Author: Press Room
When an instant brew just won’t do, the best portable coffee makers can hit you with a superior caffeine fix – wherever you choose to infuse. Forget stir-in swill from a sachet: these machines make rocket fuel to rival your local barista’s best. From drip filters to espresso presses, the menu below features our pick of the top travel coffee makers for every caffeine fiend. Whether you want a campsite Americano or a double shot at your desk, you’ll find the right tool here for better brews on the move. And if you can’t decide which one to order, we…
Summary Custom GPTs have no learning curve and work like normal prompts. Custom GPTs provide more accurate and customized results than the normal version. Custom GPTs can help create gym plans and roadmaps for long-term goals, along with numerous other things. You’ll get plenty out of ChatGPT if you feed the app simple prompts, but it’s sometimes worth going above and beyond. Custom GPTs are my favorite in-app feature, and even if I didn’t use any other ChatGPT tool, I’d get the subscription for this alone. Why I Love Custom GPTs Before I show you how I use Custom GPTs,…
Once upon a time, Monopoly, Cluedo and Scrabble is all you might find in the average person’s games cupboard. Maybe Trivial Pursuit if you were somewhere fancy. How things have changed. Now, we’re in a board game boom. Some even rival the playability and immersion of console games. There’s every kind of tabletop fantasy out there for you to explore – if you know where to look. Fancy yourself as an industrialist pioneer or a master of the English language? Do you want to unearth the secrets of a haunted house, or rebuild a dystopian Europe? You can do all those…
TV presenter Suzi Perry is perhaps best known for her prominent role in motorsport, covering Formula 1 and then MotoGP, but who could forget her eight amazing years on The Gadget Show, alongside Jason Bradbury? In this interview we chat to Suzi about getting the gang back together to celebrate The Gadget Show’s twentieth anniversary, her love of live music, flying the flag for Wolverhampton and much more… I cover 20 MotoGP races a year. I’m basically away from home for half of the year working and travelling – that’s the part of my job I find very difficult, particularly…
2024’s done. Phew. I won’t miss it. It felt like the world had us all playing a video game on ‘bonkers’ mode. Fortunately, Apple in 2024 didn’t follow suit in being bonkers itself. Mostly. Here, then, is Stuff’s final Apple blow-out of 2024 – the Apple ‘year in review’. Heartily clap at the good parts. Slow hand clap at the bad things. And stare open-mouthed at the smugly bit. Apple in 2024: the good Apple’s 2024 year in review: all the things that rocked Stuff’s world. Or at least didn’t make everyone make A Face. “You’re holding it the wrong way round!” The…
Your dog’s heightened hearing might detect external disturbances, but even the most persistent barking can’t explain what your pooch has sensed outside. Want a smart home surveillance solution that’s easier to understand? Send Fido to bed and install one of the best outdoor security cameras to keep an eye on your outdoor gear. Smarter than standard CCTV, the best wireless security cams can intelligently detect, record and react to action around your abode. The top options will stream high-res live feeds straight to your smartphone, and store clips in the cloud for later inspection. Some cams can even tell the…
If you’re still figuring out what your Apple smartwatch is really for, this list of over 40 great apps will help you find out. There are thousands of apps for Apple Watch. The tiny snag is that most of them aren’t much cop. Some misunderstand how a wearable is best used, and demand you spend too long with your wrist in front of your face, while others only briefly impress. And some apps have arrived on Apple Watch to great fanfare, only for them to meekly disappear after a while. That’s not good enough for us. We want apps that are clever…
It doesn’t matter the occasion, but having someone accidentally mess with your TV settings is unforgivable. Luckily, your TV has an option for locking everything down, from settings to channels and more. How to Lock Settings on Your Sony TV To lock down your Sony TV settings, it’s buried in its system settings: Open the TV menu or, alternatively, press the Home button. Choose Settings > Preferences or, alternatively, System. You want to single out any setting related to locking the picture, such as Picture Adjustments Lock. If you need to use a pin, be sure to write it down…
It’s an infamous gaming series with plenty of competition among its stellar line-up, yet Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas remains among the very best crime sims across the entire bullet-ridden, vehicle-thieving genre. With a cast of colourful characters, diverse gameplay that has your crime-y mitts in everything from dancing minigames to dabbling in casino ownership, plus a truly engaging story, there’s no wonder it was the biggest-selling title on the PlayStation 2. Now celebrating its 20th year of release, we look back on how GTA: San Andreas set the new standard for not only crime sims but all sandbox games…
The technological marvel of AI offers free alternatives to expensive software and subscriptions. But just where can you make savings? From writing and note-taking to PDF and transcription, here are the tools that regularly save me money. The majority of these tools will have paid tiers. Whether you need to splash out on this depends on your usage. All the tools I cover have generous free versions and all the functionality I require to step up and replace a subscription service. Creating bespoke images or sourcing stock images was always time-consuming and/or costly for me. I was constantly sourcing or…