20 EVERYDAY TECH TWEAKS YOU MUST KNOW
There are many benefits of using tech tweaks. Some of the most important benefits include the following:
There are many reasons why using tech hacks is important. Perhaps the most important reason is that using hacks can make your life easier and more productive. For example, using a keyboard shortcut can save you time and effort when you are working on your computer. Additionally, using hacks can help you to be more organized and efficient, and can help you to get the most out of your technology.
Without wasting anymore time let's hop in:
1. Storing batteries in the freezer can double their lifespan.
2. To make sure someone isn’t giving you a fake number, read the number back to them incorrectly and see if they correct you. If they do correct you, then it’s the right number.
3. If your mobile phone battery is critically low, do not switch off the phone altogether. Instead put the phone on airplane mode, switching off and on your mobile phone saps more battery life from your mobile than simply putting it in airplane mode.
4. Students who use www.google.com for their academic work will not get thorough results. The official Google portal for students, teachers and research fellows is scholar.google.com as this Google portal is more suited for thorough, in-depth and incisive academic work in any discipline and also add 'PDF' to your search term to get downloadable copies.
5. Laptop batteries can last longer if you charge them up to only 80% instead of the full 100% always.
6. If you can’t remember the title of a song but you know the melody or lyrics to it, hum/sing it on 'Midomi' (Website or iOS/Android app) to get the title.
7. To buy the cheapest airline tickets on the Internet, first clear your browser's cache or go online using the incognito mode of your browser. Expensive air tickets show up on normal browsers and prices spike even higher when the browser is visited multiple times.
8. Find yourself in a hotel without your charger? Check the TV for a USB plugin.
9. The easiest way to vamp up your smartphone’s speaker volume is placing it in an empty cup.
10. Need a mirror fast? Turn on your smartphone’s front-facing camera, like you would - when taking a selfie.
11. If your web browser either on mobile or PC blocks popular websites such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc., simply switch your browser to Incognito mode and you will gain access almost instantly without the use of any apps nor software e.g VPN
12. If you download either a TXT, DOC, PDF, XLS, ODT, PPT or ODS file which ends in a .exe instead of either .txt, .doc, .pdf, .xls, .odt, ppt or .ods extension, delete it immediately as it is a virus.
13. Someone’s incessant morning alarm is going off but the owner is refusing to get up and turn it off? Call the phone to turn it off for them.
14. Darker wallpaper or themes can help save 6%-8% of battery life for smartphones.
15. Having trouble always locating the 'full stop' key on your smartphone keyboard? no need to worry, as all you have to do whenever you need to input the full stop sign while typing is to hit the space bar twice and voila, this also capitalizes the next letter automatically.
16. If your Android smartphone was on vibrate mode and it got lost in your house, simply get another internet connected Android smartphone, go to Google Play > Android Device Manager > Ring. Try to call the lost Android smartphone again and it will ring out from its hidden location.
17. If you accidentally close a tab in your PC or Mac browser, reopen it with Ctrl/CMD+Shift+T.
18. For students who need to study for an important test or exam, google “site:edu [subject] exam”. They’ll find tons of sample and similar exam questions and answers.
19. Lost your Android phone? Ring, erase, or lock your smartphone remotely by typing Android Device Manager or find my phone into Google Search. Ringing works even if your phone is in silent mode.
20. Here is something for the movie lovers. To find direct download link for movies, type in this exact format on Google search: [movie name] - inurl:(htm|html|php|pls|txt) intitle:index.of “last modified” (mkv|mp4|avi).
BONUS: For iOS users who always find it very difficult to transfer songs from their iOS devices to their computer, the PC/Mac software DETUNE automatically transfers all songs from your iPod and iPhone to your computer seamlessly.