Batteries are designed to last a certain number of charge cycles. (A charge cycle would be taking the battery from 100% to 0%, and taking the battery from 100% to 50% would count as 0.5 charge cycles.) As you use up charge cycles—and they are measured in the hundreds—your battery capacity decreases. Here are some tips to reduce the drain on your battery to keep … Continue reading Improve Your Laptop Battery Life
Unlike the 1990s, today’s cell phones do much more than make and receive phone calls. Now the equivalent of micro-tablets, we have all the more reasons to use them throughout the day and that drains the battery. Here are some tips to help your phone battery last the whole day, plus a couple of tips to help it perform at a high-level long-term. Dim the … Continue reading 9 Ways to Make Your Smartphone Battery Last Longer
With the plasma TV now extinct there are now two types of TVs: LED and OLED. An LED TV is a type of LCD TV. LCD stands for liquid crystal display. A layer of liquid crystal solution is suspended between two glass panels. Millions of transistors use electrical charges to manipulate the crystals, creating the image you see. The liquid crystals themselves produce no light, … Continue reading TV Comparison: LED vs OLED
If you’ve ever looked a TV box you may be left wondering what all those acronyms mean. We bring some clarity to the situation: Resolution Resolution measures the amount of pixels in a TV screen. The higher the number, the clearer the picture will be. 720p HD : The lowest version of high definition. This resolution is found on 32 inch and smaller TVs where … Continue reading TV Acronyms Explained
