How-To Geek

It's the final weekend of July, and while we wait for the hot new lineup from HBO Max to arrive for August (with DC's Lanterns and new docuseries Monsters of God on the way), the prestige service still has a few tricks up its sleeve for documentary lovers.

Affordable sports cars are becoming an endangered species. As prices continue to climb and automakers shift their focus toward SUVs and electrification, the number of genuinely fun performance cars that ordinary buyers can still afford has dwindled to just a handful.

While Will Ferrell's golf comedy The Hawk, Josh Duhamel's ranch drama Ransom Canyon, and WWE's Raw float around in Netflix's top spots as we approach the end of the month this weekend, if you're a U.S. subscriber looking for something worth adding to your watchlist, I have a few suggestions you might like.

Google's Pixel 11 event might include the company's first answer to Apple's AirTag. A leaked image (shown below) and store listings make clear that Google is close to releasing a Pixel Tag that could become Android's default item tracker.

Water in a phone speaker is one of those problems that's easy to miss until the audio sounds wrong, and you can't figure out why. Sometimes it happens after a swim or a rain catches you off guard, but it can also build up slowly from humidity or a splash you barely notice. The instinct is usually to shake the phone, let it dry out, or stick it in rice, but none of those actually work on water, physically wedged into the speaker mesh.

Most Excel users know Ctrl+F as a quick way to find specific text or values in a spreadsheet. You might also know Ctrl+H, but probably think of it as little more than a way to replace one value with another. For years, I overlooked how much more it could do. From cleaning up messy imports to fixing formatting issues, Find and Replace is one of Excel's most underrated cleanup tools.

Now and then, I come across a movie that makes me wonder how I hadn't heard of it sooner. This is especially true with Netflix titles, because there's so much to choose from, what with its original library and new, licensed titles arriving every month in the U.S.

Google Pixel phones have plenty of cool features, but when it comes to automations, they’re a bit lacking. Still, even with the limited options, I’m able to make my Pixel automatically change certain settings based on my location.

Badge prestige still carries a lot of weight in the sports sedan world, which is why many buyers automatically gravitate toward the usual German luxury brands. That can be an expensive habit, especially when there are overlooked alternatives offering comparable performance, premium interiors, and engaging driving dynamics for thousands less.

Got an old Chromecast sitting in a drawer unused? It doesn't matter if you no longer need it for streaming, there are plenty of other ways to make use of it. So connect it to your TV, update the software, and try one of these ideas to repurpose your old Chromecast.

Your modem is probably one of the least-checked devices in your home. After all, how often do you really need to look at it? Only if your internet goes down, I'd imagine.

When it comes to summer binges, I prefer a riveting series over anything else. In a world where our minds are constantly focused on multiple things at a time, there's nothing better than tuning all that out with something completely engrossing that keeps me hooked.

Your Google Pixel has many clever features, some tucked away in menus or introduced quietly. If you’ve updated to Android 15 or even if you’re running an older version, there’s a good chance you’re missing out on some of these hidden gems.

For a long time, the Raspberry Pi was the default choice for any project that called for an SBC because it was affordable and well-supported. Unfortunately, things have changed. Memory prices have pushed the top-shelf Pi 5 from its original price of $120 to above $300. The low-memory models are still affordable, but the calculus around which board you should buy is no longer quite so cut and dry.

There's a category of apps that quietly run in the background, doing their jobs and making your life easier. You set them up once, configure them the way you want, and then forget about them as they keep working behind the scenes, quietly paying dividends. Here are three free and open source (FOSS) apps that fit that set-it-and-forget-it philosophy. You can set up all three in a single Saturday afternoon, and they'll continue working in the background for weeks and months to come.

Mechanical moving parts are among some of the most satisfying objects you can print. Here are six of our favorites, from fidget spinners for idle hands through to toys, decor, and educational projects.

Major changes are coming to Google account storage for Android users. Stuff that has historically not counted toward your storage allotment soo will—it could put a damper on your data management. Here's some background info on the changes and what you can do to adapt.

Photoshop is one of the hardest apps to find a good free, open-source (FOSS) alternative for. It's genuinely powerful, has decades of history behind it, is familiar to professionals across the industry, and its interface just works. And truth be told, at the time of writing, there's no single FOSS app that can do everything Photoshop does. But use three FOSS apps together, and they can cover most of what people use Photoshop for day to day. Sure, you give up some convenience—but you save a lot of money in the process.

I'm not a big fan of smart home dashboards. My ideal smart home is one that works automatically without me having to control things manually. When I got my hands on a VR headset, however, I wanted to see if I could build a virtual smart home dashboard in 3D space.

GitHub has grown from a simple place to store code into the center of the modern development world. It's still the largest platform of its kind, and if you want other developers to discover, use, or contribute to your project, it remains one of the easiest places to reach them. That network effect is hard to ignore, and I don't think most developers need to abandon GitHub completely.