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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, April 7, 2024
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to check the ‘health’ status of your laptop’s battery
• Why ‘bigger is better’ for a smartphone
• Protect yourself while driving with an inexpensive dash cam
• Do you know the differences between a graveyard and a cemetery?
• April’s Tech Tips Giveaway: Anker 521 300W Portable Power Station
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Monthly Tech Giveaway….
We have a winner for March…
Congratulations to Teresa G. from McKinney, Texas for winning the HP Pavilion 17.3″ HD+ Laptop in March’s Tech Tips Giveaway.
April’s winner will receive an Anker 521 300W Portable Power Station (click for details).
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Today’s featured tech tip….
How to check the ‘health’ status of your laptop’s battery
As with any battery, the battery in your laptop won’t last forever. There will for sure come a time when you’ll need to replace it if you keeping using your laptop long enough.
If you’ve had your laptop for a while you might be wondering how well its battery is faring right now.
Both MacBooks and Windows laptops come with tools that allow you to view the current state of the battery’s ‘health’ at any time.
Performing a quick health checkup on a MacBook battery couldn’t be simpler. Just follow the steps below:
1 – Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of the screen.
2 – Click System Settings.
3 – Click Battery in the left-hand sidebar.
4 – Look for the Battery Health info over on the right.
The process of viewing a Battery Life Report on a Windows laptop is a little more complicated than it is on a MacBook, but it’s still fairly easy. Just follow these steps:
1 – Click the Start button.
Type the letters cmd and then select Command Prompt from the list of search results.
2 – Type (or copy and paste) the following after the command prompt, and then press the Enter key:
powercfg /batteryreport
You should now see a message telling you which folder Windows saved the Battery Life Report in.
3 – Press the Windows+E key combination to open a ‘File Explorer’ window.
4 – Follow the path listed in step 2 above to navigate to the folder containing the newly-created Battery Life Report.
5 – Double-click on the battery-report.html file to open it in your laptop’s default web browser.
That’s all there is to it. Now you know how to view the current health status of your laptop’s battery at any time.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• Why ‘bigger is better’ for a smartphone
There are actually several important reasons.
• Protect yourself while driving with an inexpensive dash cam
Yes, you really do need one in your vehicle.
• Click here to see today’s ‘Picture of the Day’.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
Rick’s Daily Pick…
INIU Smallest 22.5W 10000mAh Portable Charger/Power Bank
I’m often asked if there’s a really good portable power bank that’s small enough to fit comfortably in a pocket. This is the one I always recommend. Sometimes great things really do come in small packages.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Do you know the differences between a graveyard and a cemetery?
Contrary to popular belief, they are very different things.
Tech news that caught my eye…
• ‘Kid Security’ app exposed children’s locations, messages & more
• Have a terrible electronics repair experience? The FTC wants to know
• Over 92,000 exposed D-Link NAS devices have a backdoor account
• PowerToys now lets you easily peek at WebP, WebM files in Windows 11 & 10
• These 10 Windows features will disappear soon
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