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MakeUseOfby Sagar Naresh5 Sept 2026
After using Google Chrome for years, I switched to Samsung Internet Browser on my Android phone because of its simplicity and the features it has on offer.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips5 Sept 2026
Earbuds always die. No matter how much you take care of them, they're going to give out on you at some point, and it's often the same thing: the battery.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips5 Sept 2026
Every year, the world's tech journalists descend on the wonderful sights and sounds of Berlin, Germany, for a week exploring the cavernous halls of the Messe Berlin.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi5 Sept 2026
I sometimes think about how much human effort gets buried inside a failed gadget. Years of engineering, design work, carrier deals, and marketing can vanish with the product almost overnight.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi5 Sept 2026
I've been running a home lab for a while now, juggling ESP32 controllers, a Home Assistant voice satellite, several self-hosted Docker containers, and Next.js apps, and having done all of that, I...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura5 Sept 2026
The cable behind your TV has an expiration date. Not a literal one, but the standard it was built for keeps moving, and every jump eventually asks you to swap the physical wire.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah5 Sept 2026
If you’ve recently updated Windows or done a clean install, you might have noticed a new folder pop-up in your C drive called Windows.old.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe4 Sept 2026
I almost passed on Mr Inbetween because the runtime looked like a red flag. Every prestige crime drama I actually finish runs 50 minutes or more, like the still-making-news Breaking Bad and The...
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi4 Sept 2026
Windows 11 looks every bit like a modern operating system, with rounded corners, Fluent Design, cloud services woven throughout, and plenty of technology that would have seemed ridiculous a few...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura4 Sept 2026
Walk the power tool aisle and every box leads with a big number. It's printed large because it sells the tool, and it tends to skip the fine print that decides how the thing behaves in your hand.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar4 Sept 2026
Summary - The rugged RugOne Xsnap 7 Pro features a detachable action camera that records 2.7K video and works up to 50 meters away from the phone.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman4 Sept 2026
Windows is not good at taking out the trash, and anyone that has left temporary files, old installation files, and an increasingly heavy recycle bin go unchecked knows what I am talking about.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan4 Sept 2026
For the longest time, I'd relied on online file converters for all those quick conversion needs. As someone working with various types of media, I found an additional tab in my web browser...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar4 Sept 2026
Summary - Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience, decluttered and preconfigured with dev tools like VS Code and Terminal.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi4 Sept 2026
Arduino just dropped its most ambitious hardware in years, and on paper, it's irresistible. The UNO Q, and its bigger sibling the VENTUNO Q, are dual-brain boards that pair a full Linux-capable...
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef4 Sept 2026
Your old USB flash drive has many uses on a computer, but on an Android phone, not so much, even though your phone can technically recognize, read, and write to it.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura4 Sept 2026
I wired the basement of our new build myself and ran Cat6 to every drop, crimping my own ends as I went, so I know the cable behind our drywall better than most wires in the house.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura4 Sept 2026
A year ago I swapped a handful of standard receptacles for USB outlets and called it the best upgrade I had made. No more digging through a junk drawer for a wall adapter.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah4 Sept 2026
AI inside your phone isn't exactly a surprise at this point. Your keyboard, camera, gallery, and most other apps have some AI features baked in now.
MakeUseOfby Rich Woods4 Sept 2026
Plex is great for getting a media server up and running and streaming to devices in your house. It's still my go-to and my top suggestion for anyone looking to host their own media server.
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