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MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips22d ago
Whenever I drive a hire car, one of my favorite bits of the process is having Android Auto. My regular car is old and doesn't support Android Auto, which is a pain — and something I'd really love...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage23d ago
Summary - Automated morning newspaper prints emails and calendar as a broadsheet, so you can skip morning screens.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi23d ago
If you right-click a file in Windows and open Properties, you’ll see perfectly ordinary dates for when it was created, modified, and accessed.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah23d ago
Smart TVs are usually all about streaming apps, but that’s not where the story ends. There are all kinds of useful TV apps that solve very specific problems.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura23d ago
Ryobi's green tools sit in the bargain corner at every Home Depot, and for years I shopped them that way, grabbing one when I wanted something cheap that I half-expected to replace.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu23d ago
Several backup services make it easy to hand over your files and let someone else handle the storage. You're entrusting their safety to whoever is storing them, hoping they stay private.
MakeUseOfby Adaeze Uche23d ago
For years, I believed that creating a strong password meant forcing together a chaotic mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, at least one number, and at least one special character.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi23d ago
There’s a certain kind of Windows annoyance that isn’t serious enough to justify hunting down an app for it. Maybe I want a shortcut that turns down whatever program I’m currently using.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan23d ago
There's a paradox about podcast discovery that always bothers me: I want to explore new shows and ideas, but most apps keep recommending the same ones in a loop.
MakeUseOfby Suman Biswas23d ago
The default Settings app in Windows 11 is functional, but it's quite limited compared to something like the classic Control Panel.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman23d ago
For years, Android has given you multiple display options to turn your phone's screen into a smart home hub, a digital photo frame, or even a customizable clock while it's charging.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson23d ago
Homelabs tend to have a predictable life cycle. I love rescuing big servers, enjoying the extra cores and memory, then I remember why I downsized last time.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi23d ago
For years, my Raspberry Pi was the default answer whenever I needed a tiny, low-power computer. It ran web services, network utilities, and automation scripts without turning my desk into a space...
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha23d ago
I’ve been gaming on Windows for as long as I can remember, with Windows XP being the first proper OS I got to try out.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef23d ago
Most free PDF apps have a major problem, which is that they don’t let you edit text. Originally, that was the idea behind the PDF format: a way to preserve your documents from making any unintended...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar23d ago
Summary - Firefox for Android adds a free built‑in VPN with 50GB/month; rolling out to users. - It's a TLS‑encrypted Fastly proxy (not a full VPN); routes only Firefox browser traffic and DNS.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi23d ago
These days, almost every new smart TV comes with at least one USB port. They've been around for much longer than that, mind you; a Samsung TV I bought more than 15 years ago had them, although they...
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke23d ago
The original Star Wars movie came out in theaters on May 25, 1977, and it changed cinema forever. Along with 1975's Jaws, the film helped launch the age of the blockbuster event movie.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips23d ago
Your Android is lying to you about your audio. Android's underlying audio tech, AudioFlinger, doesn't do what you think, and it rarely tells you what's really happening.
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz23d ago
I thought editing an image in ChatGPT meant giving it another prompt and hoping it would change the right thing without messing up something I already liked.
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