screens
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PSA: You (Probably) Don’t Need A Phone Screen Protector
In the early days of smartphones, you probably didn’t dare walk out of the Telstra store without a screen protector and case already installed on your very delicate (and very expensive) device. A fall to the floor or any jostling in your purse would leave you with shattered or scratched glass, which would cost more…
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How To Lock Your iPhone While Your Kid Uses An App
Sometimes, our phones come in handy as tools of distraction for our kids while we wait in the airport or the doctor’s office. I rarely let my son use my phone when he was younger (and still rarely do), but I kept the PBS Kids app and one or two games loaded on it, just…
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Lumen Automatically Adjusts Your Mac’s Brightness Based On Screen Contents
Mac: An app like F.lux is great for adjusting your screen’s temperature, but not everyone wants to stare at an orange screen just to make it more readable. Lumen’s a tool that automatically adjusts the brightness without fudging around with the temperature.
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What ‘Retina Display’ Really Means, And How To Tell When Your Screen Is Retina
Resolution is important, but the size of your screen makes just as much of a difference. 720p looks great on a 5-inch screen, but it will be much less sharp on a 50-inch screen. This is what we refer to as pixel density, or pixels per inch (PPI).