You can do several things to avoid running out of juice at a critical moment. The tips here shouldn’t be used all the time — you wouldn’t want to do without an internet connection in most cases, for example — but they’re good options when you need to extend the battery life of your iPad. Turn off Wi-Fi Your iPad’s Wi-Fi connection drains the battery, whether or not you are using it connected to the internet....

The Credit Carma app for Android and iOS provides alerts for any important changes to your credit report, and if you see any errors, you can file a dispute from the Credit Karma app. The app also gives an organized summary of your credit score breakdown, including the accounts factored into your score. Download For: You’ll also get personalized suggestions for improving your score, along with industry-standard alerts for any critical changes....

Whether you’re looking to set up a home theater in your basement or simply need to upgrade your TV to a newer or larger model, make sure to read our guide to Smart TVs before diving into our reviews of some of the best Sony TVs on the market. The sound and color are outstanding, offering the closest you’ll get to a movie theater in your home. You’ll benefit from state-of-the-art features, including the X1 Ultimate Picture Processor, Dolby Vision, Pixel Contrast Booster, Acoustic Surface Audio, and X Motion Clarity, all working together to create a premium product....

Whether you’re looking to buy your first fitness tracker and just want something basic to help keep you motivated or you need a tracker that works as hard as you do, Fitbit has something for everyone. We’ve broken down our top picks to help you decide which Fitbit tracker is right for you. With Fitbit’s wellness-tracking capabilities, you can see your heart rate 24/7, your active minutes, steps and distance traveled, calories burned, and even how many floors you’ve climbed....

Clothing such as Bluetooth beanies have been around for years, but newer examples of smart clothing expand on technology. Denim jackets can track your Uber’s location, and tracksuits can bathe your body in far infrared light. Here are seven of the best smart clothing items available for purchase. The Spectacles 3 come in two colors: carbon and mineral. Although the cameras on the glasses are still visible, the new design is more subtle, and they don’t broadcast to the world that you may be taking snaps....

Here are 10 of the best offline video games on Android that you can play anywhere at any time. The Android version of Final Fantasy VII contains all of the content from the original release and uses onscreen touch controls in place of a gaming console’s controller. Some additional options have also been added to make the experience more enjoyable for today’s audiences, such as the ability to turn off random monster encounters....

Some features you’ll want to look for in a Bluetooth headset include comfort, noise cancellation, and battery life. After all, if your headset doesn’t last all day, either because it’s not comfortable or because the battery doesn’t last, it’s not doing its job. Certainly, the ability to answer and dismiss calls easily has to be a consideration as well. Making and receiving calls hands-free is the goal, and our experts have looked at many headsets in the space....

The Windows SketchBook app previously locked many of its features behind a premium membership. However, it has dropped that paid tier completely, with its full functionality now being accessible within the app for free. Anyone can use this drawing app’s 190 customizable brushes, rulers, and unlimited layers without paying a dime or even signing up for an email list or account membership. Download For: The digital creations may look complex, but these drawings are surprisingly easy to make and only require you to drag your Surface Pen or mouse in various directions across the screen to render results....

There’s more to the best iPad cases than just protection, though. Good iPad cases also offer features that make your tablet experience even better. Most let you easily prop up your iPad to watch movies, type and draw, or keep in touch with family and friends on Zoom and FaceTime. Some cases even provide different ways to hold your iPad, letting you use it on the go without fear of dropping it....

The Origins of the Word “Ping” The word “ping” has its roots in sonar. Sonar involves setting off sound waves to basically “see” the surrounding environment. The sound waves bounce off of other objects and the sea floor so that watercraft can measure depth and the distance between objects for navigation purposes. During World War II, ships used sonar to detect enemy submarines. This is where the word “ping” came to be associated not only with an electronic signal, but also an electronic sound....

If you’ve been using Substack to stay up to date on the work of your favorite writers and web comic creators, well, now you have an official iPhone and iPad app for that. The new Substack Reader is a completely free-to-use app that will help you keep all of your subscriptions organized, according to Substack Inc. Though it’s worth noting that while the app itself is free, creators can ask for a subscription fee for access to their work....

In a blog post published on Tuesday, the company detailed new ways to prioritize the well-being of its users. Updates and additions coming to the app include an expanded guide on eating disorders and suicide, expanded search interventions for triggering words or phrases, and updated warning labels for sensitive content. TikTok also said it developed the well-being guides experts from organizations like the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Crisis Text Line, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), and the Butterfly Foundation....

How the Mozilla Thunderbird Spam Filter Works The Bayesian analysis Mozilla Thunderbird uses for spam filtering assigns a spam score to each word and other parts of an email. Over time, it learns which words typically appear in junk email and which appear mostly in good messages. How to Turn on the Spam Filter in Mozilla Thunderbird To have Mozilla Thunderbird filter junk mail for you: How to Prevent Mozilla Thunderbird From Overriding External Spam Filters To have Mozilla Thunderbird accept and use spam filtering scores created by a spam filter that analyzes messages before Thunderbird receives them:...

To use this background, scroll down and click Copy to Clipboard, then open an email editor and paste the background on your email. Or, create and send your e-card from the Email Backgrounds website. Type your custom message and send this e-card from eStationery.com, or select Copy to Clipboard to paste it into your email message as stationery. To use this background, scroll down and click Copy to Clipboard, open a new email, and paste in the background....

Even though you’re afraid to do it, you do have to pick up the crashed camera at some point. And your natural instinct is to press the power button immediately, checking to see whether the digital camera survived the fall. If the digital camera doesn’t work or if it appears to be working in a manner different than what you’re used to seeing, keep the panic at arm’s length for a few more seconds, and look at these items for potential easy-to-fix problems....

If the cost of buying a police scanner is a big stumbling block, you’ll be happy to hear you have a more affordable door into the world of radio scanners right in your pocket. It’s your smartphone. In between sending texts and checking Facebook, you can use your phone to listen in on a variety of radio scanner streams. But Phones Aren’t Radios Phones aren’t radios. Not even smartphones are radios....

Subscribers are given a variety of premium perks such as special emoticons (emotes) to use in a stream’s chat room, while the streamer gains a recurring source of income that can help pay their streaming and living expenses. Subscriptions are one of the more popular ways to make money on Twitch. How Is Subscribing Different Than Following? Subscribing and following on Twitch are not the same thing. Following a channel on Twitch will add it to your follow list and display it on the front page of the Twitch website and apps when it’s live....

What Are Radio Waves? AM stands for Amplitude Modulation, and FM stands for Frequency Modulation. Both AM and FM radio programs are transmitted over the air via radio waves, which are part of a range of electromagnetic waves that include gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet rays, visible light, infrared, and microwave. Electromagnetic waves are all around, everywhere, at different frequencies. Radio waves have properties similar to light waves (such as reflection, polarization, diffraction, and refraction), but radio waves exist at a frequency that your eyes aren’t sensitive to....

Facebook has almost 50,000 employees, and most of them have been working from home since March. At this point, we may as well assume this to be a semi-permanent situation. Along with plenty of other companies, Facebook is discovering that its business can run just fine without dragging everybody to work in the same physical space. When and if we return to communal office spaces, many people will keep working from home....

Potential Problems The most pervasive issue with ELM327 Bluetooth devices is that some low-cost scanners include unauthorized ELM327 microcontroller clones. These cloned chips often exhibit strange behaviors, but even legitimate hardware fails to work with certain devices. If you want to use an iOS device as a scan tool, it’s especially important to pay attention to these issues. ELM327 Bluetooth Compatible Hardware Scan tools that include an ELM327 microcontroller and a Bluetooth chip are capable of pairing with a variety of devices, but there are some important limitations....