Upcoming sci-fi and fantasy movies are one thing, but there’s something wonderfully ironic buried inside two of the most iconic cyborgs in movie history. RoboCop and the T-800 both show […]
I didn’t expect this hidden Samsung feature to fix my home Wi-Fi
My home Wi-Fi had dead zones, a congested channel, and a router in the wrong spot. The kicker is that my Galaxy phone found all three problems, and that’s without […]
Stop wasting your phone’s speaker volume — here’s how to unlock the full 85dB
Most phones have dual speakers that get reasonably loud — until you’re in a noisy restaurant, a car, or trying to share a video with someone across the table and […]
There are two Motorolas, and the one you know is the small one
Say “Motorola” to most folks, and they picture a Razr flip phone, or the bat-wing logo on a Moto G box at Walmart. For me, I look to my Razr […]
I tested a budget Lenovo for everyday use, and its screen punches above its price
I wasn’t expecting much from a budget laptop, to be honest. Then I spent some time with the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i (Gen 11, 15-Inch screen) for the stuff I […]
I added head tracking to my games with a webcam and free software
I’ve been playing sim racing games for a while on my single monitor. It works, but it’s not exactly the immersive experience that you’d want from a racing sim or […]
After a decade on Windows, I finally understand why Linux users never go back
I spent about 10 years on Windows because Linux always sounded more technical than I wanted my everyday computer to be. I pictured command lines, setup problems, and having to […]
5 Windows experiments Microsoft would probably rather you forgot
Microsoft has spent four decades using Windows as one of consumer software’s largest public laboratories. Windows is the public-facing storefront, but behind it sits a collection of test tubes: interfaces […]
7 obscure fantasy series to read instead of waiting for The Winds of Winter
Author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books are unquestionably the biggest fantasy novel series of the past 20 years, in no small part because HBO’s Game […]
Windows 11’s Dev Drive made my work folders faster, and almost nobody has turned it on
Most “free performance” tweaks for Windows end up making little measurable difference. I was skeptical about the free Windows setting that’s supposed to speed up development folders, but I still […]