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Xbox One February 2015 System Update is Now Available

Several weeks back I previewed the February 2015 System Update for Xbox One. But that…

Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 Tip: Toggle the Dark Theme

One coming feature that appears to be missing in Windows 10 Technical Preview is a…

Images of Windows 10 for Phones and Small Tablets Leak

Sometime this month, Microsoft will release a version of Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 for…

Clean PC Walkthrough: Windows 8.1 Ultrabook/2-in-1

If you followed my travails in cleaning up a Windows 7-era Ultrabook, then you know…

Office Lens Gets Even Better

Office Lens is one of my favorite Windows Phone apps, letting you use your handset’s…

How to Rip Blu-Ray Videos

Ripping Blu-Ray videos is not as straightforward as doing so with DVD videos. For starters,…

Throwback Thursday: Windows Mobile 6.5

Just two years after the original iPhone was released, Windows Mobile was on the ropes…

OneDrive Tip: Upload Files with Your Web Browser

While many people will use the OneDrive sync client to push PC-based files into the…

Ask Paul: Buy Surface Pro 3 Now or Wait for Surface Pro 4?

I get this question a lot: Midstream in Surface Pro 3’s life cycle and on…

Word for Windows 10 Preview

Like many of you, I was quite happily surprised by this week’s unexpected preview releases…

Microsoft Releases Update Rollup for Windows 10 Technical Preview 2

Every month, it seems, Microsoft changes the way it updates the current pre-release version of…

Preview Versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Windows 10 are Now Available

Just weeks after revealing that it would deliver universal app versions of its Office apps…

OneDrive Tip: Get Extra Storage

With OneDrive available everywhere—on PCs and Macs, iPhones, iPads, Android devices of all kinds, Windows…

The Tablet Market Shrunk in Q4 2014

We all know that Apple sold fewer iPads in 2014 than they did in 2013.…

Ask Paul: Charging PCs and Gadgets in Europe

If you travel internationally, you’ll need the right adapters so you can use your PCs…

Clean PC: Remove Crapware from a New PC

It’s one of the biggest downers in personal technology: you buy a new PC, take…

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