Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts
Free Fall Desktop Background!
Monday, October 17, 2016
Yay, another free Fall-themed desktop background for your computer! This one is so cute and I love the color scheme, definitely very fitting for the season ~
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Free Fall-Themed Desktop Wallpaper!
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Guys, its FAAAAALLLLLL! I know. I haven't posted in a while. I should be ashamed... But with GMM uploading 6 days a week, it makes it pretty hard to focus. But how can I focus when I also have this awesome desktop wallpaper on my computer???? I made this on Picmonkey with images off of Pinterest and Tumblr, and it's optimized for my Mac but it'll fit your screen just fine. I'm super happy with how it turned out and I'll be definitely be making a Christmas one as soon as Thanksgiving is over!
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7 Ways to Charge Your iPhone Faster
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
The part that I love most about having an iPhone is that it will stay charged all week, and it doesn't end up dying on long road trips, so I usually don't end up carrying my charger with me everywhere (which is super convenient). But sometimes, you just really need it to charge a bit faster for something- maybe you have a day of travel ahead and would like to have it fully charged, but it's only at 50%! Luckily, you have an hour to get ready- how can you make it charge faster?
1. First, turn on airplane mode. It's gonna save battery because you won't get any notifications or text messages or anything that would use up any of your precious battery life.
2. Now, do the most obvious thing that not everyone knows about; turn on low power mode. This is super easy to do: just go into Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode ON. Battery is in the third little section, in between Touch ID & Passcode and Privacy. Turning on Low Power Mode temporarily reduces the amount of power that is used, which turns off mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, etc. It also turns your little battery in the corner from green to light orange.
3. Close all of your apps for pete's sake! What do you even think is using all of the battery life?! In case you didn't know this, the most obvious feature on the iPhone, close all of your apps completely by double clicking the Home button, which will show everything that is currently open.
4. Now turn on night shift, a really cool feature that can temporarily disable the blue light your phone is emitting. It gives your screen a bit of a yellowy tint, which is normal. Fun fact: it's been proven that most cases of insomnia are caused by the blue light your device is emitting, because your body thinks it resembles a blue sky, which means daytime, which means don't go to sleep. Turning this off will help your battery life significantly, because ever since I started turning it on when I go to bed, my phone stays charged way longer! You can turn on night shift by pulling up the tool bar on the bottom of your screen and tapping the little icon at the very bottom center that has a moon on it.
5. Turn your brightness all the way down. It doesn't use a whole lot of power, but enough that your iPhone will charge faster if you turn it down. This can be done either in the Settings or in the bottom toolbar.
6. Now plug your phone into a different charger, like one you would use for your iPad. If you don't have one, then this step is optional, but it will guarantee to charge your phone 30% faster than a regular iPhone charger, so I always do this when I want my phone to charge as fast as possible.
7. Finally, turn your phone over. This prevents the screen from lighting up because the it senses that the phone is turned over and face-down (screen down haha), so your screen won't light up every time you get a pesky notification.
I hope this helped you out, and that now your phone can be at 100% as you please! I hate it when my phone gets below 60%, it just bugs the heck out of me and I have to plug it in :(
xo Savannah
1. First, turn on airplane mode. It's gonna save battery because you won't get any notifications or text messages or anything that would use up any of your precious battery life.2. Now, do the most obvious thing that not everyone knows about; turn on low power mode. This is super easy to do: just go into Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode ON. Battery is in the third little section, in between Touch ID & Passcode and Privacy. Turning on Low Power Mode temporarily reduces the amount of power that is used, which turns off mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, etc. It also turns your little battery in the corner from green to light orange.
3. Close all of your apps for pete's sake! What do you even think is using all of the battery life?! In case you didn't know this, the most obvious feature on the iPhone, close all of your apps completely by double clicking the Home button, which will show everything that is currently open.
4. Now turn on night shift, a really cool feature that can temporarily disable the blue light your phone is emitting. It gives your screen a bit of a yellowy tint, which is normal. Fun fact: it's been proven that most cases of insomnia are caused by the blue light your device is emitting, because your body thinks it resembles a blue sky, which means daytime, which means don't go to sleep. Turning this off will help your battery life significantly, because ever since I started turning it on when I go to bed, my phone stays charged way longer! You can turn on night shift by pulling up the tool bar on the bottom of your screen and tapping the little icon at the very bottom center that has a moon on it.
5. Turn your brightness all the way down. It doesn't use a whole lot of power, but enough that your iPhone will charge faster if you turn it down. This can be done either in the Settings or in the bottom toolbar.
6. Now plug your phone into a different charger, like one you would use for your iPad. If you don't have one, then this step is optional, but it will guarantee to charge your phone 30% faster than a regular iPhone charger, so I always do this when I want my phone to charge as fast as possible.
7. Finally, turn your phone over. This prevents the screen from lighting up because the it senses that the phone is turned over and face-down (screen down haha), so your screen won't light up every time you get a pesky notification.
I hope this helped you out, and that now your phone can be at 100% as you please! I hate it when my phone gets below 60%, it just bugs the heck out of me and I have to plug it in :(
xo Savannah
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App Review: Poncho
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
I've done an app review in the past because I thought it would be fun, and it was hard to choose another great app to write about, and it all came down to this awesome app that I use every single day- Poncho! Poncho is a weather app, it's free on the App Store and I'm very sorry, but it is NOT available on the Google Play Store :(
WHEN I GOT IT + HOW I FOUND OUT ABOUT IT //
I got Poncho a couple of months ago, when I was carelessly browsing the apps and games that get recognition from Apple, and Poncho came up. I had no idea what it was from the name or picture, so I read about it and after looking at the reviews, I thought it would be a good idea to get it (not a very hard decision, considering it was free), even though I already had a weather app that came with my phone.
PROS //
-It gives you a cute little forecast every day with a funny picture to go with it- so even when the skies are grey, they still make you happy.
-The forecasts are extremely accurate, and usually have the same thing posted as Wunderground, if not more accurate, a I've noticed.
-It even comes with an alarm! You can set it to wake you up at a certain time and give you the weather forecast, and even though I already have an alarm set on my phone, this would be awesome to try out soon.
-Other cool features include parking options (New York only), whether or not you'll have frizzy hair, pollen warnings, and a barometer.
-Did I mention it gives you the WIND SPEED??
-Not only are there daily forecasts, but there are also hourly ones. Now, if only it told me when the mosquitoes are gonna come out....
-There's a referral code to earn free stuff. I'm not interested in the stuff, but if you sign up, go ahead and use my referral code; it's 9Y2FKBBK.
CONS //
-People have mentioned in the reviews section that the alarm doesn't work all that well and doesn't go off at the right time.
-When there's a chance of precipitation, I wish it would tell me the percent of the chance like Wunderground does; it's the little things like that.....
-It's nice and simple, but maybe a little too simple. There isn't really enough there.
I hope you decide to download Poncho, and if you do, use my referral code! Overall, it's a great and useful app that is cute and very accurate, as far as the weather goes (the weather forecasts are almost never accurate in Oregon because it's 104 degrees one minute and overcast and chilly the next).
xo Savannah
WHEN I GOT IT + HOW I FOUND OUT ABOUT IT //
I got Poncho a couple of months ago, when I was carelessly browsing the apps and games that get recognition from Apple, and Poncho came up. I had no idea what it was from the name or picture, so I read about it and after looking at the reviews, I thought it would be a good idea to get it (not a very hard decision, considering it was free), even though I already had a weather app that came with my phone. PROS //
-It gives you a cute little forecast every day with a funny picture to go with it- so even when the skies are grey, they still make you happy.
-The forecasts are extremely accurate, and usually have the same thing posted as Wunderground, if not more accurate, a I've noticed.
-It even comes with an alarm! You can set it to wake you up at a certain time and give you the weather forecast, and even though I already have an alarm set on my phone, this would be awesome to try out soon.
-Other cool features include parking options (New York only), whether or not you'll have frizzy hair, pollen warnings, and a barometer.
-Did I mention it gives you the WIND SPEED??
-Not only are there daily forecasts, but there are also hourly ones. Now, if only it told me when the mosquitoes are gonna come out....
-There's a referral code to earn free stuff. I'm not interested in the stuff, but if you sign up, go ahead and use my referral code; it's 9Y2FKBBK.
CONS //
-People have mentioned in the reviews section that the alarm doesn't work all that well and doesn't go off at the right time.
-When there's a chance of precipitation, I wish it would tell me the percent of the chance like Wunderground does; it's the little things like that.....
-It's nice and simple, but maybe a little too simple. There isn't really enough there.
I hope you decide to download Poncho, and if you do, use my referral code! Overall, it's a great and useful app that is cute and very accurate, as far as the weather goes (the weather forecasts are almost never accurate in Oregon because it's 104 degrees one minute and overcast and chilly the next).
xo Savannah
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