Luckily, monitors aren't going up in price like other computing products as of late, which means you can still purchase one for a good price if you're looking for something new. While everyone would love to get their hands on a QD-OLED monitor, sometimes, it's just not in the budget.

It has been a long time since I've really tried to manage the storage on my PC. I have several drives connected to my build, including a 1TB SSD dedicated to my games, and another 1TB SSD dedicated to my OS, downloads, and apps. But there are some older storage drives that feel more like digital clutter than a useful addition.

Finding that one specific email or the final version of a project proposal shouldn’t feel like a hunt across different browser tabs. For a long time, I used Microsoft Copilot as a standalone assistant, but I was still manually digging through Outlook and OneDrive every time I needed actual data.

You know, I didn't realise how useful a system-wide push-to-talk system would be until I learned that it was a thing. Even if the app you're using doesn't support push-to-talk, you can just enable it within the operating system and use it no matter what software you're on. In fact, I'm a little surprised Windows doesn't have such a feature already.

Raspberry Pi 5 is the most powerful board on the brand's roster, but its most expensive option is now rivaling mini PCs. Storage and RAM prices have doubled (to say the least), and if you're planning to spend that much on a small single-board computer, you should be aware of the options. A mini PC has much more room for upgrade with versatile connection options that put most single-board computers, including the Raspberry Pi 5, to shame.

Windows desktop has always felt like a curated showroom for Microsoft’s latest services. After all, the company’s defaults are baked into every corner of the OS. But what happens when you strip away Edge, Outlook, OneDrive, and more to make room for a purely open-source workflow?

If you need some more storage space, you might be looking at getting a 4 TB or even an 8 TB drive. A new consumer NVMe SSD like a Samsung 990 Pro would cost a fortune, but on eBay, you may have come across a used enterprise drive that is listed for 30% of the price. You might see some pretty great specs like high drive writes per day and power loss protection so you pick it up. But then in reality, when it arrived, it wasn't just plug and play.

Between Safari, Chrome, OperaGX, and other browsers, I have a lot of bookmarks saved in a lot of different places. Throw in my Safari reading list, Pinterest boards, and other services, and the interesting content and links I've stumbled across while browsing are scattered to the four winds. I needed an easier way to collect my bookmarks in a single, centralized place, but there were a few requirements. First, I didn't want to pay for it. Secondly, I wanted control of my data, rather than relying on third-party servers to host it.

When you're picking components for a build, it's easy to get hung up on "must-have" features that you think you can never do without. I've been in the same boat before, endlessly debating the merits of CPU cores and GPU VRAM against value for money and practical considerations. In 2026, I've decided not to chain myself to a handful of specs that keep delaying the research phase without benefiting it in any way. Going forward, I'll focus on performance rather than specs, and features rather than looks, when choosing components for a new build. This way, I can also save myself a significant portion of my budget that would otherwise be wasted on vanity metrics and "future-proof" specs.

It looks like Sony could have plans to release an upgraded PlayStation Portal.

My home network isn't the same without a NAS attached, whether it's serving media files or backing up my devices. I've had a variety of enclosures over the years, from bespoke to DIY, and there's one feature that I can't live without. That's having a second Ethernet port, preferably with both at the same transfer speed, although I've owned models with one 10GbE and several 1GbE ports before.

It's really awkward when you're writing an image to a storage device, and the progress bar seemingly stops. This goes double when the writer doesn't give you any feedback on what it's doing. Is the write process still going? Is it just churning through a particularly large chunk of the image? Or has things come to a stop? If I try to X out of the process, will it corrupt stuff? It's not a great feeling.