makeuseof.comadded August 2026
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha26 Aug 2026
Wireless USB receivers are a must when I connect accessories to my PC or laptop. It’s way more stable when compared to something like Bluetooth, and has the added benefit of behaving exactly like a...
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu26 Aug 2026
Pi-hole does a great job of stopping specific domains you don't want. For most people, after installing it and watching the block number climb, they assume all the important elements of privacy are...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura26 Aug 2026
My 2015 iPad Pro shouldn't still be in the rotation. It's stuck on iPadOS 16.7, it charges over Lightning, and its 32GB of storage was cramped by 2018 standards.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah26 Aug 2026
Wireless charging is supposed to be the easy option. You just drop your phone on the pad and walk away. For me, it was anything but.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman25 Aug 2026
For a long time, I've accepted that Windows only stores your most recently-copied thing, and as soon as you copy something else, that original item is bumped out of memory.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile25 Aug 2026
When you face performance issues on your Windows PC, one of the first pieces of advice you're likely to hear is to look into startup apps.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi25 Aug 2026
Postgres is one of the best databases in the world, but it has never been welcoming for newcomers.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar25 Aug 2026
Summary - WhatsApp is replacing its six-digit two-step verification PIN with a longer password that supports letters, numbers, and special characters.
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam25 Aug 2026
When you unbox and set up your new router in North America, you're given the option of using no fewer than 11 different channels on the 2.4GHz band.
MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud25 Aug 2026
The latest tech gadgets like smartphones and smartwatches are adding impressive features leveraging AI that make your days easier, your photos better, and the user experience more fluid overall.
MakeUseOfby Mahnoor Faisal25 Aug 2026
I don't spend a lot of time away from home, but I recently went on a two-week vacation. Homesickness wasn't really an issue, and if anything, I was dreading coming back to my usual routine.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar25 Aug 2026
Summary - PowerToys 0.101 just introduced Window Hopper, which uses a configurable shortcut to cycle through windows from the current app only.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu25 Aug 2026
You probably have never used that USB port at the back of your router. Yet sometimes files bounce between devices, a perfectly good printer remains attached to a single computer, and you keep...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage25 Aug 2026
Summary - NASA's free e-book library is nonfiction treasure—mission reports, engineering manuals, and stunning Hubble images.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi25 Aug 2026
Linux users can switch from GNOME to KDE Plasma today and treat the choice like any other distro preference.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke25 Aug 2026
This December, Dune: Part Three will drop into theaters opposite Avengers: Doomsday, a match-up that should be great fun to watch.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi25 Aug 2026
I’d turned on Bitwarden’s autofill-on-page-load setting for the obvious reason. I wanted my password manager to do its job before I had to think about it.
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood25 Aug 2026
I have a sales workbook that has five sheets. Transactions on one, products on another, then salespeople, regions, and a calendar, each maintained separately because that is how the data arrives.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah25 Aug 2026
Most Windows storage tricks come down to either clearing temporary files or deleting large apps and files. But there’s one more lesser-known trick, which is to compress Windows itself.
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage25 Aug 2026
Summary - PocketBook Q: phone-sized 5.84-inch E Ink e-reader, 130g for effortless one-handed reading.
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