All articles tagged with #tips
PCMag’s guide lists 35 Windows 11 tips and features—from taskbar and Start menu customization to PowerToys, Copilot, focus sessions, clipboard history, Phone Link, passkeys, Nearby Sharing, and an improved File Explorer—showing how to boost productivity, security, and personalization on Windows 11.
WIRED’s guide outlines 28 practical ways to get better results from ChatGPT, ranging from asking the bot to critique ideas like a curious 10-year-old, using your phone’s camera in prompts, and applying the 80-20 rule, to personalizing the assistant, producing playlists, requesting outputs in tables or ASCII art, prompting for role-plays or different audiences, and even crafting prompts for other AI engines. The piece emphasizes prompt engineering as a skill that can yield more precise, creative, and useful responses by adding context, constraints, and step-by-step guidance.
Kotaku’s spoiler-light tips guide for The Adventures of Elliot: Millennium Tales covers practical early-game advice: turn down chatter in partner dialogue, upgrade and optimally use Magicite, try different weapons (not just the sword), you don’t have to fight every enemy, complete sidequests early for valuable rewards, revisit towns and NPCs if you’re stuck, tackle the Water Temple in the Age of Reconstruction for key items, and remember there are multiple endings—don’t stress about missing them as you explore the adventure.
Mashable's Wordle today piece provides clues for Wordle #1826 and reveals the solution as EMOJI for June 19, 2026, while also touching on Wordle's origins and offering starter-word tips.
BuzzFeed’s roundup of 22 hidden iPhone tricks covers a wide range of practical hacks—from enabling Ultra Dark Mode via Accessibility Shortcuts (Reduce White Point) and using Calculator’s conversion tool, to autofill by scanning text with the camera, metal-detect via the magnetometer, AirPods Live Listen, Guided Access to lock apps, and more. Other tips include using Back Tap for quick actions, Translate with the camera for real-time text translation, turning your phone into a hotspot, Motion Cues to ease motion sickness, batch-editing photos by applying edits across multiple shots, searching photos by phrases, remote control capabilities for TVs, and printing to PDF or saving recipes as PDFs. The list showcases how everyday functions can become noticeably more convenient or even “magical” with a few tucked-away settings.
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is an open-world, largely chill title. Start with story missions to unlock characters, tools, and gold bricks to upgrade your skills, then explore freely. Use Detective Mode often to highlight puzzles and interactables, unlock Batman’s grapple slam to deal with shielded foes, and improve Jim Gordon’s bouncing projectile for AR combat. Check the map for activities you can complete before you’ve unlocked all characters, use Batgirl to reveal map icons, and drive the Batmobile to rack up studs. Revisit the Batcave/Batcomputer to replay missions and claim rewards, and don’t miss purple studs (which multiply) for big boosts. You can also upgrade gadgets at Batmite shops and turn off stud loss on death in accessibility settings for a smoother ride.
A concise guide of 15 practical Apple Watch tips—from quickly switching and organizing apps, pinging your iPhone, and skipping workout countdowns to customizing haptics, speaking the time, and using wrist gestures to mute alerts—designed to help users get more from watchOS 26 and beyond.
Here are 12 practical Saros tips: loop back to the Passage for new dialogue and upgrades, take alternate paths for loot, clear corruption before healing, use Arjun’s melee to break shields and take down foes, decide when to activate or skip the Eclipse, rely on the Overlord health-perk to recover between bosses, explore Nightmare Strands and non-combat story zones, hold keys for late-game upgrades, prioritize Halcyon for long-term progression, and tune DualSense Edge trigger settings to optimize weapon switching.
Kotaku’s Vampire Crawlers tips guide teaches you to chain cards by mana cost (ABC: Always Be Combo-ing), use wild cards to fill gaps, smash map dots for gold and new cards, time healing from chicken, evolve powerful cards, upgrade greed and might early to fund more upgrades, slot a zero-cost gem into mana-boosting cards, cash out chests when they aren’t worth it, replay runs to farm gold, and leverage Arcana’s Sharp Mind plus Arca Ladonna early to maximize mana and damage.
Kotaku frames Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream as a reality-TV style life sim where you curate a cast of Miis and watch their antics rather than micromanage every choice; have fun by keeping play sessions short, checking in daily for new items, chasing the expansive collectible catalog (over 9,814 items), gifting treasures, using TomodachiShare to recreate characters, and just going with the flow as Miis’ romances and on-island chaos unfold.
iPhone and Samsung offer advanced flashlight controls beyond a simple on/off. iPhone Pro models let you adjust brightness and beam width via Control Center, can be accessed from the Lock Screen, and Siri can control the light; you can also enable Flash for Alerts. Samsung devices let you tweak brightness in Quick Settings, use Google Assistant to turn the flashlight on/off, keep the icon in the main Quick Settings panel, and enable flashlight notifications. These features enhance nighttime visibility, one-handed use, and notifications across both brands.
Android Auto can be improved with five quick tweaks: stop music from auto-playing when connected; minimize notification distractions by turning off the message chime or removing apps from the Android Auto drawer; prevent Android Auto from starting automatically (no direct setting—use the workaround to disable Start Android Auto while the phone is locked); create shortcuts in Customize Launcher for frequent actions; and enable Taskbar widgets to control playback from the taskbar, so you can stay focused on the road.
Sharon Simmons, a Fayetteville grandmother of 10 and DoorDash driver, delivered McDonald’s to President Trump at the White House in a publicity stunt tied to the No Tax on Tips policy; DoorDash says it wasn’t staged, and Simmons has publicly supported the policy, which she credits with saving money for her husband’s cancer treatment, while the optics drew scrutiny from critics about manipulation.
BuzzFeed aggregates 30 reader-submitted, seemingly small money-saving habits that add up over time, from delaying impulse online purchases and deleting sale emails to buying off-season, using reusable bags, stocking up on sales with coupons, tracking MPG and groceries with apps, clipping coupons, leveraging library loans, and other frugal tweaks—illustrating how tiny, consistent changes can accumulate into substantial annual savings.
Kotaku’s spoiler-free guide for Crimson Desert compiles practical early-game tips: don’t spam attacks or sprint—hold attack for continuous hits and use a steady pace to conserve stamina; upgrade gear with a blacksmith early and visit all shopkeepers to expand your inventory with inexpensive bags; complete Sealed Artifact challenges to earn Abyss Cores and boost stamina for better exploring and sprinting; hold the looting button to grab nearby items quickly; use the magic sword (L1+R1) to reveal fast-travel points and light fires for cooking and healing; stock up on cooked meat and craft meals for tougher fights; ring bells in major towns to clear fog and reveal the map; watch the yellow Abyss Core bar on the mini‑map to unlock new skill nodes as you explore.