
The 40 Essential Apps for All Your Gadgets
You can have best-in-classed gear with specs that will make the angels cry, but they’ll still be worthless without software that actually helps you do the things you need to do.

You can have best-in-classed gear with specs that will make the angels cry, but they’ll still be worthless without software that actually helps you do the things you need to do.
By Gear Patrol

It’s better than the X-T3 in almost every way.
By Tucker Bowe

An extremely deep, professional analysis reveals the expensive display’s subtle but fatal flaw.
By Eric Limer

What if, instead of cluttering up your disk with a big hub or dongle, those ports just lived in your keyboard instead?
By Eric Limer

The “Nintendo PlayStation” obviously never came to market, but the prototype is up for auction and may well go for upwards of $1 million.
By Eric Limer

It’s basically “advanced search,” but made simpler so that all Gmail users know how to use it.
By Tucker Bowe

Jaybird’s award-winning wireless Vista Headphones meet the rugged standards of the US Military.
By Gear Patrol

Facebook’s new “Off-Facebook Activity” feature shows you which apps and websites are sharing your data with Facebook.
By Tucker Bowe


After 24 hours with the Galaxy Z Flip, I am on thousand percent ready to go back to the flip phone days.
By Eric Limer

With a little bit of exploration, user manual spelunking and pushing the limits of what manufacturers actually endorse, you can pull a lot more out of your tech than you would have expected on paper.
By Gear Patrol

A big big zoom, a display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 5G support.
By Tucker Bowe

Apple just rolled out a huge update to its Maps app that makes it substantially faster and way more detailed.
By Tucker Bowe


Concerns about coronavirus have lead to the cancelation of Mobile World Congress, one of the biggest tech events of the year. And that is not where the complications end.
By Eric Limer

Samsung just officially announced the Galaxy Z Flip, the company’s newest foldable smartphone. Here’s everything you need to know.
By Tucker Bowe

The redesigned app has a new look and a host of new features.
By Tucker Bowe

The HomeHawk by Panasonic is effective and secure with its KX-HN7000 Series of HD cameras.

DoubleTake is a new iOS app that allows you to capture videos from two of your iPhone’s cameras at the same time.
By Tucker Bowe

Google’s experimental Digital Wellbeing apps tackle excessive phone usage in some interesting ways.
By Eric Limer