howtogeek.comadded August 2026
How-To Geekby Nick Lewis15d ago
Almost every Linux distro makes certain decisions for you in the interest of "completeness." That usually means that you'll wind up with a bunch of apps that you'll never use, taking up space on...
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic15d ago
We tend to spend a lot of time chasing the latest and greatest in PC hardware. Each new generation of CPUs promises a new architecture, more cores, and higher clock speeds, which ultimately result...
How-To Geekby Goran Damnjanovic15d ago
There's no denying that VLC is one of the most powerful video players on Windows. On the surface, it's simple enough, but once you media files.
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh15d ago
If you use an Android phone, you’re probably using Gemini as your default AI assistant. Google commands.
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes15d ago
Do you prefer working from a sheet of instructions and a box full of parts, rather than assembling everything yourself from scratch?
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler16d ago
I'm almost certainly going to move into a new place next year, which means that familiar dread of having to pack up everything is starting to creep in.
How-To Geekby Vishwamoorthy Ramakrishnan16d ago
The average battery capacity of an Android phone has increased from around 3000 mAh in 2015 to 5291 mAh in January 2026, with certain Chinese OEMs now reaching up to 10,000 mAh in mainstream...
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson16d ago
Amazon's Kindle ecosystem offers a lot of convenience. You can browse, purchase, borrow, and download books directly from your Kindle eReader, and sync progress across your devices.
How-To Geekby Derek Malcolm16d ago
The end of the month is the streaming equivalent of the day before grocery day. September's new arrivals have been picked clean, October's movie refresh is still days away, and you're rummaging...
How-To Geekby Ismar Hrnjicevic16d ago
NVIDIA has built a phenomenal software ecosystem around its consumer graphics cards, with DLSS often at the heart of the argument for buying a GeForce GPU.
How-To Geekby Steve Larner16d ago
Excel has been around for quite some time, from its original debut as Microsoft Multiplan in 1985 for Macintosh to becoming Excel in 1987 for Windows.
How-To Geekby Sanya Shah16d ago
I always thought Android Auto was about to make driving easier. I spend enough time in my car driving around town, picking up my grandparents, running errands, or waiting for my mom to finish her...
How-To Geekby Dibakar Ghosh16d ago
Typically, your default file manager on Linux depends on whichever desktop environment you’re using. If you’re using anything GNOME-based like Ubuntu, you get Nautilus.
How-To Geekby Tyler Dupont16d ago
Comfort shows have a unique appeal. Sometimes you don't want to start something new, keep up with a complicated plot, or spend half an hour deciding what to watch.
How-To Geekby Tim Brookes16d ago
Having a smart home shouldn’t mean staring at sensors and flashing lights in every room. Some of the best things you can put in a smart home are inconspicuous and sometimes invisible.
How-To Geekby Timothy Jacob Hudson16d ago
These days, streaming is the king of movies. But a few of us still enjoy owning a physical Blu-ray disc.
How-To Geekby Umair Khurshid16d ago
My new NAS does not stream movies, serve files to every device, run containers, or sit there waiting for the next request. Most of the time, it consumes no power at all.
How-To Geekby Derek Malcolm16d ago
You're showered, shaved, and dressed to impress. The Uber is two minutes out when your group chat starts pinging like Christmas bells—"Not feeling great, have to bail. Sry." "Something came up.
How-To Geekby Joe Fedewa16d ago
For better or worse, Google Messages has become the de facto text messaging app for Android. I happen to think it's pretty good, but there are a couple of big missing features.
How-To Geekby Tony Phillips16d ago
I miss the Windows of the '90s. Microsoft seemed to have a utility for everything, whether you needed to tweak Windows, troubleshoot a problem, automate a task, or simply do something Windows...
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