I spend a lot of evenings crouched on cold grass, phone mounted on a cheap tripod, trying to squeeze usable night-sky shots from devices that were never designed as dedicated astrophotography tools. If you’ve got around £300 to spend and want the most reliable raw night and astrophotography...
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I’ve been carrying the Google Pixel Fold as a daily device for several weeks...
Wearables
I’ve been wearing both a Garmin Epix Gen 2 and an Apple Watch Ultra for...
Smart Home
I run a lot of camera tests at Wcetesting Co, and one question keeps coming up:...
How-to
I wanted a private, low-cost way to store footage from my smart home cameras...
I run a lot of camera tests at Wcetesting Co, and one question keeps coming up: how can you keep local, private backups of your Arlo and Nest cameras without paying for cloud subscriptions? I’ve worked through this by combining honest checks on...
I wanted a private, low-cost way to store footage from my smart home cameras without paying for cloud subscriptions or trusting a third-party service. What I ended up building is a simple local backup server using a Raspberry Pi and inexpensive...
I get asked this a lot on Wcetesting Co: can a refurbished iPhone 12 still deliver reliable battery and camera performance after two years of heavy use? I spent the last month running a hands-on evaluation of a refurbished iPhone 12 that had been on...
When I’m hunting for true gym-ready earbuds that won’t kill your gaming experience, I look for two non-negotiables: a sweatproof build that survives heavy workouts and a low-latency audio path that keeps your game and visuals in sync. Under £80...
I’m going to show you how I get Pixel 8a–level night and astrophotography results from a budget Android phone by shooting RAW and manually stacking frames. I do this on phones that don’t have Google’s sophisticated multi-frame pipeline, and...
I’ve moved Sonos setups between accounts more times than I care to admit while testing multi-room audio workflows — and every time the same questions come up: how do I keep my playlists, my multi-room groupings, and that sweet crossfade setting...
I’ve spent the last few weeks shooting low-light scenes and star fields with both the Pixel 8a and the Pixel 8 so I could answer the question I get asked a lot: can the cheaper Pixel 8a match the Pixel 8 for night and astrophotography? Short...
I test headphones and wearables for a living, and one question I keep getting from readers is: “Which true wireless earbuds under £100 can actually survive sweaty gym sessions and still keep calls sounding good?” It’s an important question...
I run my home automation from a Raspberry Pi that acts as my smart home hub (Home Assistant). One of the most annoying problems I’ve solved by now is keeping that hub and my Wi‑Fi router running during brief power outages so automations keep...
If you want a smart home camera setup that reliably records clear faces at night — without paying for a cloud subscription or hauling a bulky NVR into your living room — I’ve built and tested practical, compact options that do exactly that....