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MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan8 Sept 2026
Like most people who have gotten used to it, I love Claude Code. But I'm not afraid to admit that it can eat up your tokens like anything.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah8 Sept 2026
Windows Media Player has one job, and it barely does it. It doesn’t impress with its features, and is also not great at handling every file format you throw at it either.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha8 Sept 2026
DLSS 5 received an immensely negative reaction from players when it was first revealed in early 2026, and it seems Nvidia has not taken those complaints to heart.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura8 Sept 2026
A room with weak Wi-Fi usually earns you one of two suggestions. The first is Ethernet, and that means fishing cable behind drywall and patching the holes you cut.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu8 Sept 2026
Over several years, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox have been the convenient options I turn to for storage.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile7 Sept 2026
Every electronic device has one way or another to turn it off. Most of the time, turning off a device does exactly what it means: cutting power and letting it rest.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan7 Sept 2026
When people compare Android and iOS, they tend to put iOS in the "more secure" category, but that is a matter of perception.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan7 Sept 2026
Your PC is much more capable than its default settings suggest. Some of these settings are hidden in the BIOS menu, and changing them can unlock a significant performance boost.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar7 Sept 2026
Summary - Office 2021 stops receiving security updates and bug fixes on October 13, 2026. - Cheap “lifetime” keys may come from questionable channels and could eventually be blocked.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi7 Sept 2026
For years, the usual advice around changing your Domain Name System (DNS) resolver was to switch to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 or Google's 8.8.8.8, so you might get slightly faster or more reliable...
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder7 Sept 2026
All Android phones have multitasking features, but foldables offer the extra screen space needed to make the most of them.
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam7 Sept 2026
Whenever you get any new piece of technology, it can be tempting to run it with every feature turned on and everything running at maximum performance.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar7 Sept 2026
Summary - Microsoft is developing a Windows 11 widget that shows your laptop’s battery level alongside those of connected accessories.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu7 Sept 2026
Over the years, I've wiped too many Windows devices to recall. It's usually because a clean installation can be the fastest way to fix a computer and get back to a state that feels trustworthy.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef7 Sept 2026
Microsoft 365 is not a bad product at all, even when you consider the premium plans on offer. The 1TB of OneDrive storage alone might be worth the cost, especially on a Family plan.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu7 Sept 2026
I've used Chrome on Android for so long that I learned to accept and live with certain elements of the browser I really didn't like.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura7 Sept 2026
I bought my first Ryobi ONE+ battery to run a drill. A decade later, those same 18V packs power gear that never touches a screw or a stud, and a single charged battery is now as likely to inflate a...
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke7 Sept 2026
In March 2026, Amazon MGM Studios released Project Hail Mary, an adaptation of Andy Weir's 2021 science fiction novel about an astronaut who is sent on a mission to a distant star in the hopes of...
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi7 Sept 2026
Linux projects have one advantage proprietary operating systems rarely get: their creators can leave without taking the code with them.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar7 Sept 2026
Summary - LG smart TVs scan local networks and log nearby devices and Wi‑Fi info — even on standby or offline.
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