How to Get More Meaningful Battery Stats on Your Android Phone

Did You Know? Bach wrote over 200 cantatas–a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment–200 of them were sacred cantatas and 16 of them were secular cantatas. Geek Trivia The Spin-off Of The X-Files Was Called? Roswell → Millennium → Fringe → The Lone Gunmen → Advertisement Download The Database Hacker's Handbook: Defending Database Servers (a $50 value) FREE for a limited time! Learn how to identify vulnerabilities, how attacks are carried out, and how to stop the carnage. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Organize the Apps on the Chrome Apps Page Four Android Wear Apps That Keep You Fit and Healthy How to Record Your PC Gameplay with NVIDIA ShadowPlay How to Get More Meaningful Battery Stats on Your Android Phone Will Placing a MacBook in a Refrigerator to Cool It Down Damage It? Mute Your Amazon Echo Automatically at Certain Times with an Outlet Timer How to Change Contact Pictures in Android How to Change the Desktop Wallpaper on Mac OS X How to Sideload an Android App From an APK on a Chromebook Is Your PC Running Smoothly? Make Sure with a System Diagnostics Report Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Griefer A Griefer is a gamer in a multi-player video game who focuses on, or goes out of their way to cause problems for (or annoy) other players. Some examples of actions that a Griefer may engage in are: Camping, Intentional Friendly Fire, Stealing Kills, Trash Talking, Turtling, etc. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law You know that "Warranty Void If Seal Is Broken" sticker on your game console? It doesn't mean anything. [Motherboard] IMAX will build you a home theater—starting at $400,000 Includes dual 4K 2D/3D projectors, a proprietary IMAX sound, and media playback. [ArsTechnica] Thermal imaging cameras will be used to detect mechanical doping at Tour De France Forget doping your body, some Tour De France racers are "doping" their bikes with hidden motors. [Quartz] Why Does NPR Have Such a Specific Sound? A lot goes into the signature sound of National Public Radio shows and there's a very good reason the hosts sound so uniformly clear, crisp, and bright. [Mental Floss] How to Organize the Apps on the Chrome Apps Page Google Chrome Apps are websites optimized for Chrome, installed in your browser from the Chrome Web Store. When you install a Chrome Web App, an icon for that app is added to the Apps page. All the app icons can be arranged and categorized into pages to suit your needs. Read This Article → Four Android Wear Apps That Keep You Fit and Healthy Android Wear has been around for a couple of years now, and it's honestly one of those things that you don't know how much you'll use it until you actually have it. There are some really good, useful tools available for Wear that will make your life simpler, but we want to highlight a handful of apps that will also help you live a bit healthier. Read This Article → How to Record Your PC Gameplay with NVIDIA ShadowPlay NVIDIA’s ShadowPlay offers easy gameplay recording, live streaming, and even an FPS counter overlay. It can automatically record gameplay in the background–just on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One–or only record gameplay when you tell it to. Read This Article → How to Get More Meaningful Battery Stats on Your Android Phone Android has come a long way in terms of battery life over the last few years, and the built-in tools for monitoring battery usage have gotten significantly more useful. Still, sometimes the stock options just aren’t enough. Thankfully, there are ways to easily gauge your battery usage, remaining time, and even hunt down apps that are stealing your precious juice. Read This Article → Will Placing a MacBook in a Refrigerator to Cool It Down Damage It? All of us have had problems with our devices getting hot from time to time, but desperation to ease or solve the problem may lead to some unorthodox solutions. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a worried reader’s questions. Read This Article → Mute Your Amazon Echo Automatically at Certain Times with an Outlet Timer The Amazon Echo is an always-listening voice-controlled virtual assistant, but if there are times you’d rather not listen (or be listened to) by the Echo, here’s how to automatically mute it at certain times of the day. Read This Article → How to Change Contact Pictures in Android You know what's not cool? Having that default block letter as a contact picture for your favorite contacts in your phone. They're your favorites! Your besties, your husband or wife, even your kids. C'mon guys, they deserve better than the first letter of their first name. It's up to you to make this right. But don't fret—we're here to help. It's kinda what we do. Read This Article → How to Change the Desktop Wallpaper on Mac OS X Whether your Mac is starting to show its age or you just want to freshen things up a bit, changing the wallpaper is a dead-easy way to breathe new life into your boring computer. Read This Article → How to Sideload an Android App From an APK on a Chromebook Chromebooks can now download and install Android apps from Google Play, and it works pretty well. But not every Android app is available in Google Play. Some apps are available from outside Google Play as APK files, and you can install them on your Chromebook with a bit of extra work. Read This Article → Is Your PC Running Smoothly? Make Sure with a System Diagnostics Report The Performance Monitor is one of many useful tools buried deep in Windows. It can generate a System Diagnostics Report with information about problems and suggestions of how to fix them. If your computer isn’t performing well or is experiencing another problem, this quick report might be able to help. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Database Hacker's Handbook: Defending Database Servers (a $50 value) FREE for a limited time! Learn how to identify vulnerabilities, how attacks are carried out, and how to stop the carnage. Click here to download