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Windows 10 is now a year older and much more refined than what it was at launch. The past year was a rocky ride for Microsoft, as we saw, with the next year being an opportunity for it to redeem itself again. But that remains to be seen, for now the

Chromebooks can run a ton of software in a browser, but they miss out on some popular open source and Linux programs. You can install Linux on your Chromebook, but there’s another way. rollApp lets you run these programs remotely in a browser. The

Chromebooks are optimized to run ChromeOS. If you’re running Windows, or even Mac programs, you’ll find they don’t run on the Chromebook. Google designed the Chromebooks as easy and reliable laptops.

Chromebooks by design are a “walled garden.” That’s a great feature. You can’t easily mess them up and security is built in. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can unlock your Chromebook by putting it into Developer Mode. It’s like rooti

By now you must be familiar with what Markdown is and why so many web writers prefer it to other word processors. We also talked about using Dropbox to save and sync Markdown files, so no matter which device you pick up you always have the lat

No matter how powerful your computer is and how much room there is on your hard drive, be sure you still need an archiver.

If you are a digital worker of any kind, file/folder synchronization apps are a must in your toolkit. The hassle of keeping multiple documents updated across your networked devices and gadgets is just too much of a hassle sometimes. That’s where a w

Software versions change within a blink of an eye these days. Just look at the number of updates we have for Google Chrome or Firefox. We abandon the old and consign it to the great digital heap of things called Abandonware. But older or previous ver

Have you been itching to finally move your computing to the cloud (i.

Editor’s note: This is the first Linux article on Guiding Tech. It talks about Rhythmbox, a music player for Linux distros like Ubuntu and how you can share music from it on Twitter. We plan to have more Linux/Ubuntu posts in the future.