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MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder6 Sept 2026
So, you want a smartphone with an incredible battery life. You shouldn't go out and buy the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, iPhone 17 Pro Max, or even the OnePlus 15.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura6 Sept 2026
I've ridden out a power outage on the same batteries that run my drill. A small clip-on inverter turned one of my 18V packs into a working outlet, keeping phones topped off and a lamp burning until...
MakeUseOfby Oliver Haslam6 Sept 2026
Remember when buying a new phone meant sliding in a microSD card with all of your data on it, just ready to go?
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi6 Sept 2026
When I finally pulled the trigger on a 3D printer after putting it off for years, I had a whole list of practical justifications ready to go.
MakeUseOfby Jack Mitchell6 Sept 2026
After decades of World War II movies and TV shows, it’s become difficult to find something that you might call truly original.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan6 Sept 2026
No matter where you live and which phone you use, spam calls are annoying. Somehow, they happen at the worst possible moment, too.
MakeUseOfby Saikat Basu6 Sept 2026
When Microsoft swapped Word's old menus for the ribbon back in 2007, a handful of genuinely useful tools went "missing".
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson6 Sept 2026
There’s not really much wrong with the basic Windows 11 taskbar. The problem is everything Microsoft keeps trying to attach to it.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi6 Sept 2026
That drawer full of retired electronics doesn't have to be a graveyard. With a free weekend and zero soldering skills, you can turn three gadgets you probably already own into tools that actually...
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef6 Sept 2026
Keeping my Windows installation drive from filling up has been a constant struggle. To Windows' credit, it does come with Storage Sense to help you clean up junk files periodically.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke6 Sept 2026
In 1984, William Gibson's novel Neuromancer popularized the term "cyberspace." In Neuromancer, it took the form of a vast virtual reality where billions of people could access the total sum of...
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson6 Sept 2026
A little while ago, I was gifted an old Intel NUC mini PC. I had no idea what it did before it landed in my hands, but I eventually gave it the job of being a media PC for my aging smart TV.
MakeUseOfby Digvijay Kumar6 Sept 2026
Flagships in 2026 start at 256GB of fixed internal storage, and jumping to 512GB adds another $200 to the receipt. My S25 Ultra came with a dual SIM tray but no memory card slot.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah6 Sept 2026
Whenever your phone starts running low on storage, the first instinct is usually to delete unwanted apps and photos. But honestly, after a point, that’s just not an option.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu6 Sept 2026
After years of forwarding ports and babysitting my configurations so that my phone can always reach my home server remotely, I got tired.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah6 Sept 2026
Your smart TV comes packed with features meant to give you the best possible viewing experience. But not all of those "helpful" features actually help, at least not all the time.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan6 Sept 2026
The standardization of USB-C across smartphones and even computers was supposed to be convenient, but it isn't that simple.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi6 Sept 2026
Nvidia's unreleased DLSS 5 is already circulating in the PC modding scene, and you can try its neural-rendering effects on just about any Nvidia RTX GPU without waiting for the official rollout.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson6 Sept 2026
A Windows PC where silly mistakes have no consequences sounds like the perfect place to test out shady software.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder5 Sept 2026
Anker's Soundcore brand earned a name for itself in the budget audio space, but it makes particularly excellent sleep earbuds.
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