I don’t employ a Chromebook as my primary computer, so I view Chrome OS limitations as virtues. I love the simplicity. It’s quick and responsive, and its updates are the opposite of oppressive; they occur infrequently and when they do, they happen nearly instantaneously. You could say I skipped past the five stages of Chromebook …

Buying a Chromebook doesn’t necessarily mean you need to make Google Drive your cloud-storage boo. There is no reason to severe a long and meaningful relationship with Dropbox just because Google Drive is baked into Google‘s Chrome OS. You can always access Dropbox via the Web on a Chromebook, but a better way is to use a Chrome extension that …

Chromebooks are built with cloud storage in mind and offer a pittance of local storage — usually only 32GB or 64GB. So, instead of storing a bunch of Word docs and Excel files on a Chromebook, for example, you are meant to use Google Drive or Dropbox. Instead of a large music library stored locally in iTunes, you are meant …

If you have an old MacBook Pro with one foot in the grave, the single best thing you can do to breathe new life into it is replace its traditional spinning hard drive with a solid-state drive. There’s a reason that all modern MacBooks and the vast majority of all laptops sold today use SSDs. They are more energy efficient, …

I’m surprised it took this long. The remote is tiny, and I have two kids. My Apple TV remote has gone missing, and unlike when I misplace my iPhone, I can’t call the remote to find it. A thorough search of the family room, including a deep dive into the couch, has turned up some loose change, many Legos, an …

I switched to a MacBook years ago for two reasons: MacOS (OS X, at the time) felt more stable (fewer freezes and crashes) and less paranoid (fewer warnings and updates) than Windows, and the MacBook trackpad felt more responsive and less skittish than any Windows laptop I had tried. Over the years, Apple has added new features and gestures to …

After reading about how hackers have taken control of a MacBook’s iSight camera to spy on the person sitting in front of it, you might start to get a feeling that someone is watching you. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you, after all. Making matters worse, hackers have been able to spy on people without triggering …

The 89th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 26. Red carpet coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. PT, and the awards ceremony gets underway at 8:30 p.m ET, 5:30 p.m. PT. Jimmy Kimmel will host. Justin Timberlake, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Legend and Sting will sing. ABC will broadcast. ABC will also let you stream the show …

Tab management ought to be a huge priority for web browsers. I don’t know about you, but I find myself with dozens upon dozens of tabs littering my browser by lunchtime. Things don’t improve in the afternoon. Microsoft and Mozilla are taking notice. Edge will soon let you set tabs aside, and Firefox is experimenting with an even better way …

If you are of a certain age, the last time you switched to a Microsoft browser was probably in the late 1990s when you ditched Netscape for Internet Explorer. Microsoft has since shuttered IE in favor of its Edge browser while you likely moved over to Chrome or Firefox and haven’t looked back. Don’t look now, but Microsoft is cooking …