This tiny battery in your PC is dying, and you won't notice until it's too late
How-To Geekby Monica J. White5 Sept 2026
Let's face it, you probably don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about your motherboard. Fair enough; neither do I.
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top 51%Roku is destroying the clean home screen that convinced me to buy it in the first place
How-To Geekby Jorge A. Aguilar5 Sept 2026
For a while, Roku felt like the one streaming platform that hadn't sold out. Ads were not invasive a few years ago, and the OS mostly stayed out of your way.
This Tiny eReader Might Change Everything.
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas5 Sept 2026
Pocket eReaders are hot right now thanks to Xteink and a handful of rivals, but they frequently come with compromises or are simply hard to get.
5 free Obsidian plugins that turn daily notes into a low-effort second brain
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh5 Sept 2026
If you’ve tried to build a second brain — one place to store all your ideas and retrieve them when necessary — you probably already know that it’s easier said than done.
7 simple but useful homelab upgrades you’ve never thought of
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes5 Sept 2026
Whether your homelab consists of an ISP-provided router and a mini PC or a whole rack that takes up the corner of your spare room, it could always benefit from a few considered upgrades.
Prepare for your next power outage with an entertainment USB stick
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa5 Sept 2026
People always say they don't have time to watch all the movies and TV shows they want to see. Ironically, in situations when we lose power at home, we have the time, but not the ability.
My phone doesn't have a headphone jack, so I made a case to bring it back
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa5 Sept 2026
I’m becoming the guy who builds weird phone accessories. This time, the idea was simple: bring back the headphone jack while retaining the ability to use the phone’s charging port.
5 super-affordable DeWalt tools I always keep in my trunk
How-To Geekby Cory Gunther5 Sept 2026
One of the worst feelings is realizing you're unprepared for a situation, whether that's stuck on the side of the road or during a big weekend project.
How to control your Google TV wirelessly with Windows 11
How-To Geekby Vishwamoorthy Ramakrishnan5 Sept 2026
Owning an Android or Google TV gives you a lot of freedom, but navigating its interface with a standard remote can sometimes be frustrating.
DisplayPort isn't always the best choice—here's when HDMI wins
How-To Geekby Monica J. White5 Sept 2026
Is there a battle between HDMI and DisplayPort these days? Not really, not anymore. DisplayPort has traditionally been the easy recommendation for PC monitors, and modern DP 2.1 has beaten HDMI...
I've used Excel professionally for over 15 years. These are the functions I use most often
How-To Geekby Tony Phillips5 Sept 2026
Excel has more than 500 built-in functions, but if you asked me which ones I use most often, I wouldn't need very long to answer.
The Pebble Time 2 proves smartwatches got worse, not better
How-To Geekby Bertel King5 Sept 2026
The Pebble Time 2 is the most fun I’ve ever had with a smartwatch. It’s not the prettiest. It’s not the most durable. It’s not even packed with the most features.
These clever 3D prints could stop your stuff from being stolen
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes5 Sept 2026
It’s no secret that a good percentage of thefts are opportunistic in nature. Thieves target items that are easy to grab, so a good defense often boils down to making items less inviting.
I finally found an easy way to make Windows remember exactly where every app window belongs
How-To Geekby Tony Phillips5 Sept 2026
Every morning, I open the same apps and then spend the next few minutes dragging, resizing, and rearranging them across my two monitors. By the afternoon, everything has shifted again.
Call me weird, but after 3 months working at a desktop PC, I couldn't wait to give it up
How-To Geekby Bertel King4 Sept 2026
For the past couple of years, I've done most of my published writing from my phone. I know how weird most people find this, so I thought I'd try a traditional desktop PC.
This $15 ESP32 board gave my Jellyfin library the marquee it deserves
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson4 Sept 2026
I miss the good old days when you had to queue for a movie, lining up outside the theater and passing the Now Showing posters which would get you excited about what you were about to see.
6 ways you can turn an old speaker into a private Amazon Echo replacement
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis4 Sept 2026
Most of us have an old bookshelf speaker, soundbar, or Bluetooth speaker lying around somewhere. They still sound good, the problem is that they're not very "smart."
Nvidia's RTX Spark: The Reality of Next-Gen PCs!
How-To Geekby Jon Fingas4 Sept 2026
Nvidia is slowly lifting the veil from the first PCs with its RTX Spark chip, and it's now clearer what they can do.
This decade-old laptop next to my router is the most useful device on my network
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic4 Sept 2026
When someone new comes over, one of the first questions I get is why in the world I have a random laptop plugged into my router.
Excel dashboards kept sending me down a rabbit hole. Gemini got me out
How-To Geekby Tony Phillips4 Sept 2026
I'm forever creating dashboards in Excel, and while I get a lot of satisfaction from it, that's part of the problem.