How-To Geek

Capturing the best pictures using just your iPhone does not have to be something you need to stress over when you know where to look. Your camera is extremely customizable, and many hidden (and overlooked) features play a big part in how you use it.

After a long while of messing around with EndeavourOS, I've decided it's time to hop distros again on my main tower. My new daily driver on my dual-boot setup will be CachyOS. To be honest, I've been peer-pressured into it.

Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, but that doesn't mean it's the best—especially if you have a Samsung Galaxy phone. Before tapping on the Chrome icon, you may be surprised to find there is another browser on your phone that you like even more.

This was yet another busy week in tech, with some impressive updates coming to Google Maps and Home Assistant, Google's proposed settlement with Epic Games, more changes coming to Windows 11, and a whole lot more. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed.

One day, all of this will be gone. The sun will swell up and consume the inner planets and burn it all to a crisp. Luckily, all life on Earth and everything humanity has created on this planet will be dust for millions of years before that happens, so that's a bullet dodged!

NVIDIA's mid-cycle "SUPER" refreshes have almost become a tradition in the graphics card industry. The RTX 50 SUPER series was expected to be especially significant, promising meaningful upgrades for gamers. Unfortunately, with reports of a global DRAM shortage, it looks like patient players may not be getting their hands on these cards anytime soon.

We all love our phones and are probably more addicted to them than we realize. Did you know the average person unlocks their phone around 100–150 times a day, and taps the screen over 2,600 times a day? We use these little pocket computers for everything, which is why your oleophobic coating is slowly but surely getting destroyed.

The phone camera in your pocket is an incredible piece of kit. If you’re anything like me, you probably reach for it every time you want to preserve a memory. But phone cameras have limitations, both in terms of their technical ability and what they’re like to use.

Microsoft Excel has been the king of spreadsheets for decades. Now that more people are turning to open-source alternatives, LibreOffice Calc enters the conversation. Let's examine some key features to see if Calc is a viable option for getting the job done.

Smartphones and the apps we use on them are designed to maximize screen time. You might pick up your phone to swipe away a notification alert, only to realize half an hour has passed and you haven’t looked away from the screen. That’s why I set up a notification system to alert me whenever that happened.

For a lot of us, streaming was supposed to be the end of expensive cable bundles. A way to pay only for what we actually watched. But somewhere along the way, that promise started to unravel. Every show seemed to live on a different platform, subscription prices crept up, and the once simple joy of flipping through channels turned into a spreadsheet of monthly charges. According to Consumer Reports, more than half of American households now subscribe to four or more streaming services, and nearly one in ten pay for nine or more. It’s a quiet kind of subscription fatigue that’s easy to ignore until you finally add up the totals.

Major shifts could be ahead for Android—the Epic vs. Google settlement will change app distribution. Motorola's new Moto G series starts at just $170. Plus, Google Messages can now pin 20 conversations, and Gemini is coming to Google Maps navigation. Read on for more!

Android is now over fifteen years old, and in that time, some truly great apps have come and gone. Let's take a moment to honor a few of our fallen brethren who truly did serve us well.

For people desperate to have the smallest eReader possible, the Durobo Krono is a new option. It’s a 6.13-inch phone-like device with an E Ink screen that tries to differentiate itself with a scroll wheel. Unfortunately, the device feels cheap to use.

The weekend is here, and it’s time to continue on your self-hosting journey! This weekend, we're going to focus on getting some self-hosted cloud storage and media servers running in your homelab.

SECO has officially launched the Pi Vision 10.1 CM5, a rugged industrial human-machine interface platform built around the powerful Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. This device takes the flexible Raspberry Pi platform and transforms it into a professional-grade solution.

There are some graphics cards and graphics card families that just have so much staying power, that you can use them for years. I ran the same NVIDIA 8800GT for a decade without needing to upgrade it, thanks to the long life of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and multi-platform ports.

Are you ready to tackle some more advanced Raspberry Pi projects? This weekend is the perfect time to take your hobby projects to the next level.

If you were one of the, er, many who watched Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi thriller series premiere on Apple TV last night, you might be feeling the same as me and the vast majority of critics out there: this could be the streamer's best show since Severance.

Movies Anywhere quietly announced that it will no longer sync purchases from Google Play and YouTube on October 31st. This is an unexpected consequence of the ongoing feud between Google and Disney, the latter of which owns the Movies Anywhere service.