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No more propping your phone up and trying to beat the timer to get in the picture.

When you’re not using your iPhone as a music player, camera or gaming platform, you might actually use it as a phone. And when you do, call quality matters. If calls sound muffled or metallic, cut out intermittently or are drowned by background noise, you can take steps to fix the problems.

Has your desk become a buzzing hive of wireless dongles, devices and accessories? If you’re experiencing poor Wi-Fi, before you file yet another support ticket with your broadband provider, consider this: your peripherals might be to blame.

You’ve probably wondered why the webcam on your laptop looks so bad. It’s hard to point to a single reason, since factors like ambient light can have a major impact on how a camera’s image looks. 

You really shouldn’t have to worry about your phone’s battery levels dropping to half by noon, but here we are — a common frustration among Android users. As frustrating as the situation is, there are fairly easy fixes to this that can add hours back to your day and extend your battery’s lifespan in the…

You don’t need a new GPU to increase your frame rates, but you’ll need to turn off some fancy graphical enhancements.

Apple Maps has improved a lot since its troubled launch, but many people still prefer Google Maps. That could be because of the traffic data, better business listings or just out of habit. The good news is that you can use Google Maps in Apple CarPlay just like any other supported app. 

You might not have thought much about configuring your router beyond the initial setup, as long as your Wi-Fi isn’t too slow and works properly. But since the router is the gatekeeper between traffic on your network and the entire internet, it’s important to keep it as secure as possible. Some default settings aren’t the…

Your iPhone turns your car’s infotainment system into a navigation and communication hub, thanks to CarPlay. While it works great by default, there are several ways to make it even better, plus new features that arrive every so often. 

If your home surround system isn’t exactly performing the way you expected, then the problem probably isn’t your equipment. There’s a massive chance that the big issue is that you set your system up years ago, plugged it in and haven’t touched it since. All the while, the room itself and the way the speakers…