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MakeUseOfby Christine Persaud30 Aug 2026
There's nothing quite like unboxing a slick new iPhone. You spend a lot, and everything from the actual hardware to the packaging it comes in suggests luxury.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura30 Aug 2026
Bulk Cat6 has gotten cheap. Search for a 1,000-foot spool and you'll turn up listings that undercut the name brands by half, all promising the same gigabit speeds.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah30 Aug 2026
Your TV can connect to half a dozen different devices — a soundbar, streaming stick, external drive, AV receiver, gaming console and even a PC.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke30 Aug 2026
Ridley Scott, the director behind classics like Alien and Blade Runner, has a new movie out in theaters: The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic thriller set in a world where most of humanity has been...
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef30 Aug 2026
If you deal with sensitive PDF documents, you probably don't want to use a tool that would send them to a third-party server over the internet. That makes self-hosted PDF apps a great alternative.
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood30 Aug 2026
For the past few years, I’ve naturally gravitated toward compact phones like the Pixel 8, Galaxy S25, Pixel 10a, and iPhone 17.
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar30 Aug 2026
Years of Windows updates and software installs slowly turned my old Asus Vivobook into a sluggish mess, where even opening a few browser tabs makes the cooling fan scream.
MakeUseOfby Anwesha Roy30 Aug 2026
Call me lazy, but after over a decade of using smart televisions, I’ve never once tried using a VPN.
MakeUseOfby Jack Mitchell30 Aug 2026
Most time travel stories try to convince us their plotlines are somehow plausible. From Back to the Future to Interstellar, they establish rules, explain paradoxes, and eventually reveal how...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura30 Aug 2026
My first fix for a dead zone was the obvious one: a cheap Wi-Fi extender, the kind that sells for around $20, plugged into a hallway outlet. It helped a little, and it frustrated me a lot.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan30 Aug 2026
I love almost everything about Claude Code, but I hate how quickly Claude Code sessions eat through my session limits!
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah30 Aug 2026
The thing that makes Android Auto different from just using your phone is that it’s designed to be boring.
MakeUseOfby Charlene Badasie29 Aug 2026
If you've somehow made it this far without seeing a single Marvel movie, the good news is that you don't need to wade through over 30 films to understand what everyone's been talking about.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre29 Aug 2026
Turning off Samsung's Offline finding feature is supposed to save you battery life, but when I tested it, it barely made a difference.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi29 Aug 2026
Home Assistant is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, but like all software, sooner or later an update tends to break things.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips29 Aug 2026
HTTPS arrived and drastically altered the internet. Our data was more private than ever, and all it took was the major browsers forcing compliance, and Google Under the hood, Encrypted Client Hello...
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar29 Aug 2026
Google gives every free account a shared 15GB pool that splits across Gmail, Drive, and Photos. When your Google storage gets full, most users open the Photos app and start deleting.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef29 Aug 2026
I stopped using passwords and switched to passkeys as a safer and faster alternative. Since then, the numbers have only grown, now standing at five billion passkeys, as reported by the FIDO...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage29 Aug 2026
Summary - September Kindle drops span cozy romance to epic fantasy and gritty crime, perfect for autumn nights.
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz29 Aug 2026
I kept expecting to hit that one edit in GIMP that would make me reopen Photoshop. Maybe something would take too many steps, or I’d just know how to do it faster in the app I’d been using for a...
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