This $1,300 Asus phone became a tablet and then a laptop, but one flaw doomed it
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman29 Aug 2026
If the phone in your pocket was powerful enough to be a computer, why buy a separate tablet at all?
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top 40%5 Kindle settings that completely changed my reading experience
MakeUseOfby Saikat Basu29 Aug 2026
I've written about Kindle settings so many times that I thought I'd exhausted the subject. I keep looking past the obvious menus to find features that make our reading experience better on the...
I could never leave Samsung for a Pixel or iPhone — these 3 features are why
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar29 Aug 2026
Google offers clean Android with zero clutter, while Apple delivers tight hardware and software integration.
Android 17 is getting a massive privacy upgrade your ISP won’t like
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar29 Aug 2026
Summary - Android 17 will add broad OS-level ECH support to hide website hostnames from ISPs and other network observers during HTTPS connections.
6 Movies You Didn’t Know Were Inspired by Greek Mythology
MakeUseOfby Jack Mitchell28 Aug 2026
Greek mythology has inspired entertainment through poetry, novels, songs, and plays since time immemorial, and this influence endures in the age of film.
I switched from Docker to Podman and the real security upgrade was going rootless
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu28 Aug 2026
For years, I've run Docker on my home server, and it basically just worked. It was also a subtle convenience not having to type sudo.
These 4 power tools work better with a smaller battery
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura28 Aug 2026
Every 1.5Ah and 2.0Ah pack in my garage arrived the same way, bundled inside a kit box with a tool I actually wanted. For years they sat in a bin while the 4.0Ah batteries did the work.
These 4 failed 3D prints told me exactly what was wrong with my printer
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi28 Aug 2026
If you've used a 3D printer, even the seemingly infallible Bambu Lab, you're eventually going to get a failed print and wonder whether your machine is broken or you just got the print settings...
Your Windows security is hiding 11% of your gaming performance — here's why you shouldn't claim it
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan28 Aug 2026
I've scoured Windows for almost every setting that could improve performance or make the OS feel a little better.
Amazon is asking M4 iPad Air money for a device designed to do less, and I still get the appeal
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam28 Aug 2026
Amazon's latest 32GB Kindle Scribe Colorsoft improves upon the previous models and sells for $629.99.
Today I learned that my Cat7 cable was actually a waste of money
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam28 Aug 2026
When it comes to buying a shiny new Ethernet cable, it's easy to fall into the trap of just choosing the one with the biggest "Cat" number.
Gaming on 8GB of RAM shouldn't work, yet some titles ran better than I expected
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan28 Aug 2026
Amid the global memory shortage, Microsoft is still churning out 8GB Surface laptops in 2026, insisting that it is a sufficient baseline for Windows 11.
MCP servers just turned Claude into a desktop automation tool, and these 5 apps prove it
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan28 Aug 2026
Helping you navigate complex tasks on apps is one of the many things Claude AI can do! In fact, because of the way LLMs work, the instructions you get for doing something or fixing an issue are...
Your laptop's SSD is probably running in the wrong mode, and it's slowing you down
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan28 Aug 2026
Setting up an SSD isn't hard, or at least it shouldn't be. Depending on whether you have a SATA drive, your SSD's storage controller would be in AHCI mode; for M.2 drives, it would be NVMe.
This Home Assistant Android widget is ridiculously powerful—once you figure it out
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi28 Aug 2026
Home Assistant is one of the most customizable pieces of software you'll find, and if you've spent any time working with its companion app on Android, you've probably scrolled past its Template...
This HP laptop might just be the ultimate executive convertible
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre28 Aug 2026
Most business execs and road warrior types are looking for a convertible laptop with a ton of battery life, solid productivity performance, legitimate security options, and fluid digital ink...
6 sci-fi novels where first contact gets stranger the more humanity understands it
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke28 Aug 2026
Does extraterrestrial life exist? Well, the universe is impossibly vast and the great majority of it is unexplored, so the odds are good. But we have yet to actually see any proof.
DNS has a new encrypted version that isn't DoH or DoT, and almost nobody's adopted it yet
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips28 Aug 2026
I've spent the past few months testing all types of DNS. I've tested Quad9 against Cloudflare, Cloudflare WARP against my default ISP DNS, encrypted DNS against regular DNS from a coffee shop, and...
Samsung built Snapdragon Sound into Galaxy phones but left out its best Bluetooth codec
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder28 Aug 2026
You can stream lossless music using platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, or Tidal, but the quality of the source files was never the problem. Instead, the real bottleneck is Bluetooth.
This privacy browser does 3 things Chrome should have copied years ago
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood28 Aug 2026
I didn’t leave Chrome because of one big privacy scare or some sudden principled stand; it happened much more gradually.