15 practical free apps for your college laptop
College can be extremely expensive — not just with tuition and dorm costs, but with materials, books, software, and more. You might think you have to spend lots of cash on apps to get you…
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Paint.net: 5 great tips for this free Photoshop alternative
Paint.net is a kind of a budget version of Photoshop, but we don’t want to talk down this sophisticated and free image editing program. The developer dotPDN provides versatile and flexible software that makes semi-professional…
Midjourney goes free (again) and lets anyone generate AI images
David Holz, CEO of Midjourney, recently announced on Discord that the AI image generation tool will soon be free to everyone. Originally conceived in 2022 as a Discord bot, Midjourney evolved into a website in…
Apple’s free Passwords app can replace your paid password manager (kinda)
Password managers such as 1Password and LastPass are great. We maintain a recommended list of Password managers for a reason—a good one makes it easy to use strong, unique passwords everywhere on the web, no…
Get three months of Apple Music free, no purchase necessary, until September 23
Apple runs a lot of promotions to give you a few free months of Apple Music, but most of them require you to make a certain purchase. You can get up to six months if…
Best free PDF editor for Mac
PDF Expert for Mac from Readdle offers a seven-day full-featured free trial, which could make it ideal if you just need a solution now and don’t expect to be editing PDFs again for a while.…
How to get free Apple TV+ with half-price Apple Music in student deal
If you are a student you may already be aware that you can get Apple Music for half the usual price. But did you know that a student Apple Music subscription comes with Apple TV+…
Eradicate Windows 11’s annoying Microsoft ads with this free tool
Microsoft keeps pumping more and more ads into Windows 11. In addition to self-advertising in the Start menu, app recommendations, and pop-ups for Game Pass games, there are now also pop-ups for cloud storage that…
Unlock the potential of Windows File Explorer with this free app
Windows File Explorer has changed over and over again across the years, but even when it’s been revamped it hasn’t ever felt groundbreakingly new, neither visually nor functionally. That seems to be the general MO…
Make Windows 11 look like Windows 10 with this free one-click app
Just because you’ve switched to Windows 11 doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to the familiar look of Windows 10. You can have the benefits of Windows 11 without giving up the old look,…