TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 and Windows 11 Pro together for just $44.97 (MSRP: $418.99) for a limited time. If you’ve been putting off upgrading your PC, this bundle makes the decision easier than ever. For just $44.97, you can lock in a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 and Microsoft Windows 11 Pro — two […]
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Early Black Friday deals on Chromebooks have begun at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers the week before Black Friday. I’ve collected the best Chromebook deals for PCWorld over the past several years (including Black Friday and Prime Day) and these are usually the best deals of the year. I’m hoping for a return to
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Do you want a large expanse of usable display space, but without the hassle of setting up dual monitors? An ultrawide monitor is the ticket. Ultrawide monitors have a wider display panel that provides an immersive experience and far more screen real-estate than your average widescreen. I’ve tested a bunch of ultrawide monitors in order
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Official support for Windows 10 was discontinued last month, but despite that, there are features from the older OS that are still missing from Windows 11. One such feature? The detailed calendar view in the taskbar. Fortunately, this one’s coming soon! Microsoft announced during yesterday’s Ignite 2025 presentation that it will be adding a new
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TL;DR: Get a UPDF lifetime subscription for $41.97 with code EDIT at checkout (MSRP $149.99). It allows you to edit, convert, and read, all in one tool. Forget the PDF tools that charge you every single month for features you only need occasionally. UPDF’s lifetime PDF tool gives you the entire suite for a one-time payment. Through November 20, you can use
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SSDs, like memory, have gone up in price since last year. Blame AI datacenters. Their demand has gobbled up supply. Unlike past years, Black Friday isn’t just a time to get a good deal. It may be your last chance for a while to get any kind of decent deal. And retailers aren’t waiting to
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I’ve developed a sixth sense for old video game cartridges. I can spot them at flea markets and thrift stores, spy them hidden behind stacks in used book stores. It happened after I first bought an Analogue Pocket, when the hunt for new and interesting Game Boy games became as important as actually playing them.
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Another day, another worldwide outage of a critical online service that brings numerous websites (including several high-profile ones) down to their knees. This news comes hot on the heels of last month’s Amazon cloud outage, which took down everything from web services to Ring video doorbells to smart beds that cooked their owners. This time,
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Pardon my impenetrable technology journalist jargon, but: Hoo, doggie. We’re finally starting to see some better OLED monitor deals after a frankly disappointing year. for example, Samsung’s gigantimax OLED, the 49-inch Odyssey G950, is just $849.99 at Best Buy right now. That is more than half off its regular $1,800 price. The G950 is 49
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A “cyberdeck” is a portable, handmade computer inspired by William Gibson’s science fiction of the 1980s. It’s basically a cyberpunk laptop. A “writerdeck,” then, is a similar concept but only for writing text. I’ve been dabbling with some commercial options lately. But I think both device categories might just have a new champion: the Micro
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