Quick Links Summary If you’re experiencing game stuttering on Windows 11, you have a few ways to tackle the problem. From updating drivers to making a few system changes, you’re able to try making your games run smoother. Update Graphics Card Drivers Using outdated graphics card drivers is the sure way to face issues in your games. Keeping these drivers up to date is extremely important, as these drivers tell your graphics card how to work with your computer....

Quick Links Do you want to relive the moments before a shot? Samsung Galaxy devices come with a handy feature called Motion Photo, which captures a brief video clip alongside the photo you take. What Is Motion Photo? Motion Photos are quite similar toApple’s Live Photos. They record a few seconds of video just before you press the shutter button, creating a hybrid media file that combines a photo with a short, animated clip....

Quick Links With each new Galaxy phone looking similar to the last, many long for the good ‘old days when Samsung experimented more. Not me. I didn’t start buying Samsung phones until they got dull, and to my eyes, they’re now the best they’ve ever been. Early Samsung Phones Felt Cheap I started my career writing about Android during the years when the Galaxy SII and SIII already dominated the non-iPhone market....

Shovelware is a fact of life on every gaming platform, but I usually pride myself on spotting these scummy (and sometimes outright scammy) games looking to make a buck from our ignorance. In fact, I’ve never been caught out by a shovelware game—until now. Yes, I’ve finally joined the ignominious club of people who have lost money to deceptive games—usually with no recourse. While I’m not saying I’m the savviest shopper in the world, I am more careful than most, and so if it could happen to me, it could happen to you!...

Quick Links Even if you don’t want to use your carrier’s roaming settings, there are still tons of ways to stay connected while traveling abroad. One of the most popular ones is temporary eSIMs–I used one on a recent trip, and here’s how it went. What is a Temporary eSIM? A temporary eSIM is exactly what it sounds like: aneSIMthat’s meant for temporary use. Contrary to most regular eSIMs, which are tied to a cellphone line, a temporary eSIM is more disposable....

Summary Lenovo has quite a few gaming laptops available in its Legion lineup and deciding on which one to buy might be daunting. TheLenovo Legion 7i 16 Gen 9comes in at the higher end of the lineup, delivering the latest both NVIDIA and Intel have to offer for a compact, yet powerful portable gaming rig. Sporting the 14th Generation Intel Core i9-14900HX processor alongside NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop graphics card, you’ll find that this portable PC punches way above its weight class when it comes to gaming performance....

LibreOffice, the free and open-source replacement for Microsoft Office, has joined the ‘End of 10’ project to move Windows 10 PCs to Linux. LibreOffice and desktop Linux can “offer a powerful, privacy-friendly and future-proof alternative” to Microsoft’s software, according to the LibreOffice team. End of 10is a project organized by the broader Linux community to help people with Windows 10 PCs move to desktop Linux, as the end-of-life date for Windows 10 gradually approaches....

Summary If you’re a Linux user, you might know about neofetch, a popular command-line tool that shows system information in the terminal. Many users love it because it’s customizable and looks great. Unfortunately, the developer has discontinued the project, so it’s time to say goodbye to this helpful tool. Is neofetch Dead? Yes, it’s true—the neofetch project has been officially declared dead. Although the developer archived the project on April 26th, 2024, the last update was three years ago....

Microsoft Edge includes light and dark themes, as well as additional styles that change some of the colors and backgrounds in each mode. However, Microsoft is now updating Edge’s dark theme to an even darker design. The current Microsoft Edge dark theme uses a black background for the tab bar area and window controls, with a dark gray background for the title bar, tabs, sidebar, and other elements. There’s a new design being tested in the Microsoft Edge Canary branch that switches the toolbar to a completely black background, with only the active tab and search bar standing out with a gray background....

Microsoft announced last month that a new one-time purchase version of Microsoft Office would be available this year, replacing Office 2021. Now we have a few more details about the package. Microsoft has now released a preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024, currently only available to corporate customers. Office LTSC is intended for use cases “such as regulated devices that cannot accept feature updates for years at a time, manufacturing process control devices that are not connected to the internet, or medical testing equipment running embedded apps....

Summary Looking to buy a smartphone on a budget? The popular choice is to leave the expensive flagship smartphones behind and shop for a great mid-range Android instead. But many are shifting to a better option: snubbing the mid-range Android and opting for an older iPhone instead. iPhones Typically Get Better Software Support When you’re getting a new phone, it’s really easy to fall into the trap of focusing on the hardware and getting caught up in the appeal of all the fancy features....

Following over a year of public testing, Microsoftreleased the new Outlook for Windowslast week as a replacement for the Windows 10-era Mail and Calendar apps. It’s supposed toeventually replacethe regular Outlook client (from Microsoft Office/365), but there are a lot of features still missing before that can happen. Microsoft has now provided information on the features coming to the new Outlook over the next few months. The new Outlook for Windows is a completely different codebase (the Outlook....

Summary Thunderbolt 5 is still a relatively new technology, but it’s already starting to catch on. If you have any hardware that supports it, Plugable just released one of the best docks we’ve seen to date. Plugable has just launched the11-in-1 TBT-UDT3 Thunderbolt 5 hub, and it looks promising for any potential dock setup. At the core of the TBT-UDT3 is Intel’s Thunderbolt 5 technology, which leverages the JHL9580 controller. According to Plugable, this enables the docking station to support a feature called Bandwidth Boost, which can provide up to 120 Gbps of downstream bandwidth....