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How to Live With a 16 GB iPhone or Android Phone

It’s easy to fill up a 16 GB phone by taking photos, recording videos, syncing music, and downloading large apps — especially large games. Here’s how to maximize that space if you’re not paying extra f...

Is It Finally a Good Time to Buy an Apple TV?

When Apple dropped the price on its third generation Apple TV to $69, we still recommended holding off until Apple released a new version. The new Apple TV has arrived, so today we’re going to discuss whether we now t...

Matt Klein Nov 30th, 2015

How to Make Your Windows Gaming PC Automatically Boot to Big Picture Mode (Like a Steam Machine)

Steam Machines with Valve’s Steam OS automatically boot to Steam’s Big Picture Mode, allowing you to use a controller to launch games and do everything else. If you have a Windows gaming PC plugged into your TV, ...

How to Manage Storage Space on the New Apple TV

The newest Apple TV box comes with its own integrated storage so you can download apps and games. Of course, this space is limited and you may find yourself running low after awhile, so today we’ll explain how to free u...

Matt Klein Nov 16th, 2015

How to Check and Recharge the Apple TV Remote

The new 2015-edition Apple TV features a brand new remote with a new battery system and a new way to charge it. Read how to check the remote’s battery level and charge it back up.

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 16th, 2015

How to Cast Websites to Your TV From Microsoft Edge

Microsoft’s Edge browser receives media-casting support as part of Windows 10’s first big update. Edge can now cast media to MIracast and DLNA-enabled devices. This isn’t compatible with Google’s Chrom...

How to Rerrange, Configure, and Delete Apps and Games on the New Apple TV

The new Apple TV is out and with it the new-fangled tvOS. While it’s not substantially different than the previous Apple TV, it is different enough that we want to show you how to rearrange, configure, and delete apps a...

Matt Klein Nov 11th, 2015

How to Record a Screencast on Your Android Device (Without Plugging It Into a Computer)

Google’s new YouTube Gaming and Google Play Games apps allow you to record your Android device’s screen and create screencasts. They’re designed for recording mobile games while you play them, but you can us...

How to Record Gameplay on Your Android Phone, iPhone, or iPad

Windows 10, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One all have integrated ways to record your gameplay and post clips online. Now, Android devices, iPhones, and iPads are gaining integrated ways to capture videos of mobile gameplay and pos...

What is an eGPU, and Why Should I Want One?

Imagine a perfect world, where you can buy the thinnest, lightest, and sleekest laptop around, but still get the same amount of gaming horsepower out of it that you’d expect out of a full-tower desktop. For years, the ...

Chris Stobing Nov 4th, 2015

How to Add a Third Party Game Controller to Your Apple TV

Let’s face it, gaming with a TV remote is mostly a novelty and frustrating for anything more complex than simple games. If you want to unlock the gaming potential of your shiny new Apple TV you need to pair a real game...

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 3rd, 2015

Google Cardboard Lets You Preview Virtual Reality, But It’s Not All That Great

Google Cardboard is cool. It’s a way to try virtual reality with a cheap headset made of cardboard and your current Android phone or iPhone. But, compared to devices like the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard is just a parl...

How Your PC Could Replace the Gaming Console in Your Living Room

For years, pundits and publicist alike were chanting that PC gaming had finally met its match. That after years on top of the gaming world as the technologically superior option, consoles had finally caught up to the aging pl...

How to Play Gwent in the Witcher III: Wild Hunt

It’s the game within a game that some people argue might actually be more fun than the actual game itself. The tabletop deckbuilding simulator Gwent, found inside CD ProjektRED’s The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, has proven...

Chris Stobing Oct 30th, 2015

PS4 vs Xbox One vs Wii U: Which One is Right For You?

The console wars. A test of will, strength, and perseverance almost as old as gaming itself. Over the past few decades companies from every corner of the technosphere have thrown their hat into the ring with one wacky system ...

8 Essential Plugins for any Bukkit Server

Running a vanilla Minecraft server is fun, but the real advantage to using Bukkit is the ability to install plugins to change gameplay. Bukkit plugins can do anything from protecting your world and managing large servers to a...

Anthony Heddings Oct 21st, 2015

Tested: Should You Unplug Chargers When You’re Not Using Them?

How much energy do your smartphone, laptop, and tablet chargers really use? Should you unplug them when you aren’t using them to save power and money? We measured exactly how much power a variety of common chargers use,...

How to Play Classic Retro Games on Android

Thanks to the endless gifts that Moore’s Law continues to bestow upon us, cramming many of your favorite retro gaming systems into a phone that’s not much bigger than half a pack of playing cards has never been ea...

Chris Stobing Oct 19th, 2015

How to Disable Game Center on Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple’s Game Center is included on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It’s a social gaming service for games on Apple’s platforms. With Game Center, you might see friend invites, game invites, and other notifications &#...

How to Master Aerials in Rocket League

Playing soccer on flat ground? Psh, that’s so last year. In the high-adrenaline world of Rocket League, you play as a rocket-powered car that can jump, flip, and slide around the field while an oversized soccer ball is...

Chris Stobing Oct 12th, 2015

How to Play PC Games That Require SafeDisc or SecuROM DRM on Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, and Vista

Microsoft made headlines when it stripped support for SafeDisc and SecuROM DRM from Windows 10 Recent security updates to Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 have also removed support for these DRM schemes from older versions of Wi...

How to Install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox, Set Up Drivers, and Play 16-bit Games

Install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox to run old 16-bit Windows games on 64-bit versions of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and anywhere else DOSBox runs. This is particularly useful as only 32-bit versions of Windows can run those 16-bit ...

How To Use DOSBox To Run DOS Games and Old Apps

New versions of Windows don’t fully support classic DOS games and other old applications — this is where DOSBox comes in. It provides a full DOS environment that runs ancient DOS apps on modern operating systems....

Chris Hoffman Oct 5th, 2015

The 5 Best Free iPhone Games (That Are Actually Free)

Lampooned in the South Park episode “Freemium Isn’t Free”, games like Simpsons: Tapped Out were put on blast for actively and knowingly creating Skinner box scenarios wherein players could play a game for “free”, on...

Chris Stobing Oct 1st, 2015

Get a Little Closer to the Cosmos with These Awesome Astronomy Apps

Even though everyone may not get the chance to start their own private space enterprise a’la Elon Musk’s SpaceX, that doesn’t mean there still aren’t plenty of fun and interactive experiences that let anyone with a de...