howtogeek.comadded August 2026
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler29d ago
The great thing about 3D printers is that they can make almost anything these days. The bad thing about 3D printers is that you can make almost anything with them.
How-To Geekby Arol Wright29d ago
I nearly gave up on wearing my Galaxy Watch altogether after a stretch of missed texts and silent calendar alerts.
How-To Geekby Bertel King29d ago
Putting sensors all over the home and connecting them to Home Assistant is fun, I know, but it isn't for everyone — not yet. Thankfully, there are smart home upgrades that don't require any apps.
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo29d ago
Television’s highest honors will be awarded to several shows at the 2026 Primetime Emmys. HBO led the field with 122 total nominations, including nominations at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards...
How-To Geekby Arol Wright29d ago
Two USB-C cables can look identical, cost wildly different amounts, and behave nothing alike. The reason sits inside the connector housing: a chip that talks to your devices before any power moves.
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh29d ago
Conventional wisdom says that if something costs money, it's probably better than a free alternative.
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic29d ago
I've had problems with Android notifications arriving late for years. Usually, it's not a huge deal—if someone needs me urgently, they'll just call instead of texting me.
How-To Geekby David Delony29d ago
One reason that Linux has struggled to gain desktop users is the perception that the Linux desktop is a mess. Apps look too different from each other, and command-line elitists rule the system.
How-To Geekby Patrick Campanale29d ago
As we march toward fall, it's time to start thinking about tidying up the homelab and making it a bit safer and more secure.
How-To Geekby Bertel King29d ago
If you care about protecting your privacy online, you've probably seen an ad for VPNs. You likely also know to seek out private messaging apps like Signal and Proton Mail.
How-To Geekby Monica J. White29d ago
What's the easiest and cheapest way to build your own budget homelab? Arguably, a used Windows 10 PC is a safe bet (most of the time).
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh29d ago
Claude and ChatGPT are where most of us started with AI, and once you discover what they can do, it’s only natural to put them to work beyond the chat window.
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas29d ago
It can be painful to change password managers on your phone, not to mention insecure — you might have to download files that expose your passwords in plain text, and recreate all your passkeys.
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa29d ago
It’s no secret that offline maps are one of the best features of Google Maps. That doesn’t mean it’s the best overall, though.
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis29d ago
Linux is famously smaller and lighter than Windows, but that understates just how small Linux distros can really be.
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes29d ago
Are you putting up with pesky household problems? The ones you’ve almost forgotten about, but that make a massive difference to your quality of life when they’re finally fixed?
How-To Geekby Monica J. White29d ago
If you have a multi-gig NAS, one of the most obvious (and yet, somehow, still easy to miss) network bottlenecks is plugging it into a gigabit network.
How-To Geekby Dan Girolamo29d ago
What a difference a few weeks make for the state of television. During the final days of August, it was a struggle to find new and returning shows debuting on streaming services.
How-To Geekby Rich Hein29d ago
Paperwork used to be annoying, but at least there was an obvious place to put it. You bought a filing cabinet, labeled a few folders, and hoped you could remember where you filed something when you...
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes29d ago
I added my Bambu Lab 3D printer to Home Assistant as soon as I realized I could, but it wasn’t until after doing so that I realized what I’d been missing out on.
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