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Derek Walter is a freelance technology writer based in Northern California. He is the author of Learning MIT App Inventor, a hands-on guide to building your own Android apps.
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If you spend most of your workday with Google's browser, you'll want to put these Chrome tips to work so you can get more done in less time.
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Microsoft OneNote for beginners: Everything you need to know
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Google's Chrome browser is plenty fast, but by turning a few more dials you can make the browsing experience even zippier.
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Bet you don’t know everything Chrome OS can do. Here’s what it offers, from keyboard shortcuts to Chromecast capers—and a surprising amount of offline productivity.
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Follow these tricks for getting yourself up and running with the right apps, settings, and offline tools.
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7 Android apps that could transform Chromebooks
For Chrome OS to really be the new Windows, it's going to need some apps that perform like they belong on the desktop.
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How to make Google Drive apps look and work more like Microsoft Office
Here are a few dials you can turn to get Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to perform a little more closely to their Office counterparts.
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How to enable Android notifications on the Windows 10 preview
The feature is a work in progress, but it offers a hint at how your PC might integrate more deeply with an Android phone.
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10 essential pen-friendly Windows apps
Put that slick Surface Pen to work with these ink-happy tools for your laptop-tablet hybrid.
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3 tips and tools for saving web content to Google Drive
With a little ingenuity, Drive can be a repository for all the articles, images, and other content you find online.
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Office 2016’s Smart Lookup is the next-best thing to a personal research assistant
Use this helpful feature to quickly do research or fact-check details right from within the file you're working on.
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5 helpful Chromebook tools for marking up documents, photos, and web pages
You don't need a smartphone or a Surface Pro to scribble on the screen. Check out these apps that let you sign a form, comment on a document, or scratch out a note in Chrome OS.
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These secret tools reveal the hidden corners of your Chromebook’s storage
That paltry hard drive can fill up fast, even on a computer built around cloud storage. Here's how to keep tabs on your space and make some needed room if you need it.
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