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It's Now Easier to Use Your Xbox Controller to Type on Windows 11
 
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Use This App to Send Someone a File Without Using Any Cloud Storage
 
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This Free App Shows How Long You've Been Using Your Mac
 
A screenshot of GIMP's new welcome screen, complete with a sunset image.
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GIMP 3's New Features Make the Best Free Image Editor Even Better
 
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You Can Try Notepad’s New AI Summarizer in Windows 11 Now (If You Pay)
 
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Microsoft Just Uninstalled Copilot From Your PC
 
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Why Microsoft Is Phasing Out Their Remote Desktop App (and What to Use Instead)
 
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You Can Use the Windows App to Access Your PC Remotely or in the Cloud
 
A screenshot of an Obsidian window. The header in the note says "The windows behind this one are blured" then "here's a picture of my cat". Below that is a tuxedo cat sitting on a bamboo desk in front of a computer monitor. She is the cutest cat in the world.
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This Mac Screen Blurring App Actually Helped Me Focus
 
A screeenshot of winget installing Zoom in Powershell. The command is "sudo winget install zoom.zoom". Ther's a progress bar for the downloaded followed by lines explaining that the application is installed.
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Windows Has a Hidden Package Manager
 
A simple text document, open on a Mac. The format uses each line as a single date.
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This Simple Text Document Could Replace Your Calendar App
 
A screenshot of Copilot for Mac explaining who Justin Pot, who wrote this article, is.
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I Tried Microsoft Copilot’s Mac App, and You Probably Shouldn't
 
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You Can Now Limit How Much RAM Microsoft Edge Eats Up While Gaming
 
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This Note-Taking App Can Replace Four of the Most Popular Productivity Tools
 
A powershell window with the command "sudo make me a sandwich"
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Windows Finally Has a 'Sudo'-Style Command Too
 
A file being dropped in to a drag tray at the top of the screen in a Windows PC.
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Windows Is Testing a New Feature That Makes Sharing Files Much Easier
 
A screenshot of WinUtil showing various tweaks alongside checkboxes.
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This Is the Ultimate Tool for Setting Up a New Windows Computer
 
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'Beeftext' Is the Best Free Text Replacement Tool for Windows
 
Man watching television screen displaying a Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro.
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My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Pro
 
OCRmyPDF can be used to highlight and copy text in a PDF document, as shown here
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This Free Tool Can Help You Search and Copy (Nearly) Any PDF
 
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Use This App Instead of Excel to Directly Edit CSV Files
 
A photograph of a laptop displaying the Windows 11 logo
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How to Upgrade Your 'Unsupported' PC to Windows 11
 
An Android home screen in a window on a Mac
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How to Control an Android Phone From Your Computer
 
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Microsoft Has Quietly Removed Instructions for Updating Your ‘Unsupported’ PC to Windows 11
 
A LosslessCut window showing a video of macaws at a claylick.
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This Tool Lets You Trim Videos Without Converting Them