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Whenever someone sends me a question about how to fix their Wi-Fi, I wince.

Last week, Google delivered an ultimatum to folks who rely on Google Play Music to stream their own music collections.

Back in 2009, when I was just getting started as a tech journalist, my laptop suddenly died from a fried motherboard, so I bought a cheap netbook to keep my young career going.

With a little bit of maneuvering, you can still enjoy the benefits of cloud storage—convenient access anywhere, less risk of losing precious data—without any added costs.

For those who’ve subscribed to Advisorator for long enough, this week’s feature topic might look familiar.

This is probably a weird thing to admit, but I’ve become smitten with my web browser’s new tab page.

Even as technology changes, some old tricks never go out of style.

I don’t think people should have to spend hours of their time or gobs of money managing and deleting all the personal data that’s out there.

Did you know that I can tell whether you’ve opened this email?

It’s been hard to escape the feeling lately that we’re on the cusp of a major change in personal computing.