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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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The Best Cheap Printers for 2020

The Best Cheap Printers for 2020

PCMag — Over the years, countless pundits, this author among them, have predicted that, sooner rather than later, most of the world's workforce would be working from home. The dream? Fewer giant office blocks, less drain on fossil fuels, good-bye to nasty traffic snarls. And remote work would no longer be exclusive to just a select few professionals.
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The Best Business Printers for 2020

The Best Business Printers for 2020

PCMag — The paperless office? Not in this lifetime. Whether it's a simple desktop mono laser or an enterprise color multifunction machine for a workgroup, here's how to choose the right printer or all-in-one for your business. (Plus, check out reviews of our current favorites.)
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The Best Laser Printers for 2020

The Best Laser Printers for 2020

PCMag — Today's laser printers deliver unparalleled speed, pristine text, and reliable paper handling. If that's what you need, find the best one for your home or office with our shopping tips and list of top-rated models, based on our deep-dive reviews.
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Charting Your Excel Data

Charting Your Excel Data

online-tech-tips.com — For some time now, charting data in Excel has become not only simple but also automated to the extent that you can easily go from a tabular spreadsheet to a comprehensive area, bar, line, or pie chart in no time with a few well-contemplated mouse clicks.
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Printer Ink Wars - EcoTank, Instant Ink, MegaTank, INKvestment Tank , Instant Ink

Printer Ink Wars - EcoTank, Instant Ink, MegaTank, INKvestment Tank , Instant Ink

online-tech-tips.com — Everybody has heard the adage that the major inkjet printer manufacturers-Brother, Canon, Epson, and HP-make more from the ink that keeps their printers going than from the sale of the printers themselves. This is not just simply an axiom; it's absolutely true. Printer ink is not the only consumable that fuels the profit margin of [...]
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The 10 Best Android Phones for 2019

The 10 Best Android Phones for 2019

online-tech-tips.com — Since most Android smartphone makers, especially the leading manufacturers, update their wears annually and at varying times throughout the year, writing an up-to-date comparison of the top models is a bit of a juggling act. As I write this, for example, Samsung is starting to ship the Galaxy S10 and S10+, two of its top [...]
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Android Pie (version 9) Review - The "Techie" Smartphone OS Gets Smarter and Friendlier

Android Pie (version 9) Review - The "Techie" Smartphone OS Gets Smarter and Friendlier

online-tech-tips.com — Google released Android Pie to its own phones, namely the Pixel brand, in August of last year. Since then, the various manufacturers of Android phones, including Samsung, Motorola, Huawei, Sony, Nokia, Honor, LG, and others, have been adapting the latest version of Android (ver. 9) to their phones.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Review

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Review

online-tech-tips.com — More and more users are in to big phones with big beautiful high-resolution displays, such as Google's Pixel, OnePlus 6, or Apple's iPhone X, but Samsung's flagship Note brand (now up to version 9) has led the way in big and beautiful since the Note 1 several years ago.
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HP Sprocket 2nd Edition

HP Sprocket 2nd Edition

PCMag — Get Dieter and Helmut out of your head: You're thinking of the wrong Sprockets. The HP Sprocket 2nd Edition ($129.99), a pocket-size portable snapshot printer, is the company's third by that name, replacing the popular original Sprocket reviewed in December 2016.
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HP Tango X

HP Tango X

PCMag — HP's Tango X "smart printer," the first we've tested with voice activation and smart home features, is all about printing from mobile devices. It's not perfect, but given its unique free-snapshot printing angle, it will be a tough act for future models to follow.
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How to Color Calibrate Your Monitor to Your Printer

How to Color Calibrate Your Monitor to Your Printer

PCMag — Since the early days of desktop publishing, photo editing, and graphic design, professionals, budding professionals, and hobbyists alike have had to deal with color shifts-seeing one color on a monitor but getting different results when the document, photograph, or artwork prints. Red fruit on a monitor, for instance, comes out orange, chartreuse, neon, or plastic-looking bright red.
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How to Recycle or Donate Your Old Printer

How to Recycle or Donate Your Old Printer

PCMag — Whether your printer is a lightweight budget inkjet or a bulky workhorse laser, a single-function printer or a versatile all-in-one (AIO), the time will come when you'll need to find a responsible way to dispose of it. Maybe it broke down for good; maybe you've simply replaced it with a better model.
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Are Windows 10's universal apps the Office suite we've waited for? | Digital Trends

Are Windows 10's universal apps the Office suite we've waited for? | Digital Trends

Digital Trends — Recent coverage of Windows 10 has left many a computer geek ruminating about the shortfalls of the current Windows operating system. Not only did the Windows 8 OS upgrade leave us wanting but (even though it wasn't technically part of the update) so did mobile versions of Office.
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Everything you need to know about 802.11ax Wi-Fi | Digital Trends

Everything you need to know about 802.11ax Wi-Fi | Digital Trends

Digital Trends — Before the current Wi-Fi standard, called 802.11ac, wireless broadband was never quite robust enough: Too many devices were vying for your limited, inefficiently distributed bandwidth. This latest standard has proven faster and more reliable, and WiGig and mesh networking will help.
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How Bluetooth Mesh Beats Wi-Fi and Extends Your Wireless Network | Digital Trends

How Bluetooth Mesh Beats Wi-Fi and Extends Your Wireless Network | Digital Trends

Digital Trends — that home automation, really? Isn't it just a slightly more convenient light switch?How about this? When you unlock your front door, the lights in the foyer come on, the motion sensors on your alarm system turn off, the thermostat starts the air conditioning, and your entertainment system begins playing your favorite music-all before you put your keys down!
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Need a webcam that sees everything? The Panacast 2 is it, but it'll cost you

Need a webcam that sees everything? The Panacast 2 is it, but it'll cost you

Digital Trends — Brio 4K Webcam briefly had bragging rights as the maker of the only 4K Webcam, but Altia Systems' Panacast 2 has changed that-and then some. Perhaps to sophisticated be called a mere "webcam," - Altia calls it a "camera system" - it's $1,000 price tag relegates it to businesses, and the most dedicated video conferencing consumers.
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