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MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam5 Sept 2026
Modern TVs deliver stunning visuals. They offer ultra-high-definition images with impossibly bright HDR colors. They're also impossibly thin, perfect for hanging on a wall.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi5 Sept 2026
If you've spent the last few years thinking OLED burn-in was a solved problem I've got news for you.
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre5 Sept 2026
I didn't expect a Windows PC to make me miss the flat, colorful iMac Apple redesigned a few years back, but here we are: the Lenovo 31.5" Yoga AIO i Aura Edition All-in-One has been sitting on my...
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile5 Sept 2026
Whenever my Windows laptop starts lagging or an app freezes, my immediate instinct is to open Task Manager. I know I’m not alone. Task Manager has been a core Windows staple for decades.
MakeUseOfby Isaac Akinleye5 Sept 2026
My PC doesn't have much going on most of the time. It's a low-end HP-15 laptop, so I keep things lean, with nothing more than Windows services, Chrome, Slack, and maybe any other tool I'm working...
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman5 Sept 2026
I love my Pixel 10 Pro and seriously considered upgrading it when the Pixel 11 Pro/Pixel 11 Pro XL came out recently.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu5 Sept 2026
Most folks turn on dark mode hoping for extended battery life. If you have an OLED phone, this logic may feel airtight. After all, when black pixels turn off, they stop using power.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura5 Sept 2026
Most people planning an in-wall Ethernet run put all their energy into one question: CAT5e, CAT6, or CAT6A.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi5 Sept 2026
Installing Linux on a laptop is easy enough now that I’m far more interested in what happens after the installer disappears.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke5 Sept 2026
"The book is better than the movie," the saying goes. And then there are some books so unique even trying to adapt them to the screen seems like a fool's errand. Better to leave well enough alone.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu5 Sept 2026
I've bought several refurbished phones over the years. Some looked brand new on arrival, but a few had only half a day's battery life.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah5 Sept 2026
Google Drive is undeniably convenient, but that convenience also has a price tag once you cross the 15GB mark.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi5 Sept 2026
For the better part of a decade, "disable Secure Boot" has been a skeleton key of PC troubleshooting.
MakeUseOfby Sagar Naresh5 Sept 2026
After using Google Chrome for years, I switched to Samsung Internet Browser on my Android phone because of its simplicity and the features it has on offer.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips5 Sept 2026
Earbuds always die. No matter how much you take care of them, they're going to give out on you at some point, and it's often the same thing: the battery.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips5 Sept 2026
Every year, the world's tech journalists descend on the wonderful sights and sounds of Berlin, Germany, for a week exploring the cavernous halls of the Messe Berlin.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi5 Sept 2026
I sometimes think about how much human effort gets buried inside a failed gadget. Years of engineering, design work, carrier deals, and marketing can vanish with the product almost overnight.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi5 Sept 2026
I've been running a home lab for a while now, juggling ESP32 controllers, a Home Assistant voice satellite, several self-hosted Docker containers, and Next.js apps, and having done all of that, I...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura5 Sept 2026
The cable behind your TV has an expiration date. Not a literal one, but the standard it was built for keeps moving, and every jump eventually asks you to swap the physical wire.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah5 Sept 2026
If you’ve recently updated Windows or done a clean install, you might have noticed a new folder pop-up in your C drive called Windows.old.
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