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Content for the Weekend Tinkerer audience
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A Wall-Mounted Remote for Your Whole House If you already have smart home devices — a Nest thermostat, some Hue lights, a Ring doorbell, smart plugs — you’re controlling them through apps on your phone. Which means pulling out your…
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See Your Cameras Without Picking Up Your Phone If you have security cameras — Ring, Wyze, Nest, Arlo — you’re checking them on your phone. Which means unlocking, opening the app, waiting for the feed to load, then putting it…
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More Screen Space for $0 A second monitor changes how you work. Email on one screen, your main task on the other. Reference material beside your document. Slack visible without alt-tabbing. A decent standalone monitor costs $150-300. Your old iPad,…
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Skip the Kindle. You Already Have One. Your old iPad has a bigger, higher-resolution, full-color screen than a Kindle. It connects to your library’s digital collection for free. It runs Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and every other reading app at…
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Put Your Phone in Another Room Using your phone as an alarm clock is a trap. You set the alarm, then check Instagram “for one minute,” and suddenly it’s midnight. In the morning, you dismiss the alarm and immediately start…
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Too Slow for Modern Games. Perfect for the Good Ones. Your old iPad can’t run Genshin Impact. But it runs classic and retro games — the ones that were designed for hardware a fraction as powerful — without breaking a…