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MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar11d ago
With barely twenty apps installed and most of my media streaming from the cloud, a 128GB phone should have plenty of room left. Yet mine was somehow down to its last two gigabytes.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef11d ago
I haven't used my password in the last few months to sign in to my Google and Microsoft accounts.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke11d ago
Netflix is no stranger to the fantasy genre. The Witcher is closing in on its fifth and final season, Shadow and Bone lasted a couple of years before Netflix pulled the plug, and The Last Kingdom...
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips11d ago
It took a while, but I finally upgraded my home to Wi-Fi 7, hoping that all of my networking would be taken care of for the foreseeable future.
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood11d ago
Asking Claude Code to read an entire project before the first question feels thorough, and plenty of people start their sessions that way.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile11d ago
My first-ever Windows experience was Windows XP. So, like most people who grew up using it, Windows XP is still my favorite Windows operating system to date.
MakeUseOfby Brady Klinger-Meyers11d ago
One of the hardest lessons I learned shortly after I started my Plex server was to never ignore organizing your library.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan11d ago
One way to get the most out of Claude Code is to set up a CLAUDE.md file that contains custom information you want Claude Code to know before it does something for you.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe11d ago
It happened at random. I was watching Thursday Night Football when Google Gemini started speaking. I don’t recall what it said, but it was jarring.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah11d ago
Some Windows tools never go out of style. I've used Windows for years, and no matter how much Microsoft redesigns Settings, I still end up typing commands into the Run dialog box out of pure habit.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura11d ago
My garage runs on Ryobi ONE+: more than 20 tools sharing one 18V battery, ever since I built my whole workshop around the platform. Owning that many taught me something the manuals skip.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi11d ago
PuTTY has handled Secure Shell (SSH) on my Windows PCs for years, and I’ve never had much to complain about with the app itself.
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam11d ago
Whether you're setting up a brand-new NAS (network-attached storage) or upgrading an old one, unboxing a high-capacity hard drive is an exciting time.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu12d ago
I put one of my favorite soccer websites on my NextDNS deny list and, as expected, Windows could no longer resolve the domain normally.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura12d ago
I was finishing a new room in my basement and wanted smart switches down there. The Zigbee models I liked all came with the same fine print: hub required.
MakeUseOfby Sagar Naresh12d ago
At this point, Samsung Galaxy AI is quite mature and produces far better results than any other AI offered by smartphone brands, including Apple's AI.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef12d ago
VLC gained popularity because it can play almost any kind of media file. However, the little traffic cone app is more than just a media player.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah12d ago
I have an old Galaxy S22, which is about four years old now. It’s technically a flagship from 2022, but it runs nothing like one in 2026.
MakeUseOfby Mahnoor Faisal12d ago
With how many features Anthropic (and pretty much every other AI lab) drops every week, it’s nearly impossible to keep up with everything.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre12d ago
I've got an older Series 7 Apple Watch, and I noticed it just didn't seem to stay charged as long as it used to.
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