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4 days ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
The OPPO Reno 13-series comprises the 13 F 5G, 13 5G and 13 Pro 5G. While the latter are similar apart from the camera, the 13 F is a very different phone. We have only reviewed the OPPO Reno 13 5G, which offers premium features at a lemonade price (review). However, this gives us the confidence to recommend the OPPO Reno 13 series. Read OPPO Reno 13 5G – premium features at a lemonade price (review)The table below shows the main differences.
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4 days ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
The OPPO Reno 13 5G is an ‘entry-level’ premium handset with every feature a typical user could want at a price that makes sense. If you know OPPO, you know that its:A-series, priced from $199 to $399, provides excellent value and incredible build quality. Reno occupies the mid-range and high-end mid-range segments with its 2025 Reno 13 F 5G at $499 (looks pretty good and has a Qualcomm SoC) to the $1299 Reno 13 Pro 5 G.
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6 days ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
VPP, or Virtual Power Plant, is a program where you receive a purchase discount on a new solar battery, provided you allow your grid electricity provider to manage it. The NSW solar batteryscheme offers extra incentives to use a VPP. The new Federal Government scheme will likely rely on VPP sign-up. The altruistic sales pitch is that excess stored energy in your battery is fed into the grid when other people need it most.
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1 week ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
NBN switching is a hot topic as tens of thousands of NBN Broadband users react to email and other outages suffered by the primary Telcos over the past few weeks. We all know that these three companies have among the worst customer service. Read TIO Complaints report Q4/2024 – the usual suspects let you down, and TIO Complaints report Q3/2024 – Why do you bother with Telstra, Optus, Vodafone or TPG?
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1 week ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
Telstra 5G Bandwidth Slicing was announced in February 2024 as a proof-of-concept. It creates multiple virtual networks with different performance characteristics on the same physical 5G network. To be clear, bandwidth slicing means dividing the available bandwidth into separate pipes within the same overall bandwidth. Imagine you have a 100mm water pipe.
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1 week ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
LaserPecker LP5 is a smart, app-driven, dual 20W Fibre and Diode Laser engraver that works on almost any material. Before the review, we need to paint a picture of what the LaserPecker LP5 can do and its uses, because most readers will not rush out to buy one. Plus, you may need a few accessories, like a safety enclosure, 3D rotary extension (for drink glasses and round items), slide extension, and more.
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1 week ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
The B&W Px7 S3 is the next generation of its popular Px7 S2e, offering improved sound quality, enhanced ANC, new materials, and customisable sound via the app. If you don’t know Bowers & Wilkins (B&W), it was founded in 1966 by John Bowers as a British company producing consumer and professional loudspeakers and headphones. If there is one thing the Brits know, it is how to make speakers.
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1 week ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
Apple iPhone safety is a hot topic following revelations that its App Store contains hundreds of thousands of leaky apps and mercenary spyware. Attackers are now targeting iPhones. Last week, we revealed that the Apple iPhone is not safe – 70% of App Store apps leak hardcore secrets, resulting in hundreds of requests to develop this iPhone Safety Guide. But it goes far deeper. Apple has issued threat notifications to iPhone users in over 150 countries.
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3 weeks ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
The Quntis Light Bar PRO+ is a 51cm light bar for larger flat or curved monitors. It provides up to 1200 lux of adjustable 3000-6500K (warm to cold) colour temperature, glare-free light to your workspace. I have used specialist workspace task lighting for years. I sit behind a three-screen setup for eight hours a day, and it helps reduce eye strain and limits my exposure to blue light.
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3 weeks ago | 
cybershack.com.au | Ray Shaw
Windows 10 EOL (end of life) options include risking using a vastly insecure operating system, upgrading if you can, or buying a new PC/laptop. There are no half measures. First, a few factsLaunched on 29 July 2015End of Life (updates and security patches) will finish on 14 October 2025. The latest version is 22H2. You could upgrade almost any Windows XP (2001), Vista (2007), or 8 (2012) PC for free. Meaning that even very old and insecure ‘metal’ was upgraded and is way past its use-by date.
