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14 More Google Search Tricks You Didn’t Know Existed

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Originally intended as a way to easily find websites, Google’s engineers have quietly slipped secret functionalities into Google Search to do even more for its 1.17 billion users. These hidden tricks, when used properly, can transform Google Search into a one-stop-shop of instantly accessible services.</div>
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Recently we shared with you <a href="http://www.thegooru.com/12-google-search-tricks/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00abe4; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in 0s, background 0.2s ease-in 0s;" title="12 Google Search Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know">12 of our favorite hidden search tricks</a> and after a bit more digging we found out that we had barely scratched the surface. From booking flights to comparing nutritional information, there is very little that you can’t accomplish using Search. Check out 14 more amazing things you can accomplish with the search bar.</div>
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1. Schedule the perfect power nap</h2>
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According to sleep studies, the perfect power nap is 20 minutes long. By searching <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">timer</strong>, you can pull up Google’s timer, set it to how long you want to doze off, and relax until the beeps wake you up. Make sure your computer’s volume is turned up!</div>
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2. Google search for jetsetters</h2>
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Google Flights is now baked right into their search engine. Unlike other flight booking services, Google does not charge a fee when you book a flight because it connects you directly to the airline. Searching <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">flights to ______</strong> will bring up all the available flight times as well as links to the airlines for easy booking.</div>
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<a class="lightbox" href="http://www.thegooru.com/wp-content/uploads/flight.png" rel="magnific" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00abe4; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in 0s, background 0.2s ease-in 0s;"><img src="https://www.thegooru.com/wp-content/uploads/flight.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div>
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3. What time can I watch gCON* in Australia?</h2>
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With a global workforce, scheduling can get tricky. You don’t want to accidentally schedule a Hangout for midnight on a Friday for your team on the other side of the globe. A search for <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">time in</strong>followed by a location will pull up the current time in that timezone.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">*gCON is the largest online Google Apps conference and it’s completely free. <a href="http://gcon.thegooru.com/gcon360" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00abe4; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in 0s, background 0.2s ease-in 0s;">Register here!</a></em></div>
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4. TI-83s just met their match</h2>
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Ditch the graphing calculator and save yourself some time on back to school shopping. Google can now graph any function entered into its search bar as long as you enter <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">graph</strong> before the trigonometric function.</div>
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5. Could you pick up 3.78 liters of milk?</h2>
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This trick is great for cooking but can also be used for anyone who frequently finds themselves juggling the metric and the imperial system. Typing <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">conversion calculator</strong> into Google brings up their conversion calculator which can convert any unit of measurement whether it is temperature or area or anything in between.</div>
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6. Karaoke Night with Google</h2>
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By integrating the music catalogue from the Google Play store, Google is able to pull in the lyrics from your favorite songs. Just search the song name followed by the word <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">lyrics</strong>.</div>
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7. Decipher large numbers</h2>
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Trillion? Quatrillion? Quintillion? Counting zeros to decipher large numbers can be a headache. Eliminate any confusion by searching the number followed by <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">=english</strong>.</div>
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8. Search for a healthier option</h2>
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Whether you’re a chef or deciding between instant ramen and hot pockets, you should be using Google’s comparison option to choose your cooking ingredients. Simply type <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">vs</strong> between the two food items and Google will display a side by side comparison of the nutritional info.</div>
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9. Follow your favorite sports team to the last point</h2>
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Google doesn’t just compare foods. Using the same type of comparison search, you can get live scores for any sporting match by putting <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">vs</strong> between the names of the two teams.</div>
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10. Make it home for the holidays</h2>
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With so many holidays, it can be hard to keep track. Search the name of any holiday in Google to make sure you don’t miss it.</div>
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11. The perfect reading list</h2>
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Have you ever finished a good book only to find yourself wondering what you should read next? Search <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">books by</strong> followed by the author’s name to find more books by the same author.</div>
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12. Catch your favorite shows</h2>
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Tuning in on time can be crucial when you are already waiting a week between each episode. A search for your favorite tv show followed by the word <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">episodes</strong> will display the air time of all the upcoming episodes for the show.</div>
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13. Reverse Image Search</h2>
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If you are only entering text in Google’s search bar then you are only using half of Google’s search functionality. Using reverse image search, you can import an image into Google’s search bar to find similar images on the web.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tnr6-cXFVzs" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="560"></iframe></div>
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14. What are you hungry for?</h2>
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Finding somewhere nearby to eat has never been easier. Fulfill that craving by entering the food item you desire followed by your area code to pull up local eateries in your area that are serving what you want.</div>
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11 great 3D Touch tips & tricks for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus

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3D Touch is without doubt the most exciting new feature in the <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/iphone/iphone-6s-review-3d-touch-live-photos-should-i-buy-uk-geekbench-benchmark-3623611/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="iPhone 6s review">iPhone 6s</a> and <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/iphone/iphone-6s-plus-review-3624769/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="iPhone 6s Plus review">iPhone 6s Plus</a>. It's largely the same pressure-sensitive screen technology that appears in the <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/ios-accessories/apple-watch-review-specs-features-battery-uk-price-3544044/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="Apple Watch review">Apple Watch</a> (under the name Force Touch), but whereas your watch can distinguish between two degrees of pressure - a standard tap and a harder Force Tap - the 3D Touch-equipped 6s offers three. This opens up considerable potential for new interface features.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; outline: none;">See also:</span> <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-use-3d-touch-iphone-6s-plus-3625269/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="How to use 3D Touch">How to use 3D Touch</a></div>
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In this feature we're going to look at the most useful 3D Touch-enabled tricks, tips and new features that iPhone 6s owners can now enjoy.</div>
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But bear in mind that this is a living list: Apple itself is sure to add new 3D Touch features in future iOS updates, but more importantly most third-party app developers have only just been given access to the technology and we anticipate an avalanche of updates in the coming weeks and months. If you spot a 3D Touch trick we've not listed here, feel free to add it in the comments, and we'll update the article periodically to add new 3D Touch tricks that have been announced or discovered.</div>
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3D Touch will be activated by default on your new iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, but you can fiddle with a few settings or even turn it off (madness!) by going to Settings > General > Accessibility, swiping down to the unlabelled fourth group of options and tapping 3D Touch. The adjust your sensitivity and once you're ready, turn to the next slide and we'll start exploring this new suite of features.</div>
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Go to your Home screen and do a harder press on the icon for the Phone app (not just a normal tap/press - firmly push into the screen). You'll see that a useful little mini-menu pops up, offering the ability to call one of your more frequently called contacts, or to create a new contact.</div>
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Do a 3D Touch press on the FaceTime or Messages app icons and you'll see similar quick-jumps to recently or frequently contacted friends - a very helpful means by which you can go straight to a call with a loved one without going into the app, searching through contacts and so on.</div>
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The three main Apple communication apps (we're leaving aside Mail for the time being, but we'll come back to it in a moment) offer the most basic execution of the 3D Touch shortcut feature, but many other Apple apps have their own equivalents. The camera app's version of this may be the most useful.</div>
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It has a mini menu that lets you jump straight to a normal photo, a video or a selfie, or even a slow-mo video. You'll never miss that important shot again.</div>
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(This is particularly useful because <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-use-touch-id-finger-scanning-3579832/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="How to use Touch ID">Touch ID</a> has been sped up so much that we rarely see the lock screen any more. In the olden days, if you wanted to take a quick photo you would swipe up on the camera icon on the lock screen and access the camera that way.)</div>
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There are lots more shortcut menus to discover.</div>
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The App Store icon lets you go straight to an app search, and the iBooks app does something similar. (The iTunes Store currently doesn't offer this, oddly, but hopefully this is just a matter of time.) Mail, rather than offering shortcuts to specific contacts, lets you jump to individual inboxes (or start a new message). Safari lets you open a new tab, or a new Private tab, or jump to your Reading List.</div>
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There are more to find - try a force-press on any app icon to see if it has a 3D Touch-activated mini menu - but my favourite is probably Apple Maps, whose shortcut menu includes an option to get directions home. Google Maps presently doesn't have a 3D Touch menu, which might conceivably give Apple Maps a slight advantage for a while.</div>
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By the way, a few non-Apple apps have 3D Touch shortcuts - Twitter, Fantastical and Instagram are the obvious examples, but a few others such as the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/carrot-weather-talking-forecast/id961390574?mt=8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" target="_blank" title="CARROT on the App Store">CARROT</a> weather app have included this feature too - but most do not. We look forward to seeing what YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps and others come up with.</div>
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The aspect of 3D Touch that was most extensively covered at Apple's iPhone 6s launch was a linked pair of features called Peek and Pop. These allow you to preview the contents of an email, document, web page, map direction or other link, without transferring to the app involved. You can then choose to 'Pop' the item open in its relevant app if you want to know more.</div>
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The primary example given was in Mail. If you're in the Mail app and do a firmer press on an email, a preview of the message will spring up and let you check out the email without actually opening it in full. You can then do a still firmer press to make the email 'Pop' open fully, or you can release your thumb or finger to close the preview and go back to the screen you were on previously. Alternatively, you can swipe upwards and see a menu of quick actions.</div>
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Peek and Pop might not seem like a huge benefit when you're working within one app, but when we start working between multiple apps you'll see the added convenience.</div>
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Take directions, for instance. If somebody sends you an address in an email, for instance, you can tap it to jump to Maps and see directions. But if you do a harder press on that address, a handy map preview will appear without whisking you out of the Mail app. You can then swipe up, press harder still to go to Maps, or release to go back. (Making it easy to go back to the app you were in previously is a bit of an Apple theme at the moment, of course. <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/review/ios-apps/apple-ios-9-review-uk-2015-3613323/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="iOS 9 review">iOS 9</a> added back buttons all over the place.)</div>
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The same principle applies with clickable web links (although only in Apple apps at the moment, as far as I can tell - it will be useful to do this with Twitter links but that's not possible right now). If you deep-press a URL in an email, say, a preview of the web page loads and then appears, and you can see what's there before (or instead of) opening it in full Safari.</div>
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There are similar preview options for lots of the Apple apps, and we imagine there will be similar features in non-Apple apps too fairly soon. Try force-pressing links and see what you can find.</div>
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Any time you've got the system keyboard up - in Mail, in Messages, even in third-party apps like Twitter - you can do a hard press anywhere on the keyboard and (while the individual keys grey out) you'll take control of a cursor, and can move it about pretty easily.</div>
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A simple one this, but very useful for precise text editing. (We advise you to do this with a fingertip, not a thumb. With a thumb we always find that the cursor gets a little jog out of position while we're lifting what is evidently our clumsiest digit off the screen.)</div>
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Another quick tip. Do a hard-press close to the lefthand edge of the screen - you can do this from the Home screen or from a lot of apps. You'll see the screen edges of some previously used apps. Press harder still or swipe across to the right and you'll find yourself in the app switcher, from where you can easily jump to a recently open app.</div>
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Hey, it's slightly quicker than doing a double-press on the Home button.</div>
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The fact that the 3D Touch screen can distinguish between different degrees of pressure is a godsend for makers of illustration and drawing apps: it unlocks the ability to create proper art.</div>
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With 3D Touch, you can draw a line across the screen and have a compatible app create a thin line if you're pressing gently and a thicker one if you're using more force: a small but fundamental step forward in touchscreen sketching. (In the past it's been possible to achieve these effects but only crudely - by using the larger area of contact when pressing harder - or by depending on a pressure-sensitive stylus bought separately.)</div>
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At the moment we've only seen this in <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-use-notes-app-in-ios-9-3625729/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="How to use Notes in iOS 9">Notes' new sketch feature</a>, but we're sure it's only a matter of time before the big names in the art-software world get involved.</div>
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This feature would be even more appealing on a tablet, which is the natural form factor for digital artists, but the implementation of 3D Touch on an iPad screen seems unlikely to happen before the launch of the iPad Pro 2, if it even happens then. Apple will hardly release an <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/ipad/new-ipad-air-3-release-date-images-features-wish-list-specs-ipad-7-3481268/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; outline: none;" title="iPad Air 3 release date rumours">iPad Air 3</a> with a feature that's not available on its flagship tablet. The Pro offers a similar feature provided you buy the (pressure-sensitive) Apple Pencil stylus, but it doesn't have 3D Touch</div>
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Google Play Games is thought of as just a place to view your mobile gaming profile. However, it actually has screen recording functionality built right in. It’s meant to be used with games, although you could use it to record just about anything. All you have to do is exit out of the game once the recording interface opens up and you’ll be able to record any app that you want. It’s a completely free option that works rather well. It’s also very simple to use. Unfortunately, you can only record in 720p or 480p with this one.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Best Ultrabook: Dell XPS 13<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">In the $1,400 range is
the best Ultrabook for 2016, and it is none other than the updated Dell XPS 13.
It comes equipped with the powerful 6th Generation Intel Core with the latest
Intel HD Graphics.
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Consumers may also opt
for the Optional Intel Iris 540 Graphics, paired with the i7 6560U processor
should they want a more powerful tool and they happen to have extra cash to
spare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dell XPS 13</span><span style="color: #444444;">  can support up to 8 GB LPDDR3 RAM and has
a 256 GB NVMe SSD internal storage and a gorgeous 13-inch UltraSharp QHD+
resolution InfinityEdge touch display. Plus, it runs a Windows 10 OS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Best Budget Ultrabook: Asus Zenbook UX305F<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Dell XPS 13 is
truly drool-worthy, but not everyone who wants an Ultrabook can shell out so
much at any given time. That is why, for those who want something more
affordable without compromising quality and performance, the </span><span style="color: black;">Asus Zenbook UX305F</span><span style="color: #444444;"> is an excellent alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">For just under $700,
the Asus Zenbook UX305F is equipped with 800 MHz Intel Core M-5Y10c and Intel
HD Graphics 5300, an 8 GB LPDDR3 RAM, and a 128 GB SanDisk M.2 SSD internal
storage. It has a 13.3-inch anti-glare display and a decent battery life that
can reach up to 10 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Best Surface: Surface Pro 4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">If there's one Surface
book that truly impressed this year, it is definitely the </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">Microsoft Surface Pro 4</span><span style="color: #444444;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">The </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">Surface Pro 4</span><span style="color: #444444;"> is equipped with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core
i5-6300U and 128MB Intel HD Graphics 520, 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD internal memory
and 12.3-inch 2,736 x 1,824 pixel touchscreen display. It runs a 64-bit Windows
10 Pro. The best news, especially for artists, is that the Surface Pro 4's
stylus, aptly called Surface Pen, is now better than ever with its reduced
latency and 1,024 pressure levels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Best 2-in-1 Laptop: HP Spectre x360<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">The 13.3-inch </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">HP Spectre x360</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"> is hands down the best performing 2-in-1
laptop of 2016. With its Intel Core i7-7500U CPU, 16 GB RAM, and 512 GB PCIe
SSD hard drive, users are sure to get amazing speed and performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">The Intel HD Graphics
620 paired with a 1,900 x 1,080 resolution display makes for a great visual
experience. At a little over $1,000, the Spectre x360 may seem a little pricey,
but it is well worth the price for the 2-in-1 category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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How to Extend Your Android Tablet’s Battery Life When You’re Not Using it

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Fewer things annoy us than when we set our Android tablet aside for a few days only to return to a low or even dead battery. This shouldn’t be happening, so it’s time to try to fix it.</div>
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Every device has its Achille’s heel of sorts. Sometimes it’s a poor camera, others it’s a terrible user interface, but most of the time it’s battery life. We’ve come to expect more of batteries. They should last days. Having to go everywhere with a charger should be a thing of the past, or at least fading in the rearview.</div>
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A tablet’s battery should last for much longer simply because they’re typically far larger than a phone’s. We also use tablets differently. We use tablets in spurts, such as at night when we’re watching TV or lying in bed shopping. Tablets are more tailored toward consuming than productivity (that’s not a universal truth, just our experience) so you might use them for a few hours a week. Mostly, however, our tablets lie idle, waiting for us to take a break.</div>
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To that end, with all that time just sitting there, why do we keep finding our tablet’s batteries down to nothing? If we set it aside and don’t pick it up for a few days, should we really have to charge it before we can use it again?</div>
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The Scourge of Background Data Sync</h3>
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The answer typically has to do with background data, which means that even though the tablet is lying there seemingly dormant, it’s still receiving notifications from the various apps you’ve installed. If you’ve ever opened up your tablet to see alerts from Facebook, Gmail and so forth, that’s what we’re talking about.</div>
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Most of the time we don’t need those notifications. Not when we’re using our phones or checking from our laptops all day.</div>
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If you’re using Android 5 Lollipop, there are a couple things you can do. You might try <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/202404/how-to-tame-notifications-in-android-5.0/" style="color: #114491;" title="How to Tame Notifications in Android 5.0">disabling busy app notifications</a>, which may help extend battery life.</div>
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Or, you can also disable notifications altogether by blocking Interruptions, which <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/203716/how-to-manage-interruptions-and-downtime-in-android-5.0/" style="color: #114491;" title="How to Manage Interruptions and Downtime in Android 5.0">we’ve also discussed in a previous article</a>.</div>
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While these tricks may help, it is unclear whether or not they do as thorough a job as simply turning off background data completely. Also, these features do nothing to help the millions using pre-Lollipop Android.</div>
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The Venerable Power Control Widget to the Rescue</h3>
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We’ve done a lot of searching through the settings to give you one good way to save your tablet’s idle battery life and none of them do the job like the time-honored power control widget, which has been around for what seems like forever.</div>
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Power control is still there, and if you have a 4×1 spot on your home screen, then you should definitely use it.</div>
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The power control widget is very useful because it allows you to easily enable, disable, or adjust, the five features on your device that are the most notorious battery wasters: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, background data sync, and screen brightness.</div>
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Once it occupies a spot on your home screen, you can use it to toggle those aforementioned battery wasters. Note, background data sync is the symbol with two arrows between GPS and brightness. In this screenshot, we have it off, which means the tablet will not receive any updates or notifications unless we explicitly check.</div>
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Power controls (left to right): Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS (location), background data sync, and brightness</div>
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Another advantage to this widget is it works just as well on phones, so you’ve got the same kind of instant control over things even if you use your phone differently from your tablet.</div>
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Your use of the power controls will likely vary from tablet to phone, but will be no less useful.</div>
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Best of all, no matter your Android version, be it Lollipop, Kit Kat, Key Lime Pie, or Gingerbread, the power control widget’s appearance and features remain consistent. And, while we don’t expect a great deal of Android users to be running a version as old as 2.x, its nice to know there’s one reliable way to alleviate battery woes.</div>
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Other Possible Idle Battery Wasters</h3>
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So, it’s a good idea to disable background data syncing (and while you’re at it Bluetooth) on a tablet. But what about other battery wasters like Wi-Fi and apps?</div>
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As far as Wi-Fi is concerned, that’s a personal call. The power control widget makes turning Wi-Fi on and off a cinch, so there’s no reason not to turn it off if your tablet remains idle for extended periods. On the other hand, if you’re wont to pick it up at various points in the day, then it might be a bother to keep turning Wi-Fi on and off whenever you use it.</div>
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<em>Important Note: </em>if your tablet has 3G or LTE and a data plan, disabling Wi-Fi is probably going to be a bad idea for your battery life, because instead of using fast Wi-Fi to transfer data, your tablet will start using the much slower 3G/4G data connection. In that case you could turn on Airplane mode to disable those connections as well.</div>
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There’s another way that’s a little more advantageous because it turns W-iFi on and off for you. Open the Wi-Fi settings in Android (we’re showing the screens from Lollipop, but they’re the same on Kit Kat), then click “Advanced.”</div>
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On the Advanced screen, note there’s a setting to “keep Wi-Fi on during sleep.” Change this to “Never” and Wi-Fi will automatically turn off once your device enters sleep mode.</div>
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When you wake your device such as by pressing the power button, Wi-Fi will turn back on and automatically reconnect.</div>
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Often another likely culprit of idle battery drain are apps that don’t allow the device to sleep. It’s hard to say which apps those might be but if you come back to your tablet after a day or two and find it needs charging, and you’ve disabled background syncing, turned off Bluetooth, and WiFi only works while the device is on, it could be a problem application.</div>
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At that point, it’s a good idea to open your battery settings and take a look at what’s going on. This will be your best way of diagnosing which apps are sucking your battery dry.</div>
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The battery settings are a reliable way to see if there are any apps using an inordinate amount of battery.</div>
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We should take a moment to stress that if your device is old and has endured hundreds of charge cycles, then its capacity will be much diminished. Regardless, even with an older device, you should be able to set it aside and not return to find it dead.</div>
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Using Lollipop’s Battery Saver</h3>
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Starting with Android 5, Google added a battery saver feature, which will reduce Android’s energy footprint even further. While in the Battery settings, you want to tap the three dots in the upper-right corner and select “battery saver.”</div>
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Once enabled, battery saver will disable animations and transparent effects, turn off syncing (if you haven’t already), and limit vibration, thus allowing you to possibly eke out a few more hours.</div>
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Battery saver is really intended to be a last gasp type feature and not something that you’d use all the time. You can configure it to kick on automatically when your tablet’s battery gets down to either fifteen or five percent, but to actually turn it on, you have to keep opening the battery settings so it’s not really convenient.</div>
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We do recommend enabling the saver to come on in low battery situations to avoid total depletion. If you do enable battery saver, or it comes on automatically, you can turn it off by plugging the device in, or from the the notification system.</div>
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If you’re using a device with Lollipop installed, make sure you enable battery saver, but try the more nuanced approaches before severely reducing your device’s capabilities.</div>
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Here are some of our favorite features.</div>
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1. New lock screen</h2>
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Control Center is an easy way to access your flashlight, camera, calculator and timer. Now, 3D Touch works on those items too. If you have an iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus, hard press on those icons to get more information about what to access.</div>
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On the flashlight, you can select your brightness. You can quickly set the timer for an hour, 20 minutes, five minutes or one minute. With the calculator, you can copy the last result. And a 3D Touch gesture on the camera icon opens up the same options as the app icon, including one-tap access to selfie, slo-mo video recording, video recording or simply taking a photo.</div>
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3. New notifications look and rich notifications</h2>
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Notifications has a whole new look in iOS 10. The bubbles are slightly larger (they kind of look like notifications on the Mac) and are separated. </div>
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The Today view is still a swipe to the right —- that's where your widgets live — but now the notifications can do more. </div>
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In the past, you could reply (by swiping down to quick-reply) to a text or message from a notification if it arrived immediately, but not if it came in later. Now, a long press on a notification will bring up the quick-reply window, so you can reply without having to open the Messages app.</div>
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If you want to clear all your notifications, just 3D Touch the "X" on the right hand corner of Notification Center and press "Clear All Notifications."</div>
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4. Messages: Stickers</h2>
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There's a ton of stuff in the Messages app. One of the big additions is the fact that there are iMessage apps. The most exciting might be sticker packs.</div>
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5. Messages: Invisible Ink and other effects</h2>
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If you want to send a message or image with a disappearing effect, you can now add that. Do a long press on the "send" arrow in Messages to select a number of different screen and background effects.</div>
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Our favorite is invisible ink, which blurs a message until the user hovers over the image with his or her finger.</div>
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6. Messages: Handwriting</h2>
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Turn your iPhone to landscape mode in Messages and you can write out a message with your fingertip. Turn it back to portrait to send. This is a great way to send something with your own personal touch.</div>
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7. Messages: Digital Touch</h2>
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Like the Apple Watch, you can send drawings, heartbeats and other taps using Digital Touch. Tap on the side arrow next to the Message bubble and select the icon that has fingers on a heart. This is your Digital Touch window, where you can do lots of cool stuff.</div>
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8. Messages: Image Search</h2>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">One of the other apps in messages is built-in image search. Need to find that perfect cat GIF or meme to send a friend? Just search and insert. I'm partial to sending Taylor Swift GIFs, myself.</span></div>
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9. Messages: Emoji replacement and Emoji predictions</h2>
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If you have the predictive keyboard up in iOS 10, emoji will now show up when you type a word that has a related emoji. This feature is actually accessible in <i>any</i> app. And it's awesome.</div>
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A cool feature that's exclusive to the Messages app is called emoji replacement. Type your message and then switch to the emoji keyboard. iOS will highlight each word that can be replaced with an emoji. If there are multiple emoji to choose from, you can select which one you want. Tapping the emoji again will return it to a word.</div>
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Sadly, typing "dick" or "peen" does not come up with the eggplant. Don't worry, I've already filed a bug report with Apple.</div>
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10. Messages: React to photos or texts</h2>
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You can now react to a post in iMessage with a heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, haha, a pair of exclamation points or a question mark. Just long-press on a message or photo and you can add a reaction. Everyone in your group will then see the reaction.</div>
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Now Karissa knows how much I love sending her Taylor Swift GIFs.</div>
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11. New Widgets</h2>
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New Today view widgets for iOS 10 let you do a 3D Touch gesture on app icons, preview those widgets and then choose to add them to your Today view. Some of the widgets include upcoming calendar appointments, recently played tracks on Apple Music and Memories from the Photos app.</div>
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12. New look for Maps</h2>
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Maps has a new look. It now offers you easy access to recent searches and places you go the most Also, when you select a destination, you can quickly see your direction options whether you're driving, walking or taking public transit. </div>
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This fall, iOS 10 will go even further and offer you the ability to call an Uber or Lyft directly from the app.</div>
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13. Redesigned Apple Music</h2>
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Apple Music is getting a major design overhaul in iOS 10. It's simpler to navigate, provides easier access to the downloaded content on your phone and has simplified finding what's new and what you might want to hear.</div>
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Oh, and Connect is still around, but it's buried at the bottom for "For You." RIP Apple Music Connect.</div>
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14. Spotlight Everywhere</h2>
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A longstanding iOS feature has been the ability to search spotlight by dragging down from the top of one of your home screen pages. It's a great way to find stuff.</div>
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Now you can do that in <i>any</i> app thanks to a new search bar at the top of Notification Center.</div>
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Spotlight will also give you search suggestions based on what you're looking for, including news articles and weather.</div>
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15. Delete stock apps</h2>
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Do you hate how the default Mail app takes up an icon on your home screen? Are you incensed that the Stock app is still a thing?</div>
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Good news: you can now remove most stock apps from your home screen.</div>
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Deleting the apps doesn't remove all parts from your system. And if you remove an app like Maps and another app needs it to function, you'll be prompted to reinstall it again. But at least now you can get rid of that "extras" folder on your iPhone.</div>
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