How-To Geek

If you've spend any meaningful time inside ChatGPT—brainstorming ideas, planning schedules, organizing your thoughts—you've probably felt the friction of having to move all that work into a separate tool afterward. But what if you didn't have to? What if ChatGPT, apart from helping you tackle your projects and tasks, could also help you manage them?

Where I live in Florida, power interruptions are just part of life. The lights flicker, the voltage dips, or the power cuts out for a few seconds without much warning. Brownouts happen throughout the year, and sometimes they're enough to crash a computer or interrupt whatever you're working on.

I'd like to believe I'm a champion of the cinematic experience. Call me old school, but nothing beats the feeling of watching a movie on the big screen in a packed theater on a Friday night. I vividly remember how the audience exploded for Iron Man during his snap in Avengers: Endgame. I can still hear the screams from my theater when Chris enters the "sunken place" in Get Out. These are memories I'll always cherish.

Finding a new vehicle that is fuel-efficient, safe, and genuinely affordable can feel daunting. As we move through 2026, the national average transaction price for a new car has trended so high that even a six-figure salary might not provide enough cushion when factoring in other living expenses. Subaru, however, is taking a refreshingly different path with the 2026 Forester Hybrid.

Depending on how you go about it, building or buying a NAS can be an expensive hobby or a cost-effective venture. You can repurpose an old PC and turn it into a NAS, but you can also buy highly specialized, ready-made NAS units to satisfy all your storage needs. One way or another, even just the hard drives alone can cost a lot, especially considering the current prices of storage.

Sometimes, fuel economy figures are seen as fixed and unchangeable numbers. That what appears on the EPA window sticker (i.e., city, highway, and combined) when a vehicle is new are the preset numbers, no matter what.

I'm a big believer in smart home automation over smart home control. Being able to turn on a light using an app on your phone or by asking Alexa is great, but the light turning on automatically when you enter the room is much better.

Google doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to privacy, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Pixel phones actually have some of the best privacy-focused features you can find in the Android world. You just have to make sure to enable them.

Subcompact SUVs have exploded in popularity over the past decade. Automakers rushed to meet demand, rolling out smaller crossovers built for city life and young families.

Installing apps on Windows hasn't changed much in years. Most people still open a browser, search for the program they want, download an installer, and click through a handful of setup screens. It works, but it's slow and repetitive. If you're setting up a new PC or reinstalling Windows, the process gets even worse. Installing a handful of everyday apps can mean jumping between half a dozen websites and repeating the same steps over and over or pulling out a USB drive full of installers and running them one by one.

If you ask me, the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of action films. However, everyone knows the classics from the 20th century. If we start the clock at the year 2001 or later to give newer films a fair chance, how do they rank? This is my attempt at putting up a scoreboard for the new century so far.

Thanks to the rising prices of everything, including PC components, the looming RAM-pocalypse, and the fact that RGB is slowly falling out of favor among PC gamers, there's a growing trend of PC components once considered "obsolete" finding their way back into more and more desktop PCs.

Are you tired of everyone recommending a new Linux distro claiming it's the best? Are you wondering which one of these best distros is actually aligned with your needs and requirements? Well, let me spotlight five popular Linux distros and what they do, so you can finally make your choice!

I cut the cord and went all-in on streaming back in 2015. Thanks to Sling TV, I ditched my expensive cable TV bill and got all the essential channels at a fraction of the price. Everything was great for a few years, and eventually, I switched to YouTube TV, but the good old days are long behind us.

The golden era of couch co-op gaming is still one of the most loved times in video game history. Even though modern consoles focus on online-only multiplayer, that immediate, in-person feeling you get from local competition is exactly why games like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and the Mario Party series are my favorites. For years, if you wanted to keep that nostalgia alive, it meant you had to track down old hardware, hunt for controllers, and deal with those fuzzy, standard-definition graphics.

How many devices do you have in your smart home? How many are connected to the internet, and how many of them are running updated firmware? Do you even know for sure? If not, it's time for an audit of your smart home devices.

Electric vehicles were once among the most expensive options on the market, often carrying price tags far beyond comparable gasoline-powered cars. But as the EV market matures and more models return from leases, used prices are beginning to fall quickly. In some cases, the shift is dramatic enough that buyers can now purchase a used electric crossover for the same price as a brand-new compact sedan.

If you'd like to get more done in your day without getting overwhelmed, these free tools may just save your day to day.

When you switch from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac, you'll probably hit a few hurdles. These quirks will go away over time, but that can be frustrating and slow you down, especially if you've used PCs for ages. I'll go into the subtle but important operational differences between a Mac and a PC to get you ready for those less obvious changes you'll need to make to really get things done. If I had known how different the Mac was, I wouldn't have been so eager to switch over.

Wi-Fi 7 routers are heavily marketed as a massive leap over older Wi-Fi standards, promising faster speeds, lower latency, and much better optimized connections.