This Samsung phone's feature costs so little battery, it's worth keeping on
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre29 Aug 2026
Turning off Samsung's Offline finding feature is supposed to save you battery life, but when I tested it, it barely made a difference.
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top 51%I finally fixed Home Assistant’s most annoying dashboard problem
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi29 Aug 2026
Home Assistant is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, but like all software, sooner or later an update tends to break things.
A new browser feature hides which website you're visiting from your ISP, and it has nothing to do with a VPN
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips29 Aug 2026
HTTPS arrived and drastically altered the internet. Our data was more private than ever, and all it took was the major browsers forcing compliance, and Google Under the hood, Encrypted Client Hello...
Don't delete photos to free Google storage — here's what's actually taking up the most space
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar29 Aug 2026
Google gives every free account a shared 15GB pool that splits across Gmail, Drive, and Photos. When your Google storage gets full, most users open the Photos app and start deleting.
Five billion passkeys later, passwords are still hanging around
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef29 Aug 2026
I stopped using passwords and switched to passkeys as a safer and faster alternative. Since then, the numbers have only grown, now standing at five billion passkeys, as reported by the FIDO...
September's best Kindle releases span cozy romance to epic fantasy, here's what to pre-order
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage29 Aug 2026
Summary - September Kindle drops span cozy romance to epic fantasy and gritty crime, perfect for autumn nights.
I stopped reaching for Photoshop after mastering these 5 GIMP tools
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz29 Aug 2026
I kept expecting to hit that one edit in GIMP that would make me reopen Photoshop. Maybe something would take too many steps, or I’d just know how to do it faster in the app I’d been using for a...
The USB stick in your drawer is a free rescue disk, a portable PC, and an offline password vault
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef29 Aug 2026
I rarely use my USB drives to move data these days. However, all the USB sticks in my drawer have something important on them.
Your PC isn’t too old — Windows 11’s default settings are slowing it down
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile29 Aug 2026
If you've read through some of my previous articles, I've mentioned several times that I use a five-year-old Dell Latitude laptop.
I let temporary files pile up for months and recovered 3.3GB without breaking anything
MakeUseOfby Isaac Akinleye29 Aug 2026
Earlier this month, my laptop crashed during a Windows update. The reason wasn't down to a bad patch or some driver conflict; it was because my system drive was dangerously low on space at the...
Your Ethernet plug is called RJ45, but phone companies would say you're wrong
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi29 Aug 2026
I've called the clear plastic plug at the end of an Ethernet cable "RJ45" for as long as I've had any reason to name it. So do most router makers, cable sellers, and networking guides.
This DeWalt adapter turns every 20V battery you own into a 100W power bank
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura29 Aug 2026
Every DeWalt cordless owner ends up in the same spot. You've got a row of 20V packs sitting fully charged between projects, doing nothing while they wait on the next drill or saw.
I spent a week inside the strangest Linux distribution I could find
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha29 Aug 2026
Meme Linux distributions have existed for quite some time, with good examples like Hannah Montana OS or the elusive Red Star OS.
6 ways Dolly Parton contributed to science, sci-fi, and fantasy that you didn't know about
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke29 Aug 2026
On August 25, 2026, singer, songwriter, actor, philanthropist, and all-around delightful person Dolly Parton died at the age of 80.
AMD almost built the perfect low-power HTPC GPU — then ruined it
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha29 Aug 2026
I’ve always had a soft spot for low-power graphics cards. I’m talking about GPUs that strike the perfect balance between performance and power efficiency, resulting in a design that doesn't require...
The Linux community is split over AI-generated code and Debian just chose the controversial side
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar29 Aug 2026
Summary - Debian will allow AI-assisted contributions, provided they meet its existing quality, security, and maintainability standards.
Before you install another Docker container, clean up these 6 network basics
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson29 Aug 2026
One of the most dangerous things about Docker is how easy it is to just make another container. All I need is a Compose file, a published port, and a few seconds later I’ve got another service...
Windows 11 has had 5 years to fix these 5 features, but it still hasn’t
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah29 Aug 2026
I’ve been using Windows 11 since the day it launched, and five years is enough time for Microsoft to fix the stuff that annoyed everyone.
I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli29 Aug 2026
I pulled my camera out last week to shoot a few photos, and I instantly remembered why I don’t like using this thing: it takes AA batteries. My wireless mouse takes one AA.
Paint is too basic and GIMP is too much — this free app fills the gap
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi29 Aug 2026
I keep running into image edits that somehow demand either too little software or far too much of it.