Monday, August 28, 2017

EasyAcc MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank review



Getting a low battery warning when you’re no where near a power outlet feels like the end of the world to a gadget nerd. That’s why power banks (for example: GOAL ZERO GUIDE 10 PLUS ) are a popular product category and why EasyAcc is a company who makes these types of devices for mobile Gadgeteers. Let’s take a quick look at their new EasyAcc MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank.


What is it?

The EasyAcc MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank is a portable charger for devices that can charge through a USB cable. Such devices include smartphones, smart watches, fitness trackers, and more.
What’s in the box?

EasyAcc MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank
micro USB cable
Type-C USB cable
Quick start guide


If this device looks familiar to you, you have a good memory because we’ve recently reviewed another EasyACC power bank that looks incredibly similar. Jason Haas reviewed the EasyAcc Quick Charge 3.0 20000mAh Power Bank back in April. That back up battery is a physically larger version and larger battery capacity version of the EasyAcc MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank that I’m going to show you today. Why would you want a smaller power bank when there’s a larger version available? Weight, bulk, smaller hands, smaller gadgets? Any number of reasons really.
Hardware specs

Capacity: 16750mAh × 3.63V = 60.8 Wh
Battery Cell Type: 18650 Lithium Battery
Type-C Input: 5V / 3A
Micro USB Input: 5V / 2A
Total Input: 5V / 5A (max)
Green Output (Quick Charge & Latest Smart Charge): DC 5-6V / 3A, 6-9V / 2A, 9-12V / 1.5A
Quick Charge Protocols Supported: QC2.0, QC3.0, FCP
Black Output (Smart Charge): DC 5V / 3A (max)
Size: 135 × 76 × 22.8 mm / 5.3 × 3 × 0.9 in
Weight: 308g / 10.9 oz

Design and features

The MegaCharge is a black and orange plastic sandwich. The top and bottom are black with an orange center.

There are two USB outputs on the end and an LED flashlight which is a handy feature.

The Green output has Quick Charge 2.0 and 3.0 capabilities, and the other output is considered a smart charge port that makes sure the device you’re charging gets the most power it can safely accept.
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On the side of the MegaCharge are two inputs. There’s a micro USB and a Type-C USB input. These inputs are used to charge the MegaCharge’s 16750mAh battery.

On the opposite side is a button that will let you check the remaining battery capacity of the power bank and will toggle the flashlight on and off with a double click.


Four tiny white LEDs on the top of the power bank show the battery capacity while the unit is charging another device or when you press the button on the side.

The cool thing about the MegaCharge power bank is the Doubin feature which allows you to charge the power bank quickly when you plug BOTH a micro USB and a Type-C cable into the inputs and use compatible AC adapters. Using two cables will allow the power bank to charge in about 3.5 hours which is up to 60% faster than when using just the Type-C cable which takes 5 hours, with 3A input.

FYI: It’s up to you to find an AC adapter to recharge the MegaCharge because one is not included with the power bank. However, a micro USB and a Type-C cable are included.



I could not find any details on the flashlight as far as the number of lumens that it emits, but it’s bright enough to be used as a small flashlight so you won’t need to remember to carry a separate flashlight with you.

I did all of my testing of the EasyAcc MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank with an iPhone 7 Plus and an iPad Pro 10.5. I tested individually using the green Quick Charge output port.

Day one

12:13pm iPhone 7 Plus battery at 20%. Plugged into a fully charged EasyAcc MegaCharge

12:33pm iPhone 7 Plus battery at 38%.
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1:04pm iPhone 7 Plus battery at 64%.

1:40pm iPhone 7 Plus battery at 90%.

1:56pm iPhone 7 Plus battery at 96%. Removed from EasyAcc MegaCharge. EasyAcc MegaCharge still has all LEDs lit up when doing a battery capacity check.

iPhone 7 Plus battery from 20% to 96% in 1 hour and 43 minutes.

Next day over 24hrs later

2:45pm iPad Pro 10.5 battery at 20%. Plugged into EasyAcc MegaCharge which still had all 4 LEDs lit up.

3:51pm iPad Pro 10.5 battery at 49%, EasyAcc MegaCharge down to 3 LEDs.

4:15pm iPad Pro 10.5 battery at 60%, EasyAcc MegaCharge down to 2 LEDs.

5:30pm iPad Pro 10.5 battery at 91%, EasyAcc MegaChage at 2 LEDs. Removed from charger.

iPad Pro 10.5 battery from 20% to 91% in 2 hour and 45 minutes.

Day three

7:45am iPhone 7 Plus battery at 25%, EasyAcc MegaCharge at 1 LED.

9:00am iPhone 7 Plus battery at 80%, EasyAcc MegaCharge at 1 LED flashing.

9:45am iPhone 7 Plus battery at 96%, EasyAcc MegaCharge completely drained.

iPhone 7 Plus battery from 25% to 96% in 2 hours.

So a fully charged EasyAcc MegaCharge was able to almost completely recharge an iPhone 7 Plus at 20-25% two times and an iPad Pro 10.5 at 20% once.

Recharged the EasyAcc MegaCharge in about 3 hours and 45 minutes using both a micro USB and Type-C cable.
Final thoughts

The MegaCharge Doubin 16750mAh USB-C Power Bank from EasyAcc is an easy to use external battery that can recharge your USB enabled gadgets multiple times when you’re on the go. There are many power banks on the market, and this one from EasyAcc offers some extra features like the built in flashlight and Doubin battery recharge feature that make it worthy of a 2nd look.

It’s a great accessory for travelers, campers, and anyone else who finds themselves away from regular power outlets.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

What are sex addicts like?

Do they often discuss pornography addiction help?

People tend to go over topics of interest to them, daily occurrences or events they've experienced. Is your buddy bringing up porn often in idle conversation? Such conversation between friends is ordinary, but notice how frequently the individual talks about it. Does this look like this is the only thing he or she must discuss? Are porn addiction help and pornography the only topics that appear to submit this person's interest or gets the person animated? It is possible that is all he or she talks about because it's all that person has to talk about. A porn addict can spend the bulk of her or his spare time watching porn, leaving them with little else to speak of in dialog.
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This can be tricky; every man differs, as is each friendship. Someone addicted to sex addiction treatment may not speak about it, feeling guilt and shame, or they may bring it up at improper times.

Note things other than speech, also. Having a poster of an appealing design in one's room is common. Having one's screen saver place to show hardcore pornography might be cause for concern. Do they have pornographic backgrounds in their cellular phones? Inappropriate ring tones? While these may be signs of more tastelessness, they can also be signs of this dependence.

Have they attracted up porn addiction treatment dependence in conversation?

Many sex addicts NYC suffer from this addiction for quite a very long time before imagining they have this, and then a longer time before they quit denying it. If they've broached the topic of sex addiction therapist, they might be testing the waters, so to speak, to determine how you are going to respond. Many sex addiction counselors feel ashamed of themselves and maintain their addiction a secret for fear they will lose friends. It is not likely they will admit to having a sexual addiction counseling, but they may ask you your view on it, or speak more in detail about a high profile celebrity claiming to suffer from the issue. They may even mock the idea of sexual addiction therapy, feeling you guess them of it and wanting to relieve your own feelings.

The way you feel about pornography addiction help is up to you, but most people taking this strategy are scared and looking for support and your response could impact their choice in receiving skilled assistance.

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Key Traits of an Affordable SEO Company

With the net using the guts point with every passing day, the idea of search engine optimization is gaining acceptance. Every organization has an online existence is seeking professional Google best local SEO company to make certain they stay in the limelight and system above their opponents. You will find innumerable businesses declaring to supply these solutions at low prices. Although some of these stay true to their statements, there are lots of others that simply purpose with the intent of earning money. In order to simplify the duty, there are some essential traits to look out for when choosing affordable local SEO services.

Best affordable SEO company ought to be moral in its approach. Within an effort to climb the ranks shortly, quite a few search engine marketing organizations make use of the "black-hat" methods including keyword stuffing, spamming, entry pages, and hidden texts. Adopting these processes to achieve exposure will land your online business in jeopardy because search engines may blacklist your website. An ethical corporation will simply utilize proven "white hat" local SEO NYC. This system requires creating information that's not only accessible to lions but additionally delivers related information to consumers without overusing the keywords.
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Another critical feature to check out for is an experience. It requires years of knowledge to understand the art of search engine optimization. Best affordable SEO company with decades of expertise will have a way to display an of successful promotions they have conducted in the past as well as the effects achieved through hard work and conviction. The company should be practical inside their approach. If a particular organization is encouraging you sunlight, the moon along with the celebrities at very cheap prices, it's sometimes because it is merely an individual performing alone or they don't really recognize the nuances of best local SEO. A company that gives affordable SEO services for small business will be needing the solutions of various persons starting from website designers to programmers and link ninjas and hence won't have the ability to provide their services at discard prices.

The concentration of a reliable and economical New York City SEO company will soon be on supplying the assured results. As a shopper, you need to get regular updates regarding the function being done along with the affect the rank of the site. The company will first conduct a standard to discover the existing rating of the distinct website before beginning focus on it. Throughout the course of the SEO New York company, the agency uses different white-hat processes to progress through the rankings in order to find an area in the Top-10 items of the SERP number.

As well as getting your business towards the top, SEO New York NY also needs to enhance the brand awareness and increase the sales. By generating long lasting targeted traffic to your site, the business must help you achieve higher ROI, enhanced conversions and produce greater profits. Accessibility and connection are the other traits that you might want to appear out for should you plan to acquire the solutions of the finest, but affordable local SEO services to consider your organization to fresh heights.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

A pocket-sized power bank that’ll help your laptop stay alive




I’ve lived through a lot of live blogs in my life, mostly by the skin of my teeth, desperately watching as my battery ticks down, hoping desperately that the company is nearing the finish line.

Of course, the fact that both my personal work computers sometimes feel like they’re on their last legs doesn’t help much, but the fact remains: There are few things in this life as anxious-making as watching a piece of hardware die right in front of you when you need it the most. I’ve played around with battery extenders in the past, but when it comes to keeping a laptop alive, there’s not a lot of middle ground between big, bulky power banks (for example SunJack laptop powerbank )
 and ones too small to keep anything beyond a smartphone alive for an extended period.

Omnicharge promises some middle ground — and judging from the company’s Indiegogo campaign, which is a ridiculous 2,401 percent funded as of the writing of this, the internet community doesn’t need all that much convincing of the product’s viability. And for my part, I certainly had a “where have you been my whole life” moment when a demo unit arrived in the mail.



The brick is small enough to be held in one hand or tossed in a backpack with little notice. Hell, you can probably fit the thing in your pants pocket, presuming you don’t dress like a member of a mid-00s indie rock band or American Apparel employee. It’s 0.83 pounds for the smaller of the two and 1.3 for the larger — so portable, but probably not something you want on your person all day, every day.

I should note that the unit the company sent was the smaller of the two chargers — at 13,600mAh (versus 20,400). To put that into some perspective, the iPhone 6s Plus has a 2,750mAh battery. This, clearly, is a lot more than that. The Omnicharge sports three outputs — two USB and one three-prong AC/DC outlet.


On the front is a small OLED display that offers a bunch of key contextual information, including:
Input and output status/watt rate
Battery percent and time remaining
Unit temperature

All handy info that you can turn on and off while the system is in use. It’s also nice to be able to see how the system’s status impacts the amount of time left; the minute my computer fell asleep, the number jumped up by several hours. To the right of the display are buttons that turn the flow to the USB and AV/DC outlets on and off individually.



There’s a lot happening under the hood, but the main thing you really need to know is that the unit works. There are some suggested lifespans above. I used the system with my 15-inch MacBook Pro (against doctor’s orders) and got a couple of extra hours at full charge. I’ll be bringing my 13-inch work MacBook Air to IFA with me in a couple of weeks, and the Omnicharge will definitely be coming along for the ride.

It starts at $99 on the company’s Indiegogo page.

Friday, March 10, 2017

Online Marketing News: Millennials Love UGC, Voice Search and Goodbye Vine


 Online Marketing News: Millennials Love UGC, Voice Search and Goodbye Vine

How Millennials and Baby Boomers Consume User-Generated Content [Infographic]
47% of millennials trust user-generated content, vs. 36% of their baby boomer counterparts. However, each generation shared a relative distrust of content created by brands. This infographic shows the generation gap of UGC. HubSpot

Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more answers and fewer search results
People who use voice search — the majority of whom prefer to do so in private vs. public — use it because it’s fast, doesn’t require reading, and gives you fewer answers to sort through. What does voice search mean for the future of search marketing? Search Engine Land

What Content Creators Need to Know About Twitter Relaunching Vine as Vine Camera

On January 18th, Twitter officially shut down Vine. In its place, Twitter launched Vine Camera, an app that can be used in place of Vine with similar features that works with Twitter. Good news — Vine users can still access their videos from Vine, but the comments and likes will be gone. AdWeek

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Vintage Patek Philippe Watch Among Timepieces 'Found' After 40 Years To Be Sold At Auction

Dormant in a forgotten vault at the Horological Society of New York for more than 40 years, a trove of vintage wrist and pocket watches will be wound again and put into the auction spotlight by Heritage Auctions.

Bidding for the four timepieces has already begun online on the Heritage Auctions website with final bids to be conducted live during the HSNY’s 151st annual Gala & Charity Auction, to be held April 3 at the General Society Library in New York. Proceeds will benefit HSNY.

The four watches are: a Patek Philippe Ref. 3514 18k gold automatic watch; an Audemars Piguet 18k gold ultra-thin pocket watch Signed Tiffany & Co., circa 1959; an Audemars Piguet 18k Gold Square watch, Ref. 5128BA, signed Tiffany & Co. circa 1960; and a Piaget $20 Saint Gaudens Gold Coin Pocket Watch signed Cartier. There’s also an enamel HSNY pin that was not in the vault with the four timepieces but is one of the few remaining vintage enamel pins from the society.




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Dormant in a forgotten vault at the Horological Society of New York for more than 40 years, a trove of vintage wrist watches will be wound again and put into the auction spotlight by Heritage Auctions.

Bidding for the four timepieces has already begun online on the Heritage Auctions website with final bids to be conducted live during the HSNY’s 151st annual Gala & Charity Auction, to be held April 3 at the General Society Library in New York. Proceeds will benefit HSNY.

The four watches are: a Patek Philippe Ref. 3514 18k gold automatic watch; an Audemars Piguet 18k gold ultra-thin pocket watch Signed Tiffany & Co., circa 1959; an Audemars Piguet 18k Gold Square watch, Ref. 5128BA, signed Tiffany & Co. circa 1960; and a Piaget $20 Saint Gaudens Gold Coin Pocket Watch signed Cartier. There’s also an enamel HSNY pin that was not in the vault with the four timepieces but is one of the few remaining vintage enamel pins from the society.

They are expected to fetch $10,000 with proceeds going toward HSNY's educational programs and endowment fund.

HSNY said the board “rediscovered” these watches and decided to use them to fund a new annual charity auction tradition.

“It’s a remarkable find,” said Michael Fossner, Heritage Auctions watch expert. “These great watches … were of modest value when donated to the society, where they were consigned to a vault and forgotten, oblivious to the skyrocketing market outside.”

All five items are offered without a buyer’s premium and online bidding will be held until the day of the HSNY’s gala and charity auction. The auction will conclude with final bidding commencing live during the Gala, which begins at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Would You Rather: 6 Ways to Tell if Your Digital Marketing Agency is the Right Fit




Would You Rather: 6 Ways to Tell if Your Digital Marketing Agency is the Right Fit

Today’s increasingly competitive landscape requires that marketers focus on activities that will have the biggest impact in order to capture and keep the attention of potential customers. With over 200 million people utilizing ad blocking technology, it’s clear that an integrated digital marketing strategy has to be implemented in order to reach target customers.

To develop and execute a successful marketing program, many brands large and small look to digital marketing agencies to help guide their strategy and execution to maximize the impact of their efforts. However, as most of you have discovered at some point, those agency relationships don’t always work out as you anticipate. Once the wooing stage has passed, you may find that you have more work and results aren’t meeting expectations.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

What You Need to Know to Get Started with Account-Based Marketing


What You Need to Know to Get Started with Account-Based Marketing

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a white-hot buzzword for B2B marketers right now. You see it everywhere: guides, eBooks, infographics, blog posts by handsome bald content marketers–the works. Yet as much as everyone is talking about ABM, there’s still plenty of confusion about what it is and how best to do it.

It’s all well and good to say, “We should get some of that sweet account-based marketing; I hear it’s a gold mine.” But implementing a program in a strategic way takes a little more digging.
What Is Account-Based Marketing?

My favorite definition of ABM comes from Engagio CEO Jon Miller:

“Account-based marketing: a strategic approach that coordinates personalized marketing and sales efforts to open doors and deepen engagement at specific accounts.” – Jon Miller, Engagio

Think of traditional marketing as a confetti cannon. You set it off, it blankets the entire audience in confetti, and hopefully the one or two people you really wanted to confetti-ize get covered.