HeyJaredJonathon Jachura
STORY ANGLES - Practical, Everyday Tech Solutions: Focuses on how technology can simplify daily routines or solve minor inconveniences (e.g., smart home gadgets, phone features, repurposing old devices).
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 81
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- Oct 1, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for makeuseof.com
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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I tested a $33 Philips Hue rival, and its best trick is impossible to ignore (opens the original)
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Paid review, brought to you by Linkind. Linkind paid MakeUseOf to evaluate the Linkind Smart Light Stick. MakeUseOf retained complete editorial control. Linkind did not see the article before publication and had no input on its content, conclusions, or rating. I've used Philips Hue color bulbs for years, and their colors have never let me down. What they can't do is show more than one color at a time. The whole bulb glows purple, or it glows orange. So when Linkind sent me six of its Smart Light
I'm deep into Ryobi's battery system, but there's one tool I refuse to buy from them (opens the original)
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More than 20 Ryobi ONE+ tools hang in my garage, and a single 18V pack runs every one of them. The drill, the impact driver, the circular saw, the sander, the tire inflator, even a small power inverter all clip onto batteries I've been buying for years. I built my whole workshop around that platform, and grabbing green is usually a reflex. There's exactly one tool where it isn't: the table saw. Not because Ryobi's version is broken, but because a table saw demands the one thing Ryobi engineers a
A CRT-era setting is still cropping your TV picture in 2026, but there's a fix (opens the original)
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Your TV might be hiding part of the picture coming from your Apple TV, PS5, or laptop. Many sets trim a thin border off HDMI sources and stretch what's left to fill the screen. The culprit is overscan, a setting built for tube TVs that disappeared from store shelves two decades ago. It lives in the picture menu alongside options most owners never open, much like the HDMI bandwidth toggle that bottlenecks your ports. Turning it off takes about a minute per input. The payoff is a sharper image, ga
These 5 things around your house can run from the power-tool batteries you already own (opens the original)
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Most of my 18V Ryobi packs spend their days on a shelf, fully charged and waiting for a drill I might not touch for weeks. That stored energy has real value when the grid drops, and I've already covered how tool batteries hold up in a blackout. Getting the most from them comes down to the adapter. A USB adapter handles phones and tablets, a clip-on inverter supplies a true 120V outlet, and a 12V step-down adapter feeds gear that runs on DC. The runtime math is simple: multiply volts by amp hours
I do these 5 things before putting any Ryobi tool back on the shelf (opens the original)
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My garage runs on Ryobi ONE+: more than 20 tools sharing one 18V battery, ever since I built my whole workshop around the platform. Owning that many taught me something the manuals skip. What you do in the 60 seconds before a tool goes back on the shelf decides how long it lasts, more than the brand, the price, or how hard you ran it that day. My routine is five moves, and none take longer than tying your shoes: pull the battery, cool the pack, clear the dust, strip the accessory, and look it ov
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