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William Harrel

California, Camarillo
As seen in: Digital Trends, PC Mag Middle East, PC Magazine Australia, PCMag, PCMag India, PCMag UK, Lifewire, Techwalla, Online Tech Tips, Gadget Review and
Covers:  printers, scanners, desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, 2-in-1s, monitors, peripherals, smartphones, OSs, Android, graphics, photo, and video editing apps, animation, Web design, MS Office, Adobe CS apps
Doesn't Cover: gaming
William Harrel is a technology journalist and currently a contributing editor at PCMag.
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William Harrel’s Biography

William Harrel is a contributing editor focusing on printer and scanner technology and reviews. He has been writing about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He has authored or coauthored 20 books—including titles in the popular "Bible," "Secrets," and "For Dummies" series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications such as Acrobat, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, as well as prepress imaging technology.

His latest title is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Mobile Development for Dummies (a handbook for creating websites for smartphones and tablets).

In addition to writing hundreds of articles for PCMag, over the years he has also written on many other topics for several other computer and business publications, among them Computer Shopper, Digital Trends, MacUser, PC World, The Wirecutter, and Windows Magazine, and he has served as the Printers and Scanners Expert at About.com (now Livewire).

Harrel's magazine article topics have included reviews, roundups, and how-tos on desktop and laptop PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s, smartphones, apps, monitors, document design, graphics arts, desktop publishing, and presentation software. And much, much more.

His technology journalism experience spans over 30 years of watching and reporting on the exciting communications technology revolution and ensuing evolution.