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This platform runs your whole agency, and a lifetime subscription is only 399

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Sellful is a white label platform combining a website builder, CRM, marketing, invoicing, and more, and a lifetime ERP Agency Plan is on sale for $399. Most agencies end up paying for multiple separate subscriptions for their site builders, CRM, email tools, and invoicing. These costs are constant, but they're also not the only option. Sellful consolidates those functions into one white label platform, and a lifetime ERP Agency Plan is on sale for $399 (reg.


This PDF editor undercuts Adobe Acrobat, and it's yours for life for 35

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. SwifDoo PDF Pro gives you lifetime access to a full PDF editor, converter, and OCR tool for Windows for $34.99 (reg. Adobe Acrobat is still the name most people reach for when they need to edit a PDF, and its subscription price reflects that. SwifDoo PDF Pro gets you the same core toolset without the recurring fee: a perpetual lifetime license for Windows is on sale for $34.99 (reg. Expect the basics here too: splitting and merging files, editing text, and converting PDFs to and from Word, Excel, and image formats.


Windows 11's next security feature may cost you gaming performance

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11's next security feature may cost you gaming performance Starting October 13th, Windows 11 will enable a security feature called Memory Integrity by default. It could slow games by up to 15 percent. Next month's Patch Tuesday falls on October 13th, and with that update, Microsoft will be enabling "Memory Integrity" on all Windows 11 systems that are still receiving updates, according to this Windows IT Pro blog post . Memory Integrity (also known as Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity, or HVCI) has been around for some time, but it hasn't been enabled yet on many PCs.


Sony's best noise-cancelling headphones are 50% off right now

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Sony's best noise-cancelling headphones are 50% off right now Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones combine top-tier ANC and 30-hour battery life, and they're on sale for $198 (was $400) at Amazon. If you've been itching for a pair of top-tier noise-cancelling headphones but couldn't pull the trigger because of their price tags, now's a good time to make the dive. Right now, the Sony WH-1000XM5 is on sale for $198 at Amazon, which is 50% off its original price and the lowest it's ever been. These headphones regularly top "best of" lists, so that's a real deal.


Is your USB port slowing down your Wi-Fi adapter? Here's the answer

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Is your USB port slowing down your Wi-Fi adapter? Wi-Fi USB dongles promise high speeds, but can your USB port keep up? A Wi-Fi USB dongle is the easiest way to add new Wi-Fi hardware to a computer. Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 adapters promise data rates of well over one gigabyte per second.


Windows 11 will soon tell apps how old you are. Here's how it works

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11 will soon tell apps how old you are. Microsoft is adding system-level age verification APIs to Windows 11, allowing registered apps to query the user's age. Microsoft is building automated age verification directly into Windows 11 in the form of system-level APIs that will share your verified age with registered apps. To be clear, the system won't pass your age or date of birth to said apps.


Japan eSIM checklist: Everything you need to know before you fly to Japan

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. What you need to know before buying and using an eSIM on your next trip. Landing in Japan without mobile data can make a long travel day much harder than it needs to be. The minute you arrive you'll likely rely on your phone for train routes, maps, translation, reservations, and messages, so it's best to sort out getting connected before your flight. I've lived in Japan for nearly a decade, both in cities and the countryside, and I've used several different ways to stay connected. These days, I've found an eSIM to be the easiest option. But there are a few things worth checking before you buy one.


Windows 11's August update broke Teams and Outlook on Arm PCs

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11's August update broke Teams and Outlook on Arm PCs Update KB5121003 broke Teams and Outlook on devices like the Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11. Here's the fix if you're affected. It's been nearly a month since Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11--known as KB5121003 --but problems are still cropping up and being reported by users. The latest issue affects Arm-based computers like the Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11.


Best of IFA 2026: 10 hot PC products and tech on the horizon

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Groundbreaking monitor refresh rates, cutting-edge laptop cooling, and a free app that harnesses all of your home's PCs for faster AI inferencing are just some of the products we're excited about. Like CES in Las Vegas, the IFA technology tradeshow that takes place every year in Berlin gives technology vendors and taste makers an opportunity to show off their latest and greatest wares, and consumers a chance to start planning their next purchases and saving their shekels. From a PC user's perspective, the category that got the most love this year was monitors, and we're here for it as innovations include esports-caliber OLED and truly affordable Mini LED. There are also some tasty laptops coming down the pike, some intriguing developments for consumer AI, and a few very promising hardware concepts that we're praying will make it to market.


Nvidia's DLSS 5 looks incredible. I'm just not sure whose vision I'm seeing

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The technology raises concerns about whether AI-generated visuals preserve a developer's original artistic intent, with some users calling for a dedicated "developer intended" visual mode. According to PCWorld, AI upscaling is becoming essential as hardware costs rise, though the debate over visual accuracy versus performance remains unresolved. Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 is out this week, and it was a big topic of discussion in this week's episode of The Full Nerd. While I haven't had a chance to test it out myself, by the time you read this I'll be furiously updating my Nvidia drivers and seriously considering splurging on a copy of just to get a look at the earliest game to launch with official DLSS 5 support. I'm curious to see if the reported performance dips that come with enabling DLSS 5 are actually counteracted by Nvidia tech like Multi-Frame Generation, and I want to see what kind of tuning the player can do to adjust how DLSS 5's new real-time AI model upscales game graphics.