Quick Links Summary You probably keep a close eye on how much battery is left on your phone every day—that’s what we commonly call battery “life.” But for the longevity of your phone, battery “health” is much more important. We’ll show you how to check it on a Samsung Galaxy phone. Battery health is essentially a way to measure the performance of your battery over time. When you get a brand new phone, the battery is in pristine condition and will last as long as it’s rated for....

Quick Links LinkedIn is training its AI models on the content you post on the platform. While there’s no way for you to opt out of training that has already occurred, you can stop LinkedIn from using the data you post in the future for its AI training. Why Is LinkedIn Using Your Data to Train Its AI Models? LinkedIn is primarily using your data to train its AI models to enhance the accuracy, performance, and relevance of these models....

Quick Links Summary To view your watch history, open your TikTok profile and tap the menu button, then go to Settings and Privacy > Watch History. To delete the history, tap and hold videos in the Watch History page and then choose “Delete.” If you want to find all the videos you’ve recentlywatched on TikTok, your video history is just a few taps away. You can view, download, as well as delete your TikTok watch history easily on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone....

Quick Links Surprisingly, you don’t even need a telescope to see the International Space Station. It’s also easier than you might expect to know where and when to look for it. A Quick Primer on the ISS The International Space Station (ISS) is a crewed space station built and maintained as a collaborative effort between the USA, Canada, Russia, Japan, and the 23 countries who make up the European Space Agency....

Quick Links Google’s AI function brings Gemini-powered language models right into your spreadsheet cells without any add-ons. With it, you can generate fresh text, summarize blocks of data, categorize entries, or even guess sentiments—all by typing a simple formula. The AI function in Google Sheets is part ofGoogle Workspace Labsand is powered by Google’s Gemini AI. If Ask Gemini is enabled in your Google Sheets, you can easily access the AI function in your spreadsheets....

Summary If you regularly use the macOS Terminal, you have no doubt been prompted to enter your password when running commands requiring elevated privileges (sudo). Follow this quick guide to skip the typing and use your fingerprint to authenticate instead. Setting It Up To configure your Mac’s Terminal app to authenticate withTouch ID, first open Terminal.app (you’ll find it under Applications > Utilities or you cansearch for it with Spotlight). Next, issue the following command and manually type in your password when prompted....

I was tired of giving Adobe hundreds (thousands?) of dollars every year. I’ve lost track of how much money I’ve given to them over the years, and I finally had enough of it. So I decided it was time to get out of Adobe’s ecosystem and replace Photoshop and Lightroom with something else on my Mac. I’ve Lived the Adobe Subscription Life for Over a Decade I’m an Abode user through and through....

Quick Links It often feels like the path to losing weight and staying healthy is filled with costly gym memberships, popular diet plans, and expensive high-tech gadgets. However, I lost 50 lbs twice, and I only had to use three free apps to lose the weight and keep it off. While paying money for things does make it easier, it’s not a requirement. If you have a phone, then you can start losing weight today, and by the next few months, you’ll be at your goal, depending on what it is....

Summary If you’re over a certain age, you may remember lugging your console or PC over to a friend’s house so that you could enjoy proper local multiplayer, with none of that split-screen malarkey. Well, if you and a friend both own a Switch, you can do that right now with local wireless multiplayer! How Is Local Wireless Different From Online Multiplayer? If you’re playing a game that uses online multiplayer, then it doesn’t matter that you and the other players are all playing in the same room, or from opposite ends of the globe—it all goes through the internet....

The last time I used a trackball, it was one of those weird models that had a big ball in the middle, with mouse buttons to either side. That’s not exactly conducive to gaming unless you’re playingMissile Command, so I’ve never really considered trying my favorite genres using an upside-down ball mouse. However, Logitech recently sent me their fanciest trackball mouse to test it out, and so I wanted to know if you could game on it at all....

Are you tired of configuring, and reconfiguring, and configuring yet again your favorite server applications? I was, but Docker fixed that. Portability makes Docker one of my favorite homelab tools, and I think you’ll love it too. Configuring Apps Is the Most Annoying Part of Any Software There’s nothing more annoying than configuring and setting upself-hosted apps. Some software makes setup a breeze, and it only takes a few minutes, while other programs can, quite literally, take several hours to properly configure....

Summary Tasks is a new beta feature in ChatGPT that you can use to create scheduled actions. It has the potential to work as an AI-powered to-do list manager. Having taken it for a spin, however, I won’t be replacing the Todoist app any time soon. What Are Tasks in ChatGPT? Tasks in ChatGPTallow you to schedule actions within the app. For example, you can ask ChatGPT to test you on the capital cities of the world at 8 am every day, and each day a prompt will pop up within the app, along with a push notification or email if you want....

Quick Links Summary The quickest way to access an app on Windows is through the Start menu. Since the Start menu is frequently used, wouldn’t it be great if you could customize its look to something different from what Microsoft currently offers? Fortunately, you can do this with a third-party tool called Windhawk. What Start Menu Customization Options Does Windows 11 Offer? The only major customization you can currently make to the Windows 11 Start Menu is changing its layout....