Australian creative software, Canva, has been on the market for over a decade. While its always competed with Adobe software, there is a much more direct comparison to Adobe Express for digital marketing design and content creation. Canva offers some amazing features, some of which are much better than what youll find with Adobe Express. Let's check them out.

Managing the cables around your work area can either be a massive chore or cathartic, depending on what kind of person you are. No matter what side of that fence you fall on, its a necessary task that may feel daunting depending on the number of devices you have. If youve developed a nasty rat's nest of cables behind your setup, here are 4 tips to help you tidy things up.

Whether youre the proud owner of multiple smart home devices or a tinkerer who loves working with new paraphernalia, Internet of Things (IoT) systems are solid additions to any tech enthusiast's living space. Armed with loads of automation facilities, you can configure trigger-action commands for your IoT devices to remove the tediousness of mundane tasks and improve your quality of life.

To use Intel's Arrow Lake range of Core Ultra 200 series processors, you'll need an LGA1851 motherboard. At launch, only Z890 motherboards were available and these boards aren't cheap, offering considerably more firepower than most people will require. They're overkill and some even cost the same as an entire system build. That said, we've rounded up some of the best motherboards available for Intel Core Ultra 200 processors. If you're an Intel fan and are excited about the upgrade, you'll need one of these as the foundation of your next PC build.

Be it the uber-popular Proxmox, the enterprise-grade XCP-ng, or the NAS-centric TrueNAS Scale, there are plenty of options to choose from when youre building a home server. But once you dig deeper into the home lab rabbit hole, you may end up encountering certain Unix-based operating systems designed specifically for virtualization workloads.

There are a number of ways to add fonts in Photoshop, and some can be better than others. Despite a number of big changes in Photoshop 2025, the process of installing fonts has remained consistent with each major update.

Image: Square Enix We’re in a pretty good moment for sprawling, complex role-playing games. New releases like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Dragon Age Absolution, along with older titles like Elden Ring (including this year’s expansion), Cyberpunk 2077, and Baldur’s Gate 3 have sucked millions of people into their expansive worlds. They can be all-consuming experiences, offering players all kinds of freedom to explore their worlds and characters. But honestly? Sometimes I don’t want to fuss with conversation wheels or make difficult, narrative-altering choices. I just want to go on a big adventure and slowly turn into an overpowered hero fighting monsters — and that’s where the excellent new remake of Dragon Quest 3 comes in.The game originally came out way... Continue reading…

Hello, XDA folks! We're back again with another weekly news roundup, just in case you missed some of the big stories from the past few days. And what a doozy this one was; we saw a nitrogen-cooled Raspberry Pi, a historic first for Windows on Arm, and the final days of the GeForce Experience app. So let's hop in and take a look at all the stuff you may not have seen.

Thanks to its decades-old reputation, TeamViewer has been a go-to remote desktop solution for many. However, since most of its features are locked behind a paywall, TeamViewer isnt a suitable tool for students, freelancers, or casual users looking to help their parents and friends remotely. While there are dozens of free TeamViewer alternatives out there, HelpWire stands out to me for some significant reasons.

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Ge Wang doesn’t use computers to make music the way most people use computers make music. He uses computers to make... computer music. Wang works at Stanford, as an associate professor in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He also conducts the school’s famed Laptop Orchestra, was a co-founder of the music app maker Smule, and created a programming language called Chuck that turns code into sound. He understands how computers, music, and humans interact more deeply than most. He also has some ideas about where it’s all headed.On this episode of The Vergecast, the third and last in our mini-series about the future of music, we chat with Wang about what’s next for computer music. He tells us about teaching his... Continue reading…

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s X may have tweaked its algorithm to boost his account, along with those of other conservative-leaning users, starting around the time he announced his support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. That’s according to a new study published by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), which found that Musk’s posts in particular were suddenly much more popular.The study’s authors — QUT associate professor in digital media Timothy Graham and Monash University communications and media studies professor Mark Andrejevic — first looked at Musk’s engagement before and after his July endorsement of Trump. They report that starting around July 13th, Musks’ posts received 138 percent more views and 238 percent more retweets than... Continue reading…

While Apple iCloud is the de facto choice for Mac users, its not the only (or dare I say even arguably the best) solution for all your cloud storage and syncing needs. Although there is no shortage of iCloud alternatives, Microsoft OneDrive stands out for me for a number of reasons. It integrates seamlessly with the Finder app, offers more bang for the buck, and delivers greater control over my files. Here are the top reasons why I ditched iCloud in favor of OneDrive on my MacBook Pro.