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At its spring event earlier this week, Apple made the unexpected and bold move of unveiling its new iMac in a kaleidoscopic array of colors. From the start of the event, color played a key role, with CEO Tim Cook kicking off the presentation in front of a large rainbow sculpture. Apple’s embrace of the …

Canon on Wednesday unveiled a handful of new printers for office and home workspaces. First, it announced two new Maxify GX MegaTank Series printers: the Maxify GX7020 and GX6020, which feature refillable ink bottles. The devices produce around 14,000 color prints and 6,000 black ink prints before the ink needs to be refilled, the company said. The four-color ink set …

As many companies consider the future of their workforce, and whether it will exist in an office, remotely or some combination, video chat giant Zoom is adding new features to its Zoom Rooms conferencing platform to boost employee health and productivity, wherever work is taking place. Zoom Room customers can now pair their Zoom Room with their mobile device, to …

After a 2020 that went entirely virtual for many people, once-fantastic concepts like VR headsets and remote chat screens (including Facebook Portal) no longer seem so strange. In many ways, Facebook’s product lineup ended up being prophetic for the times we now live in. Last fall,  Facebook launched its impressive Quest 2 VR headset. So, in 2021, what comes next? …

The value proposition for scanners reads like an ad from 1998: With this scanner, you can digitize your documents and join the paperless office of the future! There’s probably no way to talk about scanners without sounding like a goofy advertisement hawking the information superhighway, but don’t let that overshadow the real value that a scanner adds to your home …

Now that you’ve had some time to get used to working from home, you’ll have realized that you need a more formal workspace than the dining room table can provide. If you have the room for a dedicated deskspace, I have an attractive desk deal for you. Daily Steals has an 87-inch long adjustable computer desk that originally listed for …

Cheapskates don’t use Microsoft Office. Or, at least, they don’t pay for it: Microsoft offers pretty decent freebie versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that live in your browser. And let’s not forget the various free alternatives, such as Google Docs, LibreOffice and WPS Office. All that being said, I like a good deal, and this is a good deal. For …

Is a Chromebook a laptop? Is it a budget machine? Is it something you’d just use online? Is it something you’d make your main computer? I can’t entirely answer all these questions, because I haven’t come to terms with them either. I’ve used Chromebooks for years. My kid lives on them at school. I had to work on a Chromebook, …

There’s no doubt that we’re living in a golden age of PC gaming. The 4K, HDR graphics on games like Metro: Exodus and The Division 2 put their console counterparts to shame, and amazing new hardware from Nvidia and AMD, led right now by Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards, and even new RTX “Super” GPUs, are blowing away previous performance benchmarks. …

Recently I found an old NeatReceipts document scanner tucked away in a closet. This was an expensive item, so I had to stop and wonder why I wasn’t using it. Oh, right: I use my phone. Is that a scanner in your pocket? This is not a new idea; “scanner” apps have been around almost as long as smartphones, but …