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The same task feeds three equal panels labelled ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

ChatGPT · Sep 27

ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: how to choose

Match the assistant to your documents, research sources and the output you need to use.

AI

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A grid of monthly AI credits, partly used, beside a consumer licence card reading personal use only, with client work and products crossed out.

AI image generators · Nov 4

Microsoft Designer Image Creator free: credits and licence terms

How Microsoft Designer's free AI credits work, what a subscription adds and why its licence is personal use only.

A website page with an image and its alt text field, beside three rules: describe informative images, mark decorative ones, and say where linked images go.

website builder · Nov 4

Alt text website builder guide: Wix, Squarespace and Framer

Where to add image alt text in Wix, Squarespace and Framer, what to write and how to check it.

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini deletion paths lead to a Delete account bin, with steps to export chats and cancel paid plans first.

ChatGPT · Nov 3

How to delete your ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account and data

Steps to delete ChatGPT and Claude accounts, why Gemini works differently and what happens to your data.

A timeline of screen snapshots stops where the Save snapshots switch is turned off, beside Reset Recall and Pause until tomorrow options.

Microsoft Recall · Nov 3

How to turn off Microsoft Recall and what its snapshots save

Switch off Save snapshots, then reset to delete what Recall stored. What it saves and how to filter it.

TECH

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An iPhone showing a padlock and a Lockdown Mode switch turned on, beside a list of what it limits: most message attachments, link previews, FaceTime from new callers and 2G and 3G, while calls, texts and SOS still work.

iPhone · Nov 5

iPhone Lockdown Mode: who needs it and what it limits

Apple's strictest security setting blocks most attachments and some web features. Who needs it and how to set it up.

A TPM 2.0 chip on a dark green circuit board beside three ticked checks: tpm.msc showing version 2.0, UEFI firmware that is Secure Boot capable, and PC Health Check.

Windows 11 · Nov 5

Check TPM for Windows 11: TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and PC Health Check

Run tpm.msc to see your TPM version, then check UEFI and Secure Boot before the Windows 11 upgrade.

A laptop running a local game beside three preparation checks: save sign-in, finish updates and launch each game once

Steam · Nov 1

Steam Offline Mode: prepare your PC before you disconnect

Set up Steam Offline Mode, test your games and understand why a downloaded title can still need a connection.

BEST PRODUCTS

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Four steps of a Microsoft Defender Offline scan, from saving your work to a restart, a scan of about 15 minutes and results in Protection history, above a checklist: suspend BitLocker, WinRE enabled, admin account, x64 Windows PC.

Antivirus · Nov 5

Microsoft Defender Offline scan: when and how to run it

A restart-time scan for malware that hides from Windows. When to run it, how long it takes and where results appear.

A web host linked to four CDN edge copies, beside a list showing images, CSS, JavaScript and fonts cached by default while HTML pages come from the origin.

hosting · Nov 4

Do I need a CDN for my website? A small-site guide

What a CDN does, when a small site gains from one, what it caches and what to check before you switch it on.

Four random example words forming a passphrase, with a checklist marking long, unpredictable and unique as good and a predictable sentence as poor, and an arrow to a password vault.

Password managers · Nov 2

How to choose a master password for your password manager

Use a passphrase of four or more random words. How to build one, check it and plan for forgetting it.

A bin listing two files marked restore and one marked gone, beside a bar showing a 30-day restore window ending in gone, with OneDrive, Google Drive and iCloud Drive labels.

Cloud storage · Nov 2

Recover deleted files from cloud storage: OneDrive, Drive, iCloud

Check the Recycle bin, Trash or Recently Deleted first. How long each service keeps files and what can't come back.

A phone sends a browser and a chat app through a VPN tunnel to a VPN server, while an excluded banking app connects directly with the device's own IP address

VPN · Nov 2

VPN split tunnelling: choose which apps skip the VPN

Split tunnelling sends chosen apps outside the VPN. How the modes work and the kill switch and DNS catches.

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