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(Continued from page 3) Phil’s Rambling's
Windows FREE Snip
(I looked for an inexpensive webcam for a friend a
month ago and found an excellent Logitech model and Sketch Tool is new
on the Best Buy website listed at $39.95 on May
1st. Unfortunately, it was out of stock. I just and replacing the old
checked the Best Buy website again (on May 30);
this model is still out of stock but is now priced at
$59.95. The same model is currently listed on the
Logitech website at $69.99 – and is out of stock. Author: Jim Cerny, Forums Coor-
But, good news, it is available from a third-party dinator
seller through the Amazon.com website (with Prime December 2019 issue, STUG
delivery) for only $108.99!) Now is probably not a Monitor
good time to buy technology gear unless you abso- www.thestug.org
lutely must…
jimcerny123 (at) gmail.com
Moving along, I recently bought a new Android tab-
let and was surprised to see that it offers a battery The new Windows “Snip and
protection option that limits charging to 60% of ca- Sketch” tool was part of the Windows 10 October
pacity. I had not run across this before, so I did an 2018 update. This tool is intended to REPLACE the
Internet search for battery protection and related old “Snipping Tool” of previous Windows editions.
topics. This turned up a variety of articles dealing But they (Microsoft) did something to actually help us
with tablet and phone batteries, offering sugges- users this time – they kept the old tool! So you can
tions to slow your battery drain and to extend the play and learn the new Snip and Sketch and keep
life of your battery. Here is one such article: https:// the old Snipping Tool too! Maybe they learned not to
www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-save-battery- force users into using updated or changed apps right
life-on-your-smartphone/. I encourage you to do away – we need time to adjust and learn, right? Eve-
your own search, to see what else is out there. rything you could do in the old Snipping Tool you can
What these articles told me about the battery pro- do in Snip and Sketch, plus you get a few more tools
tection option on my new tablet was this: Lithium and options. Thankfully these new additions are easy
Ion batteries will no longer hold a charge after a to see and use, and they can be ignored if you do
certain number of charge/ discharge cycles, typical- (Continued on page 10)
ly in the multiple hundreds. However, the most

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