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MakeUseOfby Chris Hachey29d ago
Feel free to look back at what you were watching the last time you turned on your TV. You might find it with a Previous Channel button if you're watching cable or you might have to log into your...
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu29d ago
I rarely use a separate checksum tool. Hitting 100 percent on a download's progress bar usually signals the download is complete.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson29d ago
I installed the Homarr dashboard on my homelab server to keep an eye on everything. However, in true homelab style, I built the dashboard, admired it, and then never looked at it again.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi29d ago
If you've ever tried to get a friend or family member into Home Assistant, you've probably watched their eyes roll the moment you mentioned typing an address with a colon and a random four-digit...
MakeUseOfby Hamed Paydarfar29d ago
Summary - Samsung Gallery stops direct OneDrive sync on Sept 30, 2026; new uploads won't auto-sync.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi29d ago
I like open-source software, but recommendation lists tend to circle the same dozen apps until you could name them from memory.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe29d ago
David Lynch spent most of his career making audiences uneasy. Eraserhead turned new fatherhood into a waking nightmare. Blue Velvet found something rotten underneath a tidy suburban lawn.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu29d ago
You probably read the Linus Torvalds debugging story and the first thing that came to your mind was “even Linus now uses AI.” Well, this take may be why you miss the most important detail in his...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura29d ago
Walk far enough down the Ryobi ONE+ aisle and the tools stop making obvious sense. Past the drills, drivers, and saws sits a shelf of flat-out strange gear that all runs on the same 18V battery.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha29d ago
If there’s one problem that has plagued Steam Deck users since its initial launch back in February 2022, it has most definitely been game compatibility.
MakeUseOfby Saikat Basu29d ago
Goodnotes is the gold standard for handwritten notes on a tablet, but it isn't free, and it isn't open. I tried it for a while and then decided not to put another subscription on my tab.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan29d ago
As someone who has built several gaming PCs over the years, I follow a few rituals to keep the system game-ready.
MakeUseOfby Robin John29d ago
The HiLight LED array on the back of my Pixel 11 Pro XL is one of the few features that genuinely separates it from last year's Pixel.
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz29d ago
Gmail can feel like a lot when all you want to do is check your email. The side panels offer useful features, but they can get in the way if you don't use them much.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura29d ago
For years I mowed the way I assumed everyone did. Blade set low, every Saturday, chasing the tight golf-course look my neighbor somehow pulled off. What I got was a thin, patchy lawn.
MakeUseOfby Robin John29d ago
Pixel cameras have always been easy for me to trust. I can pull the phone out, take a photo, and usually know I’ll get something sharp, bright, and perfectly usable.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke29d ago
Star Wars is science fiction, but only just. It's not possible for humans to travel at the speed of light, the Force works way more like magic than science, and the odds are low that any version of...
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan29d ago
I still remember my first Raspberry Pi purchase in 2019 as a college student: a Raspberry Pi Zero, which I bought to build my first retro gaming console project.
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan29d ago
The native phone recording app is usually nothing to write home about. One option is to purchase an external microphone. But not all of us want to purchase and carry an additional accessory.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan29d ago
Even though storage plays the biggest role in boot times, it's hardly a factor these days because SSDs are the standard for primary storage and they're superfast.
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