makeuseof.comadded August 2026
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe28 Aug 2026
I still think about the shed. Not because it’s some dazzling piece of production design — it’s a plain, dusty backyard shed in rural Illinois, the kind you’d walk past without a second glance.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu28 Aug 2026
Even when a Docker container runs for a year, the application isn't necessarily getting more useful. What makes the biggest difference over time is the history it builds.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah28 Aug 2026
Android phones ship with a lot of Google features switched on by default, and most of them are useful one way or another. The only issue is they all drain your phone’s battery in the background.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha27 Aug 2026
When Valve announced the Steam Machine, there was a lot of dismay (and rightfully so) over its price, and it was possible to even assemble a more powerful PC for roughly the same budget.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu27 Aug 2026
I've used Windows long enough to understand how much it's evolved. But because I use several other OSes, I'm reminded every once in a while that Windows 11 still doesn't let me do a few perfectly...
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar27 Aug 2026
Samsung Gallery looks like a basic photo viewer, and that is exactly how I used it for years. I would open it, find a quick picture to share, and close it immediately.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar27 Aug 2026
Summary - Meta Glasses will now stop recording if their capture LED is covered after a recording has started.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan27 Aug 2026
As a PC builder for over a decade, I've learned one thing: never trust advertised specs. Sure, PC components can reach those high speeds that are highlighted in red and are supposed to be catchy...
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood27 Aug 2026
For wrong with my phone’s battery. On days when I was out running errands, sitting in cafés, or moving around, my phone easily made it through the day with plenty of charge left.
MakeUseOfby Saikat Basu27 Aug 2026
I've been reading on a Kindle app for years. I have this strange quirk of experimenting with Kindle settings to make the reading experience better, or at least different.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips27 Aug 2026
Open your router's 2.4GHz settings, and you'll find a channel dropdown with 11 options, sitting there like 11 real choices that will make a difference to your signal. Well, they're not lying.
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan27 Aug 2026
Samsung has always made some of the finest screens, and their technology is what made me fall in love with tablets.
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood27 Aug 2026
I opened a store orders workbook in Microsoft Excel and found seven of its twenty price lookups returning #N/A.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar27 Aug 2026
Summary - Operation Bluebird is reviving the Twitter name with a new social network unaffiliated with X Corp.
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage27 Aug 2026
Microsoft is allegedly working on a new feature for Edge that will spot weak passwords and automatically replace them with stronger ones, so you don't have to worry about changing them yourself.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi27 Aug 2026
Smart home sensors always seemed gimmicky to me, the kind of thing you buy, get excited about for a week, and then forget they exist.
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage27 Aug 2026
For the first time ever, Rakuten Kobo has launched its award-winning line of eReader in over 500 Best Buy stores across the United States. Previously, U.S.
MakeUseOfby Isaac Akinleye27 Aug 2026
I don't think swiping apps away is a bad habit. I don't do it often, but when I do, I'm done with the apps.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder27 Aug 2026
Your internet service provider (ISP) probably supplies a router for your home network, either for free or in exchange for a monthly rental fee.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi27 Aug 2026
Excel is a wonderful tool right up until it isn't. The moment your spreadsheet starts holding customer records in one tab and their orders in another, or your row count creeps past a few hundred...
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