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MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura22d ago
Walk down the networking aisle and Cat8 begs to be picked. The box promises 40 gigabits per second at 2000 MHz, the highest number on the shelf, wrapped in heavy shielding that feels like it means...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar22d ago
Summary - Amazon says a Fire TV Settings bug hid "Install unknown apps"; a component fix is rolling out automatically.
MakeUseOfby Charlene Badasie22d ago
Before The Queen's Gambit became one of Netflix's biggest shows in 2020, Scott Frank had already made a very different kind of series for the streamer.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre22d ago
Spotify, Audible, and Kindle Unlimited can run well over $400 a year, more if you're on Spotify's Duo or Family tier, and every single thing they do, streaming music, audiobooks, and ebooks, is...
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu22d ago
When I started using Linux, I memorized several commands and used them so often that they became muscle memory.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu22d ago
There's this Windows Sandbox habit that I'm not so proud of: when I run an executable, or anything else I don't completely trust, I basically sit and watch.
MakeUseOfby Sagar Naresh22d ago
When it comes to playing videos on a PC, the majority of us would simply get VLC as a media player.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar22d ago
Summary - GPT-6 Astra streamed Minecraft 141 hours, built a semi-automatic blaze farm and got Ender Pearls. - A Creeper blew up its storage chest; Astra lost loot, then stalled and farmed potatoes.
MakeUseOfby Sponsored22d ago
You know how most meetings could have been an email? Well, besides the time it would save, the other major advantage of email is that it's already written down from the start.
MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud22d ago
Apple finally graced us with a foldable phone via the iPhone Duo. The smartphone has a 5.4-inch screen that opens to reveal a larger 7.6-inch inner screen.
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood22d ago
I pay for both Claude and Gemini, and for months I opened each one the same way, with a paragraph explaining my background, what I'm working on, and how I want answers structured.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha22d ago
When it comes to internet connectivity, you ideally want some kind of wireless functionality. For laptops, the choice (or lack thereof) is quite simple — you use whatever Wi-Fi card is bundled with...
MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey22d ago
Household tasks can be complicated. They aren't all emptying the dishwasher or doing the laundry (which can be challenging in its own right if you don't know how to read labels.)
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar22d ago
Summary - Android’s Pause Point adds a brief pause before opening distracting apps to make you reconsider.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef22d ago
Windows ships with the Restore Point setting turned off, and for a good reason. First, Windows doesn't want to decide how much storage to reserve for a restore point, and second, System Restore can...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage22d ago
Summary - BOOX launches three Android 16 ePaper devices: Note Air6 C, Note Mini C, and Palma 3. - Note Air6 C (10.3-inch color) and Note Mini C (8.5-inch) offer stylus, multitasking, 6GB RAM; Air6...
MakeUseOfby Chifundo Kasiya22d ago
Excel has a wide range of useful built-in functions, but that doesn't mean you should use them indiscriminately.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke22d ago
Tom Cruise is easily one of the biggest movie stars alive today, and he's been at it a long while.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips22d ago
Everyone's biggest question about the Domain Name System concerns speed. What is the fastest DNS provider? They're often asking the wrong question.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi22d ago
Claude Code may be marketed as an agentic coding tool, but that description massively undersells it.
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