Nintendo’s questionable supply chain strategies mean there are still gamers trying to get their hands on a Switch, two months after its release. But why bother trying to hunt down another console when the smartphone in your pocket can already do almost everything the Switch can—with a few upgrades.
If you’re like me, you’ve got hundreds of gigabytes of digital media files, everything from movies, to music, to TV shows, stored across portable hard drives, old laptops, and various PCs. Wouldn’t it be great if all of that media could live in one place and be able to be easily accessed by your other computers and…
Field Guide’s mission is to help you get more out of your technology, whether that’s tips for your favorite apps, round-ups of the best tools for a particular task or in-depth guides to achieving a particular goal. From stretching out battery life to kid-proofing an iPad, we’ve covered a lot of ground over the last…
We're pretty infatuated with this brand new print from nature cartoonist Rosemary Mosco, creator of Bird and Moon comics. The premise is simple: Assign each a bird a catch phrase that sounds similar to the sound it makes in the wild. By remembering the catch phrase, you can better identify the sound – and the bird…
The peak of the famously visible Perseid meteor shower starts this week! This year's show, coinciding with a new moon and excellent viewing conditions, should be especially spectacular—especially if you follow these tips for an excellent viewing experience:
OK, we're calling it: this is the year of the sound bar, those long, slender speaker boxes that you see freakin' everywhere. (Today alone we mentioned three companies introducing a total of six new models!) When our very own Brian Lam was at CES this past January, he heard the editor-in-chief of a top home…
Ok. This is it. I will never write about HTC again. Maybe someone else will here at Gizmodo, but I, John, will never utter another word about them. They anger me. These are the two models, the Wizard or the Universal or whatever the hell they're called. Consider this the field guide to identifying the HTC phones in…
