UNDERSTAND · COMPARE · CHOOSE
Three practical guides and useful links to help you choose hardware, support your children, use AI or work on a web project.
Selected by Cédric Sterkendries · Sterk IT
Practical guide
Start with your needs, compare hardware and plan your budget.
Read the guide →Understand accounts, parental controls and useful settings.
Read the guide →Examples to help you understand assistants and agents, write useful requests and check the results.
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Compare a complete computer or choose its components. Start with how you will use it, then check the exact parts and total price, including delivery.
Compare assembled PCs and adjust a configuration to your budget. For example, choose a gaming starting point, then check the options actually selected.
Also compare the power supply, motherboard, RAM, Windows, delivery costs and support arrangements.
Build a PC part by part, plan an upgrade or choose an assembly service. Useful for comparing a complete system with separately purchased components.
Check which components are available, then what the price includes: assembly, operating system and delivery.
Explore desktop PC parts and prepare a configuration to compare. A starting point for turning a real need into a parts list.
Compatibility checks do not decide how quiet, comfortable or good value the system will be, or whether each option is useful.
Explore another range of configurable desktops and laptops. Useful for comparing options, the final price and setup choices.
Check exact parts, laptop keyboard layout, the selected operating system and delivery and return conditions.
Compare an exact product reference and view its price history. Specifications, reviews and guides help you prepare questions before buying.
The displayed price is not enough: check the seller, product condition, delivery to Belgium and the final amount.
Making a choice or checking a configuration?
Prepare a device with parents, understand the settings and stay in control of accounts.
Understand supervision on an Android or ChromeOS device: apps, purchases and screen time. For example, test an app installation request together.
Check device and account compatibility. Family Link does not replace iPad parental settings or family conversations.
Scan with another phone’s camera. You can also open the resource directly using the link above.
Set up parental controls on an iPhone or iPad. For example, manage purchases and check how a parent changes restrictions.
Menus and features depend on software versions and Family Sharing. Settings do not guarantee complete protection.
Scan with another phone’s camera. You can also open the resource directly using the link above.
Find Belgian guidance on passwords and two-factor authentication. A useful starting point for protecting the whole family’s accounts.
For a compromised device or lost access, identify the situation before following a recovery procedure.
Making a choice or checking a configuration?
Start with a real task, try a tool and check the result. Features depend on the plan and account.
Explore ChatGPT uses: writing, explanations, research and working with files. Try turning non-sensitive notes into an action list.
Available tools vary by plan. Check answers and privacy settings before sharing data.
Explore an assistant for writing, structuring ideas and working with documents. For example, request an outline, then check the important passages.
Features and limits depend on the plan. A well-presented document can still contain mistakes.
Explore Google’s assistant for explaining a topic, drafting or exploring an idea. Compare the result using a task you already understand.
Check answers, access to connected services and account privacy options.
Making a choice or checking a configuration?
Plan an online presence: distinguish website creation, domain registration, hosting and email.
Distinguish web hosting, email and domain registration when planning running costs. Useful for comparing what a showcase website needs.
Check renewal pricing, VAT and included services. Hosting does not include website creation or maintenance.
Understand extension choices for a Belgian or international business. For example, choose a main domain and consider useful alternatives.
Check availability, renewal pricing and rights to the name before registering.
Making a choice or checking a configuration?
References for Angular and Java/Spring, plus web quality and security. Official documentation is the reference; articles offer ideas to check.
The reference for Angular APIs, guides, migrations and best practices. Use it to check how a reactive API behaves.
Choose documentation matching the project version and distinguish stable APIs from experimental features.
Find components, interactions, theming and testing tools in the Angular ecosystem. Useful for business interfaces or accessible behaviours built with the CDK.
Align versions with Angular. Material is a UI library choice, not a requirement for every project.
Check observables, operators and subscriptions. For example, choose a concurrency operator or understand stream cancellation.
Check examples against the version in use and Angular interoperability APIs; introduce a stream when it meets a real need.
Articles and practical perspectives for keeping up with Angular. Useful for exploring signals, forms or component testing.
A community source complements official documentation. Check each article’s date, version and assumptions.
Start with Spring guides and documentation for Java applications: configuration, web services and production features. For example, scope a business API.
Check compatible Java, Spring Boot and dependency versions. Different Spring projects address different needs.
Review the language, APIs and JVM tools. Useful for exploring collections, concurrency, diagnostics or memory behaviour.
Relate examples to the project’s JDK version and check production environment constraints.
A reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and browser APIs. Use it before looking for a framework-specific solution.
Check compatibility tables for the browsers you actually target and verify accessibility of the result.
Application security cheat sheets to guide design or review: authentication, access control, files and data. A starting point for asking the right questions.
Adapt guidance to the project context and threats. Reading a cheat sheet is not a security audit.
Making a choice or checking a configuration?