Amazon Prime Day 2021: All Best Deals Right Now!

Amazon Prime Day is here! Prime Day is scheduled for today and tomorrow – on June 21 & 22 – bringing two days of epic savings on more than 2 million deals globally! Last year, because of the global pandemic, Amazon Prime Day was moved from June to October, but in 2021 we are back to the original schedule and Amazon Prime Day Deals are landing on June 21 and June 22.

The numbers last year were awesome for Amazon. Retailer still saw 45.2% increase in global sales compared to 2019. More than $10 billion worth of goods were bought during this two-day event and nothing less than that is expected in 2021.

Check our the BEST PRIME DAY DEALS below and BOOKMARK THIS PAGE as we will update it with a new deals on the hourly basis!

BONUS TIP: Just make sure you are a Prime member so you can participate in this huge event. If you are not a member, there is a Special Offer right now: GET 3 MONTHS OF PRIME FOR JUST $6.49/MONTH INSTEAD OF $12.99. If you need to know how much it is worth, J.P. Morgan analysts calculated that Prime is worth almost $800 annually what is nearly six times more than what you pay for it.

EARLY AMAZON PRIME DAY DEALS 2021

JUNE 21

 Fire HD 8 tablet, 8″ HD display, 32 GB, latest model (2020 release), designed for portable entertainment, Black
⭐ Discount: 40%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $99.99 $59.99 ⭐ 
⭐ DEAL OF THE DAY! ⭐

CHECK OUT ALL AMAZON DEVICES DEALS! UP TO 60%!

✅ Echo (4th Gen) | With premium sound, smart home hub, and Alexa | Charcoal
⭐ Discount: 40%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $99.99 $59.99 ⭐ 
⭐ DEAL OF THE DAY! ⭐

CHECK OUT ALL AMAZON DEVICES DEALS! UP TO 60%!

✅ Samsung Galaxy S21 5G | Factory Unlocked Android Cell Phone | US Version 5G Smartphone | Pro-Grade Camera, 8K Video, 64MP High Res | 128GB, Phantom White (SM-G991UZWAXAA)
⭐ Discount: 25%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $799.99 $599.99   ⭐ 
⭐ DEAL OF THE DAY! ⭐

✅ Kindle Paperwhite – Now Waterproof with more than 2x the Storage + 3 Months Free Kindle Unlimited
⭐ Discount: 34%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $159.99 $104.99 ⭐ 
⭐ DEAL OF THE DAY! ⭐

CHECK OUT ALL AMAZON DEVICES DEALS! UP TO 60%!

✅ Garmin 010-01733-00 Fenix 5X Sapphire – Slate Gray with Black Band
⭐ Discount: 51%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $599.99 $296.99  ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL ⭐

✅ OnePlus 8 Glacial Green,​ 5G Unlocked Android Smartphone U.S Version, 8GB RAM+128GB Storage, 90Hz Fluid Display,Triple Camera, with Alexa Built-in,
⭐ Discount: 50%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $699.99 $349.00   ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL ⭐

✅ Acer Chromebook Spin 311 Convertible Laptop, Intel Celeron N4020, 11.6″ HD Touch, 4GB LPDDR4, 32GB eMMC, Gigabit Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, Google Chrome, CP311-2H-C679
⭐ Discount: 55%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $499.00 $224.99   ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL ⭐

✅ Bose SoundLink Around Ear Wireless Headphones II – Black
⭐ Discount: 44%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $229.00 $129.00   ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL ⭐

✅ Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 — Over Ear, Wireless Bluetooth Headphones with Built-In Microphone for Clear Calls & Alexa Voice Control, Soapstone
⭐ Discount: 43%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $399.00 $229.00   ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL ⭐

✅ Magic The Gathering Strixhaven Commander Deck Bundle – Includes 1 Silverquill Statement + 1 Prismari Performance + 1 Witherbloom Witchcraft + 1 Lorehold Legacies + 1 Quantum Quandrix
⭐ Discount: 44%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $159.95 $89.99  ⭐ 
⭐ FANTASTIC DEAL ⭐

✅ Magic: The Gathering Zendikar Rising Set Booster Box | 30 Packs (360 Cards) + 1 Box Topper | Foil in Every Pack
⭐ Discount: 24%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $105.30 $79.99 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL ⭐

✅ Harry Potter Collection [Blu-ray]
⭐ Discount: 59%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $178.99 $72.99 ⭐ 
⭐ DEAL OF THE DAY!⭐

✅ Apple AirPods Pro
⭐ Discount: 24%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $249.00 $189.99 ⭐ 
⭐ DEAL OF THE DAY!⭐

✅ Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus, True Wireless Earbuds (Wireless Charging Case Included), Black – US Version
⭐ Discount: 43%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $149.99 $84.99 ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL!⭐

✅ SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch 3 Titanium Smart Watch 45mm US Version GPS Bluetooth Advanced Health Monitoring Fitness Tracking Long-Lasting Battery, Mystic Black
⭐ Discount: 43%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $149.99 $84.99 ⭐ 
⭐ TOP DEAL!⭐

✅ Razer DeathAdder Essential Gaming Mouse: 6400 DPI Optical Sensor – 5 Programmable Buttons – Mechanical Switches – Rubber Side Grips – Classic Black
⭐ Discount: 60%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $49.99 $19.99 ⭐ 
⭐ EXCELLENT DEAL!⭐

✅ SAMSUNG LC49RG90SSNXZA 49-Inch CRG9 Curved Gaming Monitor, Black
⭐ Discount: 60%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $1,499.99 $899.99 ⭐ 
⭐ EXPERT DEAL!⭐

CHECK ALL PRIME DAY GAMING DEALS NOW!

✅ ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming AMD AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen ATX Gaming Motherboard (PCIe 4.0, 2.5Gb LAN, BIOS Flashback, HDMI 2.1, Addressable Gen 2 RGB Header and Aura Sync)
⭐ Discount: 29%⭐ 
⭐ Price: $189.99 $137.74 ⭐ 
⭐ EXPERT DEAL!⭐

SUBSCRIPTION AMAZON PRIME DAY DEALS

✅ Now through June 22, Prime members can get 4 months free of Amazon Music Unlimited! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Prime also members get 6 months of Amazon Music Unlimited free when bundled with a select Echo device. Promote the offer and earn a bounty on Amazon Music and commission on device for every qualifying bundle you drive. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Amazon’s biggest line up of channels on sale! Prime members can subscribe to select channels for only $0.99/month for up to two months. Participating channels: AMC+, STARZ, Paramount+, Discovery+, BET+, PBS Masterpiece, Noggin, EPIX, ALLBLK, Shudder, Sundance Now, Acorn, Lifetime Movie Club, History Vault, Pantaya, Motortrend, Showtime, PBS Kids, Up Faith & Family, Moviesphere, and PBS Documentaries. Each time one of your eligible readers signs up for one or more channels, you earn a bounty!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Audible Premium Plus: 53% Off for 4 Months

Now through June 30, Audible Premium Plus is only $6.95/month for the first 4 months (Prime Exclusive)—reg. $14.95/month. Every month choose one new release or best seller as part of the membership—yours to keep. Plus, you can always stream a collection of our Originals, audiobooks, podcasts and more. Even better, you earn a bounty for every qualifying Audible membership you drive. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Kindle Unlimited: Get 2 months of digital reading for free

Before and after Prime Day, you can get two months of Kindle Unlimited free! This is an ongoing offer and is not available to existing Kindle Unlimited members. Offer renews at $9.99/month plus applicable taxes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

FREE CREDITS

⚫ Buy $10 on Launchpad and get $10 on Prime Day HERE

⚫ Buy $10 and get $10 on Handmade HERE

Starting June 7 Amazon is offering again $10 credit to use during the Prime Day event to Prime members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon’s store. Check HERE for more information.

Members can use their $10 credit for purchasing almost any product on Amazon during the Prime Day.

Discover New Places, Shop Local Items with Amazon Explore: Prime members can try their first live virtual experience up to $50 for FREE from Amazon Explore with code FREEFUN. 

Earn 10% Back in Rewards: During the Spend $10, Get $10 promotion, Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card and Amazon Prime Store Card holders with an eligible Prime membership will also earn 10% back in rewards on select small business purchases.Visit amazon.com/pcb to learn more.

AMAZON PRIME DAY 2021

We have everything you need to know about Amazon Prime Day 2021. Check the facts, tips and early deals.

WHEN?

Amazon Prime Day 2021 kicks off at midnight PT on June 21 and ends at 23:59 PT on June 22.

WHERE AND FOR WHOM?

Amazon.com/primeday for Prime members in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Singapore, U.A.E., Japan, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Canada, China, Australia, Belgium, Austria – and for the first time – Brazil and Turkey.

WHAT?

Members will find over TWO million deals across every category, including products for the holiday season, including toys, fashion, beauty, electronics, TVs, gadgets, and Amazon Devices.

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[NEW] How to void a Check in QuickBooks?

QuickBooks is a fantastic accounting software dedicated mostly toward small and medium sized businesses. There are many benefits of using QuickBooks, but also there are many options and possibilities many people still need to learn to take their businesses to the next level.
We selected the most common questions people ask when they need help on using the QuickBooks. The most “Googled” questions are “How to void a check in QuickBooks” and “How to delete a Deposit in QuickBooks”, but some are also relatead to printing (How to reprint checks in QuickBook) or issuing a refund (How to issue a refund in QuickBook). Let’s start from voiding a check.

Voiding checks in QuickBooks

You just managed to close your books and all taxes are done, but you suddenly realize that one check needs to be voided. It’s also possible you wrote a check before you double-checked your bank account balance. Now you are in danger your check might bounce due to insufficient funds. You really don’t want to deal with the embarrassment after bounced check, not only it could be bad for business, but you don’t want to let your vendor deal with an extra fee. And you also want to avoid paying the penalty to your bank. That’s why is very important to know how to void a check in QuickBooks.

BONUS TIP: If you are also wondering how to delete a payment in QuickBooks, you can check it out HERE.

How to void a Check in QuickBooks

What does it mean? A voided check means that you are canceling that transaction. When you decide to void a check, the record remains in QuickBooks Online account, but the amount is now set to zero.
You wanted to know “How to void a Check in QuickBooks”. It’s not very difficult to do that. You can use the QuickBooks Void Check or Delete Check option. This procedure is recommended for almost all check reversal transactions.

Voiding Checks in QuickBooks

You can void the check by following instructions below, but just in case if the check has not been cashed and it wasn’t in your previous reconciliation.

  1. From the left menu click ACCOUNTING
  2. You need to select CHART OF ACCOUNTS
  3. Find and click the bank account with the check you want to void. Pick VIEW REGISTER
  4. Find the check you need and click on it to highlight and select EDIT
  5. You need to clik MORE (on the bottom center) and pick VOID
  6. Just confirm you want to void the check and that’s it ✅

My check was included in a previous reconciliation

In case of previous bank reconciliation, to void that check, you will need to undo that reconciliation. After you do that, you can proceed with the instructions above in order to cancel the check.

Delete a Deposit in QuickBooks

How to delete a Deposit in QuickBooks

It is really important to know how to delete deposit in case you want to void or delete any of payment types in QuickBooks.
Many people are asking how to delete a deposit in QuickBooks and the answer is not difficult.

  1. You have to check your toolbar and find EDIT
  2. Click on DELETE DEPOSIT
  3. If there are multiple lines in the deposit and you only need to fix one entry, you have an option to delete a single line with the command DELETE LINE. After that you can UPDATE the deposit and you will see correct transaction. ✅

How to issue a refund in QuickBooks

Another thing the people are asking is how to issue a refund in QuickBooks. If you need to return the money to your customer, just follow these instructions. Here’s how to issue a refund in QuickBooks.

  1. Click on + NEW and REFUND RECEIPT or GIVE REFUND
  2. Find CUSTOMER from the dropdown menu ✅
  3. Click on the REFUND FORM dropdown and find a bank you picked for that transaction ✅
  4. In the PRODUCT OR SERVICE column you have to add everything your customer returned ✅
  5. Fill all the necessary details like rate, quantity or tax. SAVE and CLOSE.
Transactions in QuickBooks

How to reprint checks in QuickBooks

You can reprint any check or sales form from QuickBooks whenever you need. Find the magnifying glass icon (top of the page) and click it. Enter your transaction number, date or amount, to find the check you want to reprint.
If you want to know how to reprint check in QuickBooks follow the steps below:

  1. Select REPORTS (left menu) ✅
  2. Find CHECK DETAIL report ✅
  3. Select the check you would like to print ✅
  4. Choose PRINT CHECK
  5. When printing just make sure the Starting Check #: field has the desired # ✅

Switch Back to Old Facebook Layout (pre-September 2020)

OK, we don’t have to ask. You hate Facebook’s new layout that was enabled automatically in September 2020. You bought yourself some time back in June with refusing to try the new layout, but in September 2020, you have been forced to switch. Don’t worry, we have a solution for you – switch back to old Facebook layout from new.

Where’s the catch, you are probably wondering? There’s no catch. It’s about your browser new extension, depends which browser you use. Don’t worry, it’s really simple, but let us explain to you a few things first.

Switch back to old Facebook layout

You need an extension for your browser

By installing this browser’s extension, you will have a situation where your browser’s user agent report as an old version of browser that is not supported by Facebook. That means, Facebook.com will think you are using an outdated browser, and it will display an old layout for you. And it’s good news for you!

What do you need to switch to the old Facebook layout? Nothing much. Below you will find links to the extensions you need to install to your browser. There are versions for Google Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. And it’s free. You don’t have to pay for anything!

Well, we have to stress out that this could be only the temporary solution, as you never know when Facebook might change settings on their end to stop this working. But, at the moment, it’s a really good solution for all of you who hate the new Facebook layout.

We must admit that many angry people said they would quit Facebook as they can’t get used to the new layout. But, they can switch back to old Facebook layout now.


Switch back to old Facebook layout below

Click to install the extension from the official Firefox Add-ons website

Firefox

Click to install the extension from the official Google Chrome web store

chrome

Click to install the extension from the official Opera Add-ons website

opera

Best Smartwatch Compatible With iPhone – 2021 Guide

You are an Apple fan, and you are looking for a quality smartwatch compatible with iPhone? Or you just want to check which smartwatch work with iPhone flawlessly? You came to the right place. You don’t need to be an expert to understand that the first choice should be – na Apple Watch. It is really a perfect choice for every iPhone owner, but there are at least three downsides that could make you look the other way: Single-day battery, square design, and – the price.

That’s why we will cover the pros and cons of the best Apple Watches you can buy and also do thorough research among the other smart watches compatible with iOS and find the best smartwatch that works with iPhone for you.

DID YOU KNOW: Seiko released the world’s first smartwatch on 10 June 1998. It’s called Ruputer, and it was pioneering technology. As there was not touch screens back then, it was operated by the surrounding buttons and a yellow joystick below the display. It wasn’t easy to navigate the interface and incredibly challenging to write the text on the screen. There was even a custom version of the Paint app and some other third-party apps.

Competition among smartwatches has never been greater, and that’s the good news for us, the consumers. But, big competition is bringing a more difficult task to the buyers in picking the best possible option they can get for their money. That’s why there are two essential things you have to do in advance:

  1. Read as many reviews as you can and find the product that suits you the most,
  2. Find the best possible price for the smartwatch you want to buy.

I will help you with the first thing, you will find here your best smartwatch compatible with iPhone. It’s up to you now to check the best prices around for your desired model and grab the best deal. Amazon, as always, is the first place you should check.

I have to admit that many smartwatches work with iPhone now perfectly. Smartwatches that run Google’s Wear OS are working flawlessly with iOS, but you should always check are there any features working on the Android phones only. Samsung’s products have their own Tizen software, and you can sync their smartwatches with iPhone in a few minutes. Fitbits top-rated smartwatches are compatible with iPhone, as well as some other quality hybrid wearables.

The best smartwatch compatible with iPhone 2021 picks

  • Apple Watch 6
  • Apple Watch 5
  • Apple Watch 4
  • Apple Watch 3
  • Apple Watch SE
  • Samsung Galaxy Watch 3
  • Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2
  • Xiaomi Mi Watch
  • TicWatch Pro 3
  • Fitbit Ionic
  • Garmin Vivoactive 4
  • Skagen Falster 3
  • Fitbit Versa 3
  • Ticwatch GTX
  • Fossil Gen 5
  • Fossil Sport

Best Smartwatch for iPhone – 2021

1. Apple Watch 6 – The Best Overall
2. Apple Watch SE – The Best Smart Buy
3. Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 – The Best non-Apple Watch
4. TicWatch Pro 3 – The Best Buy Smartwatch
5. Skagen Falster 3 – The Best for Battery Life
6. TicWatch GTX – The Best for Budget Smartwatch
7. Garmin Vivoactive 4 – The Best for Fitness and Sports

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Apple Watch 6

Announced: 2020, September | OS: watchOS | Compatibility: iOS | Display: 1.78″ Retina LTPO OLED | Resolution: 448 x 368 pixels (~326 ppi density) | Chipset: Apple S6 | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 1 GB | Battery: 18 hours | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 32GB | Camera:Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, LTE

☏ It’s the best Apple Watch you can buy and probably the best smartwatches available on the market. If you don’t mind the higher price, square design, and single-day battery, go for it. It is the best smartwatch compatible with iPhone, as both are Apple products. Apple Watch 6 is not a significant upgrade on the Apple Watch 5, but you will find some new features like blood oxygen monitoring or improved screen and battery life. Talking about battery life is not a considerable improvement, you will still need to charge it every day, or almost every day, with casual usage. We don’t need to say that this is the best smartwatch compatible with iPhone.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s the best smartwatch for your iPhone
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: It’s not cheap and single-day battery

Apple Watch 5

Announced: 2019, September | OS: watchOS | Compatibility: iOS | Display: 1.78″ Retina LTPO OLED | Resolution: 448 x 368 pixels (~326 ppi density) | Chipset: Apple S5 | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 1 GB | Battery: 18 hours | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 32GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, LTE

☏ This model is a bit inferior to the new model 6, and the price is still not cheap enough to sacrifice some improvements and upgrades from the latest Apple Watch. One of its best features is an always-on display option, and it doesn’t drain your battery life as much as you would expect. You can also update it to the new watchOS version and have an almost the best Apple Watch available. But if you ask me, I would still wait for the price drop.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s almost the best smartwatch for your iPhone
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Still too expensive and not the latest model

Apple Watch 4

Announced: 2018, September | OS: watchOS | Compatibility: iOS | Display: 1.78″ Retina LTPO OLED | Resolution: 448 x 368 pixels (~326 ppi density) | Chipset: Apple S4 | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 1 GB | Battery: 18 hours | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 16GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC

☏ It was the first Apple’s smartwatch with display size increasment to 1.78-inch OLED, and there are 44mm and 40mm versions. With its lightweight design, better quality speaker, and ECG monitor, Apple Watch 4 still represents a really good smartwatch. After Apple Watch 6 came out, this model is available at cheaper price and I consider it as a smart buy – if you find a good deal.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s not much behind the Series 6, find a good deal
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Don’t have always-on display, short battery life

Apple Watch 3

Announced: 2017 September | OS: watchOS | Compatibility: iOS | Display: 1.65″ Retina OLED | Resolution: 390 x 312 pixels (~303 ppi density) | Chipset: Apple S3 | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 768 MB | Battery: 18 hours | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 16GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC

☏ This is probably the “best-buy” option if you don’t want to pay the full price for the brand new Apple Watch 6 or you don’t like Apple Watch SE. Apple Watch 3 doesn’t have some of the new features, but it is still an excellent smartwatch to use with your iPhone. It’s a good option for the gym or business meetings, especially now, with an extra price cut. Apple Watch 3 and 6 have similar battery life, although the new model brought some improvements, it’s still not a huge difference.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s still a really good smartwatch and it’s a smart buy
DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Smaller screen and resolution that new models

Apple Watch SE

Announced: 2020, September | OS: watchOS | Compatibility: iOS | Display: 1.78″ Retina LTPO OLED | Resolution: 448 x 368 pixels (~326 ppi density) | Chipset: Apple S5 | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 1 GB | Battery: 18 hours | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 32GB | Camera:Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, LTE

☏ Apple Watch SE offers almost all features that offer new Series 6 for less money. So, where’s the catch? This Smartwatch is physically identical to the Series 6 and 5, just with smaller choice on finishes. But, the processor is S5 used for Series 5. Apple Watch SE doesn’t have always-on mode and also missing ECG and SpO2 sensor. That means if you are looking for more extra health data, that’s what SE is lacking. But, there are still plenty of fintess features. It’s certainly not a cheap Apple Watch, but an excelletn option for less money. If you find Series 3 crazy deal, go for it, but if you find that Apple Watch SE is not much more expensive – this should be your option.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It looks and feel like Series 6 with some compromises
DON’T BUY BECAUSE: The lack of extensive health features

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3

Announced: 2020 August | OS: Tizen | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.4″ Super AMOLED | Resolution: 360 x 360 pixels, 1:1 ratio (~364 ppi density) | Chipset: Exynos 9110 (10 nm) | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 1 GB | Battery: 3 days | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 8GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, LTE

☏ It’s the best you can find on the other side of the market. Samsung got their own OS now – Tizen, which is still behind the watchOS, but it’s a big improvement from Google’s Wear OS. It is compatible with iOS and Android, so it is among the smartwatches that work with iPhone. Why is this best non-Apple smartwatch available? It’s packed with fitness features and top-rated smartwatch functions. Its rotating bezel is fantastic and makes navigating the interface really easy. The battery life is better than those on Apple Watch. It’s also one of the most stylish smartwatches around that can access thousands of watch faces to make it more attractive. Samsung’s App store is limited compared to Apple’s, but it is still an excellent option as the smartwatch compatible with iPhone.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s the best non-Apple smartwatch in the world
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Some of the features only work on Android

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2

Announced: 2019, August | OS: Tizen | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.4″ Super AMOLED | Resolution: 360 x 360 pixels, 1:1 ratio (~364 ppi density) | Chipset: Exynos 9110 (10 nm) | CPU: Dual Core | RAM: 1.5GB | Battery: 2-3 days | Charging method: Wireless | Storage: 4GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, LTE

☏ Another watch with Tizen OS with great battery life and really good performance. After Apple Watch, Fitbit Sense, and Galaxy Watch 3, electrocardiogram (ECG) came to Galaxy Watch Active 2, as well. If you don’t like Apple Watch’s square design, this circular display could be attractive to you. It’s waterproof and well designed. You have tons of apps and features to choose from. You can easily connect this smartwatch with iOS, and the price will be much more attractive comparing to Apple Watch 6.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: Its advantage is good performance and many features
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Some of the features only work on Android

Xiaomi Mi Watch/Mi Watch Color

Announced: 2020, September | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.78-inch AMOLED | Resolution: 454*454 high-resolution| Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 | CPU: Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 | Storage: 8GB | Battery duration: 36 hours of continuous use | Charging method: Wireless | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, LTE

☏ Although Mi Watch and Mi Watch Coor have been available in China for a while, new upgraded versions are announced recently and the company is planning the bigger expansion to the western world. The specs and features are really great, but you will certainly be amazed by the price of $109 (in the moment of writing this article). You have very big high-quality AMOLED display with 454×454 resolution, heart rate, GPS, NFC, blood oxygen… And the battery life should be even 2-3 times longer that on Apple Watch. The Color model difference is in the casing – it is made from aluminium instead of stainless steel. It also comes in a number of different colors. Well, you don’t need to be Sherlock to get that from the watch name. It’s using WearOS, so you won’t have problems to connect smartwach with your iPhone.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: Really excellent smartwatch for a cheap price
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Still not recognized enough in the USA

TicWatch Pro 3

Announced: 2020, September | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: Android 4.3+, iOS 8+ | Display: 1.4″ AMOLED paired with LCD screen | Resolution: 454*454 high-resolution| Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 | Storage: 4GB | Battery duration: Up to 3 days, up to 45 days in Enhaced Essential mode | Charging method: Magnetic connecting pin | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 NFC, LTE

☏ I had to add one smartwatch model that you’ve probably never heard of before. I added it because of its quality, features, and the price. If you are not strictly connected to the big brands, you should consider this one. TicWatch Pro 3 is the latest product by the Mobvoi company headquartered in Beijing, one of the best Wear OS smartwatches and probably the best buy smartwatch at the moment. It is an incredibly capable smartwatch with fantastic battery life – as the Dual-layer Display 2.0 supports Smart Mode (up to 3 days) and Enhanced Essential (up to 45 days!). The main display is AMOLED, and it’s really bright and very enjoyable. The two different displays are making this smartwatch different from others. It’s also the first Wear OS smartwatch with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 chip. There are also many other features available, and this smartwatch is compatible with iOS. All of this is making it one of the best buys here.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s one of the best buys on the market, all-round player with excellent performance, powerful specs and great features
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: It’s not a big brand with worldwide reputation

Fitbit Ionic

Announced: 2017, August | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.45-inch LCD | Resolution: 348 x 250 pixels| Storage: 4GB | Battery duration: Around 4 days of mixed use | Charging method: Proprietary wired | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC

☏ Many people and reviews call this smartwatch a next-gen fitness smartwatch. There’s no different features and apps like Apple Watch has, but it focuses on fitness and sports with heart-rate monitoring, guided workouts, run-detect features, and sleep tracking. The battery life is excellent, better than on most top-rated smartwatches, but some people won’t like its design. But, as the design is subjective, and I even like that 80s look, so I won’t take that as a minus. With sleep insights, great battery life, and some top fitness features, this device is a a good option for your iPhone.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: You need a quality fitness watch and like its 80s look
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: It’s time for some newer models

Garmin Vivoactive 4

Announced: 2019, August | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.3 Inch (3.3 cm) | Resolution: 260 x 260 pixels (~283 ppi density) | RAM: 1.5GB | Battery: Up to 5 days | Storage: 3.6GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ANT+, NFC

☏ This Garmin’s smartwatch is one of the best smartwatches you can buy for fitness and sports. It’s coming in two sizes – 40mm and 45mm. It’s offering everything you need from tracking the health stats and workouts, and much more. You can track up to 20 activities, and there is 5ATM water resistance on board. If you are the guy who loves workout data, this device is for you. One nice extra feature is offline Spotify playback. Garmin claims the battery charge should hold up to eight days in smartwatch mode. GPS battery life is up to 18 hours. With GPS and music streaming – six hours. So, it depends on how you use it. If you are fitness fan this could be your serious option as a smartwatch compatible with iPhone.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It is a top option for fitness and sports tracking
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: It’s not the prettiest and it has older hardware

Skagen Falster 3

Announced: 2020, January | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.3 Inch OLED | Resolution: 416×416; 328 ppi | Chipset: Snapdragon Wear 3100 | RAM: 1GB | Battery: Four different modes, From 2 to 20 days | Charging method: Magnetic | Storage: 8GB | Connectivity: Bluetooth v4.2 + LE; Wi-FI 802.11n; NFC

☏ There is good and bad news when talking about Skagen Falster 3. The good news is that it’s a really excellent smartwatch and one of the best Wear OS watches available. The bad news is that it’s still running Wear OS. We should first say that Skagen Falster 3 is a battery champion. If you are looking for a great specs, watch packed with features and excellent battery life, this is your pick. Of course, if you don’t mind using the Google Wear OS, as many watchmakers are not using it anymore. Skagen updated the Falster 3 hardware, and it is using now Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC chip. Fossil built functionality into Skagen Falster 3, so this smartphone works with the iPhone, enabling iOS calling through Bluetooth.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s got powerful battery life and good other specs
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: It’s still on Wear OS and it deserves better

Fitbit Versa 3

Announced: 2020, August | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.58 AMOLED | Resolution: 336 x 336 pixels | RAM: 1GB | Battery: Up to 6 days | Storage: 4GB | Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC

☏ Versa is not a Fitbit’s flagship model anymore and it’s coming behind Sensa, but Versa 3 is the best value smartwatch from Fitbit. It’s also one of the smart watches compatible with iPhone, making him one of the favorite models on this list. You’ve got three color case options to choose from and you can even connect Alexa with your smartwatch. So far, it’s working well. As you expect from Fitbit, there are plenty of fitness features as swim tracking, monitoring heart rate and HIIT coaching. You can make contactless payments and listen to music on the move, but the main issue is the lack of GPS. If you don’t need GPS, this smartwatch should be high on your shortlist.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s got a good price, battery and a lot of fitness features
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Less health features and hidden main button

Fossil Gen 5

Announced: 2019, August | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.28-inch AMOLED | Resolution: 416 x 416, 328 ppi | Chipset: Snapdragon Wear 3100 | RAM: 1GB | Storage: 8GB | Battery duration: Around 2 days | Charging method: Magnetic charging disc | Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS, NFC, WiFi

☏ Fossil Gen 5 is one of the best Google Wear OS watches you can buy. It’s not cheap, but it is far from being expensive comparing to the Apple Watch latest model. As one of the last remaining watchmakers committed to Wear OS, Fossil put a lot of effort to use the best from this operating system. Although many Wear OS smartwatches are slow and have problems with battery life, Fossil Gen 5 is far from that. It features a bright 1.28-inch AMOLED display with a pixel density of 328ppi. It comes with Snapdragon Wear 3100 chip, and the performance is very good. You also get an upgraded heart rate sensor and a decent battery life.

BUY BECAUSE: It’s got a strong battery, good display and features
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: It deserves a bigger display and better battery

TicWatch GTX

Announced: 2020, October | OS: Custom OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.28 inch TFT | Resolution: 240*240 | Chipset: RLC8762C (40Mhz) | RAM: 1GB | Storage: 16GB | Battery duration: Up to 10 days | Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0

Mobvoi has launched TicWatch GTX to try to dominate the entry-level smartwatches range and it’s price of just around $60 is confirming that. For this price you get a feature-rich smartwatch with up to 7 days battery life with regular use and up to 10 days with power saving mode on. It’s got excellent health monitor features, sleep tracking and 14 fitness modes. There is no GPS, but we expected that for this price. Mobvoi usually go with Wear OS, but this model uses a custom OS. That means less apps, but for the casual user, available option should be just ok.

BUY BECAUSE: It’s cheap and really a bargain for that price
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: Don’t have GPS and have limited features

Fossil Sport

Announced: 2018, October | OS: Wear OS | Compatibility: iOS, Android | Display: 1.28-inch AMOLED | Resolution: 390×390 | Chipset: Snapdragon Wear 3100 | RAM: 1GB | Storage: 4GB | Battery duration: 1-2 days | Charging method: Magnetic rapid charging | Connectivity: Bluetooth Smart Enabled / 4.2 Low Energy

☏ If you are looking for a reliable and affordable budget option, you should seriously consider Fossil Sport. It’s not top of a notch model, but it’s doing everything you would expect from a decent smartwatch. It is run by Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100 chipset, so you should expect a smooth experience while using it. You can give your watch a unique look by selecting one of the dozens of available colors. It is a smartwatch compatible with iOS and Android, and if you are a casual user, you will be satisfied with it.

✔ BUY BECAUSE: It’s a decent model with smooth performance
✘ DON’T BUY BECAUSE: The battery life, specs and features are average

The things you should pay attention to when buying a smartwatch!

1. Check the smartwatch compatibility with the smartphone.
2. Pay attention to the battery life and reviews on that
3. Check the best phone features and take those with heart rate sensor and GPS (if you need it)
4. Consider what features do you need
5. Check the selection of apps for the model you like
6. If the design is the priority, pick the devices with the most options to modify its look
7. Remember that Apple’s watchOS is the best, Samsung’s Tizen is second, and Google’s Wear OS is in third place.
8. Set your budget and go over it only if you find an incredible deal
9. Pick size and style carefully. Almost every model have different sizes and styles
10. The price! There are plenty of deals around. Spare some time to grab your new smartphone on a perfect deal

Frequently asked Questions

Are smartwatches really worth the money?

The smartwatches are now more worth than ever. The top models can be expensive, but you have to be aware of how many features you get in that little device, besides showing the time, of course. It’s the GPS, fitness tracker, messenger, medical advisor, entertainment center and much more than that.

Will a smartwatch drain my phone’s battery?

It will take a part of your phone’s battery, but on the other hand, you will save some juice by not unlocking and turning on your screen for every notification you get, as you will deal with it on your smartwatch.

How can I save the battery on my smartwatch?

There are many ways you can save the battery on your smartwatch. You can block unnecessary notifications, adjust the brightness level, turn off wi-fi syncing, disable wrist gesture, use the snooze, and the theater mode.

Is the smartwatch health data accurate?

Although health tracking via these devices is not 100% accurate, I can say the data is pretty reliable. Besides, health tracking will allow you to track many aspects of your sports or fitness activities. Many big brands like Apple, Samsung, and Garmin, are very serious about precision so that you can put your trust in their metrics.

Can the smartwatch detect an irregular heart rhythm?

Yes, many new and top-rated smartwatches have a possibility to detect atrial defibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, through the electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor. So far, Apple Watch is the only FDA-approved watch for detecting atrial defibrillation.

Are smartwatches safe?

Yes, smartwatches are safe. They are the mainstream electronic devices now, and you should feel even safer when using it, as you have the ability to make calls from your wrist. Besides, they could monitor our health and alert us if there is some irregularity…

CONCLUSION

Finding the best possible smartwatch compatible with iPhone is not an easy task. You should be aware of the pros and cons of every model. That’s why it is essential to ask yourself these crucial questions:

1. Why do I need a smartwatch?

2. What features do I need?

3. What’s the design I like?

4. What’s my budget?

When you have answers to these four questions, you will have a much easier job shortlisting your potential favorite. You have a brilliant phone; you just need to find a top smartwatch that works with your iPhone perfectly…

When Miraculous Ladybug season 4 is coming to Netflix?

The question that bother us all for a long time is “When Miraculous Ladybug season 4 is coming to Netflix?” We will cut to the chase. The show was all set to premiere last Fall, but the global Covid-19 epidemic made them change their plans. So, they had to reschedule the airing and the Miraculous Ladybug season 4 is coming in March 2021. But, not exactly to Netflix in that first round.

The world premiere of Season 4 of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir will be in Germany on March 27, 2021. The first episode name is “Furious Fu” and it will be aired on Disney Channel.  In that first episode Ladybug and Cat Noir will face someone they know really well, but the problem is that they never thought they will ever need to fight against.

Miraculous Ladybug season 4

Already working on season 5?

Jeremy Zag already revealed on his Instagram account that they are already working on Miraculous Ladybug season 5. That means that the season 4 is here. Just like was the case with Mirculous Ladybug season 2 and 3, season 4 will also consist of 26 episodes.

In October 2019. the company said that the scripting for the new season is completed and that the show is under work. The 26 episodes from the Miraculous Ladybug season 4 will be released on Netflix during this 2021 year, but we still don’t know the exact dates and if the episodes will be split into the two batches. Do you remember that the Mirculous Ladybug season 3 appearaed on USA Netflix in two parts. First 13 episodes aired on August 1 2019 and another 13 on February 1 2020.

DID YOU KNOW: The season originally premiered on April 14, 2019 in France and the world premiere of season 3 was in Spain, on December 1 2018.

The first season was released on Nickelodeon in 2015. Then the network made a surprising decision and canceled it. Later the show reappeared on Disney Channel, but Netflix acquired it from season 1-3, including all the specials.

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir season 4 storyline

What’s going to happen in Miraculous Ladybug season 4?

As you can expect, more problems and challenges will come in Ladybug’s way. This is what we managed to grab from a different sources, but mostly from TFOU (French children’s television programming block broadcast on TF1).

Superheroine that protects Paris from the attack of villains is also now the guardian of the Miraculous. Now, she needs not only to keep her identity hidden, but also the existence of these turbulent, magical creatures, the Kwamis! Marinette has a lot of pressure, not to mention her school and love life! Now she has less time and opportunities to tell Adrien her feelings…

Marinette has to redouble her efforts now to protect her secrets and Ladybug will have to become stronger to face an indomitable adversary: Shadow Moth, who can now fuse the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous! Thankfully, Ladybug can count on Cat Noir and their new superhero allies!

BONUS TIP: While you’re waiting, you can just take a look on this Roblox Piano guide, find some piano sheets and learn how to play like professional.

News from the creators

Thomas Astruc, creator and a co-director, producer and writer for Miraculous, announced some important details from the season 4

In season 3 Marinette suffered and in season 4, there will be one bomb per episode. This is the equivalent of the impact of a White Cat in every episode and everyone will be stunned. She has new responsibilities and she is maturing. In terms of places, after the Grévin museum and the Saint-Martin canal, we will notably go to Île aux Cygnes.

His colleague Sébastien Thibaudeau, story editor and a writer on Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, added:

“Miraculous Ladybug season 4 is the one that surprised us the most. All your emotions will be upset. And this will also be the season of episode 100, so watch it. And a special episode will occur before the broadcast of season 4. There will be plenty events to mark the year of season 4.”


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How to Make a Banner in Minecraft Quickly and Easy

Are you into games? Are you willing to learn how to make a banner in Minecraft? You have come to the right place. Banners on Minecraft are made from wool and stick. Before we get started, you should know this; your banner’s color will be the same as the wool you choose. Making a banner in Minecraft is easy, even though some people find it challenging because of the vast number of designs you have to choose from.

How to make a banner in Minecraft

When you have enough wool and one stick, you can move to your crafting table screen and organize the pieces with the top six slots all filled with wool and your stick in the bottom middle slot. If you want to choose a design, you first need to create a loom, then interact with it.

Afterward, place your banner in the top left slot and any dye materials in the top-right slot. This will bring up a menu of designs for you to choose from. To avoid stress, you can make use of the crafting table and set up the dyes on your banner till you find a pattern you like

How to make a banner in Minecraft

In Minecraft, banners can be placed on the ground or a wall. Banners are used to make customized shields. Place the banner on the shield, in the crafting grid, side-by-side in the 3×3 grid, with the banner on the left side and the shield in the middle.

DID YOU KNOW: If you’re on Minecraft combat rework snapshot 8c, when you attach a banner to your shield, it will upgrade it by adding up ten absorptions (instead of the usual five), and it’ll also give it a bigger knockback resistance.

Minecraft Banner Patterns

The good news are that there are really a lot of Minecraft banner patterns to choose from the simple brickwork backgrounds to the startling skull and crossbones designs. If you want to, you can also match the two designs. Minecraft designs and patterns are really not very difficult to create, you just need to spread out your dyes around the banner in different quantities and positions. Of course, there are some more complex banner patterns. 

Here they are:

  • Brickwork pattern: Use a combination of brick block and banner
  • Colorful brickwork pattern: Use a combination of brick block, dye, and banner
  • Fancy border: Use a combination of dye, vine, and banner
  • Creeper face: Use a combination of Creeper head and banner (dye optional)
  • Skull and crossbones: Use a combination of Wither head and banner
  • Flower: Use a combination of oxeye daisy and banner
  • Mojang logo: Use a combination of an enchanted golden apple and banner

Note: you can blend and pair any of these designs by just layering over the top of your banner with a new design. This means that you can mix the orders, the colors, and the logos.

To help you with your task, here are some extra tips you can use in the process of adding patterns to your banner:

  • You can divide your banner into halves horizontally and vertically simply by placing a pattern of 6 dyes either arranged to the left, right, top, or bottom of the grid
  • Place a line of 3 dyes horizontally or vertically to make a single line stripe.
  • You can make plain borders by placing eight pieces of dye around the edges:
  • If you want to make squares in each corner, place a single piece of dye
  • Chevron: This is a triangle found at either the top or bottom, and it is made with three pieces of dye
  • A comparable pattern of 3 dyes will make a “row of teeth” either at the top or bottom
  • A single piece of dye in the middle will give a small round spot
  • Using four pieces of dye will get you a “lozenge” shape

How to create Minecraft banner letters for banners

If you want to get your creative juices flowing, then you can even craft letters for your Minecraft banners. Even with the limited space that makes it hard to create every single letter convincingly, most are possible to make. If you want to have your initials on your shield, it’s possible. There’s just one catch. You’ll have to use a lot of resources for these designs to work.

That’s all we have for you. Hope this helped you to learn how to make a banner in Minecraft.

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How to Make Paper in Minecraft in 3 Easy Steps

Paper is among Minecraft’s most valuable resources, although creating it can be pretty hard. It isn’t entirely useful on its own but is used in numerous essential recipes. This is more reason you should know how to make it. Finding it, farming it, and crafting paper in Minecraft isn’t done in the same manner it’s done in the actual world.  Nevertheless, this quick guide will help you a lot, as we will explain how to make paper in Minecraft and its various uses. 

Paper can be made as soon as you have a crafting table since the core components are readily available at the beginning of almost every game. Although the most suggested way to get paper is to craft it, at times, that option might not be available. It may be that the resources required are not readily available in the world, making procuring the ingredients fast and early enough in the game extremely difficult. 

If that happens, you can always find the paper in many shipwrecks. Some of the wrecks are close enough to the surface, so you can reach them easily, even if you don’t have any special water-breathing potions. Paper can also be sold in a village.

How to make paper in Minecraft?

How to make paper in Minecraft

The materials needed in making paper are; 

  • Crafting Table 
  • Sugarcane 

Step 1: Get Sugarcane 

Although paper can be obtained randomly from a few places and can also be traded for, the cheapest and most cost-effective solution is to go out and get the ingredients to produce it. You will need sugar cane, a green type of plant that resembles a bamboo growing out of the ground. 

Sugarcane usually grows close to a water body and needs to have at least one adjacent block of water close by. Rivers, beaches, and ponds are perfect sites to search for this plant, which can be broken down by only punching it. A fully grown plant can produce three pieces of sugar cane.  

BONUS TIP:  Some players have taken the time to build Redstone machines for automated sugarcane harvesting. If you don’t have something more relevant to do and want to exercise your engineering skills, you should certainly do that. However, from a realistic point of view, it is just excessive. It is definitely super fun to watch, but it’s not typically worth the time it takes to put together. 

Step 2: Start a Sugarcane Farm 

It is better to harvest the sugarcane you find and then start making the sugar cane farm from there to make it easily available for you to get when you need it again. The block grows extremely fast and can grow up to 4 blocks tall, so collecting enough for any project wouldn’t be too difficult. Please remember that sugar cane needs a block of water right next to it to grow. This can grow on soil and sand, but it can’t be cultivated on a block that isn’t in contact with water. 

You can dig a trench of eight blocks and stack the sugar canes on both sides. You can use this pattern many times. Place a bucket of water at one end of the trench. This will allow the water to flow to the other end. Flowing water also serves as a block of water, so the sugar cane will still grow successfully. 

If you’ve obtained good sugar cane, you can place it down your crafting table and start making the paper.  

Crafting paper in Minecraft

Step 3: Craft Paper 

Immediately a steady and reliable source of sugar cane has been created. You can now start crafting paper. To do this, you’ll need three adjacent squares inside the crafting grid, thus don’t think that using the crafting grid in the player inventory will reduce it. Paper has to be created at a crafting table. 

Place three pieces of sugar cane in a row on the grid. The row they’re placed on isn’t important since it doesn’t make any difference, as long as they’re horizontally next to each other. This will produce three pieces of paper, one for every piece of sugarcane. This will make the paper you need. 

Paper is produced in multiples of three; this means you’ll get three pieces of paper to use for the first craft, which is enough for one book. 

Once you have made the paper, you can move it to your inventory.  

Now that you’ve got paper, there’s a lot to do with it. You can make a variety of paper products. Paper in Minecraft can create a map, a book, a banner, a map table, and so much more. 

How to make a book and other items 

Enchanting books are very useful. To make a book, you need to combine one piece of paper with three pieces of leather.  

To make a cartography table used in editing and copying maps, just place four pieces of wooden planks with two pieces of paper on top in the crafting table grid. 

To make a map, position eight pieces of paper around a compass on a table’s grid. The map is activated when it is held in the player’s hand. Once this is done, it will start filling out hence displaying the current location of the player. You can also build a big world or area map by placing maps in item frames. 

To sum up, learning how to make paper in Minecraft is quite easy. All you need to do is put three sugar canes in the middle row of the grid. This is going to give you a paper! Scrumptious paper, the feel of it. You can make a lot of paper items, like books, maps and banner patterns. Hence, even though the paper doesn’t seem to be very interesting on its own, it’s necessary if you intend to upgrade your gear to the max, so ensure you use it when you can. 

How Often Should You Turn Off Your Computer in 2021?

One of the questions that bother most new or even some intermediate computer users is – How often should you turn off your computer. This question first popped up decades ago, and with every new computer or a new generation of computer components, people are asking the same question.

What then, is it good to turn off the computer often when not in use, or is it better to keep it on?

The theory about the dangers of keeping computers on for a longer time has been dragging on for decades (although some say it’s a myth). Despite this, we never came across any research that would confirm or disprove it.
I have to say first – you won’t find your solution in Statistics as the numbers are black-and-white.

Is it possible to tell how often should you turn off your computer?

Many computers have been shutting down during the night that had some serious hardware issues. Also, there have been so many computers that were turned on for a long time with one or more hardware issues. So, there’s no 100% accurate answer to this question.

Given that there is no data, any discussion about it turns into “philosophizing,” into discussing how it should or could be (given how electronic components work). Still, it is not known if it really is, so, whether the effect is really relevant in practice. Well, let’s take a look …

Power supply and other components

The power supply task is to give the computer components a stable voltage, without overvoltage when the computer is turned on, and the durability of the components will also depend on the performance of the power supply to perform that task.

BONUS IDEA: If you are wondering how to charge a laptop without a charger, check our detailed tutorial where you can find at least five ways to do it.

Electronic components are under the greatest “stress” the moment they receive power, that is after you press the computer power button, or after plugging in the power cord, or press the power switch (because motherboards in modern computers are energized continuously).
Mechanical disks are some of the more sensitive components in frequent turning the computer on and off, primarily because they are one of the few with electric motors and mechanical parts that require exceptional precision in operation.

How often should I turn off my computer

Overvoltage can occur

In doing so, they often emphasize discs, a component that has mechanical (moving) parts. After the disc receives power, it starts rotating the discs and then moves the hand with the read/write heads. One day it could fail to do so. On the other hand, when the disc is constantly on (when the plates are continually rotating), this leads to the mechanical parts’ wear.

First of all – even if you have your computer turned on non-stop if in the power management settings you have set the disk to “shut down” (go to standby) after a certain period of inactivity, when you “wake it up”, he has to go through the starting process again.

Furthermore, suppose the power supply is not of good quality. In that case, it could briefly release an overshoot, voltage spike after turning on the computer, which could adversely affect some components and even damage them. However, overvoltage can potentially occur, possibly due to the electrical network (which most often occurs during storms or lightning strikes). Here, too, the situation is not very clear.

BONUS TIP: Our advice here is that you should always look for a better power supply. Don’t buy the cheapest and weakest one. Not only because of this case, but there are many useful reasons why you should stick with better power supply.

So, on the one hand, there are potential risks of turning your computer on and off on a daily basis, but no one knows what those risks are in reality, in practice. If these were just such big risks, they should have started to be noticed among the users.

In the Control Panel of Windows 10, or in the settings of Windows 10, you can only choose after how many minutes the monitor will turn off (recommended) and after how long of inactivity the computer will “sleep” or go into sleep mode.

We tend more to turn it off

On the other hand, by not turning off the computer you have unnecessary power consumption, twear of components with moving parts, constantly elevated (ie working, in this case) temperature of components (high temperature negatively affects the durability of electronic components, shortens their service life). Also, you have constant noise (if you have a computer in a room where and you sleep, which means that you never have silence there, even when you sleep) and the room (maybe convenient in winter, but problematic in summer).

At the end, how often should you turn off your computer? It seems that we tend more to turn off the computer overnight. There are many benefits, especially if you have an SSD (SSD has no moving parts and allows you to start your computer or operating system quickly), and the first year or two, you already have a warranty on components, so the risk for you is virtually none.

Of course, shutting down a computer doesn’t suit some users – maybe the computer has to do a task (render a project) or maybe it has an ongoing task, like a web server or a bitcoin miner. Basically, nothing makes them turn off the computer if that computer will be (passively) used anyway.

BONUS TIP: The monitor should either be left in standby mode when you are not actively using the computer or turned off manually. This is because the level of backlighting depends on the “consumption” of the backlight LEDs – the more operating hours they have, the weaker (inefficient) the backlight will be, so the “wear” is more intense.

Conclusion

Although you probably realized that it’s impossible to find 100% accurate answer on a question “How Often Should You Turn Off Your Computer”, I hope I helped you to get a clearer picture on the processes that are happening in your computer and what are the potential issues. But, don’t worry, it’s highly unlikely something will happen in both cases.

How to start a Virtual Assistant Business in 2021

Are you searching for a means to earn a living in the comfort of your home? Then you are in the right place. How to start a Virtual Assistant business (called VA) is exactly what you need. It comes with great benefits and few liabilities. If you invest well in it, the VA business has incredibly great returns that can support your monthly budget and you will still be left with some money to save. 

With this article, you have access to all the information you need to know about the VA business. And these include what it is, what it entails, the services you will offer, basic requirements, and how to start it. Are you ready to learn about the Virtual Assistant business and start one of your own? Let’s begin:  

What’s a Virtual Assistant?

There are different ways you can define a virtual assistant. But to keep this simple, they are business people with a speciality in helping other business owners for a given agreed fee. And through helping other businesses succeed, their business of assistance also prospers and expands with time. They do remote assistant jobs and they are often self-employed. 

That said, you will not receive an employee benefits package and you are liable to your taxes. It’s important to point out that you will be receiving monthly payments. So if you are comfortable with all these, this is the right gig for you. 

Benefits of working as a VA

Let’s have a look at the perks you stand to gain from these businesses:

  • Flexible working hours
  • You can work from anywhere as long as you have access to network services
  • Higher potential of earning
  • Provides you with a free platform to be creative and exercise your professional skills
  • You have a wide range of services to offer depending on your skills set
  • You won’t need a diploma or degree to become a VA
  • It’s the best choice of a business that requires an affordable investment/ upfront money
How to start a Virtual Assistant Business

What services will you provide?

Before starting your own VA business, it’s important to know the services you will offer to your clients. Fortunately, you are free to offer any form of assistance a business owner may need from you and ready to pay. Therefore, you can choose to become a specialized or general virtual office assistant depending on your skillset. 

As a general assistant, you will work with various kinds of clients. In this case, you have an unlimited niche at hand. But with specialized VA, the services you offer are specific to given groups of clients. With this service, you offer based on your expertise in a given niche. 

Requirements in becoming a virtual assistant 

Practically, you only need a laptop and internet connections to start this business. There is little or no need for upfront money. So if you have a computer and access to internet connections, you can set up and begin running this business. 

Apart from these two requirements, there are certain skills you need to have. They will enable you to be successful in this business. They include:

  • Excellent organization skills
  • Basic understanding and knowledge of Google dos and Microsoft office
  • Great skills in writing, typing, and proofreading
  • Broad thinker and creative
  • Excellent time management
  • Stellar communication skills, both vocal and in writing. 

Steps on how to start a Virtual Assistant Business

  1. Come up with the business name

While using your name is the best means to keep things simple with your business. Coming up with a catchy name is also a great option to consider for your VA business. And if you choose to use a catchy identity, ensure it’s simple to read and pronounce. Avoid at all cost fancy names that are less easy on the eyes and seem quite confusing.       

To spend less time in this step considering you have a business to start, you can brainstorm possible names. From the list of names you come up with, chose one that’s catchy and stands out as a business/brand name.  

2. Obtain legal permit/license

And just like any other business, staying within the legal frame is important. In this case, you can choose to legalize your business with a license or permit. While doing this, it’s important to consider your country, city, or state laws when it comes to starting a business. 

As you obtain the legal permit or license for operating your business, don’t forget to specify the kind of business entity you are running. Depending on your country, the best choice is LLC (limited liability Company). With this option, you are safe from lawsuits in case of anything. 

3. Formulate a business plan

With your business legalized, it’s about time you come up with the proper structure on how you will run it. There is no need to elaborate and make it long. Please keep it simple and straight to the point. 

To ensure you have the best effective plant, you can use the assistant of a Certified public accountant and a lawyer. With their help, your business plan will be professional and in conformity with paying taxes and legalities among other things. Within the plan ensure you include the services you are offering, contracts for your clients, how you’ll finance it, and its uniqueness. 

4. Choose the services to offer

In general, virtual office assistants offer more than one service to their clients. Therefore, you don’t need to limit yourself to a particular service. Furthermore, this will make it easier for you to get more clients as compared to focusing on a single niche. That said; ensure your list of services covers a lot of ground. So, let’s have a look at some of the services you can offer:

  • Research reports
  • Document editing
  • Post scheduling in social media
  • Ghostwriting
  • Publication of blog content
  • Online management of files
  • Data entry and creation of power points
  • Writing email auto-responders
  • Bookkeeping 
  • Scheduling or organizing your client’s calendar
  • Email management 
  • Customer support
  • Project management

And while choosing the service to offer to your clients. Ensure you have the skills and knowledge to deliver quality service if you want to maintain your client. That said; exercise both your hard and soft skills for best performance and excellent reviews. The hard skills are like those mentioned above. You get to learn more about them with time and develop expertise. While the soft skills are inborn talents, you might have in you. Some of them include:

  • Punctual
  • Team player
  • Thrive under stress
  • Great organization
  • Professional
  • Meets deadline
  • Consistency in quality service delivery

By combining the two skill sets, you will have the best selling point that will earn you more clients. 

How to find a VA job

Set your rates

It’s very important to set a competitive rate. And while considering this, you should keep in mind the taxes and bills, among other liabilities. This is vital especially if this is going to be your full-time job. 

Thus, as much you want to help your clients run their business successfully, know that you also have a business to build. So, consider various aspects before opting for a particular rate. This will enable you to design your business to work in your favour. 

Develop effective marketing strategies

Marketing is among the major back born of your business when it comes to growth. Without proper and effective marketing, all your efforts will be in vain. Furthermore, marketing strategies create the difference between a successful and unsuccessful business. 

To start, you need to determine your potential clients and where they are. You can try to do this through keyword research. It would be best if you found out which keywords your potential clients are using to search for VA services. And with the keywords at hand, incorporate them in all your marketing strategies to draw in potential clients. 

But this can only be possible through a website. Your business needs a website you can use to draw in traffic from Google searches. It should be professional with a user-friendly interface. For marketing optimization, also include social media in your marketing campaign strategies.

Establish your business brand 

Branding has a unique role in your business. It creates a sense of professionalism and trust between you and your potential clients. Let’s be sincere, between a VA with an online presence great reputation, and positive reviews and a VA with no reputation, or online presence, whom will you work with?

Yes, your guess is right. 

Therefore, don’t rush into reaching out to clients if you have not branded yourself. Branding is all about what you are offering, insight on your business, and most importantly who you are. This information is what sets you apart from other VAs.  

To start, consider simple branding techniques like creating a social media channel for your business. You can use Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest among other social media platforms. 

And while doing this, avoid focus so much on marketing and branding your business. Try and build connections with your clients and thereafter utilize any opening to inform them about your VA services. 

Find and Reach out to clients 

At this point, you are through setting up your business. It may seem difficult but achievable. However, don’t let this stress you, everyone starts somewhere in business when it comes to the first clients. What’s more, you may have everything you need to find and reach out to your potential clients at this point.

If you have a ready social network through Instagram among others, you have a better chance of finding potential clients. Social media platforms give you access to not only the local market but also global clients. And that’s not all, there are other best places you can utilize to find and reach out to potential clients. They include:

  • Email marketing campaigns
  • Use LinkedIn to network
  • Seeking referrals from people you know
  • Canvassing remote assistant jobs

Employing any of these options or all of them creates a better chance of you getting a potential client. And while employing this technique, ensure they are striking and engaging to the audience. The last thing you want is to off-put clients your business needs.

How to find clients for Virtual Assistant job

Search online for VA jobs

Job boards are no secret anymore for those seeking clients to offer their online services. It is an excellent source of clients but with a broad range of different clients. To get new clients it’s essential to try out your luck on several resourceful sites such as:

Indeed.com – this is a general kind of Job board you can use to find and reach out to potential clients. 

Flex Jobs – Now, this site is specifically for online jobs you can do at the comfort of your home. It covers a wide range of jobs with an endless number of clients seeking out virtual services at large. Furthermore, the jobs come with attractive pay that allows you to leave out low- offers that are not in your favour. 

Virtual Vocations – this site is full of remote jobs, including those for VA. And just FlexJobs, there are also tons of options for VA jobs to get from this platform. All you have to do is search the specific niche you are interested in and you will find a perfect match for your expertise. 

You should also open your profile at online marketplaces for freelance services like Fiverr or Upwork. There you can start offering your services and maybe, with a little twist if you’re creative enough, you can attract plenty of customers and start a really successful business.

Expand your skills

Do you need to expand your skills before or after starting your VA business? Well, you can do it either way. However, it’s much better to expand your skillset with an online course on virtual assistant before. This will enable you to succeed in this business faster. 

At the same time, it’s never too late to start an online course after starting your VA business. This will sharpen your skills and improve your performance and success in this business. So, whichever way, you will still benefit. 

Final Remarks

At this point, are you ready to launch your business and become a Virtual Office Assistant? It is a great remote job you can invest in and benefit from the comfort of your home. If you can set it up and perform best in it, it’s a great full-time job you can really earn a lot of money from your home or anywhere with internet connections. 

So, when you choose to dedicate your money and effort in it, ensure you deliver quality services and satisfy your clients. As you do this, you should also keep in mind the interest of your business. Meanwhile, sharpen your skills with time and improve your marketing skills. It’s important to watch out for competitors if you need to remain at the top and reap the most benefit. 

From this guide, you should have the best account or platform to run your VA business. For further informations, you can get in touch with us.

How to Level Up Fast in Fortnite – tips and tricks

It seemed that Fortnite took over most of the gaming community, and because of this, a lot of gamers have turned their sights to Fortnite. And many of them want to know how to level up fast in Fortnite. Levelling up is an important aspect of any game; it will allow you to unlock certain items and make your character stronger.

Sometimes we don’t have the time or energy to grind out hours on a game to level up to where we want. Here we will show you how to level up fast in Fortnite.

What Is Fortnite

Fortnite is one of the most popular battle royale games available on PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch, Android.

The concept behind the most popular game mode in Fortnite is that you and your team will skydive out of the battle bus and land in any part of the map you want. Now once you’re on the map, you and your team will have to go up against other players. 

Every match of Fortnite contains a total of 100 players. Depending if you’re playing with friends or by yourself, it will be a race to find guns, loot, healing items, and ammo.

Once you and your teammates find guns, the goal is to eliminate all other players in the game and be the last team standing. While at the same time trying to run from the storm as it gets smaller and smaller.

The storm encircles the whole map, and every couple of minutes, the storm gets smaller. When this happens, players need to move within the circle to avoid taking damage strategically. 

Players can build structures by mining wood, brick, and steel. The way players do this is by taking out their pickaxe and strike items such as trees, cars, houses. 

The more you hit these items, the more materials you get to build structures such as walls and ramps. 

When the dust settles, and you are the last team standing, you and your teammates are crowned by the battle royal champions. 

How to Level Up Fast in Fortnite

Complete Daily Challenges

If you’re trying to level up faster, a great way to do so is by completing daily challenges. 

Daily challenges are the task that Fortnite tells you to do, and if you complete them, then you will earn XP points. 

Some of these challenges include:

  • Landing on certain areas of the map
  • Kill X many of people using a gun
  • Get 3 knockdowns 
  • Drive a car

All daily challenges differ from day to day, and once 24 hours go by, then Fortnite resets the challenges to new ones. 

Some of these daily challenges offer up double the XP, but those tasks are normally difficult ones. So, it would be best to do those first. 

Once you complete all daily challenges, Fortnite will not automatically reset new ones for you. So, you will have to wait until the next day to continue gaining XP points and levelling up. 

Defeat More Players

One of the best ways to gain many XP points and level up is by killing more people and winning more battle royal matches. 

However, this is easier said than done. You can make sure you practice in modes such as creative and see what your weaknesses are and try to refine them. 

To defeat more players, you will need to play with a good team. 

One of the most common reasons people don’t win battle royal games is lack of teamwork. Battle royal games are meant to be played as a team to better your chances of winning.

If you constantly play with individuals who never land with you or don’t know how to play, you need to play with your friends or people who are good. 

How to level up fast in Fortnite
Land by the Bosses 

In Fortnite bosses are scattered on the map and have their own bases. 

Depending on the season the bosses can vary. In previous Fortnite seasons, some bosses were Iron man, Dr. Doom and now some of the bosses include The Mandalorian and Ruckus.

These bosses are very strong and have more health than an average enemy, and some of them are surrounded by henchmen. 

In order to defeat the boss, you will need to defeat the henchmen as well, which will also give you XP points. 

Once you defeat the bosses, you will obtain a lot of XP and their legendary gun or item pertaining to them. 

If you use the gun or item correctly, you will be able to kill more players and be closer to winning the match.

Complete Missions and Weekly Challenges

Like daily challenges, weekly challenges are the task that the player will need to complete to gain XP points.

You don’t have 24 hours like the regular daily challenges here you will have a full week to complete these challenges. 

A great thing to do is to ask a friend to join your squad and together you can help each other on completing these weekly challenges. 

Mission, on the other hand is different from weekly and daily challenges. 

Fortnite missions are objectives that you will need to complete, but there is no time frame. 

Sometimes in one mission, you will have 7 objectives you will need to do in order to mark the mission complete. 

Each challenge will give you 52,000 XP, making you earn 527,000 XP points every week if you do all the challenges. 

If the Fortnite challenges get tough, you can also ask a friend to help you, or you can go on google or YouTube for guidance.

Conclusion

I hope you got the point how to level up fast in Fortnite. Whether you’re a skilled player or a casual player being able to level up fast is beneficial for everyone. By following these steps, you will be able to level up faster than ever. 

BONUS TIP: If you are also fan of Minecraft, you can check our guide to every achievment in this popular game.

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