If you’re shepherding storage devices on a regular basis, or you’re prone to setting stuff in odd places, or you just want something innocuous in your laptop or camera bag that can be geo-located, then you should look at Teamgroup’s Expert P34F with its Apple Find My-compatible geo-tag.
That it’s a good 10Gbps performer, especially with large files is another plus. My enthusiasm is…
Why Windows updates keep getting bigger and more bloated
April 30, 2026
Over time, Windows updates have become increasingly comprehensive and much larger in file size. The monthly cumulative updates that Microsoft releases every Patch Tuesday now regularly exceed 4 to 5 GB each, and in some cases even reach 9 GB. Just two years ago, many Windows…
Microsoft’s collection of free PowerToys apps shines when it identifies the things you hate about Windows computing, and solves them with a keystroke. April’s 0.99 update adds Power Display and Grab And Move, which do just that.
Both seem fantastically useful in their…
Back in March, Microsoft promised to make fundamental changes to Windows 11 to make the operating system faster and better. It was reported that, in order to regain users’ trust, the company even intended to scale back its focus on AI features.
Windows Central now claims to have learned more about Microsoft’s plans from anonymous sources. There’s apparently a secret effort called “Windows…
I never really thought I’d welcome AI as a part of my ongoing business day. But Microsoft’s ongoing productivity updates to Outlook actually have me tempted.
By now, drafting an email using AI is old hat, and something that I generally wouldn’t do. But Microsoft has…
External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also extremely handy for transporting data between locations and devices in…
I don’t want a thinner laptop. I want a better one
April 28, 2026
I used to think thinner laptops were the better option. I don’t anymore.
Thinner just seemed like the natural direction for laptops, especially given how they first started out (big and boxy!). I get the appeal, too. A featherlight laptop is seriously impressive, especially the first time you unbox it. But on the flip side, you can’t really ignore the tradeoffs piling up in the corner over…
Sync.com review: Superb online device sync and backup
April 28, 2026
Where online storage services such as Dropbox, iCloud, and others only allow you to sync data across devices, Sync.com adds discrete unsynced storage to the mix via its Vault folder. This makes it particularly well-suited for backup. I like the approach, and I think the…
It was fun while it lasted, but it’s starting to look like the end for flat-rate AI plans as we know them, with GitHub being the first to turn out the lights.
Just a week after announcing it was halting signups for its flat-rate Copilot Pro and Pro+ plans, Github has…
In the past, Microsoft has repeatedly pointed out that key security certificates in Windows 11 are due to expire as early as June 2026. These are required for Secure Boot, the security feature that prevents malicious software from loading during system startup.
Until now, affected users had to manually search for these certificates and check whether they had already been updated. However, with the…
