Black Friday is a few days away, but you can already find great PlayStation deals now from Amazon, Target, Walmart, and others. I've collected some of the best....
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Published on: 2025-11-25
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This tiny device was made to inspect ear canals, but it's surprisingly useful as a pocket-sized inspection tool for just about anything....
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These expert-vetted travel gadgets are the best companions for your business travels and holiday vacations....
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If you frequently plug into public chargers, you're an easy target for hackers. Either avoid them - or use this accessory to stay safe....
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Black Friday is only a few days away, but you can find great Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 deals now. I've collected the best from Walmart, Best Buy, and more....
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Looking to find a deal on an iPad this holiday season? There are Black Friday deals available on the iPad Pro, iPad Air, and more, during Black Friday sales this week....
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I test robot vacuums for a living, and I hand-picked the only Black Friday deals that are actually worth your money....
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Looking to start your holiday shopping? We found the best Black Friday tablet deals from Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and more....
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Black Friday is just days away, and nearly every major retailer is offering discounts, like Disney+ and Hulu for $4.99 a month....
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Published on: 2025-11-25
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Black Friday is this week, and we're following great deals on TVs, streaming bundles, and home theater equipment from Samsung, Sony, and more in real time so you don't have to....
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Published on: 2025-11-25
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In my writings here, I have continuously praised Perplexity, saying that I would pay for an annual Pro plan as soon as my year-long free trial expired. I didn’t do that. Why? Because I think Copilot is getting better at Web searches. I came to that conclusion because six weeks...
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Published on: 2025-11-25
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There were some difficulties with the Free newsletter this week, one an internal technical issue and the other an error I made. My goof was skipping a production step accidentally, for which I apologize. The Free edition is now correct online. Thanks to the many readers who alerted me to...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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ISSUE 22.47 • 2025-11-24 FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen Every day, someone gives me information I will need tomorrow. Every day, I don’t write it down because — of course — I’ll easily remember it. Every day, I forget what I didn’t write down the day before. In this newfangled...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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WINDOWS 11 By Chris Hoffman Windows 11’s Task Manager is a grab bag of features, some useful and others pointless. The Task Manager isn’t just a way to end misbehaving processes. It’s a way to monitor your system’s resource usage, see hardware details, and take control over startup apps. It’s...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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WINDOWS 11 By Mary Branscombe The Quick access feature of File Explorer is smarter than it used to be but also slightly more confusing. Do you want to open a file that was open just ten minutes ago? Or that you were working with on Friday, when you walked away...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley The idea behind Secure Boot is that attackers can’t gain access to your system through the boot process. As Microsoft puts it in a support post: Secure Boot is a security feature in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) based firmware that helps ensure that only...
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Published on: 2025-11-24
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What do you go online and use? According to a recent survey, it’s most often YouTube. Years ago, I remember being at a business group dinner meeting, During the chitchat watercooler talk about which television show was the rage at the time, I remember someone saying that they never watched...
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Published on: 2025-11-21
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The news reported that Nvidia’s earnings were up, indicating that we’re not to the AI bubble bursting stage. At least not yet. In my day job, lots of companies and individuals are touting how AI can help. And don’t get me wrong, there are times when AI does help. I’ll...
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Published on: 2025-11-20
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ISSUE 22.46.1 • 2025-11-19 ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Cloudflare experienced a significant outage in the early hours of Tuesday, November 18. The outage was not limited to the United States. ZDNET stated that there were more than 330,000 reports from around the world about Cloudflare being down. Unfortunately, AskWoody...
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Published on: 2025-11-19
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Today is the first day of Microsoft’s conference called “Ignite“. You can sign up and watch online, or you can sit back and see what others will think about what is being presented. (Like us in future posts and newsletters) Now while Satya Nadella will not be present and giving...
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Published on: 2025-11-18
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