Author: Press Room

Plex was always my go-to media library for a variety of reasons, including its familiar interface, organization, and remote access, which let me watch my movies and shows away from home. However, as more Plex services became subscription-based, I started wondering whether other options were available. Jellyfin seemed like the obvious choice, but I didn’t want to spend hours reorganizing files. Surprisingly, everything went much smoother than I imagined. Related I turned my old PC into a media server in under an hour I turned a forgotten laptop into a full media server—no money, no pain. Plex worked fine until…

The Fire TV Stick is an incredible piece of tech, especially for its size and price. However, it’s also probably the slowest and clunkiest streaming device that I’ve ever used in my media center. And as is the case with every new piece of tech that gets periodic software updates, the Fire TV Stick becomes exponentially slower and clunkier with age. In fact, I was ready to replace my third-generation Fire TV Stick, simply due to how excruciatingly slow it was to navigate. However, I recently tried out a few things within my Fire TV Stick’s system settings, which, surprisingly…

Whether it’s a movie or a playlist, streaming Atmos passes through your plan, your hardware, and an app setting before it reaches your speakers or headphones. Any of them can drop it to 5.1 or stereo, and you might not even notice at first. Dolby Atmos is a surround format that lets mixers place each sound in three-dimensional space, overhead included. On streaming services, it rides inside Dolby Digital Plus, a lossy codec, so even a perfect setup won’t match the lossless TrueHD track on a 4K Blu-ray. It also isn’t the same thing as Netflix’s spatial audio, a separate…

The most-requested feature for Goodreads is here! Half and quarter-star ratings are now available. With this latest update, you can now give books you’ve read a, for example, 4.5, 3.25, or a classic whole-star rating. This seemingly small feature has been missing since launch, and it could have major implications for some books on the platform. Related Kobo just beat Kindle at the one thing that actually matters to book lovers Track your reading progress easier than ever with automatic StoryGraph sync. Here’s what the Goodreads update means for you ​Sorry boss, I can’t come to work today, I have…

I travel a few times each month, and wireless headphones are the difference between a flight or train ride being peaceful or miserable. It’s not hard to find wireless headphones with excellent active noise-canceling (ANC) power. The AirPods Max are my top pick for those who need to block out unwanted sounds. It’s also pretty easy to find comfortable, lightweight headphones. But it’s tricky to find all these qualities in the same pair of headphones. I’ve spent months testing the Bose QuietComfort 2 headphones, and they’re a worthy successor to the first-generation model released in 2023. The new model strikes…

I can install either Google Maps or Apple Maps on my motorcycle head unit, which made me wonder which was best for navigation. So I spent a 4-day biking vacation in the Philippines comparing the routes the two apps suggested. Rather than choosing four easy highway journeys, I wanted something that would force them to make some difficult decisions, including mountain roads, twisting curves, long highways, potentially hazardous sections, and, finally, a winding route toward the coast. Race 1: Dingalan to Baler Would either app choose the mountain shortcut? The first stage was designed to test how the apps handle…

I’ve been an avid Spotify user for what feels like forever. It’s the app I’d open without even thinking on commutes, while working, or when I just needed something playing in the background. But somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling the same. The music didn’t sound as good, the recommendations felt off, and the whole experience just started to lose its spark over the years. I didn’t quit out of frustration or a single bad update, but it was more of a slow realization that Spotify wasn’t really working for me anymore. So, I decided to switch things up…

If you’ve been wanting to sign up for Amazon Prime but don’t necessarily know how, you’re in the right place. Amazon Prime bundles next-day delivery (depending where you live), entertainment and a bunch of extras into a single subscription. Amazon Prime members get free, fast delivery on many eligible items (watch out for delivery charges on non-Prime items) – and sometimes you can get same-day delivery too. Also included is Prime Video for films, TV and Amazon Originals and Prime Music for ad-free songs and podcasts. Prime Reading adds a rotating selection of ebooks and magazines, while Prime Gaming brings…

I’ve worn an Apple Watch every single day for over a decade, and that’s not an exaggeration (I know, I probably shouldn’t admit that, but here we are). Even when I’ve tested other smartwatches, the Apple Watch has always been on my other wrist, and that was true even on the morning of my wedding. It didn’t quite go with my dress, so I took it off for the ceremony, but in my book, that still counts towards my everyday claim. I use it to wake me with a silent alarm, log my Peloton rides and dog walks, and ping…

Choosing an iPhone used to be relatively straightforward: you picked the Pros if you wanted the best, or the regular model if you wanted to keep some money for food. Then Apple introduced the iPhone Air, a phone so thin it looks like it’s been on Mounjaro for a year, and the decision got a little bit harder. There’s also the iPhone Duo, but unless you want your phone to fold in half, are willing to spend upwards of $1,000, and are happy to wait another few weeks, that one’s a separate conversation. So here we are, ignoring the Duo…