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Microsoft recently raised the price of its 365 subscription to $9.99/month or $99.99/year, marking a 45% increase for everyday users. If you'd rather avoid another monthly bill, this deal gives you full access to Office 2021 for a one-time payment.
Why 2021 is the Office for efficiency
Full access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access
Works offline without relying on cloud services
Streamlined interface without extra AI features you may not need
Lifetime license tied to your PC—no recurring charges
If you need the classic Microsoft tools without ongoing fees, this lifetime license is a practical alternative to endless subscriptions.
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Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful Open Source multiplatform source code editor for your desktop. Visual Studio Code can be utilized to build Web applications and cloud programs and users will notice the functionality is similar to that of Visual Studio but with some additional features including multiple compiling utilities. [License: Open Source | Requires:
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 Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ?Safari Technology Preview? to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser.
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 It's been two days since iOS 26 was released, and Apple's new Liquid Glass design is even more divisive than expected.
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 It turns out that Apple's new Adaptive Power mode extends beyond the iPhone.
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Mozilla plans to release Firefox 144 on October 14th, 2025.
What's new in Firefox 143?
The biggest addition with this update is that Microsoft Copilot has been added to the AI chatbots available in the sidebar, joining ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Le Chat Mistral.
Firefox 143 also adds the ability to use Google Lens to search for information on images, but this feature requires Google to be set as the browser's default search engine. It's currently rolling out gradually to users. (Lens is already available in Chrome and Opera One, and Edge has a similar function that accesses Bing.)
To manually enable reverse image searches with Google Lens, navigate to the internal configuration page by typing about:config into the address bar, then search for the browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate flag. If the value of the flag is set to "false," double-click it and change it to "true." The change should take effect immediately.
On Windows, Firefox 143 can run websites as web apps that can be pinned directly to the Windows taskbar. There's a new icon on the right-hand side of the address bar for pinning. However, this doesn't work with Firefox installed from the Microsoft Store. Linux and macOS versions of Firefox will get a similar feature later on.
Other improvements include: the ability to pin tabs by dragging a tab to the designated area at the top of the tab bar; a camera pr
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My favorite smart glasses just got some much-needed improvements, and AI features like additional live translation languages and conversation focus are coming soon.
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Apple's AI tech doesn't advance much in the company's new system updates, so if you're not using the features, you can disable all or some of them.
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Every subscription offers its own features -- and its own price. Are they worth it?
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