How to Quickly Change Power Plans in Windows 10

Windows 10 has multiple plans to manage the battery on your laptop. There are different modes like balanced, power saver, high performance etc to get the better out of your laptop battery when using Windows 10 as your OS. To switch power plan in Windows 10, you need to open the power settings in Control panel or Settings and change it. This option to change is not a very easy option especially when you change power plans quite often in a day. This is where a free app called PowerPlanSwitcher helps. This app is a Windows Store app, which when installed provides easy option to change the power plans from the system tray.

You can install the free app from the Windows Store (link below). Once installed, just run the app and you can see a power adaptor icon in the system tray. When you click on this icon you can see the different modes available and easily switch between them from the system tray without having to go to settings.

The app also can automatically switch power plans when you connect the PC to power source.

Features of the app:

• Windows10 styled flyout that allows quick power plan schemas changing
• Ability to limit flyout only to Windows default power plan schemas
• Automatic schema switching when AC adapter gets (dis)connected (disabled by default)
• Launch on Windows startup
• Flyout shortcut (Shift+Win+L)
• Navigate flyout with keyboard
• Change all settings by right-clicking on tray icon

PowerPlanSwitcher is a very nifty tool to allow two-click switching between high performance, balanced and power saving schemes.

PowerPlanSwitcher (Free, Windows Store) →

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Gionee A1 Review- The Selfiestan Experience?

Gionee is one of those Chinese OEMs which entered India quite a long time back and has been focusing on offline presence rather than doing online only sales. Off late, Gionee has been focusing on the selfie trend, similar to other Chinese OEMs. The company launched their latest selfie centric smartphone, the A1 at the Mobile World Congress 2017. The phone was later announced in India for a price of Rs 19999. The phone comes with 16MP front selfie camera along with flash and this is the highlight of the phone along with 4100mAh battery.

So how good is the Gionee A1 for a price of Rs 19999? Let’s check it out in this detailed review of Gionee A1.

 

Design and Build:

Today, most of the OEMs have moved to metal chassis for their smartphones for better build and premium looks. Gionee A1 is no different and it comes with A6000 aircraft grade material and it feels sturdy. In terms of the design, the Gionee A1 is no different from other smartphones and comes with a similar design we have seen on quite a lot of phones in the segment including Redmi Note 4. The sides of the device are curved giving a good feel overall when using. The rear panel has matte finish along with 13MP camera, dual LED flash and the Gionee logo below.

The fingerprint scanner is located on the front panel and integrated with the home button which is a physical button. The power and volume keys are on the right side and the company has given a reddish tone for the power key. The sim tray is on the left side. The Micro-USB charging port and speaker are on the bottom, while the 3.5mm audio jack is on top panel. The front panel houses the 16MP selfie camera and selfie flash along with the 5.5 inch display. There are two capacitive touch buttons on either side of home button for back and multitasking.

At 183gms, the Gionee A1 is a tad heavy for a phone with 5.5 inch screen size and you definitely feel the weight when using the phone. But having said that the design and build is good for a phone in this pricing and you wont be disappointed with the looks.

 

Display:

Gionee A1 comes with a 5.5 inch Full HD display which has an AMOLED panel with 2.5D curved glass and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. The display is one of better looking ones in this price segment since it is an AMOLED panel. The colors are vivid and the text is sharp and the touch response is very smooth, making it one of the smartphones with good display in this price segment.

The brightness levels are also very good and outdoor visibility is also good. Without doubt, the Gionee A1 has one of the best displays we have seen in this price segment.

 

Software:

Similar to any Chinese OEM, Gionee A1 also runs on custom UI which the company calls Amigo UI and this is on top of Android 7.0. Amigo UI is a custom UI with multiple home screen layout devoid of an app drawer. The quick toggles are available using a swipe from the bottom, similar to the implementation on iOS and also Vivo’s fun touch OS. The settings panel is also a custom one without any resemblance to Android 7.0 UI.

Similar to any customizable UI, Amigo also comes with support for themes, where you can download additional themes from the store. There are also some useful apps like Mood wallpaper, Child mode, Peel remote included in the phone. The phone also comes with few smart gestures like smart dial, smart answer, double tap to wake, etc. to name a few.

One of the issues with the Amigo UI is the number of bloatwares it ships with. There are lots of apps and games pre-installed on the phone which could have been easily avoided considering that these are Play store apps which can be easily installed based on needs. The phone also comes with a dark UI which can be enabled from battery settings and it saves a lot of battery.

There is also a System manager app for cache cleaning, virus detection, app management, traffic monitor and more. Overall the UI is quite decent in terms of the features offered, but not as polished as the MIUI or EMUI. Since it comes with Nougat out of the box, there is also split screen mode available on the device.

 

Performance:

Gionee A1 is powered by MediaTek 6755 Helio P10 Octa core chipset clocked at 2GHz, coupled with 4GB of RAM. It has 64GB of storage and supports microSD cards of up to 256GB using the hybrid dual-SIM phone, and 4G is supported on both SIMs, but only one at a time. There is also VoLTE support on the phone along with USB-OTG.

The Helio P10 is not a powerful chipset in this price segment, but does the job pretty well in day to day usage and we hardly noticed any major issues. But having said that it does heat up while gaming and the gaming performance with heavy graphic rich games was just average considering the fact that it is priced around 20k.

The multimedia experience on the device is good considering it has a very good display. Gionee A1 offers MaxxAudio enhancement that claims to improve sound from the speaker as well as earphones and it wont disappoint in the sound department. The call quality of the phone was also quite good.

The phone has 64GB of internal storage which is another good aspect of the phone and there is close to 53GB available in the first boot and you also get close to 2GB of RAM free out of the 4GB available. The fingerprint scanner is located on the front panel and is quick and responsive and unlocks the device. Even though it is integrated with the physical home  button, you do not have to press on the fingerprint scanner, a tap on it unlocks the phone.

 

Camera:

One of the important aspects of the phone is the selfie camera. It comes with a 16MP front camera with LED flash. The camera app from Gionee comes loaded with features and filters to make your selfie experience better. You can play with the options in the front camera to tune your selfies. The selfie camera performed quite well and we could get good selfies which are vibrant, colorful and also detailed. But at times, the camera did add some unnecessary toning to the photos which could have avoided. There is a front facing flash for taking low light selfies, which came out decent but did have some noise creeping in.

The rear camera is a 13MP shooter with f/2.0 and dual LED flash. The camera app offers night, professional, time-lapse, slow-motion, smart scene, and GIF modes to choose from. The photos taken with the rear camera in day light conditions came out good with good colors, but the sharpness could have been better. The low light experience was decent, but most of the photos in artificial lighting also had considerable amount of noise. Overall, we would say the rear camera was average at its best. Here are some of the samples taken with the device.

 

Battery Life:

One of the highlights of the phone is the massive 4100mAh battery which is equipped with fast charging. The phone performed extremely well in the battery department and easily gave us 1.5 days of battery life with moderate to heavy usage. There is also a plethora of options in battery saver including the dark UI which provides better battery life.

If you are looking for a phone with excellent battery life, Gionee A1 will be a good choice.

 

Verdict:

Gionee A1, priced at Rs 19999 is a decent package all-round with good design and build, excellent display, decent performance and good battery life. Another good aspect is that the phone runs on Android 7.0 out of the box, which only a few phones offer at this price segment. But the Gionee A1 has few issues to sort including heating while gaming and extended usage along with poor camera performance in low light.

Gionee A1 is a definitely a phone worth considering if you are looking for a selfie focused smartphone with great battery life. Other devices in this price segment worth considering are Moto G5 Plus, Lenovo P2 and if you are looking for selfies, there is Oppo F1s and Vivo V5S.

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How to Escape Feelings of Inadequacy When It Comes to Your Business

It happens to even the best entrepreneurs. You get a killer business idea or turn a passion into profit and start working for yourself.

You find out that running a business may or may not turn out to be what you thought it would be but it is rewarding after you put in lots of effort and countless hours of work.

Yet and still, it’s easy to feel discouraged and inadequate when you don’t meet certain business goals or if it takes you longer than you anticipated to accomplish something.

Feeling “meh” about your business sometimes is normal seeing as it’s common to run low on steam or compare yourself to someone who seems to be doing better than you but it’s never good to maintain feelings of inadequacy if you truly want to be successful. You have to work to get rid of the downer of these thoughts.

To escape these negative feelings and get back on track, keep these three actionable tips in mind:

Never Compare Your Beginning to Someone Else’s Middle or End Results

One of the main things that you can you feel inadequate about when it comes to your business is when you compare yourself to other people in your niche. There is probably always going to be someone who seems to be doing better than you or they seem like they are working harder than you are.

While you can use the success of others to motivate you and inspire you and get some tips from them to help you — you should never take their actions to heart. You are not them and they are not you.

Comparing is pretty much a waste of time and effort because everyone starts their entrepreneurial journey at different times and has their own unique situations to deal with. If you just started your business a year ago and you’re comparing your success to someone who has been running their business for 4 years, that’s pretty unfair to yourself and a good way to bring on discouragement — and you don’t need that.

The person who has been running their business for several years longer than you has time to make mistakes and learn through trial and error while you may not have had that much time. Remember that you are on your own path and try not to let other people’s timeline affect you.

Get a Coach

Running a business can be lonely at times and you may find that you need lots of support and encouragement for the ups and downs. If you are constantly feeling stuck, you might want to consider hiring a coach or mentor to help you break through and get clearer on your mission or vision.

Having a coach is also great for accountability. For example, if you’ve been meaning to publish a book for years now, your coach or mentor can hold you accountable for that goal so you can actually start making progress on it.

A coach or mentor can also help you identify new strategies to improve your business and personal success, especially if they have already reached the level of success that you wish to obtain.

Focus on One Thing At a Time

If you are feeling like you never get a chance to finish any of your big projects or put enough attention to detail into them, try to slow down and focus on one thing at a time.

It has been studied over and over — Multi-tasking hardly ever works because it pulls your attention in a hundred different directions and can actually slow you down.

If you have big moves to make with your business, map everything out on a calendar and business plan, and focus on each item one-by-one. Once you’ve completed a project and you are pleased with the results, then you can move to the next thing. Remember that you do not have to be 100 percent pleased. It will help move you along more quickly to find the “good enough” ground. Remember, good — and good enough — not perfect. Perfectionists tend to move slower and often discourage themselves into a slump.

This may seem to be a slower way to do things, but it is more effective and will allow you to feel more accomplished in the long run.

Summary: Acknowledge Your Progress and Focus

Feelings of inadequacy often stem from insecurities that may or may not even actually exist. Your first step to overcoming those negative feelings are to take a step back and acknowledge your progress made thus far.

Recognize and celebrate your wins both large and small, then move forward by choosing one or more of the three action-based tips mentioned above.

Remember to stay focused and shy away from letting what others are doing influence how you measure the worth of your business. Focus on your own path.

 

 

How to Escape Feelings of Inadequacy When It Comes to Your Business was originally published on Due by Chonce Maddox.

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How to get Battery Health Report in Windows 10

Most of the modern laptops have pretty good battery performance with good optimized hardware, but over a period of usage you might see a drop in battery performance and the maximum time on battery gets reduced after 1  or 2 years of usage. The battery capacity also gets worn down over a period of usage. So in case you are getting low battery on your laptop, then it is better to check the battery health report on Windows PC. The battery health report provides detailed analysis on the battery performance of your laptop.

In this post, we will show you how to get the battery health report on Window 10 and interpret the report.

 

Generating a Battery Health Report:

In order to generate the battery report, you need to open command prompt in administrator mode. Open the start menu and type command. You can see command in the search results, right click on the command and select “Run as administrator”. This will open the command prompt in administrator mode.

In the command prompt, type the below command and press enter.

powercfg /batteryreport /output “C:\battery_report.html

Here, you are generating the battery report in C drive, you can set the destination of report. Once the report is generated, you get the confirmation in command prompt.

Now, you can open the drive/folder set by you for saving the report. You can see an html file with the name battery_report. Open this file and it will show the report in your browser.

The battery report has multiple sections and let’s analyse each section to get an idea on the battery health of your laptop.

The first section shows your PC name, product name, BIOS, OS build and other details. These are self explanatory.

 

The next section is about installed battery on your device. Ideally there will be only one battery on your laptop and it includes the battery details including serial number, manufacturer details, design capacity and full charge capacity. Here you need to understand 2 important aspects, the design capacity and full charge capacity. The design capacity is the actual capacity of the battery it was designed for. Over the period of usage, the design capacity gets worn out and the full charge capacity gets reduced. In the above screen you can see that the battery was designed for a capacity of 41440mWh, but right now the capacity available is only 23460 after almost 2.5 years of usage.

This capacity will go down over a period of usage. The cycle count is actually the number of cycles charged with the battery.

The recent usage section of the battery report shows your usage in the last 3-4 days, the time you charged the battery, how long it lasted, the suspended state and capacity remaining time etc. Using this report, you can actually check the time you are getting on the battery usage.

The battery usage chart shows you the graphical battery drain for past few days. The next option in the report is the usage history which shows the battery’s usage and duration over time. You can see how much time the device was on battery power and how much time it was plugged into a power source.

There is also a battery capacity history figures which shows how much wear has happened to the battery capacity over the days of usage. You can actually see the full charge capacity decrease over a period of time against the design capacity.

The last section in this report is Battery life estimates. In this chart, it provides an estimate of your device’s average battery life for different time periods based on how you actually used it. Here it actually compares the values achieved with the theoretical battery life at its design capacity.

The battery health report is actually a good way to access how the battery has been performing and it also can give an idea as to when you might want to think of replacing the battery on your device.

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