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I installed this app and finally made my Pixel 11's useless LED array worth having (opens the original)
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The HiLight LED array on the back of my Pixel 11 Pro XL is one of the few features that genuinely separates it from last year's Pixel. Despite eight lights surrounding the camera bar, Google gave them almost nothing to do. Out of the box, it glows when I'm talking to Gemini hands-free and it lights up for calls from my favorite contacts. That, and I get a grand total of five colors to choose from. That's the whole feature. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Pixel 11's Camera Looks solved the one complaint I've had about Pixel photos for years (opens the original)
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Pixel cameras have always been easy for me to trust. I can pull the phone out, take a photo, and usually know I’ll get something sharp, bright, and perfectly usable. But I’ve also had the same small complaint for years. Sometimes Google’s processing does a little more than I want it to. I’d often take a photo, look at it for a second, and then open Snapseed to pull the shadows back down, warm the image up, or soften some of that aggressive sharpness. None of those edits were difficult, but I was
I didn’t realize Adobe’s free app could replace Lightroom for me (opens the original)
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For years, my photo editing workflow had one non-negotiable first step: everything went through Adobe Lightroom. It's what I knew and where my presets lived, and I never questioned whether I needed it for every little edit. Then I actually sat down with Adobe Express, the free app I'd mentally filed under "the Canva competitor," and realized it was quietly doing most of what I opened Lightroom for anyway. Not the heavy RAW-culling, catalog-managing stuff, but the everyday edits that make up mayb
I found two toggles buried in Android settings that were draining my phone overnight (opens the original)
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For about a week, I was checking my Pixel 10 Pro's battery screen more often than was healthy. Nothing looked broken. The phone got through most of the day. But the thing that kept bothering me was the overnight drain, the slow bleed that happens while the phone sits face down on my desk doing nothing at all. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 nu
Chrome already has a built-in tool that tells you where all your RAM went (opens the original)
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I was deep into research for an article a few weeks ago, with somewhere around twenty tabs open across two windows, when switching between them started lagging by half a second. My usual response is to open Windows Task Manager and glare at the Chrome entry sitting at the top of the list. The problem is that Windows shows Chrome as a pile of nearly identical processes with names that tell you nothing. I could see that Chrome was using a lot of memory. I could not see which part of Chrome was res
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