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Everyone needs a great watch, but choosing your very first can feel like a monumental decision. There are so many timepieces out there to choose from at every price point and the mere task of narrowing it down can be daunting. But whether you’re after a diver, a traveller’s watch or a classic everyday wearer, you want something versatile. You want something that you can wear everywhere and in any situation; after all, you don’t yet have a collection to rifle through for that perfect pairing. As you’ve yet to pour your life savings into your watches, you probably also…
The Odyssey is the latest movie from Christopher Nolan, the director behind giant hits like The Dark Knight, Inception, and Oppenheimer. The Odyssey is his most ambitious effort yet, and people are going crazy for it. The Odyssey is based on Homer’s 2,700-year-old epic poem about the Greek king Odysseus (Matt Damon) trying to make his way home to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. Between the ancient Greek setting, the mythological monsters, and the sword fights, the movie has all the markings of a sword-and-sandal epic, a movie genre that has risen and fallen in popularity multiple times…
When I plugged in my Roku Express for the first time, it stuttered, buffered, and lagged—but with a few tweaks to its settings, I had it running perfectly. Thankfully, maximizing the performance of your Roku’s rough edges is easy with these simple settings tweaks. My cheap Roku Express streaming stick isn’t a performance powerhouse. Whenever I’m scrolling through content, videos automatically playing are not only annoying, but they also slow down the UI, not to mention slowing down my network. Credit: Brady Meyers / MakeUseOf First, go to the Roku home screen and select Settings. Choose Accessibility. Under the Reduce motion…
Streaming video isn’t supposed to be a frustrating process — until it is. For months, I blamed several culprits, including my ISP, my router placement, my video service, and even the weather outside. Additionally, I restarted the router more times than I can count, moved the useful Fire TV Stick around the cabinet, and canceled and re-subscribed to Prime Video to see if it made a difference. None of it did. My Fire TV Stick 4K would play fine for the first 10 minutes of a show, then the dreaded spinning wheel would appear right when things got good, usually…
The Odyssey is the latest film from acclaimed director Christopher Nolan, who has been pumping cinematic classics since the late 1990s. Interest in The Odyssey is sky-high, so viewers out there may be wondering where they can see the rest of Nolan’s catalog. Some of his movies are available to watch on streaming services you probably already subscribe to, and others may require you to fork over some extra cash. Here’s where you can stream each of the 12 movies Nolan has directed, ranked worst to best just for fun. Related These time-travel movies actually try and get the science…
Lossless audio is more accessible than ever, with streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music Unlimited offering access with low-cost monthly subscription services. Reaping the benefits of high-fidelity recordings is still tricky. Play lossless files through lossy means and introduce compression or resampling, and you’d miss out on their added detail. A cheap USB-C digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is all you need to get the best possible audio quality from your smartphone. To be clear, your phone already has a DAC. Depending on your smartphone model, that DAC might already support high-resolution lossless music playback. The issue lies…
At the moment, one of the biggest new shows on Netflix is Little House on the Prairie, an adaptation of the popular children’s books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The show has gotten a mostly warm reception from both critics and audiences, but it’s not the only family-friendly literary adaptation on Netflix, nor is it the best. Little House on the Prairie and Anne With An ‘E’ have a lot in common But they’re different enough to both be worth your time The Little House on the Prairie books are a fictionalized account of author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s actual childhood growing…
Whenever I’m brainstorming ideas, I never stay on track. I start to branch out and often get sidetracked onto topics that have nothing to do with what I started off with. I used its search to find information faster and ChatGPT’s voice mode to expand on those ideas, but I couldn’t always interrupt it when I really needed to. It was a deal-breaker for me because I would need to ask it about what it had just said, and having to wait for it to finish made me forget my original question. However, on July 8, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-Live-1,…
I’m always on the lookout for apps that enhance Plex, whether it’s fetching accurate metadata or organizing my library. In my search, these Plex apps won me over after just one interaction and have already become part of my go-to for each Plex installation. Amazon Alexa Photo by Josh Dollaghan — No attribution requiredCredit: Josh Dolloghan / MakeUseOf Controlling gadgets with your voice is good fun, especially if you have an army of smart home devices, so why not add Plex to that list? I know I lose the remote at least every other day, and having a hands-free backup to…
I was a latecomer to the web compared to many tech nerds, having first encountered it at university. A tutor brought in his Mac, to which he connected a modem. It spent a short time making terrifying screeching noises, channeling ZX Spectrum games being loaded from tape while suggesting the very act of dialling in was tantamount to gadget torture. Then we were online. Things were simpler back then. Websites were basic. Many search engines were hand-crafted directories. I searched for my favourite band, Wire. That generic word returned a mere few dozen results. There was no AI rubbish – which brings me neatly to Quiche.…