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MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke4 Sept 2026
In 2005, Google debuted Google Earth, which stitches together millions of overlapping satellite photos and aerial plane pictures to create a 3D model of the planet Earth which you can search at...
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli4 Sept 2026
Every HDMI cable you own almost certainly has it. Your TV almost certainly doesn't support it. And yet, for a brief moment in 2009, it was supposed to change how every device in your living room...
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan4 Sept 2026
One thing I've noticed over the years is that computer connectivity has become more streamlined, and cable management is no longer as tedious as it used to be.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan4 Sept 2026
Windows has always been sluggish in pushing out changes and new features. Some of these features, like the Xbox Mode, haven't been fully released worldwide.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi4 Sept 2026
I’ve worked through enough Linux command cheat sheets to know the usual routine. cd changes directories, mkdir makes one, rm removes things, and a few weeks later I’m back at the terminal wondering...
MakeUseOfby Sponsored4 Sept 2026
Studying for an exam rarely means working from a single document. Course material is often spread across PDF lecture slides, scanned readings, personal notes, and a handful of YouTube videos that...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar4 Sept 2026
Summary - Microsoft’s redesigned Photos app launches faster and handles large images and zooming more smoothly.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef4 Sept 2026
After switching to Obsidian, I discovered their sync service would add another $60 to my already bloated subscription budget. So I found a completely free way to sync across all my devices.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu4 Sept 2026
I've seen my battery percentage drop so many times overnight, and each time it gives me the feeling that the battery is dying.
MakeUseOfby Sagar Naresh4 Sept 2026
If you are on YouTube's free tier, you're probably familiar with ads. They can pop up anywhere and can totally spoil your viewing experience.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips4 Sept 2026
I'm sure you've seen a logo flash onto your screen during your computer's boot process. It's the friendly embrace of the manufacturer's logo, come to remind you who built your hardware.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura4 Sept 2026
The Kindle Colorsoft showed up under my tree this past holiday season, and I was thrilled. Finally, I thought, I could read comics and graphic novels on their own dedicated screen instead of...
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman4 Sept 2026
The notification LED has made an exciting return on the Pixel 11 Pro series with a feature called HiLight, which is a customizable notification light near the camera that can alert you when certain...
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe3 Sept 2026
I found Devs the way I find most things worth watching now: by accident, scrolling Hulu at 11 at night, looking for something to put on while I did the dishes — looking for another Hulu diamond in...
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre3 Sept 2026
You can't install Windows 11 on any machine with less than 4GB of RAM, but there's a whole slew of Linux distros that not only run comfortably within those constraints, but they load entirely into...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura3 Sept 2026
I've got smart dimmer switches in my home office, my gym, the kitchen, and most of my basement, and in three years not one has failed to turn on.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan3 Sept 2026
Windows 10 reached the end of support on October 14th, 2025, yet nearly 30% of Windows users are still on the now-discontinued OS — including a few folks at MakeUseOf!
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi3 Sept 2026
I'm used to watching smartphone features vanish with barely a goodbye. Removable batteries disappeared, headphone jacks followed, and microSD slots have been shuffled toward cheaper phones.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha3 Sept 2026
Linux and Windows use very different methods for distributing and updating drivers. Windows takes a more hands-on approach, where you’ll have to download and update most packages manually.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar3 Sept 2026
Summary - ASUS’s new ProArt P14, P16, and GR1X use Nvidia RTX Spark to run demanding AI workloads locally.
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