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Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Monday, December 20, 2021.
Topics covered in this issue…
• How to check the ‘health’ status of your laptop’s battery
• Q&A: Is Facebook constantly spying on me? It sure seems like it.
• Enjoy cooking? Amazon has hundreds of free cookbooks for Prime members.
• When you look at the North Star, you’re actually looking at three stars
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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Today’s Quick 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 Preferences.
3 – Click Battery, then click Battery again.
4 – In the lower-right corner, click Battery Health.
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…
• Q&A: Is Facebook constantly spying on me? It sure seems like it.
A reader wants to know if Facebook is constantly spying on her every move even when she isn’t using Facebook. The answer might surprise you.
• Enjoy cooking? Amazon has hundreds of complimentary cookbooks for Prime members.
Did you know Amazon will let you download hundreds of great cookbooks at no charge? They sure will – if you have a Prime membership.
• 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.
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Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
When you look at the North Star, you’re actually looking at three stars
What we Earthlings refer to as the ‘North Star’ is actually a star system consisting of (at least three different stars).
Tech news that caught my eye…
• Meta says 50,000 Facebook users may have been spied on
• Malaysia cracks down hard on streaming pirates
• Drone sails into Cat 4 hurricane and sends back incredible video and data
• Where’s your jetpack and flying car? Not in your future.
• 10 important Google Maps settings you probably don’t know about
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