How-To Geek

While Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, Home Depot isn't slowing down and still has epic tool deals for Cyber Monday and beyond. While there are several available, if you're looking to stock up on Milwaukee battery packs, one deal in particular caught my attention.

Netflix has quietly removed the ability to cast content from its mobile apps to the vast majority of modern TVs and streaming devices. This includes newer models like the Chromecast with Google TV Streamer. This is a massive change that many users are already finding frustrating.

Instead of relying on your laptop’s tinny internal mic, you can connect your phone’s microphone to your computer. It also comes in handy if your PC doesn’t have an in-built mic, and you need to make a recording or take a meeting. The setup shouldn’t take more than two minutes. Let’s begin.

Until I started using Keep Notes to take notes on a daily basis, this note-taking app from Google felt pretty basic. Notion and Obsidian, in my estimation at least, were way more powerful. For some people, their Notion or Obsidian spaces are so sophisticated that they call them their “second brains.” Google Keep isn’t as complex as Obsidian, but it’s not as simple as a sticky notes app either. It sits comfortably in the middle ground between the two. Let me show you what I mean.

The developers of the popular KDE Connect application for desktop computers and mobile phones issued a security advisory this weekend stating you should stop using certain versions of the app on untrusted networks. A security flaw allows devices running those versions to interact with devices pretending to be ones you authenticated in the past.

Are you an aspiring mechanic or someone who prefers to fix things yourself? If so, having the right tools can make all the difference. In fact, having the wrong tool or not having what you need can be the difference between a quick job and spending hours fighting nuts and bolts. So, here are a few must-have Ryobi tools for at-home auto repairs.

Do you work with lots of files every day? Large and small? Messy and clean? No matter what your task requires, Python makes working with files a breeze. With a bit of coding, you could save hours of work and sanity. Let's explore Python's file manipulation magic.

The one perk of having an e-reader is that you never have to read anything on a regular display, if you choose to. You can read manga, graphic novels, or comics on an e-reader. You can set up your e-reader to automatically update with RSS feeds. You can even read websites as ebooks on your e-reader. Let me show you how.

Ever dreamed of owning a six-figure Porsche but quickly remembered your bank account isn’t on the same page? Good news: you don’t actually need one to feel like a supercar driver.

This beautiful Linux terminal app will help you ditch the git command line for good. Its responsive layout and keyboard interface help to tackle the challenge of even complex git commands.

If there's one component that gamers spend too much money on, it's the CPU.

Obsidian is incredibly powerful, but all that power can be distracting. I've spent more time customizing my vault with different plugins than actually building my notes library. If this sounds familiar, it’s time to switch to one of these three user-friendly, free and open-source Markdown editors.

They say ‘tis the season to be jolly, but I say ‘tis the season to be bingeful, and there’s no better place to do that than on Amazon Prime Video.

After writing small scripts in Python, I wanted to try to write a "real" command-line app. I decided to build a simple weather forecast app. I was surprised at how quickly and easily I could throw together something like this over a weekend. Here's how I did it.

There are numerous budget-friendly compact PCs for those with limited space, but there's often a trade-off in performance. While the ACEMAGIC M1 Mini PC is not ideal for graphics-intensive tasks or gaming, its processor and ports are stand-outs for productivity.

When it comes to starting a homelab, it can be a bit of a daunting task. What hardware do you choose? What capabilities do you want? How do you build out your initial setup? Well, the TerraMaster F4 SSD NAS takes care of all that for you.

It's the start of the festive season, and so people are unpacking their trees, putting up lights, and doing the same old Christmas decoration thing as last year, and the year before that.

Self-hosting is a great way to save money on subscriptions and take control of your data, but getting everything running smoothly on one system can be difficult, especially if you have incompatible dependencies.

Corruption is bad in any walk of life, but you certainly don't want it in your computer. Yet when your apps aren't working correctly, or Windows seems to just crash for no reason, there's a good chance file corruption is the culprit.

If you're like me, you don't like unnecessary friction when trying to accomplish tasks on your Linux PC. The following desktop software is so useful to me, I want them to be running when I start using my computer so that I don't have to manually launch them.