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Jon Martindale

Jon Martindale

Jon Martindale has been a tech news writer for the best part of ten years, covering everything from the latest games and hardware, to hacking scandals and privacy law. Outside of work hours, Jon continues to wear his nerd heart on his sleeve, enjoying comics, board games and model painting.
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Computing

USB 3.1 is becoming increasingly common on all sorts of devices, but what is it?

USB can get much more complicated than it needs to be. Need a quick primer on USB 3.1 and its various flavors? This guide will teach you the difference between Gen 1, Gen 2, and Type-C, and help you make sense of this whole USB mess.
Computing

Secure your Excel documents with a password by following these quick steps

Excel documents are used by people and businesses all over the world. Given how often they contain sensitive information, it makes sense to keep them from the wrong eyes. Thankfully, it's easy to secure them with a password.
Computing

Download music from YouTube in seconds with these great tools

Ripping audio from YouTube has never been easier, but with so many tools out there, which is the best? In this guide, we teach you how to download music from YouTube with a couple different tools -- just proceed with caution.
Mobile

This is the easiest way save your iPhone data to your computer

Living in fear of losing your contacts, photos, messages, and notes on your iPhone? Fear no more -- in this guide we'll break down exactly how to back up your iPhone to your computer.
Computing

You won't believe how much storage these USB flash drives have

Decades on from megabyte limited hard drives, flash drives can now offer up to multiple terabytes of space. These are the largest flash drives you can buy today to fulfil all of your portable data storage needs.
Computing

Google could release the most powerful Chromebook ever this year

Google may launch a brand new Pixelbook Chromebook before the end of the year, with new rumors suggesting it would ship with thinner bezels. We wouldn't be surprised if it came with an eighth-generation Intel CPU either.