I Threw a Holiday Party in Horizon Worlds. It Didn’t Go Well
Reasonable people can debate whether or not a social VR application is meaningfully different enough from, say, a video game...
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You’ve Been Choosing Your Goals All Wrong
If you’re getting ready to set your yearly goals for 2023, stop. Chances are, you’re going about building and breaking...
How to (Finally) Break That Bad Habit
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, adds that looking at data can be a good starting point. “For fitness habits, it could...
Stop Using Social Media Apps. The Web Version Is Often Better
I can scroll through my timeline of choice whenever I want, which is a miracle of technology. The downside: I...
How to Build Your Own First Aid Kit (2022)
You can’t make sure you’ll never have an accident at home, on the road, in the office, or in the...
How to Build a Huge PC Game Library for Free
The Covid-19 pandemic’s lockdown and lingering effects, plus the sudden drop in price of powerful PC graphics cards this year, led to an...
What is Wi-Fi 7? Everything You Need to Know About the Next Wireless Standard
While many people only recently upgraded to Wi-Fi 6, and some may be considering a jump to Wi-Fi 6E, their...
Sure, Kids Can Develop iPhone Apps. But It’s Not Easy
Apple first released Swift Playgrounds as an iPad app in 2016, and a MacOS version followed in 2020. It's free...
How to Set Up Your Kid’s ‘Smart’ Toy
A critical part of your research is reading a toy’s privacy policies before you turn it on or set it up....
How to Use Your Smartphone to Cope With Vision Loss (2022)
To make similar changes to Google Assistant go to Settings > Google > Settings for Google Apps > Search, Assistant...
7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Elgato Stream Deck (2022)
Even better, the software includes a Hotkey Switch function that will alternate between two shortcuts. Press it once, it sends...
How to Turn Your Phone Into a Webcam (2022): Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android
In most video-conferencing apps, like Zoom, you can toggle on HD mode to improve the video quality. When you tap...
What Music Did You Stream in 2022? Here’s How to Find Your Recaps
Over on Apple Music, the 2022 year-in-review feature is called Apple Music Replay. The best place to get to your...
How to Use Voice Commands on Your TV (2022): Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and Roku TV Voice Commands
Despite wide availability and vast improvements in speech recognition, most folks rarely use voice assistants. And when we do talk to...
Amazon Has Conquered Christmas—but Its Reign May Be Ending
The problem with Amazon’s own-brand mince pies is that they’re delicious. For years, the ecommerce giant has stuck its fingers...
11 Ways to Upgrade Your Wi-Fi and Make Your Internet Faster (2022)
It works like this: You connect a powerline plug to your router, then put the plug into a wall socket....
How to Get Your 4 Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests (2022)
It took nearly two years of living through the Covid-19 pandemic to get our first round of free at-home rapid...
Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I...
