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MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef10 Sept 2026
Wireless charging has its perks. You can place your phone on a pad, as long as it's centered, and it starts charging without a cable.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura10 Sept 2026
My garage runs two Ryobi battery platforms at once. The 18V ONE+ packs power my drill, impact driver, and half a dozen bench tools, while the 40V batteries handle the string trimmer and leaf blower...
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre10 Sept 2026
Ten quick taps inside Android Auto’s About menu bypasses Google’s strict app restrictions and unlocks a buried dashboard designed specifically for developers.
MakeUseOfby Tashreef Shareef10 Sept 2026
It's important to always keep a USB recovery media ready. It can help you troubleshoot Windows by booting it into WinPE or, worst case, reinstalling the operating system entirely.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke10 Sept 2026
It's always nice to start a sci-fi or fantasy book series knowing that there's an ending waiting for you.
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah10 Sept 2026
Battery life is one of those things that's a struggle for almost everyone, especially if you're rocking a compact phone like me.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi10 Sept 2026
Your smart TV hangs on the wall in your living room, pride of place. Most folks, myself included, don't really think about it beyond what I want to watch in the evening, once my hands are finally...
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi10 Sept 2026
Backup software asks for a weird amount of trust. You set everything up while your files are perfectly fine, then months later you’re supposed to believe the whole system will still make sense when...
MakeUseOfby Sara Heritage10 Sept 2026
A comprehensive peer-reviewed study has found significant differences in reliability among various storage manufacturers after examining 1.66 million drive-years from 443,156 hard drives.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips10 Sept 2026
Asus' long-running Zenbook lineup moves from strength to strength, but the newest model, the Zenbook 14 UX3480QA, is lacking the same strong identity that keeps me coming back to these devices.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman10 Sept 2026
There are certain features of your phone that, while convenient, are negatively impacting your battery life without you knowing.
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli10 Sept 2026
Your house should be the one place where you just don’t have to worry about internet, Wi-Fi, and whatever else. It should be stable and just... seamless. It wasn’t the case with mine.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura10 Sept 2026
Ask a tool forum what to buy and the answer comes back in red almost every time: Milwaukee M18 FUEL, whatever the category. The tools are excellent, and the prices say so.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar10 Sept 2026
Summary - Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger believes AI has a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe9 Sept 2026
My Roku Streaming Stick 4K has sat on Auto since the day I plugged it into my LG OLED. I never questioned it because Auto sounds like the setting a company chooses when its engineers have already...
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz9 Sept 2026
I thought I had my Moto G14’s storage under control. I already use a few of the usual ways to make space when phone storage gets full, like deleting videos, pictures, and apps every so often, so I...
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz9 Sept 2026
I’ve used Windows for years, but I still forget keyboard shortcuts I’ve used dozens of times. And if I have to stop what I’m doing and search for the right key combination every time that happens...
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile9 Sept 2026
I often connect a lot of USB devices at the same time to my laptop while working. USB hub, mouse, keyboard, external drive, you name it.
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar9 Sept 2026
Summary - The iPhone Duo hides its FaceTime camera beneath the inner display, eliminating the need for a notch or punch-hole cutout.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi9 Sept 2026
I’ve been using Android since the days when “Cupcake” and “Donut” were cutting-edge software, so I generally assume I know my way around the OS.
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