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Looking Back on My Original “Slippery Slope” Article (Premium)
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PC Sales Have Now Fallen for Seven Years (Premium)
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There are Ads … And Then There are Ads (Premium)
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Apple’s Embrace of Smart TVs is Smart, Necessary, and Late (Premium)
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Google Assistant Just Kicked Alexa’s Ass. And it Doesn’t Matter (Premium)
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These are the Mobile Apps I Rely On (Premium)
As with my PCs, I install the same basic set of mobile apps on each phone and tablet that I […]

These are the Apps I Rely On (Premium)
I install the same basic set of desktop applications, web apps, and Store apps on every PC I use. Here’s […]

This is How I Configure Windows 10 (Premium)
I’ve developed a strategy for minimizing the annoyances in Windows 10 and optimizing it to be as efficient as possible. […]