One of the most exciting things about using a PC is the abundance of free software that’s available to users — so much so, that it can be hard to find the…
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How to reinstall Windows and give your PC a fresh start
Once upon a time, “reinstalling Windows” was an often recommended remedy for all sorts of computer problems. Windows 95 and XP were notorious for becoming less stable over time, with “crap in…
15 practical free apps for your college laptop
College can be extremely expensive — not just with tuition and dorm costs, but with materials, books, software, and more. You might think you have to spend lots of cash on apps…
Paint.net: 5 great tips for this free Photoshop alternative
Paint.net is a kind of a budget version of Photoshop, but we don’t want to talk down this sophisticated and free image editing program. The developer dotPDN provides versatile and flexible software…
The 5 best note-taking apps for college students
Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and…
Can AI be used ethically for school work? Here’s what teachers say
Can AI be used ethically for school work? It depends upon who you ask — quite literally. That’s because less than two years after ChatGPT was originally released in November 2022, the…
How to get Office 365 for dirt cheap as a student
Free alternatives may exist for Microsoft Office components, but sometimes they can’t stand in for the original. As a student, the standard cost of $70 per year for an Office 365 Personal…
Google Chrome’s hidden link preview feature is actually pretty useful
Google Chrome is constantly being updated, whether to add new features (like AI-powered image searches) or take away beloved functionality (and killing popular extensions in the process). In this case, we’re talking…
Microsoft Edge can now explain PDF documents to you using AI
The built-in PDF reader in Microsoft’s Edge browser is getting more AI features, reports MSPoweruser. Powered by Microsoft’s Copilot AI, Edge can now pick out the main points of a PDF document…
Give your Raspberry Pi blazing-fast SSD speed with this PCIe add-on
Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top)…