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I recently moved to a house with a lot of land. As much as I love the ritual of mowing, trimming and maintaining nearly five acres of cleared land and over an acre of lawn, I simply don't have the time to do so week in and week out.

Each year, new products enter the ring trying to be the best 3-in-1 iPhone dock. The Belkin UltraCharge Pro 3-in-1 Magnetic Charging Dock is a worthy contender with 25W of wireless charging and a sleek profile, but it has one major hindrance.

Switching to Linux can feel overwhelming, but choosing the right desktop environment makes all the difference. If you want something intuitive, reliable, and welcoming, the Cinnamon desktop environment may be the perfect starting point.

Video games have a long history of referencing, homaging, and sometimes plainly ripping off films. Without the cinematic influences of Scarface, Starship Troopers, and The Matrix, we wouldn't have games like Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and Max Payne.

It used to be that public Wi-Fi hotspots were few and far between. These days, however, you have to scroll through a list of choices as every store, restaurant, and public restroom offers you "free" Wi-Fi.

One of the most versatile and popular wallpaper apps ever made is unfortunately only available to Windows users. This has been a sore point for Mac users for a while, and with good reason, given what this app offers in terms of collections and functionality.

When you spend top dollar on a phone, you might reasonably expect that you’re getting all the bells and whistles. That’s not the case. There’s quite a bit now that you’re more likely to find on a budget or mid-range phone than a $1200 flagship.

You've probably started an application from the terminal at some point, but did you notice that it keeps your terminal occupied until you close the application? That can be pretty annoying. Sometimes, though, it's useful to launch applications this way—I explain how I do it effectively.

The American sedan, once a cornerstone of daily driving, has steadily faded as buyers shift toward SUVs and trucks. Now, with this final discontinuation, an era officially comes to a close.

Unlike the gallery app on your smartphone, Google Photos offers a wide range of features, making it one of the best platforms for storing and editing photos and videos. Here, I’ll discuss some of the top Google Photos features you should be using.

September is a big month for indie games, especially if you’ve been waiting for a certain “most awaited sequel of all time” to arrive. We’ve also got roguelikes and slick action galore, plus an increasingly popular co-operative adventure that you and your friends are going to love.

I’ve been using a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE for more than three years now, and while the phone’s fine in general, I don’t plan to stay part of Samsung’s ecosystem any longer. It’s time for a change, and after deliberating for months, I’ve made a decision to switch to one of the Pixel 10 models. Here’s why.

Pluto TV is a free streaming service that is different from many others available. Not only does it offer on-demand movies and TV series, but it also has live TV channels that can keep you entertained all day. It is owned by Paramount, which gives it some access to Paramount+ and CBS content.

The 1930s were a huge decade for movies. With sound now in full swing, color was becoming the tantalizing new feature, where movies were starting to burst with more hues than black-and-white. Stories were becoming longer and more complex, with epic stagings of a familiar and wondrous world that expanded the limits of where filmmaking could take us.

Netflix has a string of exciting new films scheduled as fall sets in, from another Knives Out mystery to the recently released Thursday Murder Club. Your favorite shows, too, are getting new seasons, so you never have to worry about your home page looking dry.

This was a particularly jam-packed week of Android news! Google finally let Material 3 Expressive out of it's cage, and it's available on more Pixel phones. Gboard got some cool features, several Android tablets were announced, and we have a bunch of great editorials to read.

This was a busy week for tech news, with plenty of hardware and software announcements from IFA 2025, updates to Linux Mint and MAME, and much more. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed.

We all know Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, but if you still look at him and see the titular wizard, you should explore his later work and really get a taste of the range and versatility that make him the stand-out actor he is. Lucky for you, I’ve got the perfect place to start, and it’s with the thriller-adventure movie Jungle, currently streaming on Prime Video ... but not for long.

Acura is basically Honda’s fancier cousin, sharing plenty of parts and platforms, but sometimes taking a very different approach. Take the Honda Accord and Acura TLX—both mid-sized sedans, yet worlds apart in personality.

Are you using Ubuntu and find it too minimal and bare bones? Heard about GNOME extensions making Ubuntu more feature-rich, but you don’t know which ones to install? Well, here are nine of my favorite GNOME extensions that I always install on Ubuntu.