Back in the early '90s, a study was conducted on how personal computing machines would impact student writing. On IBM, 50% of students produced "complex sentences" compared to Macintosh's 30%. In an ...

I write for a living, so I spend 6–8 hours every day staring at my screen while typing away. Oftentimes, this number gets stretched primarily due to endless distractions thrown at me by the internet.

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 through your ...

What if you could unlock the power of innovative AI writing tools without spending a dime? In a world where premium subscriptions dominate the tech landscape, it’s easy to assume that the best tools ...

For serious writers, especially those creating nonfiction or content that is derived from a free flowing stream of consciousness, distractions can get in the way of your creative process. If you use ...

There are plenty of e-readers and e-notebooks with all the bells and whistles. Some have Google Android and full access to the Play Store, while others have social media integration and online ...

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

I’ve been using Linux for several months now and haven’t regretted it for a second, but it does come with some drawbacks. When I left Windows behind, I also had to move on from my long-time favorite ...

There’s no need to stick with Windows’ preloaded applications. These time-tested apps are all free — and open source, too. Windows comes loaded with a lot of applications, but to be honest, they ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...