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MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud3d ago
While we haven't quite yet entered a paperless world, our printing needs have changed. Unless you work in a big office that deals with a lot of important paperwork, you probably have less printing...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar3d ago
Summary - Tilde (~) now opens your user profile in File Explorer, replacing C:\Users\Username. - Type ~\AppData\Local to jump to that hidden folder for app settings and caches.
MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey3d ago
I like to try and do my own yard work as much as possible. There was a good amount of landscaping, shrubs, bushes, trees, and more put in by the previous owners of our house.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah3d ago
Fire TV devices are great value for money, but they’re not exactly popular for their speed or ease of use.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura4d ago
Press the button on a Ryobi ONE+ pack, and four green lights feel like a full tank. I've trusted that little display on every pack in my shop, from the compacts that came bundled with tools to the...
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood4d ago
I recently bought the iPhone 18 Pro, and since it came with iOS 27 preinstalled, I’ve naturally spent a lot of time poking around and trying everything new.
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz4d ago
I love taking pictures and videos, but the downside is that my phone is a little over 84% full, so I need to start deleting some of them ASAP.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre4d ago
I got my Z Fold 8 weeks before Apple's keynote, and the one iPhone Duo feature I envied turned out to be software.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef4d ago
Installing the important apps is among the first things I do on my new PC. No surprise there, but it's a tedious process.
MakeUseOfby Jack Mitchell4d ago
After starting with Notion years ago, I tried lots of alternative knowledge management apps because it didn’t quite meet my needs — or so I thought.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha4d ago
It’s a particularly bad time to be a computer hardware enthusiast. With RAM prices going through the roof (along with supply chain issues), getting your hands on reasonably priced hardware is...
MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey4d ago
Autumn is a time when leaves begin to turn, temperatures begin to drop, and people start gearing up for the winter.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder4d ago
I've written about how using your phone's USB-C port for audio is better than using a 3.5mm headphone jack, even if your phone actually has one.
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan4d ago
Have you noticed your Bluetooth speaker or headphones not performing as well as they used to or as advertised?
MakeUseOfby Suman Biswas4d ago
Despite my skepticism, DLSS 5 is impressing me. Well, at least the community-made DLSS Swapper mod is.
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam4d ago
There was once a time when logging into a remote server meant heading back to your computer or whipping out a laptop. Now, smartphones offer another option.
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood4d ago
Most of the time, when an idea pops into my head, I want to start writing about it right away, or at least do a quick Google search before I forget where I was going with it.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu4d ago
I used the $19.99/month (billed annually) Zapier plan for years, and I typically renew the subscription without thinking about it.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi4d ago
Spotify knows my taste almost too well. That’s usually a good thing until Spotify’s decade-old Discover Weekly playlist starts sounding like it’s circling the same neighborhood with different...
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson4d ago
I was given an old HP 250 G7 laptop with a few specific requests. One was to improve its performance with some hardware upgrades.
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