Apps & Tools

I’ve used Android for years, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized how many settings I’d completely ignore. Android is well-known for its hands-off approach, giving you a bunch …

I create more than a dozen images every day for work, plus a few videos weekly, along with research documents and article drafts. Add to the mix the files I …

Summary Matter 1.5 has debuted, adding video camera support, allowing Matter-enabled cameras to join any smart-home app and eliminating brand silos. Many existing cameras can be updated to Matter 1.5 …

Summary Matter 1.5 has debuted, adding video camera support, allowing Matter-enabled cameras to join any smart-home app and eliminating brand silos. Many existing cameras can be updated to Matter 1.5 …

If you’ve used a smartphone for more than, say, a week, you already know the quiet shame that lives inside the screenshot folder. It starts out neat—maybe a meme or …

To not much official fanfare on Thursday, the Windows operating system turned 40 years old, marking four decades since Windows 1.0 debuted in the United States on November 20, 1985. …

I’ve come to terms with the idea that voice assistants are limited. They’ll set an alarm, answer a trivia question, maybe open an app, and then quietly get out of …

I hate seeing app shortcuts clutter my desktop, so I removed all of them and pinned only my most-used apps to the taskbar. The problem was I still needed to …

If your Android home screen is becoming a mess of app icons, there’s a better way to both organize it and make it look better. Widgets are the unsung heroes …

Ever since HBO adapted George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books as Game of Thrones, studios have been in a rush to bring iconic fantasy and sci-fi …