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MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood22h ago
My VS Code settings.json file is full of notes to myself. One line explains why autosave waits a moment; another reminds me why the build folders are hidden.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura22h ago
Closing on a house brings a strange urge to fill the garage. Every Home Depot trip after moving in walks you past six-tool combo kits stacked on pallets, and each box looks like the responsible...
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre23h ago
When Creality sent me its consumer-level engraving unit, the Falcon A1C, I was excited to try my hand at personalizing things for gifts and items around the house.
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli23h ago
Yes, storage prices are crazy. With SSD prices climbing as high as triple in just a year, it's easy to seek out... "deals."
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson1d ago
I’ve always believed that an app store’s catalog should never decide what a phone can do. Genuinely useful software can disappear for various reasons, including political, regional, and commercial...
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura1d ago
My Apple Watch Ultra 3 tapped my wrist in the middle of a garage project and told me the room was too loud.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu1d ago
The 1TB hard disk on my laptop has been spinning for close to 20,000 hours. Honestly, almost every rule of thumb tells me it's overdue, so I've half expected it to die for a while now.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke1d ago
In 1996, George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, the first book in what would become his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
MakeUseOfby Kanika Gogia1d ago
My phone often asks for my attention. It's not just social media notifications, either. I find myself picking up and unlocking my phone dozens of times a day, and mostly, it's not on purpose.
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe1d ago
My Roku Streaming Stick Plus (model 3830R) handles almost everything I throw at it. Then I tried pointing it to a different DNS server, and it stopped responding. Privacy was the main reason.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman1d ago
Not to brag, but I type extraordinarily fast on my phone for one simple reason: I use swipe-typing instead of thumb-typing.
MakeUseOfby Yadullah Abidi1d ago
Excel remains one of the most useful tools on my computer, especially for organizing data, tracking expenses, and building detailed models.
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan1d ago
Modern PCs are power-hungry machines. High-end GPUs like the RTX 5080 alone have a TGP (total graphics power) of 360W, raising the minimum requirement for PSUs in high-end systems to a minimum of...
MakeUseOfby Suman Biswas1d ago
Cloud gaming has always intrigued me. Getting access to my favorite games on almost any device, at any time, without hardware limitations is a fascinating proposition that felt too good to be true.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu1d ago
I've trimmed my startup apps list quite a few times, and even gone through Autoruns line by line. Yet none of these tools perfectly explain why my laptop can feel busy long after the login screen.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder1d ago
When you unbox a newer Google Pixel phone and start using it, a secret clock starts. Every time you charge and discharge your phone's battery, it's counted as a charge cycle.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson1d ago
Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is a free, open-source virtualization platform for running virtual machines and Linux containers.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu1d ago
"File name too long" is one of the Windows errors that has wasted a lot of my time. There's a Windows setting that allows compatible applications to work with paths longer than the traditional...
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips1d ago
TP-Link is the most popular router brand nationwide, with its routers sitting in more than a third of every house and office across the country.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips1d ago
For a long time, I saved every password in my browser. It's effortless: log in once, click Save, and your browser does the rest.
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