For those truly concerned with the care of their lithium-based batteries, it’s important to discern myth from reality and understand what can harm your battery as well as how you can prolong its life. This is especially significant now, as many phone manufacturers are opting to make their devices with non-removable lithium-polymer batteries. Understanding Li-Ion Batteries To know what your battery’s needs and wants are, you first have to understand a couple of things about how it functions....

You can get Power8 here. The installation is no fuss and when complete, an arrow will point to the familiar Start Menu to let you know where to get started. Getting your Start Menu back Power8 will be a rough Start Menu to start with that you will be able to tweak to your liking. For now, you can open your most commonly used apps and programs, you can open a more traditional Start Menu by clicking “Start Menu” at the top and you can even turn off your PC from here....

1. A Mechanical Keyboard with Backlight Not only do mechanical keyboards have a really satisfying sound and a cool look with colored backlighting, but they can also boost your productivity tremendously. The keyboard is your main data input peripheral, and since it’s something used so often, it needs to be accurate. A mechanical keyboard, as opposed to a typical membrane keyboard, is going to be far more accurate at data entry....

We’re edging into December which means that you may want to start thinking about buying presents in the run-up to the winter holidays. Thankfully, we’ve made your job a lot easier, as we’ve come across this fantastic deal on the Nintendo Switch, which comes with two games as well as a three-month membership for Nintendo Switch Online, all for just £277.99. So not only is that a saving of £93....

The games are two dimensional and do not run inside of a separate layer like SDL. Instead they run inside a normal KDE window, utilizing the standard QT interface. Nevertheless, the rendering of of the graphics is amazingly impressive because of the use of SVG vector graphics. With SVG, the animations are smooth and the images are scalable. You can play in a small window or maximize it without losing any of its quality....

But Apple Pay isn’t perfect, and sometimes it can stop working. There are many potential reasons why this happens, and we’re here to take you through some of the most common (and least common) fixes for Apple Pay not working. Is Your Phone Case Interfering? It may seem like an obvious suggestion, but phone cases can interfere with the NFC communications that Apple Pay relies upon. The rubber heavy-duty shockproof cases that encase your entire phone can sometimes be too thick for the NFC to work....

Instead of lugging around lots of heavy equipment (including your DSLR itself) on daily outings, using multiple apps on your iPhone may just prove to be more fun than you thought. In fact, many of these apps are so affordable it doesn’t make sense not to try them out. Here are 5 apps that you can try out: 1. f/8 DoF Calculator This app helps you calculate the depth of field and hyperfocal distance....

Before you go and download Android Bot Maker, there are a couple of requirements. First, your device needs to be rooted. The second is that you need to be running Android OS 4.1 or higher. If you meet this criteria, let’s get to how Android Bot Maker can make your days a little bit better. Keep in mind these will be repeating actions and run until you press the stop button....

The beauty of the automatic backups is you do not need to change your saving habits. The reason most people do not back up their devices regularly is because they forget or they will “do it later”. SafeCopy helps by continuously backing up your documents folder so you do not need to worry about forgetting to backup or sync your files. What can you backup? After you download the application and install it, the setup is pretty standard....

Backup jump lists in Windows The backing up process is very simple. All you need to do is to open the Windows Explorer and navigate to the path: and Backup all the files in these two folders. (note that the files’ name contain the folder name that they belong to, so you won’t be confused which file belongs to which folder.) Alternatively, you can download this bat file and run it in your computer to automate the whole process....

Convenient for occasionally translating a few words, automated translations often ignore critical syntax, phrase things improperly, or fail at constructing sentences. We’ve all seen examples of unfortunate, if not outright embarrassing, translation: now you can make your own and believe us when we say the results can be ludicrous. Ackuna’s Bad Translator manages to highlight every pitfall of online translation, running text through up to forty-three languages on a variety of sites before bringing the final text back to English....

It’s About The Ions! It is exceedingly difficult to get out of our dependency on lithium. Although it’s quite rare in the universe, it’s one of the most common and stable battery materials we can use. Right now, lithium-ion is failing us because we’ve practically reached the limits of what it can provide for high-power devices. We can either make the systems running on these devices (including the chip sets) more efficient or find a new way to power them that could support a longer life....

If this happens to you often, then you might want to try a browser add-on to translate web page content on the go. Below we have handpicked the best translation extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. 1. Google Translate (Chrome) Google Translate is the most widely-used translation service that will let you translate over nI ery different languages. This is the official Google Translate extension for Chrome that is also powered by the same amazing translation service....

While bone conduction technology has been around for a while, mostly in hearing aids and specialized industrial technologies, headphones based on it (bonephones!) are also starting to take off, and, in case it wasn’t sci-fi enough already, you can also get devices that turn your finger into a phone speaker. How does bone conduction work? Humans typically get their sound waves from the air. The journey of a sound from the air to your brain looks like this:...

First Impressions When I first look at Budgie, the first thing I think is “Wow. This is nothing quite like I’ve ever seen before.” I look around at the desktop and think it looks a little like GNOME, a little like KDE, a little like Cinnamon, and a little special in a way that I can’t quite describe. It’s the same but a little different. It looks great, and I find myself eyeballing my designated USB stick to reinstall my system....

The new font brings with it a new way of reading text on your Mac. However, in my opinion, the old Lucida Grande font looked really crispy on the beautiful retina displays of Macs compared to the newly added font by the Cupertino-based company. If you are a fan of that font and are looking to get it back, then you are in luck. Changing the default font is now possible, and the following steps should help you get the job done....

How to use ImmersiveTaille in Windows 8 Head to ImmersiveTaille’s Sourceforge page and download the software. Unzip the archive and click to start it. You will see your Start Screen pop up on your desktop. From here, you can immediately begin clicking tiles and opening apps. Click the “ImmersiveTaille taskbar icon” to get started customizing the Start screen. Click the “French flag” in the bottom left corner. This will allow you to change the language for the program....

Picaboo allows you to create a complete photo album – with page flipping features, to give you that real and physical feel of viewing your photos. It also comes with images editing features and the ability to share your photo albums with your friends and families. Let’s see how we can create an album with Picaboo. Creating a photo album with Picaboo. Download and install Picaboo. On the first run, Picaboo will prompt you to sign up for a free account....

Disabling the Video Autoplay on the Facebook app for Android This only applies to the Facebook app for Android and does not work if you use Facebook inside a browser. Launch the Facebook app from your App Drawer. Make sure you are signed in to your account. If you are not, do so first. Once you are logged in, press the “Menu” key on your device, and it should pop up a menu on your screen....

Things are very similar in the PC and Mac versions of the app, and for the purposes of this article we’re going to focus on Windows and Android – transferring between devices running the same OS, and also between platforms. Start by visiting the AnySend website, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Windows logo followed by the “Windows” button. Save the zip file to a folder of your choice and then extract the contents....