Why Is My Battery Estimate Never Accurate?

Did You Know? The Statue of Liberty’s full name, as bestowed by its creator French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, is “Liberty Enlightening the World”. Geek Trivia Which Of These Chemicals Is Considered The Most Bitter Compound In Existence? Denatonium → Isohumulone → Quinidine → Amarogentin → Advertisement Download Breaking Into Cyber Security (Free eBook Training Course) A $47 Value! The cyber risk landscape is evolving rapidly in a multitude of areas and the potential economic fallout from the threat cannot be underestimated. Advance your knowledge and career with this course. 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 Set the Default Font and Font Size for New Workbooks in Excel How to Change Your Computer’s IP Address From the Command Prompt Why Is My Battery Estimate Never Accurate? Why Do Scanners Use PDF as the Default File Format? How to Install and Set Up the Belkin WeMo Light Switch How to Add Your Outlook.com Email Address to Microsoft Outlook How Pokémon Go’s New “Catch Bonus” System Works How to Force Windows to Show All Your Drives in File Explorer How to Show and Hide the Rulers in Microsoft Word The Best Keyboard Apps for Android How to Remove Photobombers and Other Objects from a Photo in Photoshop How to Monitor (and Reduce) Your Data Usage on the iPhone Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Disintermediation Disintermediation refers to the elimination of the middle person/retailer/distributor so that an end user/consumer has direct purchasing access to products, services, and/or information of interest to them. 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. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Describes Living in a Cave to Prepare for Mars Within the next decade, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will blast off into space. In the meantime, he's preparing here on Earth—through expeditions in the High Arctic, at the bottom of the ocean, and with the astronaut corps in Houston, where he's based. [Motherboard] QWERTY typing might not be worth teaching Researchers studied the typing speeds of both touch typists and non-touch typists and built an argument that, and frankly we passionately disagree, it's not worth teaching people to type by touch. [Futurity] A Kindle for your manga? Amazon launches 32GB Paperwhite for Japan While it's perfect for Japanese comics, we're not going to throw a party until Amazon releases a large color e-ink comic reader in the US. [ArsTechnica] Digital Defenders: a free open-licensed booklet for kids about privacy and crypto This is pretty awesome--the European Digital Rights organization has created a free comic book (aimed at preteens and teens) explaining online privacy, encryption, and surveillance in a very accessible (and fun!) way. We've already downloaded it and put it on our kids' tablets. [Boing Boing] How to Set the Default Font and Font Size for New Workbooks in Excel Excel uses the very nice Calibri font by default in Windows, but if you’d like to use a different font or change the default size, you can easily adjust the setting in the Excel options screen. Read This Article → How to Change Your Computer’s IP Address From the Command Prompt It’s easy enough to change an IP address on your PC using Control Panel, but did you know you can also do it from the Command Prompt? Read This Article → Why Is My Battery Estimate Never Accurate? Laptops, tablets, and phones never seem to know exactly how many hours of power they have left. The estimate may jump from two hours to five hours before dropping back down to one hour. Even worse, the battery may suddenly die without warning. Read This Article → Why Do Scanners Use PDF as the Default File Format? Nearly all software has a particular format that it automatically defaults to when creating a new document or file, but occasionally the chosen format does not seem to intuitively make sense. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Install and Set Up the Belkin WeMo Light Switch Belkin has an entire line of smarthome devices that go by the WeMo name, including a smart light switch that you can control from your smartphone, allowing you to turn on and off lights (or anything else connected to that switch) right from your smartphone. Read This Article → How to Add Your Outlook.com Email Address to Microsoft Outlook The Microsoft Outlook desktop application supports Outlook.com addresses ending in @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, and @msn.com. However, it’s not necessarily obvious how to add them–especially if you’re using two-step verification. Read This Article → How Pokémon Go’s New “Catch Bonus” System Works It may not be the riot-gathering game it was at launch, but Pokémon Go continues to receive substantive updates from developer Niantic. Most recently, it introduced a catch bonus, which finally gives purpose to most of those medals you’ve been earning. Read This Article → How to Force Windows to Show All Your Drives in File Explorer By default, Windows hides empty drives from your File Explorer view. Here’s how to display all of them instead. Read This Article → How to Show and Hide the Rulers in Microsoft Word Rulers in Word help you position text, graphics, tables, and other elements in your documents. To gain a bit of extra document space, you can hide both the horizontal and vertical rulers. Read This Article → The Best Keyboard Apps for Android The interactions you have with your phone's keyboard are easily some of the most intimate relationships that you will have with your mobile device. It is the mouth through which all your texts, emails, and other messages are spoken, and frankly…typing on a small keyboard is a pain. So choosing the right one can make things all the easier. Read This Article → How to Remove Photobombers and Other Objects from a Photo in Photoshop You set up the tripod, line up the shot, and get ready to take the best picture of your life. You stare through the viewfinder and as you press the shutter release a random passerby leaps into the frame. You've been photobombed. Read This Article → How to Monitor (and Reduce) Your Data Usage on the iPhone Unlimited cellular data is tough to come by. Keep an eye on how much data you’re using to avoid paying overage fees or having your data speed throttled down to a trickle for the rest of your billing cycle. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Breaking Into Cyber Security (Free eBook Training Course) A $47 Value! The cyber risk landscape is evolving rapidly in a multitude of areas and the potential economic fallout from the threat cannot be underestimated. Advance your knowledge and career with this course. Click here to download