<p>Mechanical moving parts are among some of the most satisfying objects you can print. Here are six of our favorites, from fidget spinners for idle hands through to toys, decor, and educational projects.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/07/planetary-gear-fidget-spinner-in-motion.jpg' />
Major changes are coming to Google account storage for Android users. Stuff that has historically not counted toward your storage allotment soo will—it could put a damper on your data management. Here's some background info on the changes and what you can do to adapt.
Photoshop is one of the hardest apps to find a good free, open-source (FOSS) alternative for. It's genuinely powerful, has decades of history behind it, is familiar to professionals across the industry, and its interface just works. And truth be told, at the time of writing, there's no single FOSS app that can do everything Photoshop does. But use three FOSS apps to
I'm not a big fan of smart home dashboards. My ideal smart home is one that works automatically without me having to control things manually. When I got my hands on a VR headset, however, I wanted to see if I could build a virtual smart home dashboard in 3D space.
GitHub has grown from a simple place to store code into the center of the modern development world. It's still the largest platform of its kind, and if you want other developers to discover, use, or contribute to your project, it remains one of the easiest places to reach them. That network effect is hard to ignore, and I don't think most developers need to abandon
Splitting your home network into VLANs is sensible, so kudos to you if that's what you're doing. Your computers go on one network, smart home devices on another (as they can be pretty dodgy security-wise), and guests get a separate corner where they don't bother or endanger any other part of your network.
Every time I plan a trip, I go through roughly the same steps: I download a specialized trip planner, spend a day carefully planning my days to optimize time, and then I spend the entire time reading out of my Google Keep notes and using Google Maps instead.
Whether you're rotating your tires to extend their life, swapping between summer and winter wheel sets, or simply installing a different set of wheels to give your car a fresh look, no rule says you must pay a tire shop to do it. With a handful of basic tools and about an hour of free time, you can handle the job yourself and save the money of having it done at the
I'm a Windows user, and I'm no stranger to dual-booting. It was actually my first real introduction to Linux. Like a lot of people, I carved out a partition, installed a second OS, and got that satisfying moment of choosing which OS to boot into at startup. At the time, it felt like the right way to do it if you wanted the full experience.
To be clear about the title up front: by 'native framework' I don't mean apps written directly against the platform APIs in Swift or Kotlin. Those have no translation layer, so there's no debt, they are the platform. I mean cross-platform frameworks that reach the platform through an abstraction, mapping your components to native widgets on your behalf. That layer is where the debt lives: you don't get a new platform feature until the abstraction gets around to wrapping it.Every time someone shi
Imagine waking up one day to discover that decades of your digital history have been erased. For one Twitch streamer, Joshua Khane, that nightmare scenario became a reality. His long-standing Microsoft account, which held thousands of dollars in Xbox games, along with Outlook emails and his son's baby photos, was unceremoniously deleted by Microsoft after a hacker g
React forms need one email source of truthIf your React signup form says an email is valid but your Node.js API rejects it, you do not have a validation bug, you have a product bug. Users feel that mismatch imediately. They retype, retry, refresh, and start wondering if your app is broken in some weird hidden way.I keep seeing this when teams move fast: frontend rules drift, backend rules drift, and the verification email flow becomes the place where all that confusion finally shows up. Th
Next.js 16.3 Instant Navigations: how the per-route shell works and when to adopt itSummary. On 25 June 2026, Next.js team members Andrew Clark and Josh Story announced Instant Navigations in the Next.js 16.3 Preview, a set of opt-in tools that give a server-driven app the instant, SPA-like feel of a client app. Two changes matter. First, when a route awaits data you now choose one of three behaviours, Stream, Cache, or Block, so a click renders an instant shell instead of a blank wait. Se
Microsoft has won an extended stay at the Competition Appeal Tribunal while it seeks permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court, having lost at both the Tribunal and the Court of AppealIts argument that Office's icons and clip art placed it outside software exhaustion rules was rejected as producing "odd results", including CD software being resellable while identical downloads were notThe jurisdiction ruling matters more than the ÂŁ270 million claim, as it clears th
Report finds adults are spending four hours a week on reputation management, compared with 2.5 hours on developing skillsThis seems to be a response to the belief that professional opportunities increasingly favour people who communicate confidence publiclyWorkers think they need to not just be capable, but also demonstrate their abilitiesResearch from MyIQ has uncovered a new trend: establishing professional credibility requires regular reputation management on socia
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Anyone who has dealt with spotty Wi-Fi knows that a fast NBN plan doesn’t mean your Wi-Fi will work equally well in every room. The connection might work well in the living room near the router but be frustratingly slow upstairs or at the other end of your house, especially in homes with thick walls or concrete floors.That’s where a mesh Wi-Fi system can help, as it improves coverage by using several connected units around your home instead of relying on a single rout
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