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MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu1d ago
Remote desktop tools are very common. However, when they need one, most people look for a new tool to download, even though they already have Google Chrome installed.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder1d ago
It might be hard to believe, but the original version of Bluetooth — officially known as Bluetooth Classic Audio — is over two decades old.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe1d ago
I keep coming back to Orphan Black, and every time I try to explain why, I end up sounding like I’m describing three different shows stapled together. That’s the point.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah1d ago
Camera upgrades on phones aren’t always about the hardware. Sure, a larger sensor helps, but it’s the software where most of the magic happens these days.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef1d ago
When you upgrade to a new PC, you may choose to sell or trade in your old one. The hardware is gone, but what happens to all the apps and installers you may not have license keys for?
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre1d ago
Tim Berners-Lee invented the tech underlying every website you visit, and in the more than 30 years since, neither he nor CERN (the European physics research lab based near Geneva, Switzerland...
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi1d ago
Buying an ESP32 board seems simple until you realize there are dozens of variants floating around the internet, and not all of them are the same.
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood1d ago
“Your storage is full” is one of the scariest pop-ups you can see on your phone. I got hit with it on my Android a few days ago, and my first thought was, not again.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah1d ago
Samsung Internet isn’t talked about enough, which is a bit odd since it’s also available on non-Galaxy phones and now has a PC version too.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke1d ago
Stephen King is one of the most adapted authors of all time. Whether the adaptations are actually better than the source material (The Shining, The Mist) or worse (Cujo, The Dark Tower), you don't...
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha1d ago
External GPUs have always been a kind of niche, and 2026 did not change that in the slightest. The concept is novel and almost perfect-sounding — letting a relatively modest, lightweight machine...
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile1d ago
Chrome is one of the most resource-intensive consumer apps and the most-used desktop browser in the world. Two things can be true at the same time.
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage1d ago
Summary - Best Beachside Reads offers free indie novels, novellas, short stories and excerpts—available until Sept 30 2026.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha1d ago
When SteamOS launched in 2013, it was quite undercooked. It used a Debian base and was much slower to update.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder1d ago
I used my TV's built-in speakers for years before taking the leap and building a Dolby Atmos home theater. I started off small, buying affordable bookshelf speakers in JBL's Stage2 lineup.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha1d ago
For years, VRAM has always been a major constraint for gaming. VRAM caps have grown astronomically in the past decade alone, jumping to over the baseline of 8GB, mandating some rather expensive...
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe1d ago
The of a week. Not dead batteries, not wedged in the couch cushions where I'd already checked — actually gone, the kind of gone where you look in the same three spots four times each and it still...
MakeUseOfby Saikat Basu1d ago
I needed a fitness tracker and smartwatch under $200. I did what I have always done. A dozen browser tabs, a few prompts in AI chatbots, and some YouTube review videos thrown in for good measure.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi1d ago
NFC stickers sell a dime a dozen. Packs of 10, 20, even 50 can be picked up on Amazon for pocket change.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder2d ago
By now, you probably know about the Google Pixel 11 series and the new Pixel Watch 5, which were announced at a Made by Google event last week.
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