Back in the Windows XP days, when the only search functionality was a cartoon dog in the sidebar of Windows Explorer (not a joke), Google released Google Desktop. If you installed the application, you ...

First launched in 2013, Chromecast was the go-to streaming device for those looking to convert their dumb TVs into smart ones. However, in 2024, Google finally bid adieu to its Chromecast streamer and ...

As has become tradition, Google Play has returned to mark the end of another year with its roundup of the best Android apps and games from 2025. Considering just how obsessed the tech community is ...

Unless you’ve sought out an alternative, the default SMS app on your Android device is probably called Messages, with two blue speech bubbles overlapping on a white background. This is Google Messages ...

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After decades of using both Google's and Microsoft's productivity suites, it's clear that one continues to deliver the strongest combination of power, flexibility, and collaborative capability. I've ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

They say once a coder, always a coder. After switching to tech blogging, I don't code full-time now, but there's always a coder in me who finds fun in automating stuff with scripting. Nowadays, major ...