3 Ways to Set a Date-Specific Alarm on Your iPhone

3 Ways to Set a Date-Specific Alarm on Your iPhone Struggling to set an alarm for a specific date? By default, iPhones do not allow setting an alarm for a future date—it can only repeat on certain days of the week. Setting an alarm for 7 a.m. means the next 7 a.m. whenever it occurs, which can be frustrating if you need it to ring on a specific day or date....

June 24, 2025 · 5 min · 926 words · Thomas York

4 DeWalt Tools You Might Want To Avoid, According To Owners

4 DeWalt Tools You Might Want To Avoid, According To Owners We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. DeWalt is a major name in the tool world, thanks primarily to its impressive power tool catalog. The iconic black and yellow brand has the means to get all kinds of jobs done, and it’s still expanding its offerings withseveral new DeWalt tools to add to your arsenal in 2025....

June 24, 2025 · 6 min · 1220 words · Michelle Davis

4 ways I keep my laptop and console cool in the summer heat

For over a decade, I called Austin home, and if there’s anything living inTexaswill teach you, it’s how to cope with heat. You’ll see the occasional lunatic running around Town Lake when it’s 100 degrees out – but as rule, Texans are deeply invested in how to stay cool during the summer. In my case, I almost always stayed indoors until the sun went down. And even then, my definition of nighttime fun usually involved central air conditioning....

June 24, 2025 · 6 min · 1138 words · Cassandra Rasmussen

5 Game Gear Titles We Want to Make a Comeback

Quick Links The Sega Game Gear was always second place during the handheld gaming boom eclipsed by Nintendo’s Game Boy. It’s unfortunate because despite showing off a fully-lit color screen and vast library of titles, Game Gear just couldn’t keep up. Thanks to nostalgia running rampant with every passing day, however, perhaps some Game Gear titles could make a comeback. There aren’t many exclusives as most games were available on multiple consoles, but this list is comprised of a few that should get a second chance....

June 24, 2025 · 6 min · 1113 words · Marissa Morris

A Quiet Place Trailer Brings the Scares Home

Paramount Pictures has released their newSuper BowlTV spot for the upcoming thrillerA Quiet Place. While most of the movies being promoted during the big game are massive blockbusters with huge budgets,A Quiet Placeis quite the opposite, a low-budget thriller with a minimalistic cast, marking the second directorial effort of star John Krasinski. Not only does the former star ofThe Officeget to make his first movie, he gets to do so while directing and starring alongside his real wife, Emily Blunt....

June 24, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Jill Dalton

Anime Action-RPG Code Vein II Announced at Summer Game Fest

In the dark and grim world of the God Eater universe comesCode Vein, one of 2019’s standout titles. It may be a little on the rough-side, but this Action-RPG was exactly what players needed while they waited for the next FromSoftware title. Originally dubbed as the anime Dark Souls beforeThe First Berseker: Khazanwas released earlier this year, this Soulslike that had a lot of heart and style, and it looks like it’s finally getting a sequel....

June 24, 2025 · 3 min · 480 words · Andrew Webb

Apple makes it harder to recover data on 2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Recovering data from a damaged 2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar could prove much more difficult than with past models. At issue is the apparent removal of a port on the logic board of this year’s 13-inch and 15-inch models, according toMacRumors. Both the 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models include non-removable SSDs that are soldered to the logic board. To recover data and not destroy the SSD in the process when there are problems with the device’s logic board, Apple issued a unique tool for Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 404 words · John Jones

Apple’s new iPad Pros are only as good as the software they enable

The iPad is finally exciting again, but not at all in the way anyone expected. Tim Cook introducedApple’s “Let Loose” eventas “the biggest day for iPad since its introduction” and it mostly proved to be true. A13-inch iPad Airmight not set anyone’s heart on fire, but an iPad Pro that’s lighter than the Air and thinner than an iPod nano certainly does, and those were just the tablets. Apple also introduced new accessories too, like the haptic feedback-enabledApple Pencil Pro, and the aluminum Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro....

June 24, 2025 · 5 min · 997 words · Debbie Alexander

Apple’s Q4 2016 earnings: 45.5M iPhones and 9.3M iPads sold, revenue down to $46.9B

Apple on Tuesday posted its [fiscal] fourth quarter earnings for 2016, offering a look at its performance over the past 3 months. The Cupertino company came close to most of Wall Street’s expectations, selling 45.5 million iPhones, 9.3 million iPads and earning $46.9 billion in revenue. The numbers are still down year-over-year, however, as the struggle to find new growth continues. Here are Q4 2016 numbers compared to figures from the same quarter in 2015....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · Allison Bowman

Arcane Becomes The Most Expensive Animated Series in History

Arcane, the Netflix series based on theLeague of Legendsuniverse, is now officially the most expensive animated TV series ever, with a budget exceeding $200 million. Arcane The Most Expensive Animated Series High-caliber modern film and TV productions require incredibly large and even exaggerated budgets for development and extensive promotional campaigns. Films likeGladiator 2, F1, and Mission: Impossible 8have surpassed $300 million in costs, while series like Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion have also hit $200 million with ease....

June 24, 2025 · 2 min · 354 words · Michael Ramirez

Are gaming PCs more expensive today? Here’s what $1,000 bought you 10 years ago

Say it with me: “Building a gaming PC is getting more expensive.”Price is top of mindwhen building a gaming PC in 2022, and why wouldn’t it be? Today, thebest graphics cardswill cost you well over $1,000, DDR5 is ungodly expensive, and CPU prices are double or even triple what they were a decade ago. It’s easy to add up the numbers and come to a conclusion, but that ignores game optimizations, falling prices of other components, and the various upscaling tools players have to squeeze extra performance out of their PCs....

June 24, 2025 · 5 min · 900 words · Tiffany Hogan

As of iOS 15, Apple Card gets an advanced fraud protection feature with rotating security codes

Advanced fraud protection for Apple Card owners is now available as part of the iOS 15 update, which automatically rotates the card’s three-digit security code every now and then. STORY HIGHLIGHTS: iOS 5 brings advanced fraud protection for Apple Card In online transactions, a credit card’s security code is your last line of defense. Suppose I stole your credit card number and the associated information like first name, last name and address....

June 24, 2025 · 3 min · 557 words · Tiffany Gilbert

Avatar 3: How It Could Improve Upon Its Predecessor

Avatar: The Way of Waterwas a spectacle to witness in theaters, not just because it features the most stunning visuals we’ve ever seen in film history but also because of the anticipation viewers had suppressed for nearly 13 years since the firstAvatarfilm. It’s almost as if the wait was worthwhile becauseAvatar: The Way of Waterstepped upin many respects, even if it couldn’t outdo the original film in every way. With James Cameroon taking his time setting the technology that could turn his visions into cinematic imagery, it is reasonable to state thatAvatar: The Way of Wateris far superior to the originalAvatarin terms of immersive experience....

June 24, 2025 · 4 min · 807 words · Mark Aguilar