How-To Geek

The 2026 Oscars have passed, with One Battle After Another walking away with the prestigious Best Picture award. Earlier in the night, Sentimental Value came away with a historic win in the Best International Feature Film category. Because Neon acquired the North American distribution rights to Sentimental Value, it is now streaming on Hulu in the U.S.

Some of Excel's most common "best practices" aren't actually best practices at all. Believing the wrong advice can lead to bloated workbooks, broken formulas, and unnecessary manual work. Here are six spreadsheet myths worth leaving behind.

Android is special not because of what it is, but what you can turn it into. This was especially true in the early days, when the out-of-the-box experience was quite rough, and you needed to install a custom launcher to get the most out of your device. For those of us who lived through it, we can remember different eras of Android based on which custom launchers were dominant at the time.

Years of various internet-related problems, combined with working from home, gave me some serious trust issues. As in, I just don't trust my network to perform 100% of the time, even though I go to great lengths to make that happen.

Anthropic has been touting the power of its Claude Mythos AI model to find and help fix security vulnerabilities, and it has finally released a public version, Fable 5. However, some cybersecurity experts are complaining that the guardrails meant to prevent abuse are stifling its real-world usefulness.

Most new vehicles begin losing value the moment they leave the dealership, making depreciation one of the largest ownership costs buyers face. While reliability, fuel economy, and features often dominate purchasing decisions, resale value can have an equally significant impact on the long-term cost of owning a vehicle. Choosing the right model can mean recovering thousands more dollars when it comes time to sell or trade in.

When assembling a PC, everyone always thinks about the big three first—the CPU, the GPU, and the motherboard. After that, people tend to piece together the rest, depending on what they want. However, everyone always overlooks one component: the humble sound card.

I used Plex for years, but I jumped ship and left around 2018. Watching the latest extraordinary price hike has only made that decision seem better than ever. While many people are only now reconsidering their support because of the cost, I’ve been enjoying the benefits of Jellyfin for years now.

I took a five-year break from building PCs and came back feeling like a complete beginner when my sister asked me to build one for her. Here's what actually changed, what didn't, and how I found my footing again.

Historically, I haven’t been a huge fan of LLMs. AI and machine learning are fascinating topics, sure, but I have some issues with them.

Waymo says its robotaxis crash less often than conventional cars, but it still believes its vehicles can learn from humans. The Alphabet-owned company has unveiled ReD (Reference Driver), a virtual human that teaches autonomous cars how a "careful and competent" person thinks behind the wheel.

The preparation leading up to a trip is always my least favorite part. You need your ID, flight tickets that are scattered between apps, various emails, and maybe a screenshot or two. This is important information scattered across an aggravating number of locations. After getting unbelievably frustrated with the situation, I tried loading everything into Google Wallet.

Using a TV to control your smart home makes sense, which is why Google Home and Samsung SmartThings come baked into many TVs. But what if you want something a little more private? In the absence of a Home Assistant Android TV app, Homey's new release is your next best bet.

Excel is well-known for being a versatile and powerful desktop app, but I always found the mobile app (iOS and Android) frustrating to use. As it turns out, I was looking at my spreadsheets the wrong way. A little-known feature called Cards View replaces cramped grids with a touch-friendly layout.

Presumably, the whole reason you went to the trouble of setting up a smart home in the first place was to make your life easier, not add more frustration to it. In particular, after putting up your feet in the evening following a long day's work, you want to benefit from all the automation you've carefully installed.

Spending a few hundred (or upward of a thousand) dollars on a 3D printer isn’t a decision to be taken lightly. But one thing that shouldn’t hold you back is the erroneous belief that 3D printing has a steep learning curve.

If you’re anything like me, you probably have hundreds (if not thousands) of bookmarks—articles you saved for later, resources from a phase you’ve moved on from, and links that may not even work anymore. At first, you probably thought that you’d clean them up later, but now it’s gotten so big that you’re probably paralyzed just by looking at it.

It's no secret that Samsung makes some of the best phones, but they're always full of redundant apps and bloatware that waste precious storage space. After reviewing Samsung phones for the last 14 years, I've fallen into a routine of purging all the apps I don't want. Here are several of the apps I uninstall from every Galaxy phone.

My smart home budget is limited, so I can't buy every sensor available. Water leak sensors always felt like a bit of a gimmick, so I held off from buying any for quite some time. Life taught me a lesson about how useful they can be, and now water leak sensors are a key part of my smart home.

There was a time when Spotify was the easy, obvious, and definitive choice for people who cared about music. It was well-designed, helped you discover music you'd fall in love with, felt fairly priced, and nothing else really made you want to switch.