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Free Apps & Software Alternatives
Microsoft Office Without Paying: Free Alternatives Compared by How Well They Open Your Word and Excel Files
Replacements for Microsoft Office can be used at no cost. Your selection of an office suite will dictate whether your Word and Excel documents will maintain the same appearance when they go back to your professor, customer, or supervisor. Each of the many alternatives available for free will read Microsoft’s .docx and .xlsx file formats in a different way, therefore…
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Which Free Video Editors Really Export Without a Watermark? Tested on One Windows PC
While it is possible to edit and export a video without charge and without watermark on Windows PC, not all video editing software allows you to do this. If you stay within their free usage limits, only some software include the ability to edit and export videos without a watermark (free of charge). Shotcut, OpenShot, VSDC Free, and DaVinci Resolve…
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How to Edit a PDF for Free Before a Paywall or Watermark Gets in the Way
You can utilize a free PDF editor to shrink, merge, edit and sign a PDF at no cost. You will need to find a free PDF editing tool that does what you need and see how much of the file it is going to allow you to work on for free before you choose which product to use. Many free…
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Free Antivirus on Windows: When Windows Security Is Already Enough
Most people using a recent version of Windows 11 won’t want to download an antivirus for free, as the built-in Windows Security will provide a user with full access to Microsoft Defender Antivirus. Independent testing performed in 2026, shows that Microsoft Defender offers similar levels of protection against malware as the best performing third-party products. A free application typically adds…
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Before You Install a Free VPN on Android: What the App Asks For and Collects
Before you install a VPN meant to protect your privacy from viewing your activity by your ISP and everyone else using the same WiFi network as you are, it’s important to consider who you are putting your trust in when it comes to the management of your internet traffic. Most people tend to glance at these three items listed on…
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Android & iPhone Fixes
Why Your Phone Battery Drains So Fast — and How to Find the App Responsible
Last week, your mobile phone worked perfectly, but now you need to plug it into the charger every evening. The hardest thing about this situation is figuring out if it is due to a single application running (therefore using up battery power), due to a poor data signal, or due to an old battery (losing power more quickly). When your…
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Android & iPhone Fixes
Phone Storage Full After Deleting Everything? Where the Space Is Really Going
You deleted photos, cleared out old videos, maybe uninstalled a few apps, and the phone storage full warning is still there. Your phone is probably not broken. On iPhone, in Google Photos and on Samsung Galaxy phones, deleting a photo only moves it to a holding area, and much of what’s left sits inside apps, not in your gallery. Apple,…
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Android & iPhone Fixes
iPhone Stuck on the Apple Logo: What to Try, in the Order That Protects Your Data
If your iPhone displays an Apple logo and is unable to boot normally, it has not yet been lost in any way; it is only stuck in the process of booting. There are multiple ways to fix this, from performing a normal restart that does not cause any loss of information to resetting the phone and losing all data on…
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Android Not Charging? A Simple Swap Test to Tell If It’s the Cable, Charger, Port or Battery
The issues of an android phone not charging can usually be traced back to a short chain of faults, either at the wall outlet, charger, charger cable, phone port, or battery. To find and fix the fault, you can change one component at a time and see what happens to the phone. The same principle is applied in Google’s troubleshooting…
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Android & iPhone Fixes
Why Is My Data Finishing So Fast? Find What Your Phone Is Spending It On
The day before you were set to run out of your data bundle, you haven’t even used your phone that much yet. Your phone is able to partially answer the question of why your data has disappeared so quickly, because each app has its own individual usage tracking features. According to the NCC’s Smart Data Management guidance, your data goes…
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