Don't Bother: Why You Don't Want to Wirelessly Charge Your Smartphone

Did You Know? Eleven states in the United States are bigger than the entirety of the United Kingdom; The largest U.S. state, Alaska, is 7.05 times bigger than the U.K. Geek Trivia The Only Warm Blooded Fish In The World Is The? Bluefin Tuna → Lamprey Eel → Opah → Humpback Whale → Advertisement Get Dashlane Password Manager for Free Keeping track of passwords and making them secure is startlingly simple with Dashlane's free password manager. Automatically import your passwords from Chrome or any other browser into your secure password vault. Save any missing passwords as you browse. Make a new password right within your browser. Get automatic alerts when websites get breached. Free download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Use a Picture as the Bullets in a Bulleted List in Word How to Restart or Sleep Your Apple TV Right from the Remote Don’t Bother: Why You Don’t Want to Wirelessly Charge Your Smartphone Why was 80 Chosen as the Default HTTP Port and 443 as the Default HTTPS Port? How to Recover Images Off a Corrupted SD Card How to Skip Numbering in a Numbered List in Word What is Google Maps “Lite” Mode, and Should I Use It? How to Find Your Wi-Fi Password Geek Comic Today's Tech Term UMS UMS (short for Unified Messaging System) is a system that integrates and delivers text messages, voice messages, instant messages, faxes, e-mail, etc. through a single interface or mail box to make managing a high volume of communications from various sources easier and more convenient for users. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Comcast Document Leak: How Comcast deals with Netflix, net neutrality There's a reason Comcast is consistently ranked as the worst company in the world. [BGR] Apple's Tim Cook declares the end of the PC and hints at new medical product I don't know if the iPad Pro is actually the end of the PC - it's a high end product that costs a lot of money. But mobile devices that can be connected to a keyboard sometimes are going to eventually mark the end of the PC. That's why the Surface tablet is so popular with people, even though it's not very good as a tablet. [Telegraph] Is MSG as bad as it's made out to be? Like most of the common knowledge around health and food, the real truth is that there's nothing wrong with MSG despite a belief otherwise. All things in moderation. [BBC] Apple Music for Android now available in the Google Play Store If you have an Apple Music account and you want to use it on your Android devices, you can finally do so. [9to5Mac] Panera Bread is replacing cashiers with kiosks Based on my experiences in most of the Panera Bread locations in Northern Virginia, this is a welcome change. There's always a huge line, and the person manning the cash register is usually incompetent and often unfriendly. What's the point of having a person take the orders? [Business Insider] The iPad Pro is Available Today If you've been waiting for a bigger iPad that works more like a Surface tablet -- keyboard, stylus, and better multi-tasking, you can check out the iPad Pro, which is available today. [Apple] How to Use a Picture as the Bullets in a Bulleted List in Word You can customize the bullets on bulleted lists in Word using different symbols and colors. However, what if you want to use your own picture as the bullets on your list? Replacing the standard bullets with pictures is easy and we'll show you how. Read This Article → How to Restart or Sleep Your Apple TV Right from the Remote While you can restart your Apple TV or put it to sleep by diving into the system menu, there’s no need to do so; you can perform these two handy functions right from the remote control. Read This Article → Don’t Bother: Why You Don’t Want to Wirelessly Charge Your Smartphone Wireless charging is overrated — at least in its current form. The dream of wireless power sounds great, but current wireless charging technologies are more “plugless” than “wireless.” They’re also less convenient, slower, and less-efficient than just plugging your phone in. Read This Article → Why was 80 Chosen as the Default HTTP Port and 443 as the Default HTTPS Port? While many of us are familiar with various ports being assigned for specific purposes or uses, we may not know the particular reason why they were chosen. Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions. Read This Article → How to Recover Images Off a Corrupted SD Card Just because your SD card is spitting out file errors and gibberish file names doesn’t mean your photos are gone forever. Read on as we show you how to recover your images (and for free, at that)! Read This Article → How to Skip Numbering in a Numbered List in Word A numbered list in Word is simply a series of numbered paragraphs. There may be times when you want to have a paragraph or two without numbering in the middle of a numbered list and then start the numbering again after the unnumbered paragraphs. Read This Article → What is Google Maps “Lite” Mode, and Should I Use It? If you’ve noticed that Google Maps is running sluggish or crashing often on your computer, it might be time to test out Google’s own “Lite” version of the service to see if it’s a better match for your machine’s specs. Read This Article → How to Find Your Wi-Fi Password What’s the password to your Wi-Fi network, anyway? Whether you’ve changed the default password or not, it’s simple to find it. You can look up any Wi-Fi network password if you’ve previously connected to that network from a Windows PC or Mac. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Stress Management For Dummies (a $14.99 value) FREE for a limited time! Learn management tools so you can stop letting stress have a negative impact on your life. Click here to download