How to Optimize Your Android Phone's Battery Life with Greenify

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Existing atomic clocks could help test for exotic form of dark matter Topological defects in the Universe itself could be picked up by atomic clocks. [ArsTechnica] How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists Inside the company, the once iconic computer is getting far less attention than it once did. [Bloomberg] Amazon's Real Future Isn't Drones. It's Self-Driving Trucks. There's a growing and critical shortage of truck drivers, a shortage that a giant like Amazon can't afford. [Wired] Design In The Darkest, Coldest, Most Remote Places On Earth Hugh Broughton Architects designed a mobile research station on the ice shelves of Antarctica. Now, it's on the move for the first time. [Fastco] How to Make Nova Launcher Look (and Function) Like the Pixel Launcher Google’s Pixel Launcher is a fantastic and clean home screen utility that everyone should be able to enjoy—the problem is, it’s a Pixel-exclusive feature. The good news is that you can actually set Nova Launcher up to look and function exactly like Pixel Launcher. And since it’s Nova, you can actually improve on Pixel Launcher’s functionality. I call that a win-win. Read This Article → Kindle vs. Paperwhite vs. Voyage vs. Oasis: Which Kindle Should You Buy? Amazon's Kindle lineup has expanded: there are now four different models, with different features at different price points. That means deciding which one you want is more difficult than ever. Let's look at what separates the four Kindles and how to work out which one is right for you. Read This Article → How to Optimize Your Android Phone’s Battery Life with Greenify At this point, smartphones are prolific. We use them for calls, text messages, social networking, photos, quick searches, streaming music, watching videos…the list goes on. But each thing you do drains your battery life, and some apps will even continue to drain your battery in the background when you aren’t using them. A free app called Greenify can fix that. Read This Article → How Do You Safely Run an Untrusted Executable File on Linux? In this day and age, it is not a bad idea to be leery of untrusted executable files, but is there a safe way to run one on your Linux system if you really need to do so? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful advice in response to a worried reader’s query. Read This Article → How to Disable Natural Scrolling for Scroll Wheels, But Not Touchpads, On Your Mac Does using a scroll wheel on your Mac feel…wrong? You’re not alone. Read This Article → How to Prevent Apps from Automatically Being Added to iMessage The app system in iMessage is really cool, letting you paste content directly into messages that once required several additional steps. If you’re choosy about which apps appear in iMessage, though, you can prevent iMessage from automatically adding them. Read This Article → How to Add a Static TCP/IP Route to the Windows Routing Table In some specific types of environments, you might find it useful to add a static route to the routing table in Windows. Here’s how to go about it. Read This Article → How to Reduce the Size of Your Outlook Data File Outlook data files can get very large over time, especially if you get a lot of attachments. Even if you delete old messages, the size of your Outlook data file is not reduced accordingly. Read This Article → How to Install Software from Third-Party PPAs in Ubuntu PPAs, or “Personal Package Archives”, offer software that isn’t available in Ubuntu’s software repositories. Some PPAs offer newer versions of software packages that hasn’t made it to Ubuntu’s repositories yet. Installing software from a PPA is easier than compiling the software from its source code, so it’s good to know how to do it. Read This Article → How to Add a Tilt-Shift Effect to Make Your Photos Look Like Tiny Models in Photoshop The tilt-shift effect is a weird optical illusion where a regular photo looks like a photo of a toy model. By creatively blurring different parts of the image, you trick people's eyes into interpreting everything in it as really tiny. Read This Article → The Complete Guide to Giving Better Family Tech Support It’s that holiday time of year again, and that means it’s over the river and through the woods to…well, fix your family’s Wi-Fi and other tech problems. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Windows 10 Simplified ($17 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Fully updated to cover Windows 10, this highly visual guide covers all the new features in addition to the basics, giving you a one-stop resource for complete Windows 10 mastery. Click here to download