Want to capture a scrolling screenshot of a web page in Chrome? Here's how to quickly take one on a desktop or your phone....
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Published on: 2026-02-24
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Oakley's Meta Vanguard smart glasses combine the brand's iconic look with a plethora of AI features for athletes....
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Published on: 2026-02-24
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Blurring your house on Street View isn't just about privacy. Here's why it's become a trend and what to know before you try it....
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Published on: 2026-02-24
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The Scosche WatchIt keychain is ideal for those who want to ensure their Apple Watch and AirPods are always charged....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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The Aferiy P280 is engineered to be the perfect power hub for your RV or home backup....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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The Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is Roborock's first venture into the self-cleaning roller mop space, and it's nearly perfect. Nearly....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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MoCA 2.5 is a recommended alternative to Wi-Fi networks that leverage old coaxial cables to enable high-speed internet....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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The Satechi Thunderbolt 5 Pro cable is a fantastic cable at a palatable price. I put it through a tester to see how it stacks up....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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The HyperDrive Next USB4 M.2 PCIe enclosure lets NVMe SSDs perform at their best, ensuring fast transfer speeds for large files....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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Samsung's Galaxy Book6 Ultra pairs strong multi-core performance with nearly a full day's worth of battery life. It's designed well, too....
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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ISSUE 23.08 • 2026-02-23 WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkman After ten years in the making, Microsoft is finally attempting to finish the job by making Windows’ dark-mode feature truly system-wide. The “flashbang” era is officially ending — mostly. When Microsoft first dimmed the lights with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update,...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston With copper hitting an all-time high of $14,527 per metric ton intraday on January 29, 2026 — almost triple its $5,058 price as recently as 2020 — vandals are increasingly tearing out entire runs of telecom wiring for metal they can sell to shady scrap...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley You’ve probably seen the chilling video by now — that masked man at the door in one of the highest-profile kidnappings in recent memory. But here’s something you may have missed, something many would consider equally chilling: the doorbell-camera footage was not configured to be...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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EDITORIAL By Will Fastie Here are a few things we learned from our 2026 reader survey. First, many thanks to the very large number of Plus members who took the time to complete the 2026 reader survey earlier this year. Your response is very gratifying and greatly appreciated. Not only...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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I stumbled across an interesting workaround for someone who was using a Mac to host a Windows 11 virtual machine to run a line-of-business application. The application installs a PDF driver that won’t work in a virtual machine, especially one running Arm processor. The found a third-party PDF program to...
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Published on: 2026-02-20
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I was talking to someone today about their issues with using an iphone. They indicated at one point in time they had inadvertently enabled “Blind mode”. Huh, I’ve never heard of blind mode. Come to find out it’s called “blind assist” and they aren’t the only one who found themselves...
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Published on: 2026-02-19
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In between the Patch Tuesdays, there are Browser release dates. Note these have no set time or release date. Just all of a sudden we hear of an issue and are urged to patch. Now if you know my patching methodology you would think I would defer patching browsers as...
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Published on: 2026-02-18
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I’m reminded every now and then that I should pay a little bit more attention to free space. Just tonight one of my backup routines sent an alert saying it failed and based on the error message I knew what the problem was: The backup log files had filled up...
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Published on: 2026-02-17
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ISSUE 23.07 • 2026-02-16 FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen Programs open a little slower. Your Internet browser takes a nap before loading a page. Updates say things like “Working on it …” in the same tone as a teenager who is absolutely not “working on it.” You know there are...
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Published on: 2026-02-16
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INTEL By Chris Hoffman Intel’s laptop CPUs just made a huge leap. New desktop chips are coming, too. At CES 2026 in January, I saw a lot of machines with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 hardware, also known as Panther Lake. Laptops with this hardware are already hitting the shelves....
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Published on: 2026-02-16
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