How Does Wireless Charging Work? Does It Work with a Case?

Did You Know? Boston’s Beacon Hill used to be 58 feet higher than it is today—back in the early 19th century, the hill was excavated to provide huge amounts of fill for the shoreline and bodies of water such as Mill Pond. The excavation of Beacon Hill and the subsequent “massive filling” increased Boston’s land mass by 150 percent. Geek Trivia The Largest Free Concert In History, Based On Attendance, Was A Performance By? The Rolling Stones → The Grateful Dead → Guns N' Roses → Rod Stewart → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to 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 Revoke Third-Party App Permissions From Spotify Does Wireless Charging Work with a Case? How to Find Out What Places Are a Specific Distance From You How Does Wireless Charging Work? How to Get the Most Out of Your Ring Doorbell How to Check If a Twitter Account Is a Bot How to See Who Has Logged Into Your Netflix Account Is Wireless Charging Slower Than Wired Charging? What’s the Difference Between a Font, a Typeface, and a Font Family? What Are “Silent” Notifications on Android? How to Get Verified On Twitter (or At Least Try) How to Block Calls in Android, Manually and Automatically Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Integrated Peripheral An Integrated Peripheral is any peripheral device, such as a CD-ROM, etc. that is housed within the case of your computer. 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. Letter of Recommendation: Zip Ties Zip ties are a fixall worthy of the same accolades we shower on duct tape [NYT] You Are Already Living Inside a Computer Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life. [The Atlantic] NSA Broke the Encryption on File-Sharing Apps Kazaa and eDonkey They didn't care about your copyright violations, but they did care about finding out whether or not the file sharing services were conduits for information [The Intercept] How to Revoke Third-Party App Permissions From Spotify Internet music service Spotify offers an API that lets other websites and applications access your music and customer data. That can be a really cool feature if you’re using it to integrate music with other tools, like Shazam or Sonos. But, when you’re finished with whatever you’re doing, it’s probably a good idea to restrict access to only the most essential apps. Here’s how you do it. Read This Article → Does Wireless Charging Work with a Case? With wireless charging making its way into the new iPhones, there are undoubtedly a lot of questions floating around about how this technology works in practical application. The biggest question I’ve heard so far is: will it work with a case? Read This Article → How to Find Out What Places Are a Specific Distance From You Sometimes you want to find out what's within a certain number of miles of a specific location. Maybe you want to know what area a cell tower covers or what would happen if a nuclear bomb got dropped on your in-laws' house. Read This Article → How Does Wireless Charging Work? Wireless charging is set to become more popular with the adoption of Qi wireless charging in Apple’s iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. It’s also found on some Android phones, like Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8, and Galaxy S7. Read This Article → How to Get the Most Out of Your Ring Doorbell The Ring Doorbell works like any other doorbell, but has a video camera built in that can alert you to motion and button presses. While it’s a pretty basic device for the most part, there are definitely some features and tricks that you might not have known about. Read This Article → How to Check If a Twitter Account Is a Bot There are a lot of bots on Twitter. Some are trying to sell things, some are stage one in an elaborate scam, and some are run by international intelligence agencies for any number of reasons. Read This Article → How to See Who Has Logged Into Your Netflix Account Netflix knows that you aren’t the only person using your account. The company has turned a mostly blind eye to password sharing, but you may still want to know who’s been logging into your account—especially if you think someone got access without your approval. Here’s how to find out who has logged in using your credentials. Read This Article → Is Wireless Charging Slower Than Wired Charging? Look, Apple is making wireless charging cool again with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X. I’m glad! But there are things you should know about this technology—like how fast it’s going to charge your phone. You know, practical stuff. Read This Article → What’s the Difference Between a Font, a Typeface, and a Font Family? Since the majority of written words are now produced in one digital form or another, fonts and typefaces have become much more important than they used to be. And to the chagrin of graphic designers and generally nerdy people everywhere, those terms are often used interchangeably. Read This Article → What Are “Silent” Notifications on Android? So here’s the scenario: you grab your phone and don’t see anything in the notification bar. But you pull the shade down, and there one is. It’s a mysterious little guy with no icon in the bar. Read This Article → How to Get Verified On Twitter (or At Least Try) Oh that sweet blue tick. Only a select few Twitter elite are awarded it—Justin Pot has one. The rest of us digital plebs are left go without, forever unverified. Or are we? Read This Article → How to Block Calls in Android, Manually and Automatically It's dinner time. You're just sitting down when you get a call. On the other line, a robotic voice says: "We have important information regarding your credit accounts. Please hold to speak to a representative." Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download