are!

Option 1: AppleCare vs. AppleCare+

Every iPad you purchase — whether it’s sold by Apple or another retailer — comes with a one-year limited warranty called AppleCare. This coverage costs nothing and is automatically activated the day you purchase your iPad. Here’s what it offers:

One-year limited warranty against defects
90 days complimentary phone support
This covers you if your iPad suddenly won’t turn on, can’t hold a charge, or a button randomly breaks within the first year of ownership. But the basic version of AppleCare does not protect against any kind of accidental damage…

While you can’t access Daydream games on your iPhone, the world of Cardboard is open to you.

The glorious thing about Google Cardboard, is that you don’t need to use an Android phone in order to access them. All you need is a phone, along with a headset, and you’ll be good to go. While there are a ton of Cardboard apps available in the App Store, not all of them are created equally. We’ve got the best Cardboard apps for you to try out on your iPhone.

vTime
InCell VR
Google Street View
Noir VR
Fractal Combat X

vTime

During the winter being social with your friends can be especially difficult if you live in a cold climate. That’s where vTime shows up to make sure you don’t turn into a hermit even if the weather is so cold you couldn’t be dragged out to a party. It is a fully social app that is here to help you make new friends, or hang out with your existing ones while in VR. You’ll create an avatar, find a room, and then spend some time getting human contact — all witho…

Nest didn’t reinvent the doorbell — that was done already. But it’s made the best one you can buy.

In retrospect, I should have seen this coming long ago. The idea of a video doorbell isn’t all that novel. It’s just a basic button, camera, speaker and mic, with some flashing lights tossed in. That’s not all that technologically advanced, right?

Nor does such a thing need to do all that much. It needs to show you who’s at the door. It needs to allow you to talk to that person, and you talk to them. And it needs to record all this somewhere accessible, should something untoward happen.

No. Video doorbells, at their core, really are relatively simple products. So what could Nest Hello — the video doorbell entry from the Google-owned company known for its gorgeous thermostats, cameras, security system (and not-inexpensive prices) possibly do that hasn’t been done by the likes of Ring (and others) already?

A good bit, I’ve learned in a week or so of initial use o…

The whole series of tubes at your fingertips.

TP-Link is having a huge sale on a variety of routers, switches, and adapters all of which are meant to improve your current wireless Internet situation. This is part of Amazon’s Gold Box deals of the day, so not only is it only good for the day but some of these might just disappear before it’s all over. The prices are all super low, some even at all-time lows.

If you need a way to stop paying rental fees, grab one of these routers. If you have dead zones around your home, grab a range extender or upgrade to the Deco mesh networking system. If you’re building your own computer, you’ll want this $40 Wi-Fi adapter. TP-Link has every wireless situation covered with these deals.

Here’s a few of the items we liked:

Archer C1200 smart Wi-Fi dual-band router – $34.99 with on-page coupon (from $60)
AC1900 dual-band Wi-Fi range extender – $69.99 (from $100)
Deco 2-pack mesh networking system – $139.99 (from $180)
Check out the full sale going…

AppleCare+, insurance, or something else — how to pick the perfect protection plan for your iPad!

If you’re getting a new iPad Pro, iPad, or iPad mini, you may also be thinking about getting a protection plan for it. Apple, of course, offers AppleCare+, but there are also third-party services, credit card benefits, and other programs that might be of interest. Here they are!

AppleCare vs. AppleCare+

Every iPad you purchase, whether it’s sold by Apple or another retailer, comes with a one-year limited warranty called AppleCare. This coverage costs nothing and is automatically activated the day you purchase your iPad. Here’s what it offers:

One-year limited warranty against defects
90 days complimentary phone support
So that covers you if your iPad suddenly won’t turn on, can’t hold a charge, or a button breaks. But the basic version of AppleCare does not protect against any kind of accidental damage, so if you drop your iPad or get it wet, you’re not covered. That’s where …