Meta’s Muse is facing backlash after sending a stranger to a user’s house without permission
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar10d ago
Summary - Muse accepted a sale, shared the seller's home address, and arranged pickup without confirming availability.
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top 37%I turned a 10-year-old tablet into an offline hiking GPS and ditched Google Maps for good
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson10d ago
I’ve seen plenty of old Android phones get repurposed as hiking GPS units. My neglected Samsung Galaxy TabPro S made me wonder why I couldn’t give a whole Windows tablet that same job.
Milwaukee power-tool batteries are finally getting the charging port they should've had years ago
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura10d ago
Every cordless tool brand charges an unspoken fee: a charger that only works with its own batteries.
Windows has been keeping thumbnails of all your deleted photos for years—here’s how to fix
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage10d ago
When you delete a photo from your computer, empty your Recycle Bin, and clean up your hard drive, you might, understandbly, think that your image is gone for good.
I changed these Samsung call settings and spam callers barely reach me anymore
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar10d ago
Samsung's Phone app can tell you a call is spam, but that warning won't stop the phone from ringing.
This tiny eReader proves bigger isn't always better — and preorders open today
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage10d ago
For anyone who’s ever said “size doesn’t matter,” BOOX’s latest eReader, the Picco, is here to prove that 3.97 inches can be plenty—at least for reading on the go.
28 years later, the sequel to a 1998 box-office flop is now No. 1
MakeUseOfby Charlene Badasie11d ago
When Practical Magic was released in October 1998, there was little reason to expect the story of the Owens sisters to continue almost three decades later.
Windows wouldn’t let me use the free space on my own drive, so I bypassed its limit
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu11d ago
I almost accepted it when Windows told me that it could only shrink 290GB of the 342GB I had free.
These 5 things around your house can run from the power-tool batteries you already own
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura11d ago
Most of my 18V Ryobi packs spend their days on a shelf, fully charged and waiting for a drill I might not touch for weeks.
I changed 5 Android settings and my phone finally felt like mine
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan11d ago
The first thing I do every time I get a new Android phone is change a few key settings. These improve the user experience and make the transition much smoother.
The Pixel 11's best camera trick never fires if you just press the shutter
MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud11d ago
The Google Pixel 11 series phones continue the company's trend toward cool camera features. You get all the best ones that have been in the latest Pixel devices, like Add Me, Best Take, and Unblur...
Android apps finally feel native on Linux, and I didn’t need an emulator
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha11d ago
If, for some reason, you need to use Android apps on Linux (in the case of certain Android-exclusive apps or games), you’ll quickly find out that it's not an easy process.
I did everything to hide my browsing from my ISP, and it could still see most of where I went
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips11d ago
The big issue with online privacy is that it's constantly evolving, and the big tech companies will always find new ways to get into your data.
Your Windows backup plan has one huge hole
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu11d ago
I felt covered after enabling the backup options Windows 11 offered. But my confidence diminished when I couldn't find a Windows Backup option that gave me a separate, restorable copy of the...
7 Excel tools that are more useful than learning another formula
MakeUseOfby Adaeze Uche11d ago
Anyone who uses Excel is probably looking for something that makes their sheets simpler and easier to manage.
Dumb TVs are scarce, these are your best alternatives
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi11d ago
If you've been trying to find a good old "dumb" TV lately, you've probably noticed they've all but vanished. But that doesn't mean you're out of options.
5 Docker containers you should try self-hosting this weekend to see what your home lab is really doing
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef11d ago
I've built, broken, and rebuilt many labs over the years. But in all my builds, some tools have always made the cut, and one of the more important ones is the monitoring stack.
September’s Windows Insider feature is something we should've had 15 years ago
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage11d ago
If you have a phone and a laptop (and probably do), your everyday life is constantly split between the two.
Storing power tool batteries in your garage costs you months of lifespan without you knowing it
MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey11d ago
Cordless power tools give you the flexibility to work whatever way you see it. Assuming your tool fits in whatever space you need, the cordless nature is likely one of the most appealing parts of...
Opera's new automatic VPN on public Wi-Fi comes with one major asterisk
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage11d ago
Opera is introducing a new feature intended to eliminate the need to guess about digital safety by automatically turning on its free, built-in browser VPN whenever you connect to public Wi-Fi.