Why ditching Gmail for Outlook was the best decision I ever made

Communication is crucial to how we work and play, and thus email has become one of the major methods of communication in a digital age. Which means choosing your email client is pretty important. Especially if you’re hounded by email messages on almost a minute by minute basis. One of the biggest features that anyemailclient needs is the ability to organize the trash from the splash. And fortunately, Outlook does that way better than Gmail....

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · 636 words · Kelly Elliott

X, Pearl, and the Upcoming MaXXXine: Examining the Appeal of the Franchise

WithX,Ti West did something most directors could not. With his blend of an erotic theme and a horrifying plot, he captured the undivided attention of a massive audience. It was so brazenly tantalizing that fans were on pins and needles as they awaited West’s follow-up feature,Pearl. There is something cloaked and obscure about the title alone. If one thinks ofX, one typically thinks of a letter of substitution. So, from the title alone, one could not fathom whatXwould encompass....

June 23, 2025 · 6 min · 1161 words · Brett Thompson

Xbox owners can now use Discord Voice chat, here’s how

For some time now PC gamers have been usingDiscordto talk to friends while they play. Now Xbox owners will be able to do the same. Microsoft has announced in an official blog post that Discord Voice chat is coming to bothXbox Series X/S andXbox Oneconsoles as well. This has been coming for some time now as Discord has been working onPlayStation 5compatibilityfor a while. According tothe announcement, Xbox users will be able to chat with their friends on Discord using standard voice channels on a server or via group calls....

June 23, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · James Stone

'Weapons' Review: Zach Cregger's 'Barbarian' Followup Is a Movie at War with Itself

Weaponsis a film that shapeshifts before your eyes. That’s both the strength and weakness of directorZach Cregger’s follow-up to his smash hitBarbarian,which sees him circling similar thematic territory as he indicts the manufactured comfort of suburbia. If his 2022 film was a patient and unsettling dismantling of that safety.Weaponsrips the band-aid off with primal glee, as Cregger exposes the latent terrors underneath the fences of artifice in a much more expansive and sprawling way....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 851 words · Julie Jimenez DVM

10 Reasons The BMW E30 Was Such An Awesome Car

10 Reasons The BMW E30 Was Such An Awesome Car Many enthusiasts believe the E30 to be one of the greatest BMWs ever built. That’s quite a compliment, as it concerns one of Europe’s top marques that was founded in 1917 and has produced such lauded models as the M2, M3, and X5. With a 12-year production run between 1982 and 1994, this compact executive car inspired drivers thanks to its superb handling and high-revving inline-six engine....

June 22, 2025 · 12 min · 2382 words · Patrick Carter

12 Of The Best Free Notion Templates To Use In 2024

12 Of The Best Free Notion Templates To Use In 2024 Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Notion, or at least seen the Notion icon on someone else’s home screen or desktop and wondered what it was. Notion, for those who do seek refuge beneath rocks, is a versatile powerhouse of an app. It seamlessly blends note-taking, project management, and collaboration. Its customizable nature allows users to shape it according to their unique needs, making it a go-to platform for individuals and teams alike....

June 22, 2025 · 13 min · 2756 words · Amy Mccormick

2024 Kia EV9 Review: The New Standard For Three-Row SUVs

2024 Kia EV9 Review: The New Standard For Three-Row SUVs SUVs and the spread of electrification have gone hand in hand, and for good reason. Demand for crossovers and SUVs continues to grow, potentially making it easier to nudge buyers away from internal combustion and into an EV. Meanwhile, performance expectations for SUVs tend to be more conservative, handy when you’re working around a beefy battery pack. What’s still far more rare, though, is an electric SUV with three rows of seating, like theKia EV9....

June 22, 2025 · 9 min · 1914 words · Steven Wood

3 Upgrades To Get More MPG Out Of A 6.6 Duramax

3 Upgrades To Get More MPG Out Of A 6.6 Duramax The mighty Duramax diesel engine has been around since 2001, with the 6.6-liter being the largest. Available in the heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, the latest iteration of this powerplant offers 470 horsepower and 975-pound feet of torque. However, one aspect of the Duramax you probably won’t hear anyone bragging about, is the fuel economy.Drivers say the 6.6 Duramax has a wide mpg rangeand things get even worse hauling a trailer, with reports of as low as 10 mpg....

June 22, 2025 · 4 min · 650 words · Tina Guzman

4 Dodge Ram Key Fob Features That Go Beyond Unlocking Doors

4 Dodge Ram Key Fob Features That Go Beyond Unlocking Doors With technology constantly evolving, modern day vehicles have so many perks that we take for granted nowadays that were never thought to even be possible 50 or so years ago. There was a time where vehicles didn’t even have air conditioning, let alone360-degree bird’s eye camerasto help you perfectly park, a speedometer floating on your front windshield like a hologram, or evenself-driving vehicles....

June 22, 2025 · 6 min · 1192 words · Patrick Davis PhD

Altec Lansing inMotion MAX And GLOW; Expressionist BASS 2.2 Desktop Speakers

Altec Lansing inMotion MAX And GLOW; Expressionist BASS 2.2 Desktop Speakers Altec Lansinghave unveiled a number of new audio systems, including a high-quality portable speaker dock for the iPhone 3G, a combination speaker dock, FM radio and clock (with color changing mood light), and a desktop speaker system with integrated dual subwoofers. The inMotion MAX Portable Digital Music System uses the company’s proprietary ESS technology with XdB bass-enhancement and twin stereo speakers....

June 22, 2025 · 2 min · 359 words · Christine Mills

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app now available

Folks who keep their music, photos, documents and other stuff stored in the Amazon cloud are aware of the online retailer’s dedicated iOS software aptly namedCloud Playerwhich can stream songs from your cloud locker to your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. Although Amazon has yet to release the official Cloud Drive app for Apple’s mobile platform (it’savailable on OS X), today it inched toward that goal by releasing a brand new photo management application for iOS....

June 22, 2025 · 2 min · 348 words · Angelica Smith

An iPad user reviews the Nexus 7

A review for an Android device is probably the last thing you’d expect to read on iDB. For those of you who are paying attention though, you probably noticedJeff’s review of the devicea couple weeks ago, and now that I’ve been using the Nexus 7 for a about two weeks myself, I’d like to share my thoughts with you. Of course iDB is an Apple-focused blog. Of course we are biased towards the iPad and just about everything iOS, but when a device like the Nexus 7 comes out, we feel that we owe it to ourselves and to our readers to have a look at it....

June 22, 2025 · 11 min · 2319 words · Tony Price

Apple has 2x or more credit cards on file than Amazon

Following Apple’s most recentearnings report,Tim Cook revealedin a conference call with analyst that there are now more than 800 million iTunes accounts in use and said that“the majority of those have credit cards behind them.” How does this compare to Amazon, the king of online commerce? Turns out that Apple actually has twice as many credit cards on file than Amazon, at least. This poses a tremendous opportunity should Apple decide to introduce a mobile payment service of its own, as expected…...

June 22, 2025 · 3 min · 465 words · Gilbert Moody