This is a rechargeable SONY 3.8V 4.35V 2300MAH/8.8WH GB-S10-385871-020H Battery . High quality and long lifetime, this GB-S10-385871-020H battery lets you work seamlessly when you are on the move for business trips or vacations. All our Li-ion replacement batteries for SONY GB-S10-385871-020H Cell Phone have been tested and proven to match and/or exceed original battery performance and are 100% compatible with Original Manufacturer Specifications. Every piece of our replacement battery for SONY GB-S10-385871-020H has been tested and validated on SONY systems to ensure the safety for your Sony 1304-7769 Xperia Xa F3113. Increased capacity extends your workable hours at the office, in meetings or classes, or while traveling.

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Product Description:

Type :Li-ion
Brand : SONY
Voltage : 3.8V 4.35V
Capacity :2300MAH/8.8WH

TOP REASONS TO BUY FROM US

✔ Quality replacement battery with high Capacity
✔ Longer lifespan – thanks to modern Lithium technology without memory effect.
✔ Guaranteed safety: Protected against Short-circuits, Overheating and Overvoltage
✔ Each cell is separately tested in order to ensure professional standards are met.
✔ 100% compatible in replacing your original battery

Compatible Part Numbers:

GB-S10-385871-020H

Compatibile con i seguenti apparecchi :

Sony 1304-7769 Xperia Xa F3113

How to care for your GB-S10-385871-020H battery.

This is the Replacement SONY GB-S10-385871-020H Battery, You can extend the life of your GB-S10-385871-020H battery significantly through the proper care and handling of your battery.

• Any new GB-S10-385871-020H battery should first be fully charged by leaving it plugged in overnight. Once a computer battery is fully charged it will no longer accept any more power. It is a common practice to leave Cell Phones plugged in after they have been turned off so that the battery has a full charge the next time you use your Cell Phone. It is probably fully charged within 5 hours.
• A brand new GB-S10-385871-020H Cell Phone battery is in a weakened condition since it has not been conditioned yet. Condition and break in your new battery by performing 5 partial discharge and recharge cycles the first week you receive your new battery.
• Run on battery power without the AC adapter cord at least once a week to keep the GB-S10-385871-020H battery cells active and at their peak potential. When your Cell Phone is plugged into the power adapter the battery goes to ‘standby mode’ while your Cell Phone runs directly on electricity from the wall outlet.
• Even though your battery indicates it is fully charged, your battery will return to a weakened state again in a few months if it does not get some exercise through partial discharge and recharge cycles while running on battery power alone.
• If your GB-S10-385871-020H battery has not been actively used 2 months or more, condition your battery again with 5 partial discharge & recharge cycles to increase the batteries capacity and run time.
• Don’t run your battery all the way to empty. Your battery will have a longer service life if it receives shallow discharge and recharge cycles. Research has shown that the useful life of the battery will be much longer if you begin to recharge the battery any time before reaching 20% of the remaining power capacity. Recharging the GB-S10-385871-020H battery even after 10 minutes will not reduce the battery’s life span as lithium batteries do not have the memory effect which was found in older NiCad battery technology. NiCad batteries have never been used in Cell Phones, even the earliest models.
• Never run your battery below the 2% critically low warning point. If your battery is run below this point it may not have enough energy to even recharge. This may effectively ‘kill’ your GB-S10-385871-020H battery.

How can I extend your battery run time?

You can extend your GB-S10-385871-020H battery run time by minimizing the power drain on your battery. A 3 cell battery will run approximately 2 to 2-1/2 hours when the battery is new. Even longer times can be achieved by minimizing the power consumption of your laptop. Here are the top ways to reduce your power consumption.

• Avoid using the CD or DVD drive as the motor consumes a fair amount of power.
• Turn off your wireless finder if you are not using the internet.
• Remove any devices plugged into your USB ports or other ports.
• Close out programs you are not using. By minimizing the load on your CPU, sometimes you can avoid having the cooling fan turn to its high speed mode.
• Increase your memory to 4 Gigabytes. This creates less work for your hard drive. Data is temporarily written to your hard drive when your memory is not sufficient to hold all the data on the many pages you may be accessing.
• Reduce the brightness of your laptop screen. This is the number one drain on your battery by far.

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This is a rechargeable OUKITEL 3.8V 4.35V 2600mAh 9.88WH U13 Battery . High quality and long lifetime, this U13 battery lets you work seamlessly when you are on the move for business trips or vacations. All our Li-ion replacement batteries for OUKITEL U13 Cell Phone have been tested and proven to match and/or exceed original battery performance and are 100% compatible with Original Manufacturer Specifications. Every piece of our replacement battery for OUKITEL U13 has been tested and validated on OUKITEL systems to ensure the safety for your Oukitel U13. Increased capacity extends your workable hours at the office, in meetings or classes, or while traveling.

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Product Description:

Type :Li-ion
Brand : OUKITEL
Voltage : 3.8V 4.35V
Capacity :2600mAh 9.88WH

TOP REASONS TO BUY FROM US

✔ Quality replacement battery with high Capacity
✔ Longer lifespan – thanks to modern Lithium technology without memory effect.
✔ Guaranteed safety: Protected against Short-circuits, Overheating and Overvoltage
✔ Each cell is separately tested in order to ensure professional standards are met.
✔ 100% compatible in replacing your original battery

Compatible Part Numbers:

U13

Compatibile con i seguenti apparecchi :

Oukitel U13

How to care for your U13 battery.

This is the Replacement OUKITEL U13 Battery, You can extend the life of your U13 battery significantly through the proper care and handling of your battery.

• Any new U13 battery should first be fully charged by leaving it plugged in overnight. Once a computer battery is fully charged it will no longer accept any more power. It is a common practice to leave Cell Phones plugged in after they have been turned off so that the battery has a full charge the next time you use your Cell Phone. It is probably fully charged within 5 hours.
• A brand new U13 Cell Phone battery is in a weakened condition since it has not been conditioned yet. Condition and break in your new battery by performing 5 partial discharge and recharge cycles the first week you receive your new battery.
• Run on battery power without the AC adapter cord at least once a week to keep the U13 battery cells active and at their peak potential. When your Cell Phone is plugged into the power adapter the battery goes to ‘standby mode’ while your Cell Phone runs directly on electricity from the wall outlet.
• Even though your battery indicates it is fully charged, your battery will return to a weakened state again in a few months if it does not get some exercise through partial discharge and recharge cycles while running on battery power alone.
• If your U13 battery has not been actively used 2 months or more, condition your battery again with 5 partial discharge & recharge cycles to increase the batteries capacity and run time.
• Don’t run your battery all the way to empty. Your battery will have a longer service life if it receives shallow discharge and recharge cycles. Research has shown that the useful life of the battery will be much longer if you begin to recharge the battery any time before reaching 20% of the remaining power capacity. Recharging the U13 battery even after 10 minutes will not reduce the battery’s life span as lithium batteries do not have the memory effect which was found in older NiCad battery technology. NiCad batteries have never been used in Cell Phones, even the earliest models.
• Never run your battery below the 2% critically low warning point. If your battery is run below this point it may not have enough energy to even recharge. This may effectively ‘kill’ your U13 battery.

How can I extend your battery run time?

You can extend your U13 battery run time by minimizing the power drain on your battery. A 3 cell battery will run approximately 2 to 2-1/2 hours when the battery is new. Even longer times can be achieved by minimizing the power consumption of your laptop. Here are the top ways to reduce your power consumption.

• Avoid using the CD or DVD drive as the motor consumes a fair amount of power.
• Turn off your wireless finder if you are not using the internet.
• Remove any devices plugged into your USB ports or other ports.
• Close out programs you are not using. By minimizing the load on your CPU, sometimes you can avoid having the cooling fan turn to its high speed mode.
• Increase your memory to 4 Gigabytes. This creates less work for your hard drive. Data is temporarily written to your hard drive when your memory is not sufficient to hold all the data on the many pages you may be accessing.
• Reduce the brightness of your laptop screen. This is the number one drain on your battery by far.

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Google’s plan to limit data tracking on its Chrome browser has been extended to cover apps on its Android-based smartphones.

Its so-called Privacy Sandbox project aims to curb the amount of user data that advertisers can gather.

Rival Apple now forces app developers to ask permission from users before tracking them.

The news will be a blow to firms like Meta, which rely on putting their code on apps to track consumer behaviour.

Meta said this month that Apple’s changes would cost it $10bn (£7.3bn) this year. Google’s Android operating system is used by about 85% of smartphone owners worldwide.

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Third-party cookies, which use people’s browsing history to target adverts, will be phased out on Google’s Chrome browser by 2023.

In a blog, Google said it was now extending what it calls its Privacy Sandbox to Android apps, and working on solutions that will limit sharing users’ data and “operate without cross app identifiers, including advertising ID”.

These identifiers are tied to smartphones and are used by apps to collect information. Google said that it will keep them in place for at least two years, while it works “with the industry” on a new system.

“We’re also exploring technologies that reduce the potential for covert data collection, including safer ways for apps to integrate with advertising SDK (software developer kits),” it added.

The tech giant did not detail how it plans to do this.

Apple decided in April last year that app developers had to explicitly ask for permission from users to use IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers). Data from advertising company Flurry Analytics, and published by Apple, suggests that US users are choosing to opt out of tracking 96% of the time.

Google’s blog did not name Apple, but referred instead to “other platforms” which it said “have taken a different approach to ads privacy, bluntly restricting existing technologies used by developers and advertisers”.

“We believe that – without first providing a privacy-preserving alternative path – such approaches can be ineffective,” it added.

Google, unlike Apple, relies on advertising revenue.

Google’s attempts to create alternatives to third party cookies on its Chrome browser have not gone entirely smoothly.

Its first proposal -a system called Federated Learning of Cohorts (Floc) – was disliked by privacy campaigners and advertisers alike.

Floc aimed to disguise users’ individual identities by assigning them to a group with similar browsing histories.

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Its successor, Topics, was announced recently and aims instead to group users in topic clusters selected out of about 350 categories such as fitness or travel. When someone visits a website, Topics will show the site and its advertising partners three of their interests from the previous three weeks.

The Competitions Market Authority has been scrutinising Google’s transition to more privacy-focused systems and said of its plans to extend them to Android apps: “We will continue to monitor this closely and engage with Google on the nature and detail of its proposals.”

The average app includes at least six third-party trackers that are there solely to collect and share online data, according to a report commissioned by Apple last year.

And any one data broker is estimated to have data on up to 700 million consumers, according to research firm Cracked Lab.

Regulators, such as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, are investigating the advertising ecosystem, especially the way ads are sold – known as real-time bidding – which automatically places billions of online adverts on web pages and apps every day.

Apple plans to introduce a number of changes to make it harder to misuse AirTags to track someone.

The button-sized devices are designed to work with Apple’s ‘Find My’ network to locate lost items.

The company said its changes to the device will make suspicious tags easier to find, and alert users earlier that an AirTag may be travelling with them.

In January, a number of women told the BBC they had been followed using AirTags.

Apple launched AirTags in April last year. The small, circular devices can be attached to luggage or keys – anything you could lose.

But the devices can be misused to track people by being hidden in a car, or on a personal item such as a bag.

As part of the changes to make misuse harder, Apple said every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message warning that using the device to track people without consent is a crime in many regions around the world.

Currently, iPhone users (and Android users who download an app) receive “unwanted tracking” alerts if an unknown AirTag moves with them.

Apple announced that people will be alerted earlier that an unknown AirTag is travelling with them.

And when people are warned of “unwanted tracking” by an AirTag, users of iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13 devices will be able to use “precision finding”, to see the distance and direction to an unknown AirTag when it is in range. Previously only the owner of the AirTag could do this.

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Currently iOS users can send an unwanted tracking alert to make the suspect AirTag play tones and Apple has said tags will use louder tones in the future to make the tag easier to locate.

The company said it will also add to a feature that makes an AirTag that hasn’t been with the person who registered it for an extended period of time, play a sound when moved.

In theory this could reveal the presence of an AirTag to a stalking victim, but recent reports revealed that AirTags with the internal speakers deactivated had been listed for sale online.

To counter this, when the sound is triggered and the AirTag is detected moving with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, an alert will also appear on that device.

Apple also said it will also update its support article on unwanted tracking with additional information and resources.

Apple AirTags are incredibly good at finding things. They can track your items down to 0.1 feet.

But that accuracy means that, in the wrong hands, they can be used as sophisticated tracking tools.

This isn’t theoretical, as the BBC reported last month, there’s evidence that people are using AirTags to follow people.

The AirTags themselves are relatively new, and it’s clear that Apple hasn’t yet worked out how best to protect people.

For example, it took six months after AirTag’s launch for the company to bring out an app that would alert Android users to an unwanted AirTag.

The new updates that Apple plans to come out later this year – precision finding and AirTags that emit louder noises – are what campaigners have been calling for.

But with these iterative updates, there will be questions over whether Apple launched the product too early.

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Apple said it designed “products to provide a great experience, but also with safety and privacy in mind”, adding that it was “committed to listening to feedback and innovating to make improvements that continue to guard against unwanted tracking”.

It also noted that “based on our knowledge and on discussions with law enforcement, incidents of AirTag misuse are rare; however, each instance is one too many”.

Batteries fuel modern life, from smartphones to electric cars. But how do they store electricity and why don’t they last long enough? And, as Samsung might be asking itself, why do they blow up?

Battery life is an explosive issue. Literally, as Samsung is discovering to its dismay. The company’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone was praised upon release for best-in-class battery life, far outpacing its key competitor, the iPhones 6S and 7 Plus. Then it started blowing up. Samsung issued a recall and replace programme, and the replacements also started blowing up, forcing the company to suspend production entirely.

The affair marks the latest road block on the long fight to improve the batteries that power our electronics. While processing speed doubles around every 18 months, battery capacity takes almost a decade to improve to the same degree. That gap is starting to cause problems, but as Samsung has found to its cost, it’s not easy to fix.

A smartphone often lasts less than a day, a laptop sometimes only a few hours and an electric car struggles to go 350 miles. So why is it that battery life is still such a problem – and when are we going to fix it?

What is a battery?

Batteries are small containers of chemical energy. When a smartphone is plugged into the mains, electricity is used to reset a chemical reaction within the battery, transferring electrons from the negative anode to the cathode – the positive end of the battery.

Once charged, the battery can then create electricity by driving electrons through a circuit, in this case a smartphone, to the anode and will continue to do so until all of the electrons contained within the battery have transferred to the anode or a built-in switch disconnects the battery.

What is a battery made of?

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Inside a typical battery you have an anode, a cathode and electrolyte – something for the positive ions to travel through.

Lithium-ion batteries found in most smartphones and electronics have a metal oxide cathode made of a cobalt, nickel, manganese or iron mix, a porous graphite anode that holds lithium ions within it and a lithium salt electrolyte.

Positively charged lithium ions travel through the electrolyte from the anode to the cathode driving electrons through the smartphone as required and back to the anode.

Why doesn’t it last long enough?

The principle of the battery may be simple, but the chemistry and technology to make it work is not. The major limiting factor for batteries is their energy density.

A battery can only generate as much electricity as its chemical components can store energy. Everything that is not the active material within the battery is effectively dead weight, including the casing, the controller chips, the wires to carry the current out – they all add weight but not power.

A typical lithium ion battery within a smartphone has an energy density around 150 Watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg). While Lithium ion battery energy density has improved since its introduction in the early 1990s, it is held back by its construction and chemistry.

The only way to immediately increase a smartphone’s battery life with current technology is to increase the power efficiency of the smartphone’s electronics and increase the size of the battery – but thinner and thinner smartphones demand thinner and thinner batteries.

Why does battery life diminish?

Battery life doesn’t stay constant for the entire life of a smartphone – it diminishes slowly over time, as the battery is discharged and recharged.

This is because the chemical reaction that produces the electricity causes thin layers of lithium to be laid down on the electrodes, which reduces the amount available to generate electricity and increases the internal resistance of the battery.

The higher the resistance the harder the battery has to work to maintain a usable voltage and so the amount of power it can produce per charge decreases. You might remember this bit from school:

Voltage = Current x Resistance (V=IR)

Why do some batteries explode?

Batteries with much higher energy density than lithium-based cells are already available, but they aren’t safe enough for use in portable electronics.

“The more energy you put into a box, the more dangerous it’s going to be,” says Dr Billy Wu, lecturer at Imperial College London’s Dyson School of Design Engineering. “Safety is absolutely key and thermal management is crucial. If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.”

The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “a battery cell issue”.

What happens next?

In the immediate term, battery advances will come by bringing existing lithium-ion technologies closer to their theoretical limits, which will increase the power density of batteries.

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A typical lithium-ion battery using lithium manganese oxide has a theoretical power density of 280 Wh/kg, but the final product only has 150Wh/kg so there is certainly room for improvement.

“It’s about optimising the structure within the battery,” says Wu. “If you imagine inside your battery you have this porous structure full of the active material.”

“For higher power output, you need a more porous structure to increase the surface area and allow more lithium ions through at any one time, but because it’s got more holes it holds less active material, which in turn gives you lower capacity.”

New, advanced battery chemistries such as lithium-sulphur and lithium-silicon are also being worked on, with companies around the UK currently developing the technology.What is the future of battery technology?Solid state batteries are one possible future, where the liquid electrolyte in the battery is replaced by a solid substance, which will provide significant safety improvements.
Advertisement“The main advantage of solid state batteries is that you can go back to using lithium as the anode material, which has really good power and energy density, but wasn’t safe with liquid electrolytes,” explains Wu.
Solid-state batteries will remove the need for the porous carbon anode and therefore removes more of the weight from the battery that doesn’t contribute to generating power.
Metal air batteries, using zinc, lithium or aluminium are also on the horizon, but are 20 years away from being available in a commercial application according to Wu.
What can I do to help my battery last longer?There are a few things you can do to help prolong the life of your battery. The nature of the chemical reaction inside the battery means that it has to work harder in the last 20% of discharge and above 80% of charging.
Keeping a lithium ion battery roughly between 80% and 20% of charge will help it keep a greater amount of its capacity for longer. Smart power management systems are currently being developed that do just that when plugged into a wall overnight.
Batteries should never be left constantly plugged in, which is particularly applicable to laptops. They are kept in better working order if they are discharged and recharged every so often. Once a month should do it.

Apple’s iPad Pro and MacBook Pro are often used to accomplish the same tasks. You can use them for browsing the web, shop online, send emails, edit videos, or play games.

Despite this, the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro have different priorities. Most users can expect either device to handle everyday use, but there are situations where one clearly beats the other. Here’s what to know before buying.

Overall Findings

iPad Pro

• Light, portable, and versatile
• Has a touchscreen with Apple Pencil support
• Simple, intuitive interface
• Multitasking is possible but restricted
• Limited support for external devices and displays

MacBook Pro

• Great for multitasking
• Excellent file management
• Plenty of customization
• No touchscreen
• Interface can be confusing

The iPad Pro and MacBook Pro are similar in many ways, and more so today than they ever were in the past.

Apple’s Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, and the addition of mouse support for iPadOS, mean you can use the iPad Pro as a laptop. The MacBook Pro line is switching to Apple Silicon, unifying processor design across Apple products.

You can’t turn a MacBook Pro into a tablet, though, and that highlights a fundamental difference. The iPad Pro can be used at a desk, standing on a bus, or lying in bed. You can only use the MacBook Pro on a flat surface.

What the MacBook Pro lacks in versatility, it gains in customization. A MacBook Pro can run more software because it can access apps outside its own App Store. You can dig into options you won’t find on any iPad. The MacBook Pro can also connect to more external devices simultaneously.

Ease of Use and Versatility

You can use an iPad however you feel comfortable, and iPadOS adapts based on how you’re using it. If you want to switch from tablet to laptop, you don’t open a box to make that choice. Just attach the Magic Keyboard and start typing.

Apple’s MacBook Pro, which runs macOS, takes pride in its ease of use compared to Windows. That’s for a good reason. MacOS is approachable, and Apple has applied lessons learned from the success of iOS to the design of macOS.

Still, macOS traces its lineage back to the original Mac OS released in 1984. Apple designed it for use at a desk with a keyboard and mouse by people knowledgeable about home computers. Apple has removed friction from macOS over the years, but it will never shake this legacy. A MacBook will always be more complex than an iPad. You should only count that as a negative if you are looking for simplicity.

Multitasking

The iPad Pro and MacBook Pro both support multitasking, but the MacBook Pro is the favorite.

The iPad Pro’s multitasking is rudimentary. You can open two apps side-by-side in Split View or use a feature called Slide Over to place one app on top of another. The iPad Pro also supports picture-in-picture, and the iPad has several touch gestures designed to make flipping between apps easy.

The MacBook Pro has no limit on the number of apps you can open and use. You can watch multiple videos simultaneously. You can export a video from Adobe Premiere Pro while chatting on Slack with coworkers, watching your favorite reality TV series, and keeping tabs on incoming emails.

The iPad Pro’s external display support is limiting. You can connect it to an external display, but the iPad Pro will only mirror its screen. All MacBook Pros can extend usable display space to at least one external display and handle multiple aspects and resolutions.

Touchscreen and Apple Pencil Support

This one is obvious. Every iPad Pro has a touchscreen and Apple Pencil support, something no MacBook Pro has.

Most people will view this as a matter of convenience but, for many creatives, it goes deeper. An iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil is a potent digital creation tool out of the box.

A MacBook Pro owner looking for similar features has to buy a purpose-built drawing tablet like a Wacom Cintiq 22, which is more expensive than an iPad Pro. Even then, the Wacom setup is only suitable for use at a desk in a studio.

Anyone who spends a lot of time with a stylus will want the iPad Pro. It’s an unbeatable value for artists.

Customization

MacOS is complex but supports extensive customization. Here’s just a sample of options accessible on a MacBook Pro that an iPad Pro won’t let you touch.

Resolution or aspect ratio of a built-in or external displayFile directory settingsAdvanced printer or scanner settingsAdvanced power management, such as wake on LAN or critical battery levelInstallation of apps not acquired from the App Store
The iPad Pro doesn’t support many features, especially those related to external devices. You can’t use an iPad Pro as a file server. You can use it with wired printers, but it isn’t easy to set up. The iPad Pro doesn’t support external scanners. Apple‘s App Store bars virtualization software, so you can’t run Windows or Linux in a virtualization app.

At this point, you might be wondering, “who cares?” Most people don’t care about the tasks above. Still, it’s essential to know about these limitations before buying because the iPad Pro might not support that one niche feature you need.

You Can’t Code on an iPad

Speaking of limitations, here’s an important one. The iPad Pro is not a tool for programmers.

The iPad Pro doesn’t support Xcode, the integrated development environment Apple provides for app developers. It’s ironic because Xcode is used to create iPad apps, but there’s no sign Apple plans to change direction on this point.

You can’t use the iPad Pro to run other software development environments, either. From Microsoft BASIC to the Unity game engine, you’re out of luck.

The iPad Pro can access the Internet so that you can access online tools like GitPod. These tools won’t be enough to satisfy most programmers, however, and you’ll need other devices to test your work correctly.

The Final Verdict

The choice between iPad Pro and MacBook Pro is a choice between approachable versatility or powerful customization and capabilities.

The iPad Pro is intuitive and easy to use, yet useful for many users in many situations. A digital artist will use it differently than a videographer, who will use it differently than a gamer, but all three will find the iPad Pro simple.

The MacBook Pro is complex and customizable. You can expand its features in powerful ways to accomplish specific tasks the iPad can’t do. You could use it to host files, create an app for iPhone or iPad, or power a triple-monitor workstation, but you’ll have to put in some work.

The 3 most important maintenance tasks for your PCIf you’ve ever fried a CPU because you didn’t clean your fan, lost a decade of your digital life to a hard drive crash, or spent four hours trying to remove a nasty virus, you’ve probably already learned a valuable lesson about the need to maintain your computer.

Medical experts remind us that “prevention is the best medicine,” so as your personal computer support experts, we’re going to strongly advise that you apply the same logic to your computer!

While the three areas we talk about below are anything but exhaustive, they’re the most important things to consider and, if you act on them, should keep you from suffering from some of the more serious, and expensive, issues you might otherwise run into.

Keep Important Files Backed Up

The most important thing you can do as a computer owner is to consistently and reliably back up the data stored on your hard drive. Hardware used to be the most valuable part of a computer, but those bits and bytes are now the real investment.

You’ve spent huge amounts of money on software and digital music and video, and countless hours authoring documents and organizing your digital files. If you don’t regularly back up this information, a serious computer problem could leave you with nothing but a huge feeling of regret.

The best solution is a cloud-based backup service. Yes, if you don’t use a free backup service, it’ll cost you several dollars a month, but considering what you get, it’s the cheapest insurance policy on your important stuff that you’ll find.

Traditional backup software is an option as well, but all in all, it’s less safe than backing up to the internet since local backups are stored locally, right there in your house. This makes them much more susceptible to things like disastrous weather, fire, theft, etc.

Regularly Update Your Critical Software

Keeping the software on your computer updated is no longer an optional part of computer ownership. Viruses, worms, and other malware, in addition to junk mail, security breaches, hardware incompatibilities, and software conflicts are all now part of your daily digital life.

Updating your computer with the latest patches, fixes, and device drivers really can keep these annoyances at bay. Updates are freely available on the internet for just about every antivirus program, email client, operating system, and piece of hardware you could possibly own.

So, don’t skip those Patch Tuesday releases, don’t be scared to update your hardware’s drivers, and please make sure that you regularly scan for viruses or make sure the “always on” protection is enabled in your antivirus program so that threats can be caught before they do any damage.

Updating is so vital that there are even entire companies and programs built around providing an easy way to update your computer software, so don’t miss out on getting one of those software updater programs that can do just that. Some of those free updaters are even completely hands-off and will do all the updating for you, automatically, so that you don’t have to worry much about it at all once you get it installed.

Make Sure Things Are Clean (So They Stay Cool)

We all know that most things run a little better when they’re clean. Water flows easier when your plumbing is clean, your car’s engine runs better if you’ve been taking care of it, and your dryer does more in less time when you clean out the lint.

The fans in your computer, assuming yours has any, need similar care so they can continue to keep the important components that are part of your computer nice and cool. If things get too hot, they stop working.

See Ways to Keep Your Computer Cool for lots of advice, from how to clean your fans, to other tips that can help keep the heat at bay.

Your computer is no different. Keeping your files and folders tidy in your virtual world and clearing the dust and grime that builds up inside and outside your computer, all play a part in keeping it running smooth day in and day out.

If your phone or tablet is constantly too hot, it can be bad for the battery and uncomfortable to use. But, there are some simple ways to cool things down.

In laymen’s terms, hot weather could land you with a faulty iPhone, iPad or Android device. Though it takes more than a bit of sun to send any mobile haywire; the following increase the risks of a hot phone or tablet:
Leaving your iPhone/iPad/Android device in a car
Leaving your phone or tablet in direct sunlight
Using GPS navigation via Google Maps or a sat nav app
Playing a graphics-intensive app or game

Fortunately, there are some simple solutions for an overheating tablet or phone:

Keep your phone or tablet away from heat sources

Using a mobile phone or tablet in hot climates can often deplete its battery life more quickly. This can be especially true if it’s heating up in the sun. Wherever possible, try not to use a tablet or phone in direct, hot sunshine. Don’t leave your devices in a hot car, either.

Remove it from its case

Be careful with thick plastic cases or leather- bound cases, too. Many phones and tablets are designed to dissipate heat through their chassis; the case may be keeping the heat locked in. Try taking it out of its case for a while to cool off.

Restart your hot phone or tablet

Overheating can be a sign that your tablet or phone is working too hard. Often, you can cure this simply by performing a power cycle. Switch it off completely, then turn it back on. For example on an iPhone or iPad, hold the power button down until you see the Slide to power off message. Swipe this, then press the power button again to turn it back on.

Close some apps

Apps running in the background can add to a phone or tablet’s workload. To close apps on an iPhone or iPad, double-tap on the Home button and swipe each open app off-screen. On Android devices, tap the square button, then tap the X icon on each app you want to close.

Lower the brightness

The brighter your screen, the hotter your device can get. Try turning down the brightness until your phone or tablet cools.

Use airplane mode

If your phone is hunting for a network signal in an area with poor reception, it can heat up. As a quick fix to let it cool down again, switch on the airplane mode. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen for this option on an iPhone, or down from the top of the screen on Android.

Replace the device altogether

Overheating can be due to a faulty battery. If it’s happening often, you should contact your manufacturer as soon as possible for a repair or replacement. Make sure to back up your data before sending your device away.