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MakeUseOfby Kanika Gogia14d ago
When I bought my shiny smart TV, I was excited to use all the smart features it offers. Well, why not? I thought these clever features would make a smart TV smarter.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah14d ago
Windows’ default settings are largely the same whether you’re using a high-end gaming PC or an entry-level budget laptop.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan14d ago
DLSS 5 has been the hot topic lately, and the initial reception of Nvidia's latest upscaling technology (even though it's not really upscaling anymore) has been far from positive.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe14d ago
I've spent enough time messing around with the ever-useful Claude Code in CAD software that I assumed I had it pretty well figured out.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder14d ago
Smart home gadgets exist to solve problems, automate processes, and generally make your life easier.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder15d ago
Qualcomm's new flagship chip is here — well, chips. The company announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 at Snapdragon Summit, but it also threw a curveball by revealing a higher-tier Snapdragon 8...
MakeUseOfby Suman Biswas15d ago
Last year, I took a massive gamble and bought the Xbox Elite Series 2. This gamble ultimately paid off, as I think the Series 2 is currently the best PC controller that money can buy.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile15d ago
My laptop comes with a 512GB SSD, and it gets filled up pretty fast. I download a bunch of apps and files that I use once and never touch again, movies I keep just for the sake of it, and even...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage15d ago
Community developers have adapted The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall into a persistent online multiplayer MMORPG project.
MakeUseOfby Kanika Gogia15d ago
Windows 11 comes with several features and settings that can make your PC more useful, even though some of these features also collect or use information about your PC use.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman15d ago
For years I've defaulted to the gesture-based navigation on Android that puts a little navigation pill at the bottom of the screen.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi15d ago
I turned off 2G on my Galaxy S24 Ultra for a pretty mundane reason. My carrier already gives me newer network coverage everywhere I normally go, and keeping a decades-old cellular standard enabled...
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu15d ago
I have a habit you might call paranoia: I go hunting through the Task Manager once my computer's fan starts spinning louder than normal with the aim of "catching the burglar mid-heist."
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz15d ago
When I need to go somewhere, I set the destination and tap Start without questioning whether Google Maps' route is the best one.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi15d ago
My productivity systems have long been productivity problems. I used Notion for just about everything, and while my Notion subscription was paying for itself, it wasn't quite enough.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi15d ago
There was a time when telling someone the price of a Raspberry Pi was a punchline about how cheap computing had become. That time is over.
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood15d ago
It’s been a little over a month since Google launched the Pixel 11 series, and I’ve been using the Pixel 11 pretty much every day since.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke15d ago
Ever since HBO found success with Game of Thrones in the 2010s, every network and streaming service has wanted their own mega-hit high fantasy series.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef15d ago
Chrome is the most popular browser on PC. However, on Android, it lacks the feature that makes it so easy to recommend on a PC: extensions.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre15d ago
I install every Pixel update as soon as I can, and most months I have to go hunting for what changed. September was different: three of the four changes showed up in places I use daily.
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