Mini PCs are a great option for a home PC or work setup, offering the experience of a desktop PC without taking up as much space as a mid-sized tower with additional portability. While most folks won't commute with a mini PC, it is a possibility. And the PC itself being so small makes it easier to move in the event you need to change apartments or want to redecorate your office.

Running a Plex server? Or, for that matter, any server, maybe a dashboard you need external access for, or even a personal website — port forwarding is one of the most common issues to come across. It sounds simple, and on paper it is.

USB sticks or flash drives aren't as popular as they used to be. With cloud storage and wireless data transfers now becoming popular, USB thumb drives have almost vanished. However, I still have a couple of them lying around that I wanted to put to good use. Since their storage capacity is too low, I explored alternative use cases for these USB drives. That's when it struck me that I could convert these USB sticks into a portable repository of apps and programs for troubleshooting issues with my computers, routers, and servers. Essentially, a USB drive that has all the important tools in one place.

When you want to track your health, you'd usually have to shell out for a wearable that you have to have on you for it to work. However, what if someone could read your heart rate using wireless technology? It sounds like something out of science fiction, but a team of researchers believes it's not as far-fetched as you may believe. They've published a paper claiming that, not only can Wi-Fi signals help detect heart rates with extremely good accuracy, but you can achieve these results with a super-cheap Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi chip.

You don’t need to spend a fortune to create stunning photos. For years, the photography industry has convinced us that powerful editing tools come with a hefty price tag and a mandatory subscription. But what if there was another way? I decided to build a complete photo editing workflow using only free and open-source software. I've found that with several robust and flexible tools, it's possible to handle everything from RAW file management to professional-grade color correction.

For most people, chances are the built-in File Explorer on Windows 11 is everything they need. It does the job of managing files completely fine, after all. However, when you realize that there are a ton of alternative options out there, you quickly start to realize they offer features and improvements that make the experience so much better.

Ever since Gamescom 2025, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been the talk of the town. Whether because of its weird, "experimental" social co-op campaign, or because of the backlash Treyarch has been facing about whimsical skins for their operators, the one thing that can't be denied is that we're all looking forward to November when the game comes out.

I’ve always appreciated Google Keep for what it is: a no-frills, minimal tool where I can quickly dump my ideas, notes, and reminders. But even with such an efficient tool, my notes would still get buried in color-coded chaos. On the other hand, NotebookLM is great at tracking, analyzing, connecting, and surfacing information, but only if you actually feed it something useful to work with. So I thought, why not join the two to get the best of both?

Like many Obsidian users, I have spent countless hours trying to find the perfect system to manage my notes, projects, and ideas. While Obsidian’s core features are powerful, I have always felt there was a major gap when it came to structured data. The need to create databases, manage lists, and visualize information in a clean, organized way often forced me to rely on other applications.

It's bad news for people who aren't a fan of the direction Microsoft is going with Outlook. One of its popular mobile variants, Outlook Lite, garnered significant attention and downloads, becoming a cornerstone for many people's workflows. However, it seems like it wasn't that crucial for Microsoft to keep, as it has announced that Outlook Lite is getting the chop, only three years after it came out. And while the company never stated why it's doing this, I have a sneaking suspicion you and I both know why.

With Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 almost here, it feels like the right time to sit down and revisit the biggest Call of Duty subseries — Black Ops. And while we're at it, why not take stock of the Modern Warfare subseries as well? These are the campaigns that have largely shaped FPS storytelling in the entire genre for better or worse over nearly two decades, after all.

Despite all the heated debate on whether an Intel or AMD CPU and chipset is better for gaming, or whether 6-cores are enough for modern gaming, there's one major factor these debates overlook. It doesn't matter which chipset architecture you use, how many cores your SoC features, or even how many gigahertz your CPU's clock speed maxes out at.