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MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli18d ago
A new phenomenon in the battery market is USB-C rechargeable AA batteries. USB-C is going everywhere and touching everything, and apparently that includes AA cells.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke18d ago
Project Hail Mary is one of the biggest movies of 2026 so far, a terrific adaptation Andy Weir's 2021 sci-fi novel that's equal parts brains and heart.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha18d ago
The release of DLSS laid the foundation for what was to come, and while initial reactions were mixed, it did prove one thing — upscaling was the future.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu18d ago
I started hosting Immich last year on my home server. I wrote about it at the time, and I was almost instantly sure that I wouldn't regret this decision.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu18d ago
I went looking for explanations for an increasingly strange overnight laptop behavior. It made me realize that my laptop had been keeping tabs on how much battery it was willing to spend while it...
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli18d ago
There are plenty of hidden Android features, but one category that predates Android — and smartphones entirely — is shortcodes.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile18d ago
If you ask me, clipboard history is arguably one of the best features ever added to Windows. I remember discovering this feature a few years ago, and it felt like I had just found the greatest...
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder18d ago
For better or worse, the 3.5mm jack is all but extinct on most modern smartphones. That means you probably own a pair of truly wireless earbuds for daily use, sacrificing sound quality for cordless...
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah18d ago
I used to obsess over faster boot times. Faster felt better, so I did everything possible to shave off a few seconds.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura18d ago
Floor space runs out fast in a small shop. Every tool competes for the same handful of hooks, and anything that sits unused still eats a slot you can't spare.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson18d ago
I totally get why vibe coding is so popular. Watching your ideas turn into a working app through a conversation almost feels like magic.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu18d ago
I never thought I'd have to self-host my password manager, and it wasn't about distrusting my server.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi19d ago
I’d always mentally filed yt-dlp under “excellent tool I’ll use when I’m already at a keyboard.” Its Android setup involves Termux, Python, pip, and optional FFmpeg, which is perfectly reasonable...
MakeUseOfby Isaac Akinleye19d ago
I use my PC a lot, but honestly, I use my phone even more. That's where I keep my banking, chat, wallets, passwords, and basically the accounts that matter to me.
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz19d ago
I use Google Maps frequently, and my routine is to open it and enter my destination. Sure, I get the directions I need, but my trip could be a lot better if I did a few things before hitting the...
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan19d ago
The first thing I do after buying an Android smartphone is install essential apps. Even in this age of streaming, I do consume a lot of locally stored content on my device.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder19d ago
I've used an Apple Vision Pro headset for two and a half years, and to be frank, it hasn't delivered the $3,500 experience I expected.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman19d ago
When you're not using your phone overnight, the battery shouldn't be tanking. A properly-optimized phone should only lose 2-7% battery overnight, but if you're waking up to see your phone having...
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan19d ago
When it first debuted, DLSS was a promising technology. While far from perfect, it was a groundbreaking feature that helped RTX cards deliver more performance while handling demanding features like...
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre19d ago
I still have a Thingiverse login. I can't tell you the last time I actually searched it first. Somewhere between the dead thumbnails, the search results full of reposted junk, and the AI-generated...
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