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MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam25 Aug 2026
When you unbox and set up your new router in North America, you're given the option of using no fewer than 11 different channels on the 2.4GHz band.
MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud25 Aug 2026
The latest tech gadgets like smartphones and smartwatches are adding impressive features leveraging AI that make your days easier, your photos better, and the user experience more fluid overall.
MakeUseOfby Mahnoor Faisal25 Aug 2026
I don't spend a lot of time away from home, but I recently went on a two-week vacation. Homesickness wasn't really an issue, and if anything, I was dreading coming back to my usual routine.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar25 Aug 2026
Summary - PowerToys 0.101 just introduced Window Hopper, which uses a configurable shortcut to cycle through windows from the current app only.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu25 Aug 2026
You probably have never used that USB port at the back of your router. Yet sometimes files bounce between devices, a perfectly good printer remains attached to a single computer, and you keep...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage25 Aug 2026
Summary - NASA's free e-book library is nonfiction treasure—mission reports, engineering manuals, and stunning Hubble images.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi25 Aug 2026
Linux users can switch from GNOME to KDE Plasma today and treat the choice like any other distro preference.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke25 Aug 2026
This December, Dune: Part Three will drop into theaters opposite Avengers: Doomsday, a match-up that should be great fun to watch.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi25 Aug 2026
I’d turned on Bitwarden’s autofill-on-page-load setting for the obvious reason. I wanted my password manager to do its job before I had to think about it.
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood25 Aug 2026
I have a sales workbook that has five sheets. Transactions on one, products on another, then salespeople, regions, and a calendar, each maintained separately because that is how the data arrives.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah25 Aug 2026
Most Windows storage tricks come down to either clearing temporary files or deleting large apps and files. But there’s one more lesser-known trick, which is to compress Windows itself.
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage25 Aug 2026
Summary - PocketBook Q: phone-sized 5.84-inch E Ink e-reader, 130g for effortless one-handed reading.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson25 Aug 2026
My Home Ops server has already managed files, containers, monitoring, and smart home automations, so it’s safe to say I already trust it. Unfortunately, my browser was less convinced.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi25 Aug 2026
You don't necessarily decide to make Google Password Manager your passkey vault. It can happen one login prompt at a time.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips25 Aug 2026
Throughout 2026, I've used the fantastic Motorola Razr Fold, one of the best new smartphones of the year, and easily one of the best new foldables from any company.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef25 Aug 2026
My partner's iPhone has a feature that turns her phone into a smart display when it's charging. My Samsung Galaxy phone, on the other hand, doesn't come with an equivalent feature out of the box.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha24 Aug 2026
On my journey to find some of the most random pieces of cheap tech on the internet, I stumbled across a $50 projector that seemed to promise the Moon.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile24 Aug 2026
For years, my go-to solution to any major issue on my Windows laptop was to simply start over and reinstall Windows.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu24 Aug 2026
I always considered "no DRAM" a deal-breaker when buying an SSD. I thought a cheap drive without that chip made sense only if speed really didn't matter.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi24 Aug 2026
Windows feels so welded to Microsoft today that the company’s operating system strategy in the late 1980s can seem almost bizarre in hindsight.
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