The Colorful, Costly World of Custom Keyboard Enthusiasts
Custom keycaps provide another opportunity for creativity and expression on a keyboard, while also hitting your wallet. Tiny Makes Things...
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4 Tips to Send (and Receive) Better Texts
Texting is common, easy, and ubiquitous. After all, it's an easy (and, depending on your wireless plan, probably free) way...
How a Smartphone Can Help You Cope With Epilepsy
The diary portion of the app, where I log my seizures, is simple and free. SeizAlarm provides sections to detail...
How an Adaptive Game Controller Helps My Family Bond
“Get that ghost, Henry. Get him. Now!” I heard my 6-year-old son yell as I arrived back home. It isn’t...
How Apps and VR Therapy Can Help OCD Patients
With OCD, as with phobias, there is often a ritual or safety behavior involved that the patient thinks is helping...
New to Vinyl Records? Here’s What You Need to Know
RSD special editions are usually pressed in small batches, which makes them highly attractive to collectors, and folks just interested...
How to Game on a PC When You Can’t Find a Graphics Card
The GPU shortage keeps getting worse, thanks to surging demand from gamers and cryptocurrency miners, alongside a host of other...
Remote Weddings and Memorials Are Here to Stay. Be Prepared
Had I realized the group owned the recordings and that they would repost clips and highlights from them forever, I...
6 Easy Ways to Make Your Own Memes
The best memes are funny, used at just the right time, and say just the right thing. It's easy to...
How to Master Google’s AI Phone Call Features
You can turn the feature on in the Phone app under Settings > Spam and Call Screen > Call Screen....
Hide Your Instagram Likes—and Be Free
Humans love to assign value to things: the price of a gallon of milk ($3.55), the merit of a movie...
Your Grandma’s Tube TV Is the Hottest Gaming Tech
If you visit my house, you won't even notice my 50-inch 4K TV. It's sleek and black, bevel-less, and designed...
When to Reply on Social Media—and When to Not
I have a tenet that I follow when it comes to social media conflagrations: Don’t add your air to someone...
So You’re Vaccinated! How Can You Let People Know?
It helps that a lot of the swag is cute, and it’s a low-key, affordable way to commemorate the beginning...
How to Buy Movies Online and Watch Them Anywhere
Speaking of which, Movies Anywhere allows you to stream movies right from their website and app, and they offer comparable...
How to Stay Cool Without Air-Conditioning
Most parts of the Earth are getting hotter. Climate change and the heat island effect, where urban spaces trap heat,...
Easy Ways to Sell, Donate, or Recycle Your Stuff
Of the newer marketplaces out there, Swappa is one of the most polished and professional when it comes to shifting...
How to Back Up Your Digital Life
Even within brand names, though, some drives are better than others. Several of us here on the Gear team have...
