Google Is Announcing Android News Ahead of I/O
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on Google Is Announcing Android News Ahead of I/O
Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, is nearly here. The show kicks off May 20, and will likely center around Google’s plans for its services and products for the coming year. Android, of course, is a huge Google service that is usually highlighted at each I/O. This year, however, it appears the company is […]
Introducing BiggerDeals: A Powerful New Way for Investors to Find and Analyze Cash-Flowing Properties
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- investing
- Comments Off on Introducing BiggerDeals: A Powerful New Way for Investors to Find and Analyze Cash-Flowing Properties
We’re excited to announce the launch of BiggerDeals, a new property listings and analysis tool designed specifically for real estate investors. It’s now faster and easier than ever for real […]
Five Ways to Protect Your Privacy When Using Smart Home Tech
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on Five Ways to Protect Your Privacy When Using Smart Home Tech
We may earn a commission from links on this page. We might not live in a Jetsons-like future with robot maids and flying cars, but we do have the technology to transform our standard houses into futuristic smart homes. There are some very compelling reasons to do that, including having more control over your environment, […]
There’s an Easy Way to Restore Deleted iCloud Files
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on There’s an Easy Way to Restore Deleted iCloud Files
The next time you accidentally delete something from iCloud, you don’t need to head to four different pages to recover it. Instead, you can head to iCloud’s Data Recovery page and find almost everything you need in one spot. This page lets you recover deleted files from iCloud Drive, Calendar, and Contacts, and it also […]
What’s New on Prime Video in May 2025
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on What’s New on Prime Video in May 2025
Amazon hasn’t yet released a full list of what’s coming to Prime Video in May, but there are a handful of original titles ranging from documentaries to dark comedies. First up is Another Simple Favor (May 1), a Paul Feig comedy-mystery film and sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor. Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively reprise […]
The New M4 MacBook Air Is $150 Off Right Now
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on The New M4 MacBook Air Is $150 Off Right Now
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The new 2025 lineup of M4 MacBook Air laptops hit record-low prices last week, but today the prices got even lower. The 13-inch M4 MacBook Air with 16GB Unified Memory and 256GB SSD Storage […]
My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Ace Headphones
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Ace Headphones
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. You’ve probably heard of Sonos smart speakers and soundbars, which offer some of the best audio quality in the market. What you may not know, however, is that Sonos also makes the excellent Sonos […]
Twitch Streamers Love the Elgato Stream Deck, but I Use It for Productivity
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on Twitch Streamers Love the Elgato Stream Deck, but I Use It for Productivity
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Elgato Stream Deck sits on the desk of your favorite Twitch and YouTube streamers, just off camera. It’s there, trust me. I know, because using its customizable LCD buttons is one of the easiest ways to launch and manage apps without disrupting what you’re […]
This Tool Tells You How Much Energy Your AI Chatbot Uses
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on This Tool Tells You How Much Energy Your AI Chatbot Uses
Thanking your AI chatbot when it provides a response to a query may not require much energy on its own, but the cost of your interactions will add up over time—and a new tool from Hugging Face can tell you approximately how much. The ChatUI energy interface estimates the energy consumption involved in messaging with […]
Your Google Pixel Can Make New Emojis for You Now
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on Your Google Pixel Can Make New Emojis for You Now
For the past five years, Google’s Emoji Kitchen has offered a way for users to make unique emojis from existing icons. The feature lets you take two emojis and combine them into one to make emojis that are familiar yet new. You can take the saluting emoji and combine it with the robot emoji to […]
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: The End of Slang
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: The End of Slang
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Youth culture moves fast. New slang is created and abandoned in days, whole communities organize around a blurry photograph, jokes become memes, memes become rituals, and everything might is abandoned before you even notice it exists. It’s like to trying to study a snowflake: Once […]
ChatGPT Finally Has a Free (but Limited) Deep Research Tool
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on ChatGPT Finally Has a Free (but Limited) Deep Research Tool
Months after enabling Deep Research in its expensive $200 ChatGPT Pro plan, OpenAI is now rolling out the feature to all users. Anyone can now access a lightweight version of Deep Research for free. This new version of Deep Research sits somewhere between a regular ChatGPT search and a ChatGPT Pro-style in-depth report. These searches […]
The Best AI Video Generators (and How They Compare to Each Other)
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on The Best AI Video Generators (and How They Compare to Each Other)
AI video generators are rapidly improving and becoming more widely available, with Google’s Veo 2 now built into the Gemini app for anyone paying for a Google One AI Premium plan. Like OpenAI’s Sora, Runway, Adobe’s Firefly, and others, Veo 2 enables you to create a professional-looking video from nothing more than a text prompt. […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2025
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- computers
- Comments Off on Daily Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
The Easiest Ways to Free Up Photos Storage on iCloud and iPhone
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on April 28, 2025
- life
- Comments Off on The Easiest Ways to Free Up Photos Storage on iCloud and iPhone
I keep looking for ways to free up storage space on my iPhone and on iCloud. I am a data hoarder who hates deleting things, but when I almost managed to fill up my 256GB iPhone, I knew I had a problem and began aggressively deleting unwanted data. However, photos takes up most of the […]









