How-To Geek

There are many reasons why you might want to get or send emails from an email address that's not your main one. Setting up entirely new Gmail accounts for one-time use purposes can get annoying quickly, though.

Luxury doesn’t always have to come with a six‑figure price tag. In 2025, several compact SUVs deliver much of the upscale comfort and refinement associated with premium brands, but at prices that remain surprisingly accessible. For drivers craving leather-lined cabins, sophisticated tech, and brand prestige without overspending, these models are rewriting what luxury on a budget really means.

I’ll tell you what I’m doing with my time off this holiday season: binge-watching whatever I want! As one of my go-to platforms, Apple TV always offers plenty of options that never fail to intrigue and impress me. Here are 10 of the streamer’s best limited series—some of which are based on true stories—that make for the perfect binge.

You've probably heard a lot about a lot about not connecting to public Wi-Fi networks unless it's an absolute emergency, and if you do, you shouldn't do any sensitive stuff on it. This was solid advice decades ago, and to an extent, it still is.

Ever noticed an unfamiliar icon on the taskbar—or a familiar one that suddenly looks different? Each icon—and its variation—has a specific meaning, and knowing them helps you quickly spot issues. Here’s what each familiar taskbar icon means, when it appears, and whether you should care about it.

Most people think of Google as a consumer company, best known for products like Search, Android, Gmail, and Maps. These are useful tools, but they are mostly things you interact with directly. What often gets overlooked is how much of today’s internet runs on technology Google invented long before it became a household name, not features or apps, but deep infrastructure that shapes how the modern web works every day.

It's been six months since I reviewed the Dell UltraSharp 4K Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (U2725QE), an LCD computer screen that convinced me to give up my search for an OLED upgrade.

Elementary OS isn't as popular as it once was, but it's still a well-designed desktop Linux distribution with an excellent suite of custom-built applications. Now, a new major version is available with multitasking improvements, 64-bit ARM support, and much more.

Dolphin Progress Report, Release 2512, comes with substantial updates that focus on lowering frame latency. This improves performance in troublesome games and finally brings RetroAchievements support to Android users. This release also changes how the emulator handles frame pacing and input timing.

I’ll tell you what—you can keep that celebratory spirit going right through the New Year on HBO Max. The streamer has just released their January lineup, and it features several big reasons to keep the party going, which is good news for you.

Amazon has finally started rolling out the updated Alexa Home Theater feature. This lets you use the latest Echo speakers as a full, multi-channel surround sound system for your Fire TV. This update is coming after the debut of the new Echo Studio and Echo Dot Max earlier this year.

“The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program” might be one of the least helpful messages Windows has ever shipped. It's been this way for as long as I can remember. So, I can't eject a drive, move a file, delete a file, or modify a file because a program is using it. Fine, which program? Why won't you tell me?!

Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, and other operating systems can trace their lineage back to the early commercial versions of Unix. One of the missing links in that chain, UNIX Fourth Edition, is now publicly available after being lost for decades.

This is a pretty sad time to be a PC gamer, or any kind of gamer really. Games are getting more expensive, more space-hungry, and the price of storage is going up and up.

Windows includes several built-in security features designed to protect your data and system. But some of them—like UAC prompts—can feel intrusive. That’s why you need to tune them down so they stay protective without becoming a nuisance. Here are some features that frustrate me the most.

If you've ever seen NVMe SSD reviews online, you've probably noticed that some reviews mention these drives as having DRAM inside. And you've probably wondered—why would an SSD have RAM?

The Linux gaming tool CtrlAssist, which lets multiple physical gamepads act as a single virtual device for cooperative play, just dropped a rumble update. This utility also lets you customize your input setups so you can use multiple controllers to do different things in-game.

I recently saw a coworker type out a SUM formula in Excel to get a quick total, only to delete it a second later. When I showed him a pro shortcut hidden in plain sight, he realized he'd been wasting time on "disposable" formulas for years.

The highly anticipated holiday season is here, with festive cheer filling the air. If you're looking to bring some of that cheer to your screen, Netflix has you and your family covered with its romcoms, thrillers, and comedies.

Amiga computers may have been popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in media production, but their filesystems are not directly compatible with modern computers. The new 'amifuse' project aims to fix that with a new filesystem driver built around an invisible m68k CPU emulator.